Ranking Why Real Madrid Won La Liga (and Why Barcelona Didn't)

B/R Football Ranks

Bleacher Report

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Real Madrid are La Liga champions, and worthy ones at that, after winning 10 games in a row after the restart to see off perennial rivals Barcelona and claim the crown. We break down how Los Blancos have recovered from the loss of Cristiano Ronaldo to overcome Leo Messi's Blaugrana and reinstall themselves at the top seat of the Spanish table. To do so, we wanted to talk to Spanish media royalty, and so we brought in Phil Kitromilides of The Spanish Football Podcast to give his views on the most important players this season for Real, and how high this ranks in the pantheon of Zinedine Zidane trophies. To play both sides of the table, we got the view from Barcelona's perspective from Rik Sharma, one of Barcelona's most highly respected journalists, and find out just where it went wrong from a Blaugrana perspective. B/R Football Ranks takes on El Clasico. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to be our footballanks, your favourite football podcast.
0:23.1	And this week we are looking at potentially the biggest rivalry in football.
0:27.4	Our classical, my name is Jack Collins and I am joined as ever by Sam Tai.
0:32.7	Hello, mate.
0:33.6	Hello, May.
0:34.3	And Dean Jones.
0:35.9	Hello, Jackson.
0:37.0	How are we? We good. Sam, I imagine you must be over the moon.
0:41.3	Because there is no Ballandoor ceremony, and that means that you aren't going to have to write a Ballando
0:46.3	Power Rankings, and it means your Twitter mentions are going to be filled with about 50% less hatred than they normally are year on year. Yeah, it's going to be a good
0:55.5	50% cut. I'm really pleased that there's no ball on door. But when you said, Sam, I bet you're
1:00.6	delighted. I thought, well, I ranked the reasons why I'm delighted in my head naturally, because
1:04.9	that's how my brain works. Number one, Granada made it into Europe. That is true. Yeah, well done.
1:09.5	Congratulations. Number two, I got a prediction right for once.
1:12.3	Real Madrid did actually win La Liga.
1:14.2	Yeah.
1:14.8	I get to sing about that.
1:15.7	I get to sing about those because I don't have a very often.
1:17.5	You're having a week.
1:18.4	And then three, yeah, no ball and door.
1:21.1	Oh, fantastic.
1:22.5	I hate the ball and door. Ballondor. Obviously everyone loves it, so we have to talk about it all the time. And I get that. I get that as part of the machine. But yeah, my Twitter mentions will be very much better off as a result of this. And I also just think like the general football population will be like 12% happier and just won't be aggressively shouting and screaming at each other in the lead up to the award, which will be nice.
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