In the absence of the closing of the LaLiga Santander program in 2021 with the Valencia-Espanyol match on Friday the 31st, the Real Madrid has been the best team of the year, with a total of 97 points, ahead of the Sevilla (88).
The white team finished second in the 2020/21 season after the Atlético de Madrid and leads the 2021/22 campaign with eight points of advantage over the Seville team with a more disputed match, the advance of the twenty-first day in San Mamés.
The Real Madrid, which started 2021 with a win against Celta (2-0) in the Alfredo di Stéfano with goals from Lucas Vázquez and Marco Asensio, from that moment to the end of the campaign added 51 points, which allowed the team he directed Zinedine Zidane fight the title by Atlético de Madrid until the last meeting. They only lost one game, against Levante (1-2) at the end of January, and the rest were victories, except for five draws.
This season, already with Carlo Ancelotti In his second stage on the bench, the white team commands the classification with authority with 46 points, after having achieved fourteen victories, tied four games and only lost one, against him. Spanish (2-1), in the RCDE Stadium, on the eighth day, on October 3.
Julen Lopetegui’s Sevilla appears as the second best of the year thanks to the sum obtained between the 51 points of last season and the 38 that he has in the current season.
In his case, he started 2021 with a draw to one on January 2 in the derby at Benito Villamarín against Betis and added sixteen victories and two draws to finish fourth and repeat qualification for the Champions League.
This season he has accumulated 38 points after winning eleven games, drawing five and losing two, against Granada and Real Madrid, both by just one goal difference, 1-0 and 2-1, respectively.
Below are the Barcelona and Atlético de Madrid, they are not having a good first round this season. Diego Pablo Simeone’s team, who managed to win six of the first seven games of 2021, had several setbacks that made it difficult for him to win the title. Since January 3, when he won in Mendizorroza Al Alavés, he accumulated 51 points that in the end allowed him to retain the crown thanks to winning the last three games of the course.
But in the current campaign his performance has declined. He is fifth with 29 points, after winning eight games, drawing five and losing another five. In fact, he is on the worst streak of the Simeone era, having fallen consecutively in the last four.
Ronald Koeman’s Barcelona also improved notably with the arrival of 2021. He won seven games in a row and after drawing against Cádiz he linked another six wins, but in the end he did not give him to go from third place in the league, seven points behind Atlético de Madrid .
In this season, which began with Koeman until he was replaced by Xavi, he is already ruled out for the title unless he stars in a historic comeback. He is seventh to 18 points behind Real Madrid and will have to fight intensely to enter the Champions League. The Barça team have won only seven of the eighteen they have played, they have drawn seven and lost four.
Betis, Real Sociedad and Villarreal, the other three teams that are in European competitions, are next on the list of the year, just ahead of Valencia, which will be the one that closes 2021 the same 31 against Espanyol at the start of the nineteenth day, the last of the first round of the championship.
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