Atleti for the title? It's Groundhog Day all over again: the weekend in La Liga
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
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🗓️ 2 December 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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...I hope you’re enjoying these reports on all aspects of Spanish football. I know 1993 was a long time ago but you’ve ALL seen Bill Murray starring in Groundhog Day. Despite tipping Atletico Madrid as title contenders in previous seasons and being brutally disappointed, I’ve nevertheless decided to stage my own Spanish Football Groundhog Day and mention them again, even in a conspiratorial whisper, as potential La Liga winners.
This was a weekend with a sacking, a Jornada where the big two suffered completely different experiences, and one where the big Basque clubs each won. But the focus is Cholo Simeone, Antoine Griezmann, and the dashing, daring Simeone Jnr: here comes Groundhog Day (two months early), here come eleven goals in their last two games for Atleti. Enjoy
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome the Groundhog Day. |
| 0:11.0 | Groundhog Day were a bumper again, despite his deep, deep scepticism about Chola Simioni. |
| 0:20.0 | Admit points out to you that at Leti are at least title contenders in the league and maybe they should win it. |
| 0:29.6 | And before you say, I already hear you saying, |
| 0:31.6 | Bram, why are you doing this to yourself? Why are you doing this to us? |
| 0:35.6 | Yeah, mea coppa. I still think that tinkering Diego, |
| 0:41.4 | jumpy Diego, the man who sits out a playing philosophy and strategy all week at the Mach |
| 0:48.0 | of the Honda training ground. And then in the morning of a match wakes up and because the sun is |
| 0:53.2 | in Uranus or whatever it is, he's obsessed by star signs, |
| 0:57.4 | rips up the playbook, tells his players we're doing it completely differently. |
| 1:01.1 | It's a new 11, there's a new strategy, it's 5 at the back or 3 at the back or 4 at the back or 4 in the middle |
| 1:06.7 | and confuses the hell out of his players. |
| 1:09.2 | Yet I'm still saying they have the best squad in Spain by a distance, |
| 1:15.5 | arguably the best squad in Europe. |
| 1:18.3 | And I'm not basing this argument that Aletti can win the title |
| 1:22.1 | for the first time since 2021, |
| 1:24.4 | simply on the fact that they spank the back sides of Spain's top division worst team |
| 1:30.2 | by the lead five-nil playing absolutely lovely football in a game which was notable also for |
| 1:37.0 | fans playing a giant game of tennis in the stands to mock their owner Ronaldo Nasario |
| 1:42.9 | who missed last week's game against Catapé because he was playing |
| 1:45.9 | legends tennis in Brazil. It also saw the end for Palo Pasolano, the Viala de lead coach, and not |
| 1:51.4 | before time. His players performed as if they wanted them out at half time, never mind after the match. |
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