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Real Sociedad in 7th (42pts)—can they keep the Cup momentum going in the league?

I'm still buzzing from the Copa del Rey win yesterday, but the league table is starting to look a little stressful. We’re sitting in 7th with 42 points, and Getafe is literally breathing down our necks just one point behind. Oyarzabal has been an absolute hero lately—scoring in the final and hitting 12 goals in the league—but I’m worried about a post-cup hangover. We really need to regroup and make sure we don't slip into that Conference League spot or worse, especially with the race for Europe being this tight. Do you guys think the squad has enough left in the tank to hold off Getafe and finish the season strong?

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u/Annual-Remove5914 — 3 hours ago
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Castellón [3]–1 Burgos (3–1) — Awer Mabil, 81'

Awer Mabil came on as a super sub and both assisted AND scored for Castellón in their 3–1 home win over Burgos in La Liga 2! It's his third goal of the season for the promotion-chasing Orelluts, who are second in a tight promotion race (being on level points with both Almería and Deportivo and seven points behind Racing Santander with six games to go)! Well done Awer!

u/HonestSpursFan — 1 day ago
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Mbappé’s Madrid Nightmare: Goals, Chaos, and No Silverware

Kylian Mbappé has more than done his part at Real Madrid, but the results are hard to stomach. Two seasons in, he’s bagged 88 goals (50 in his first, 38 this year), yet his trophy cabinet since moving to Spain remains empty.

Meanwhile, his old club, PSG, are in the semis defending their title. It’s hard not to look at those childhood posters of Ronaldo on his wall and remember it took CR7 five years to win the Champions League in Madrid. That's either a comforting parallel or a deeply uncomfortable one depending on how much patience you have.

The truth is, you can't really pin this on him. He came, he scored, the team around him never cohered. Kroos retired. Nacho left. Modrić barely played. The dressing room chemistry that ran three Champions Leagues in three years dissolved and nobody has figured out how to rebuild it yet. Even Ancelotti, watching from Brazil, thinks the spark is missing, and it’s getting harder to disagree.

I keep tabs of current matches here: https://www.reddit.com/live/1gvojrhksi5s4?

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u/EntrepreneurFun9472 — 2 days ago
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Joan García: From Espanyol Hero to Barça’s Wall

Kylian Mbappé might be grabbing the headlines, but Joan García is arguably the signing of the season in Spain. Since completing his €25 million move from Espanyol to FC Barcelona in June 2025, he has evolved from a lower-table standout into the most statistically dominant goalkeeper in La Liga.

García is currently outperforming his historic 2024/25 campaign, having already prevented 9.47 goals this season—the highest mark recorded in the league’s modern era. With 12 clean sheets in just 25 appearances, he is the current frontrunner for the Zamora Trophy and has been a massive upgrade for a Barça side that now sits nine points clear at the top of the table.

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u/Birdmansegzzy — 2 days ago
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¿Habría cambiado mucho el palmarés de la copa si siempre hubiese sido a único partido?

Después de ver a la Real ganar su segundo título en 5 años (Zorionak Txuriurdin), me pregunto si hubiese cambiado en exceso el palmarés de la copa si hubiese sido siempre a único partido. Se que incluso a doble partido ha habido ediciones sorpresivas y equipos inesperados como la edición en la que el Recre llegó a la final, pero hubo unos años en los que siempre los grandes se llevaban el trofeo o llegaban a la final (que es normal) y nos han podido privar de finales más igualadas o incluso sorpresas mayúsculas.

El cambio de formato fue positivo, creo que todo el mundo está de acuerdo, le da más emoción y alivia el calendario de partidos extras, aunque se deban cambiar algunas cosas como que los equipos de la Supercopa entren más tarde, lo cual desvirtúa muchísimo la competición, se podrían añadir más equipos como en otras copas, aunque los equipos inferiores se vayan eliminando entre ellos. También que las semifinales sean a doble partido es un sinsentido.

Dicho esto, ojalá haya más equipos inéditos o que están menos acostumbrados a ganar títulos en las fases finales de la copa para que la copa mole incluso más.

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u/Notoroski — 1 day ago
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La Liga 2025-26 Top 6 Forwards on a 6-axis Per-90 Radar — Mbappé is the only "complete" shape. Muriqi has the highest finishing edge. Lewandowski's shape says #1, his finishing says #6.

Took the top 6 La Liga forwards by xG (2025-26, through ~matchday 30) and plotted them on a 6-axis radar normalised 0–100 across the cohort.

**Filter**: position contains 'F' (so F, F S, F M S) AND (goals ≥ 5 OR xG ≥ 3.0), then top 6 by xG.

**Axes (per 90)**: Goals, xG, Shots, Shot Quality (xG / Shot), Creation (key passes), Finishing Edge (goals − xG).

**Cohort (raw per-90)**:

| # | Player | Team | Min | G | xG | Sh | xG/Sh | KP | FE/90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kylian Mbappé | Real Madrid | 2156 | 23 | 22.49 | 117 | 0.192 | 56 | +0.021 |
| 2 | Vedat Muriqi | Mallorca | 2430 | 19 | 16.74 | 88 | 0.190 | 15 | +0.084 |
| 3 | Robert Lewandowski | Barcelona | 1173 | 12 | 14.51 | 55 | 0.264 | 9 | −0.192 |
| 4 | Ferrán Torres | Barcelona | 1636 | 12 | 13.96 | 60 | 0.233 | 17 | −0.108 |
| 5 | Mikel Oyarzabal | Real Sociedad | 2300 | 12 | 13.85 | 71 | 0.195 | 37 | −0.073 |
| 6 | Ante Budimir | Osasuna | 2321 | 15 | 13.37 | 77 | 0.174 | 12 | +0.063 |

