Teams remained in First with less points

Last update 23 January, 2015 by Alberto Llopis

After the first round of the League we find ourselves with a really strange situation at this point in the championship. A total of seven teams have 18 or less points in the first 19 days and even, one, the Cordoba, With only three victories he can boast of being in the lower-middle zone of the classification. Since the League has been disputed, giving three points to the winner (97-98) nothing even similar had ever happened.

And if we follow these numbers and project ourselves in the month of May, we can find which teams with 34 points are saved, historic milestone in the League. No one has ever remained in the highest category of Spanish football having added less than 37 points under the format of three points per victory. Celta Vigo (2013) and Malaga (2010) They achieved the desired permanence with those figures but below that the team always did not achieve such a score under the hell of the Second.

Los 37 Celta and Malaga points were the points achieved by the worst teams that managed to stay in First Division, in contrast to the 43 that Deportivo obtained in 2011 and that they place them as the best team that has ever been relegated to Second.

Granada accumulates 15 consecutive games without winning a game and is still only three points away from permanence. Levante became 4 unmarked days and still only one point away from salvation. All negative data that raises a question: what happens in Spanish football? why this trend?

Traditionally, the League had always distinguished itself for being the one with the best middle class in world football.. Nobody questioned that.. Any mid-table team in Spain was capable of competing head-to-head with any sixth or seventh ranked team in the Italian leagues., English, or let's not say, french and german.

However, The economic problems of many clubs have caused the differences to become an abyss in the classification. There are two leagues: those of the first six and then that of the last seven. Via, Málaga and Éibar seem to play in the middle of nowhere. From sixth to ninth there is 12 points difference and few argue since the six teams that will automatically play in Europe are already known.

If before playing in the home of teams in danger was synonymous with leaving points or at least suffering, today it equals defeats. No team in the top six has received more than 18 goals, figure that of the position 13 al 20 only Elche has managed to score. Real Madrid and Barcelona have the most goals between them (110) that the last seven. Ronaldo accumulates more goals than 14 First teams.

It is true that the distances between meringues and culés with respect to the next four have been shortened. The problem is that it seems that it has been at the cost of condemning those below, almost incapable of even managing to put up a fight against Madrid or Barcelona, but to the first six.