Ranking the La Liga and Bundesliga Top Six in 2019/20

B/R Football Ranks

Bleacher Report

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The Spanish and German seasons get underway this weekend, with the big kickoff taking place in La Liga and the Bundesliga, and so we thought it would only be right to talk through the Ranks predictions for the European spots in each of those leagues. (Bundesliga 01.49, La Liga 17.04) And herald the return of the Rank God to do so! Sam Tighe returned from his pre-season retreat, joining the ever-present Jack Collins to talk through who would be taking the top six places in La Liga-from a tightly fought Seville derby in the Europa League spots to a title race between Real, Atleti and Barcelona. To round off our Spanish segment, we have a very special interview with La Liga ambassador and former Real Madrid, Valencia, Liverpool and Spain striker Fernando Morientes (36.57), who gives us his takes on the most exciting La Liga signing this season, who he thinks will win the league, and how his former sides will get on in this season's Champions League. And indeed in Hot Takes, Sam started us off by ranking the Bundesliga Top Six also. Will Bayern make it eight titles in a row, or is this the year that Dortmund finally topple the dynasty? There's chat too, about Manchester United's opening day thumping of Chelsea at Old Trafford (07.51), and about the debut of Spurs' record signing Tanguy Ndombele. (11.55) Roulette finds the boys discussing whether they'd rather have a season ticket at Atletico or Dortmund for this season (46.53), and what their new-season resolutions are (47.58); before Sam rounds things off by ranking his favourite types of 'Drake' in this week's nonsense. (51.15) To get involved, follow @brfootball on Twitter and Instagram, and use the hashtag #BRFootballRanks - and remember to join our FPL league! Get over to fantasy.premierleague.com and use the code tzl5nt to get involved.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Bang, two binary bastions of the beautiful ball game are back as we bustled towards the bewitching bliss of ball being bound again to our boxes.
0:26.2	Bayern and Barcelona will be burning to go back to back to back and keep the Blaugrana and Bavarian bloodlines burning bright.
0:32.9	In Deutschland, Dortmund draw daggers to down the domineering dynasty desperate to defeat the Red Dragon.
0:38.7	And emigrating across, Spania's eminent examination of endurance enervates into existence.
0:44.5	The saturnalia of the Spanish season sparks suddenly into substance
0:47.3	and starts seductively in the simmering sauna of the San Mames at sundown on the Sabbath.
0:52.1	Fire, flames, a fascinating fiesta of football from Asturias to
0:56.3	Andalusia, Cantabria to Catalonia, Madrid to Marcia, from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean,
1:01.8	light the lanterns and lock the locks. The Liga has a lift off. Welcome to Be our football
1:07.2	ranks, ladies and gentlemen, here to walk you through these two leagues setting off
1:11.0	on another epic journey. My name is Jack Collins, and I'll be your narrator and guide on our
1:16.4	sonic expedition through Germany and Spain. And welcome back to the rank god. Having had the
1:21.5	happiness of a holiday, this is a homecoming of heroic hugeness, carrying the pod by yourself
1:26.0	like some sort of Hercules. Welcome back.
1:28.9	Thank you, Jack. And can I just praise you? What an intro? A rare first take. A rare first take. He
1:34.7	likes to pretend otherwise, but this usually takes us around 30 to 40 minutes. It's time for hot takes.
1:38.7	It is time for hot takes. You're not used to this because normally you get three or four
1:41.7	goes to perfect your hot take and now you have to go off the bat.
1:44.6	I usually need three or four days but my holiday cut that short. Anyway, I am back and my hot take is I have decided how the Bundesliga top six are going to finish. Okay. Shalka and sixth. They were basically relegated last season, so this is pretty bold.
2:01.3	And this is why it's a big hot take.
2:03.8	Shalka and sixth, then Walsberg moving up into fifth after a good end to the season last season.
2:08.8	Leipzig and fourth, Leibnizond and third.
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