La Liga - The Place For Attacking Football.

La Liga has always been reknown leauge for goals, flair, skills, tricks etc..

And this week it lived up to the bill, an amazing 35 goals in one week!!!

Along with some great goals and matches, including three thrillers!

Racing V Atletic 5-4

Valencia V Espanyol 3-2

Betis V Villarreal 3-3


There seems to be a general consensus amongst nearly all the teams in Liga and that is to play attacking football and give the crowd their money's worth

It's true but there has also been weeks where hardly any goals have been scored.

Yep there has.

Prem this week: 19 goals

Serie A: 29 Goals

(By no means is this a X >>> Y topic )

It depends on the team....

West Ham and T*ttenham are two teams known for good attacking football. Look what happened when we played each other...

This season, La Liga has been the most defensive league out of the BIG 3.

Fabio Quagliarella wrote:It depends on the team....

West Ham and T*ttenham are two teams known for good attacking football. Look what happened when we played each other...

Yes, credit where it due, under Pards (havent watched much under AC), they were always an attacking team, even when newly promoted, although there are few teams in the EPL that really want to play attacking football, there are various teams that are more negative/ or more defensively minded won't name names.

Majority of the teams in spain play attacking football bar Capello of course

Rai Krol wrote:This season, La Liga has been the most defensive league out of the BIG 3.

Zaragoza, Sevilla, Espanyol (to an extent), Patletico all attacking teams out side the big 3.

Target Man wrote:

Rai Krol wrote:This season, La Liga has been the most defensive league out of the BIG 3.

Zaragoza, Sevilla, Espanyol (to an extent), Patletico all attacking teams out side the big 3.

BIG 3 = English Premiership, Italian Serie A and Spanish La Liga ..

La Liga has been the most defensive while Serie A the more attacking.

Rai Krol wrote:

Target Man wrote:

Rai Krol wrote:This season, La Liga has been the most defensive league out of the BIG 3.

Zaragoza, Sevilla, Espanyol (to an extent), Patletico all attacking teams out side the big 3.

BIG 3 = English Premiership, Italian Serie A and Spanish La Liga ..

La Liga has been the most defensive while Serie A the more attacking.

Misread.

Will have to check the stats on that...

But then again attacking football cannot be measured by goals scored pr conceded

Yeh as Deano said - there has been to many boring weeks in La Liga this season - but this goes some way to making up for it. I think the record was also set for the least ever goals in a La Liga weekend this season?

The game in Santander this weekend was absolutely stunning. What a play Zigic is. He has the potential to be a class European player. In the Jan Koller mould.

The game in Sevilla was also a cracker. Two sides that go out and attack - and were looking like the sides that qualified for last seasons Champions League again. The defeding for the Pires goal in particular though was shocking.

Fabio Quagliarella wrote:It depends on the team....

West Ham and T*ttenham are two teams known for good attacking football. Look what happened when we played each other...

Deano, what the hell happened? They got you.

A measured judgement regarding the adversary?

Forza Italia!Forza Milan! wrote:

Fabio Quagliarella wrote:It depends on the team....

West Ham and T*ttenham are two teams known for good attacking football. Look what happened when we played each other...

Deano, what the hell happened? They got you.

A measured judgement regarding the adversary?

I can't really argue that...But I wrote T*ttenham, to show I'm just generalising an opinion rather than praising the scum fucks

It's a shame that Real Madrid are not known for there attacking football this season.

Yeah i mentioned that

Batman wrote:It's a shame that Real Madrid are not known for there attacking football this season.

Just about to say the same thing.

Angriffsfußball -> Bundesliga.

blutgraetsche wrote:Angriffsfußball -> Bundesliga.

La Liga+many goals=exciting

Bundesliga+many goals=poor defending

true story

Untrue story, of course, but that's what most people seem to think unfortunately. So you hit the nail on the head with that chrissi.


Look at the top 5 Bundesliga teams, for example: 3 of them very attacking (Werder Bremen, VfB Stuttgart, Bayer 04 Leverkusen), and the other two (Schalke 04 and Bayern München) less attacking, but definitely not defensive either. Especially Bayern seem to have a way more positive philosophy under Hitzfeld, almost adventurous (especially at the Allianz Arena). And Schalke, being the most 'defensive' side in the top 5, prefers a 4-3-3 system with two real wingers. Not exactly negative either.

Target Man wrote:

Majority of the teams in spain play attacking football bar Capello of course

Well, even bottom of the table sides like Bochum play attacking football in the Bundesliga, so what's your point? I just mentioned the top 5 to emphasise the fact that teams get rewarded for their positive philosophy.

I agree that the Bundesliga is a great place for attacking football but I find it hard to put forward an argument to say that the league is overall stronger.

Nobody claimed that though. La Liga is the better league, especially at the top. Your elite clubs are better than ours these days, that's a fact (which we can hopefully change again in future) .

But the most attacking league? The Dutch Eredivisie probably is the overall most attacking. The Bundesliga and La Liga have a similar number of attacking teams me thinks.

nCfC-CaDiZ wrote:I agree that the Bundesliga is a great place for attacking football...

Wow, I think that´s already more praise than we ever could have hoped for...

wasn't there one week in la liga when less than 10 goals were scored? talk about snoresville

Yeh as I said the record was broken this season. I'm not sure what it was though. There were just loads of 0-0's on the Sunday. But I think there has been a marked improvement in La Liga not just this weekend but the last three or four.

Germany is definitely equally exciting compared to La Liga. I love watching the highlights, always lots of attacking play.

I think the premiership is the most attacking league. Just look right at the kick off and you have players from both teams running crazily after the ball. The tempo is also higher than other leagues, even though the Spanish, the Dutch and the German leagues also have lots of goals. The Serie A has improved a lot this year but the tempo is not as high as others. The French league is terrible, usually on a very slow and boring tempo, with the away team usually defending as much as it can.
I think you can also describe attacking depending on the tempo and type of formation utilized (such as 4-3-3).

Well here we go. I've done a bit of research and I think the complete opposite of Jornada 28 was Jornada 19.....

9 goals for this weekend....

Atlético 1-0 Osasuna
Villarreal 0-0 Sevilla
Zaragoza 0-0 Recreativo
Deportivo 0-0 Espanyol
Barcelona 3-0 Nástic
R. Sociedad 0-1 Valencia
Levante 0-0 Athletic
Mallorca 0-1 Real Madrid
Getafe 1-0 Celta
Betis 1-1 Racing

So there is the contrast, I mean I don't really like putting certain leagues in a box but similarly to Kas it is enjoyable to watch the highlights from Germany as there is some great attacking play on display. But there's something special about La Liga that made me watch it regularly in the first place and there is no doubt that vertically every team has exciting attacking players. I think it is hard to put La Liga and the Bundesliga in a box and say which one is more attacking.