On today’s video, we get to grips with the decline of La Liga, explain the reasons why Real Madrid and Barcelona are no longer the Champions League behemoths they once were, and contemplate how Spanish football could come back stronger..
The 2010s belonged to Spanish football. As former European heavyweights like Manchester United, Milan and Internazionale fell into decline, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid became stronger than ever before, contesting increasingly fierce title races on the domestic scene and dominating continental competition. Between 2010-11 and 2017-18, there were just two seasons in which Real or Barça failed to win the Champions League, while between 2009-10 and 2019-20, Atletico and Sevilla shared seven Europa Leagues between them. Amazingly, between 2014 and 2018, just one of ten European titles was won by a non-Spanish club.
But in 2021, the picture looks very different. While Sevilla are the current Europa holders, the 2019-20 campaign marked the first time since 2008 that no Spanish side had reached the semi-finals of the Champions League. Real Madrid were convincingly beaten in the last-16 for the second consecutive season, and Barcelona were handed an 8-2 drubbing by Bayern Munich, the second-heaviest single game defeat at the quarter-final stage in the competition’s 65 year history. But why has the strength of La Liga dropped off so drastically? Let’s find out..
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