**Cohort (normalised 0–100 per axis)**:

| Player | Goals | xG | Shots | xG/Sh | KP | FE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mbappé | 100 | 71 | 100 | 21 | 100 | 77 |
| Muriqi | 48 | 17 | 23 | 18 | 5 | 100 |
| Lewandowski | 92 | 100 | 69 | 100 | 12 | 0 |
| Ferrán Torres | 39 | 42 | 25 | 66 | 25 | 31 |
| Oyarzabal | 0 | 4 | 0 | 24 | 53 | 43 |
| Budimir | 23 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 93 |

**Observations**:

1. **Mbappé is the only "complete" shape.** He is top-1 on Goals/90, Shots/90 and Creation/90 simultaneously, plus top-2 on Finishing Edge. No one else lands top-2 on more than two axes. Positive finishing edge (+0.021/90) is modest but he is doing it at elite volume (4.88 shots per 90), which is the genuinely hard combination.

2. **Muriqi is the clinical specialist.** Highest finishing edge in the cohort (+0.084/90) on moderate volume (3.26 Sh/90). He collapses on creation (0.56 KP/90) and shot quality (0.19 xG/Sh). He is not an all-round forward — he is a chance finisher. The spiky "triangle" shape on the radar.

3. **Lewandowski has the volume-machine profile.** Highest xG/90 (1.11) AND highest xG/Shot (0.264) in the cohort — the actual best-chance-taker in the league by the metric. But his finishing edge is the worst: −0.192/90. 12 goals on 14.51 xG across 1173 minutes. The shape says #1 overall. The scoreboard says he's tied with three others at 12 goals. That's a 2-3 goal gap between process and output.

4. **Oyarzabal is the creator-scorer.** 37 KP is more than the combined totals of Muriqi (15), Ferrán (17), Budimir (12) — and far more than Lewandowski (9). He is the lowest-volume shooter in the cohort (2.78 Sh/90) but dominates Creation. Effectively a playmaking striker.

5. **Budimir is the pure box striker.** Bottom of the cohort on xG/Shot (0.174) and KP/90 (0.47), but +0.06 FE/90 and 15 goals on 13.37 xG. He has the most goals of anyone not named Mbappé or Muriqi in this group. No axis is elite. The striker that is elite at the intersection — box presence — the radar cannot directly measure.

6. **Ferrán Torres is the balanced secondary.** No single axis wins, no single axis collapses. Second-highest xG/Shot (0.233) in the cohort behind Lewandowski. The "utility forward" inside Barcelona's front three.

**Methodology note**: Min-max normalisation is cohort-relative, so 100 on an axis means "best among these six" not "best in the league". Budimir at 0 on KP does not mean zero creation in absolute terms — it means the lowest KP/90 *among these six*. If you broadened the filter to every La Liga player with ≥3 xG, the shapes would flatten (more 40-60s, fewer 0s and 100s).
u/Repulsive-Passage627 — 1 day ago
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Jack Burton: The intrepid Englishman who coached in six countries

Cracking the cold case of the Englishman who coached some of Europe's foremost players and clubs, over six countries, but whose identity has been a mystery until now.

(Hope this is okay to post in here!)

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u/PichichiPod — 3 days ago
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Athletic Abroad | English Podcast | Episode 23 on Athletic's Results from Last 2 Defeats + What to Expect from Osasuna + News on Managerial & Presidential Situations

Recorded on April 17th, 2026, in our 23rd Episode, I will be discussing Athletic’s results from their last two losses against Getafe (0:37) and Villareal (5:47). I'll also be discussing what to expect from Osasuna early next week (12:26), as well as recent updates on the managerial situation at the club (14:24) and club presidential elections (23:47).

We hope you enjoy and tune in for next week's episode, where we'll discuss the result against Osasuna and what to expect versus Atletico Madrid.

Aupa Athletic!

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1o2UnJNg733ZFKfPTmSQrX?si=6okSEAusQ-e-Nus7ZrGNNw
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/athletic-abroad/id1835058129?i=1000762051757

u/Grouchy-Diver-4537 — 3 days ago
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Watching football in Madrid April 25/26

Hi

My friend and I are visiting Madrid from London next weekend and are keen to go to a football game, ideally Getafe v Barcelona but if that's not possible Rayo Vallecano v Real Sociedad.

It doesn't look like you can easily buy tickets for either game online in advance - is that right?

If not, how do you go about getting tickets? Would you expect that it will be impossible to get tickets for the Getafe game due to them playing Barcelona?

Any further detail would be much appreciated as its been hard to parse online so thanks in advance. Looking forward to visiting Madrid again, I went a couple of years ago and loved it.

Apologies if this isn't the right place to ask - my post was removed by the mods of the Madrid subreddit - but hopefully you guys will be familiar with how getting tickets works!

Thanks

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u/datguy19 — 5 days ago