LA LIGA - THE RACE FOR THE TITLE and going down, going down

[1875]

OK, tonight is the night, can the frankly average, FC Barcelona keep hold of the title by pumping lowly fellow Catalans Nastic of Tarragona, whilst Real lose to Catalan Cousins RCD Mallorca, or will Sevilla, who have played some of the best football this season take the trophy as both Barca and Real lose? See it all unfold Sunday night.....at 7.30pm, on Sky Sports 3

REAL MADRID v REAL MALLORCA
(Main game - including goals from the others)
GIMNASTIC v BARCELONA
(Available via the red button - Game 1)
SEVILLA v VILLARREAL
(Available via the red button - Game 2)

At the other end, any two of four clubs could go down with Nastic Tarragona including two of Spains great names, Athletic Bilbao (who have never been relegated), and Real Betis, the working man's green team from Sevilla, Real Sociedad, fellow Basques to Bilbao, a fine club with a great history or Celta Vigo managed by Hristo Stoichkov, the adopted Cule, can Spain's C(K)eltic team survive?

It really is a cracking end to the Spanish season.....

Visca Barca!

[Forzahibs]

Originally Posted by 1875

OK, tonight is the night, can the frankly average, FC Barcelona keep hold of the title by pumping lowly fellow Catalans Nastic of Tarragona, whilst Real lose to Catalan Cousins RCD Mallorca, or will Sevilla, who have played some of the best football this season take the trophy as both Barca and Real lose? See it all unfold tonight.....at 7.30pm, on Sky Sports 3

REAL MADRID v REAL MALLORCA
(Main game - including goals from the others)
GIMNASTIC v BARCELONA
(Available via the red button - Game 1)
SEVILLA v VILLARREAL
(Available via the red button - Game 2)

At the other end, any two of four clubs could go down with Nastic Tarragona including two of Spains great names, Athletic Bilbao (who have never been relegated), and Real Betis, the working man's green team from Sevilla, Real Sociedad, fellow Basques to Bilbao, a fine club with a great history or Celta Vigo managed by Hristo Stoichkov, the adopted Cule, can Spain's C(K)eltic team survive?

It really is a cracking end to the Spanish season.....

Visca Barca!

Hard to believe that the champions and relegated teams are still undecided on the last day of the season , should be interesting (for neutrals anyway)

[PILTONSTANY]

I thought it was the morns night?

[Forzahibs]

Originally Posted by PILTONSTANY

I thought it was the morns night?

Aye Sunday

[pilrig70]

Originally Posted by 1875

OK, tonight is the night, can the frankly average, FC Barcelona keep hold of the title by pumping lowly fellow Catalans Nastic of Tarragona, whilst Real lose to Catalan Cousins RCD Mallorca, or will Sevilla, who have played some of the best football this season take the trophy as both Barca and Real lose? See it all unfold tonight.....at 7.30pm, on Sky Sports 3

REAL MADRID v REAL MALLORCA
(Main game - including goals from the others)
GIMNASTIC v BARCELONA
(Available via the red button - Game 1)
SEVILLA v VILLARREAL
(Available via the red button - Game 2)

At the other end, any two of four clubs could go down with Nastic Tarragona including two of Spains great names, Athletic Bilbao (who have never been relegated), and Real Betis, the working man's green team from Sevilla, Real Sociedad, fellow Basques to Bilbao, a fine club with a great history or Celta Vigo managed by Hristo Stoichkov, the adopted Cule, can Spain's C(K)eltic team survive?

It really is a cracking end to the Spanish season.....

Visca Barca!

It certainly is a great end to a season. My biggest hope is that Bilbao stay up. I know how much it means to the Basque people. Bilbao, after all these years, have never been relegated, but still compete against the best teams in Spain fielding a team of only Basque players.

Got a pal in Seville who is a staunch Betis supporter. He says he's terrified of the nightmare scenario happening. Sevilla winning the title and Betis goin down.

Fantastic finale coming up whatever happens. Think Madrid will win the title cos they got the momentum but I hope its Barca. Looking forward to this.

[Dub]

Club Pld Pts W D L F A Diff
Real Madrid 37 73 22 7 8 63 39 24
Barcelona 37 73 21 10 6 73 32 41
Sevilla 37 71 21 8 8 64 34 30

Does goal difference not come into it or even most goals scored because if either are applicable then Barca should be sitting top. Even on alpha order they would be top. The only way I can see that they shouldnt be is number of wins counts first. Its a conspiracy I tell Ya.

Surely as long as Barca win they win the league unless [say] they win by 1 goal and Real win by 19 goals.

EDIT: Apologies, once I posted I realised the table didnt stay formatted.

[PILTONSTANY]

Originally Posted by Dub

Club Pld Pts W D L F A Diff
Real Madrid 37 73 22 7 8 63 39 24
Barcelona 37 73 21 10 6 73 32 41
Sevilla 37 71 21 8 8 64 34 30

Does goal difference not come into it or even most goals scored because if either are applicable then Barca should be sitting top. Even on alpha order they would be top. The only way I can see that they shouldnt be is number of wins counts first. Its a conspiracy I tell Ya.

Surely as long as Barca win they win the league unless [say] they win by 1 goal and Real win by 19 goals.

EDIT: Apologies, once I posted I realised the table didnt stay formatted.

When teams are level on points it's decided by games played between the sides,Madrid will win if it stays the same.

[Dub]

Originally Posted by PILTONSTANY

When teams are level on points it's decided by games played between the sides,Madrid will win if it stays the same.

Cheers for that. I must admit I was a tad confused. Probably Real have it sewn up then even though they are playing the fourth placed team you would expect them to win.

[pilrig70]

Originally Posted by Dub

Cheers for that. I must admit I was a tad confused. Probably Real have it sewn up then even though they are playing the fourth placed team you would expect them to win.

It gets quite complicated working out all the permutations at the bottom of La Liga.

Betis and Bilbao are on 37 points.
Celta Vigo are on 36 points
Sociedad are on 34 points.

If all four teams end up on 37 points then Sociedad and Betis stay up.
If Sociedad and Celta win, and Betis and Bilbao lose, then its curtains for Bilbao and Betis.
If Sociedad win and Bilbao dont lose, while Celta and Betis lose then both Basque teams stay up.
If Sociedad and Bilbao lose, Betis get at least point, and Celta draw/win, then the two Basque teams will be greetin.

Gora Bilbao!

[Dub]

Originally Posted by pilrig70

It gets quite complicated working out all the permutations at the bottom of La Liga.

Betis and Bilbao are on 37 points.
Celta Vigo are on 36 points
Sociedad are on 34 points.

If all four teams end up on 37 points then Sociedad and Betis stay up.
If Sociedad and Celta win, and Betis and Bilbao lose, then its curtains for Bilbao and Betis.
If Sociedad win and Bilbao dont lose, while Celta and Betis lose then both Basque teams stay up.
If Sociedad and Bilbao lose, Betis get at least point, and Celta draw/win, then the two Basque teams will be greetin.
Gora Bilbao!

Thats cleared that up then :scratch head smiley:

[1875]

Its Sunday night of course.......doh!