Spanish football recovers from this Friday the emotion of LaLigawhich starts with summer hours and will last until May 26, 2024. Almería-Rayo raises the curtain of the competition on a day in which Fútbol Club Barcelona, current champion, opens with a visit to Getafe, and Real Madrid, second last year, travels to Bilbao to face Athletic. Atlético, third at the end of the campaign, will host Granada at the Metropolitano.
With the transfer market still open, LaLiga EA Sports take your first steps under the sign of austerity and with the same favorites as always, in the absence of clear alternatives.
The candidates of the League 2023-2024
Barça appears once again as a candidate for the title, despite the financial difficulties that continue to plague him. Without large contracts and with some unwanted farewell, like that of Ousmane Dembele. the azulgrana team entrusts itself to the base of last year and the contribution of the youth of La Masia to challenge Real Madrid. And it will also do so with the added difficulty of his traumatic move to the Montjuic Olympic stadium due to the works at the Camp Nou.
The whites have been able to reinforce themselves in the market, despite the departure of Karim Benzema, especially with the arrival of Jude Bellingham. But the last-minute injury to Thibaut Courtois and the unknown about the possible arrival of Kylian Mbappe They sow doubts about the team’s potential. Madrid, in addition, faces the season with the constraints that its history demands, after adding only three leagues in the last ten, although in the club they are clear that even this circumstance will not make them renounce their old European fondness.
In any case, neither Barça nor Madrid will be able to lose sight of the Atléticowho already showed with his brilliant second round last year that he can threaten the big two. With the team orbiting around Griezmann, this summer’s additions have underpinned a solid squadwell designed to execute the football of a Diego Simeone who will complete his thirteenth season on the bench of the mattress club.
From the fight for Europe to the battle for salvation
A large squad of teams aspires to participate in the fight for European positions. Real Sociedad, Villarreal and Betis are emerging as the best placed to dispute the places of Europa League or, even, those of Champions. And from a lower step they seem to leave Osasuna, Athletic or Seville itselfwho with José Luis Mendilibar at the helm claimed vindication at the end of the campaign by raising his seventh Europa League after clinching his permanence in the League with a brilliant final sprint.
The course of the competition will dictate whether more teams join that battle. Losing that train can end up leading to limbo, more or less comfortable or uncertain, through which teams like the Girona, Rayo or Mallorca.
Below that line the abyss of descent already appears. Almería, Celta, Getafe, Cádiz and Valencia last year they walked the wire of survival for too many days. If they don’t step up, they risk playing again at the risk of falling into the pit, perhaps along with the newly promoted: Granada, Alaves and Las Palmas.
Calendar and key dates of the League
After this weekend’s kick-off, the competition will last until May 2024, but it will stop four times for the celebration of windows for international team matches, in addition to the winter break at Christmas, which will leave the fans without soccer from Friday, December 22 to Monday, January 1.
The first Clásico of the League will not arrive until matchday 11, the one on the weekend of Sunday, October 29, and will be held in Barcelona. The Madrid-Barça of the second round will be held on the weekend of April 21, already on matchday 32.
LaLiga 2023-24 calendar: from the classics to the derbies
The LaLiga calendar is asymmetric programming where the first does not coincide with the second round at all. It also accommodates different variants. For example, the works in a stadium. Real Madrid has again asked to start the season away from home due to the works at the Santiago Bernabéu.
transfer market
Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid) e Ilkay Gundogan (Fútbol Club Barcelona) will be the main new faces of a course marked by minimal spending, a circumstance that confirms the difficulties that many of the clubs in the competition are going through.
In the absence of the latest movements, the reinforcements at the rear of Atlético de Madrid have also been protagonists during the market. Hand in hand experience César Azpilicueta (33 years old) and forcefulness through Turkish Chaglar Soyuncuin addition to reinforcing the left side with Javi Galan.
Madrid has completed its reinforcements with Joselu Mato, Fran García and Arda Gülerwhile Barça brought in Iñigo Martinez (Athletic) already a youth squad like Oriol Romeu.
As for the other teams, the Betis has moved with the additions of Marc Roca, Hector Bellerín and, above all, of Isco Alarcon. In addition, the Portuguese striker André Silva returns to national football to strengthen the lead of Real Sociedad, which transferred the Norwegian Alexander Sorloth al Villarrealwhile Sevilla hasn’t moved too much either (Djibril Sow, Adrià Pedrosa and Federico Gattoni). A veteran like the Dutch defender also lands in the League Daley Blind to play for Girona.
Players like Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba (Barcelona), Marco Asensio (Real Madrid), Sergio Canales (Real Betis) or Pau Torres (Villarreal)and referents of recent years such as the French striker Karim Benzema (Real Madrid). Other players who were standing out like Nicola Jackson and Samu Chukwueze (Villarreal) or Kang-in Lee (Mallorca) They are no longer part of LaLiga either. A talent drain in the competition that the teams have had to face due to poor economic health.
2023-08-11 06:00:00
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