In La Liga, apart from Elche, who have long (and lamentably) lost touch with the other teams, there are six teams involved in the fight to avoid relegation: Valladolid, Cadiz, Getafe, Almeria, Valencia and Espanyol.
Today, Valladolid, Cadiz, Getafe and Almeria are above Valencia and Espanyol. At the same time, the latter have a rich historical legacy on their side. It’s hard to imagine La Liga without Valencia and Espanyol (although it wouldn’t be the first time).
At the same time, Espanyol didn’t make a good match against Betis, although at one point they came closer within just a goal. Too little to have any real chance of playing in the first division again next year. For Valencia and Espanyol the correct approach of the end of the La Liga is this: all the matches remained should be treated as veritable finals.
Other teams, like Valladolid for example, approach every game as if it were their last (and this is the right approach). This also explains their improbable win at Villareal. Others, however, fail to get their morale up (Valencia and Espanyol in particular). Valencia is now also paying for the managerial mistakes of the Gatusso era. They have good players but they play badly as we saw in the last round when they lost at home to Sevilla.
As for Cadiz, Almeria and Getafe, this is a group of teams of which normally one of them will relegat. Either way, La Liga has won on show through such a close fight to avoid relegation. On the other hand, the championship has tightened at the bottom, not at the top, where Barcelona will win a title that Real Madrid rather lost, for whom, after all, only the Champions League matters. And Simeone’s last season at Atletico was pretty poor. The teams in the Basque Country that have raised their level and, it must be pointed out, the revelation of Rayo Vallecano on which you can still bet with confidence. Good seasons last until the end. We will have a tight fight and calculations for avoiding relegation until the last minute of the last matchday of La Liga.
