🇪🇸 La Liga News, Match Previews, Results, Discussions - 2020/21 Open Thread

Zinedine Zidane on whether Karim Benzema is the best French striker in history: “For me, yes. More than 500 games, all the goals he’s scored, his record speaks for itself. For me, he’s the best. It is very clear.”

Do you agree with Zidane on this? :thinking:

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Karim Benzema has both scored and assisted inside the opening 15 minutes for Real Madrid vs. Eibar.

Racking up his 10th and 11th league goal involvements of the season.

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Karim Benzema has become the all time leading French scorer in Europe’s top-5 leagues with his 176th goal tonight. He overtook Thierry Henry, who was on 175.

A legend of the game.

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OFFICIAL: Barcelona have confirmed Phillipe Coutinho will be out for three months after undergoing knee surgery.

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Laliga Week 17 Fixtures (All times in BST)

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:es: Top scorers in La Liga this season:

Gerard Moreno - 9
Leo Messi - 9
Luis Suarez - 9
Iago Aspas - 9

:thinking: La Liga is the only one of Europe’s top five leagues without a goalscorer in double figures

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Giovanni Simeone: The striker Atletico Madrid fans want to replace Diego Costa

Atletico Madrid have been working to find a replacement for Diego Costa since the striker left the club at the end of December.

Lyon’s Moussa Dembele appears to have won the race to the Wanda Metropolitano, with the Frenchman close to becoming an Atletico player. Real Sociedad’s Willian Jose had also been in the running.

There is one forward, though, who would be a fairly popular choice amongst supporters of Los Rojiblancos - and it’s neither Dembele nor Willian Jose.

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Highest goalscorers in LaLiga this season

Messi🇦🇷 - 11
Moreno🇪🇸 - 10
Aspas🇪🇸 - 9
Suarez🇺🇾 - 9
Benzema🇫🇷 - 8
En-Nesyri🇲🇦 - 8
Oyarzabal🇪🇸 - 7
Llorente🇪🇸 - 6
Morales🇪🇸 - 6
Joao Felix🇵🇹 - 5

:goat: leading the Pichichi race

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:pear: Having sat top after ten matches in LaLiga, things have gone pear-shaped for Real Sociedad, winning just one of their last nine…

:handshake::handshake::handshake::x::x::x::white_check_mark::handshake::x:

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Antoine Griezmann has both scored and delivered an assist in a same Liga game for the 3rd time this season, already as many times as in the entire last campaign. He made an assist in consecutive Spanish top-flight games for the first time since November 2018 (also 2).

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Lionel Messi’s last two LaLiga games:

:soccer::soccer: vs. Bilbao
:soccer::soccer: vs. Granada

Back-to-back braces in the league for the first time since March 2019. :boom:

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Barcelona’s Lionel Messi :argentina: has scored 11 goals in La Liga 2020/21 (two goals against Granada), the only player to score 10+ goals in 15 consecutive seasons in the competition’s history.

:fire::fire::fire:

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Toni Kroos :de: attempted 121 passes against Osasuna (113 passes completed), the most by a Real Madrid player in a La Liga game this season.

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Sergio Busquets :es: made his 600th appearance for Barcelona in all competitions, becoming the fourth player to reach this milestone for the club after Xavi Hernández :es: (767), Lionel Messi :argentina: (752) and Andrés Iniesta :es: (674).

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Messi becomes the first player in LA liga history to score 10+ goals in each of his last 15 seasons.

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Patience is running out for Hazard as Spanish press begin to turn on him.

One and a half years after leaving Chelsea and signing for Real Madrid Eden Hazard is being compared to Gareth Bale by Spanish media – and he is not coming out of the comparison at all well.1610392544937

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Messi trains after overcoming hamstring problem

Lionel Messi was substituted in the 65th minute of Barcelona’s game against Granada due to discomfort in his hamstring, which would have had his club worried.


But, the captain has already recovered and trained as normal on Monday morning.

The Argentine came off as a precautionary measure after a fantastic contribution, with him scoring twice, and Ronald Koeman didn’t want to take any risks with his No.10.

Now, Messi is ready to play in the Supercopa de Espana, with Barcelona taking on Real Sociedad in the semi-final on Wednesday.

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Braithwaite: There’s no chance of me leaving Barcelona

Martin Braithwaite has declared his intention to stay at Barcelona beyond the end of the current season.

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Barcelona to wear special shirt in El Clásico on 11 April

Legendary captain Carles Puyol will be the face of the campaign for the new shirt, which will be worn exclusively by the team against Real Madrid at the Bernabéu.


Carles Puyol will be the face of the campaign for the presentation of a commemorative shirt for the 2020/21 season, the ‘Special El Clásico Edition” which has been designed especially for one game only - against Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu, on the weekend of 11 April.

The shirt is sure to be sought after by collectors. The design combines Barcelona’s club colours with those of the regional Senyera flag. The specially-commissioned shirts will go on sale exclusively in FC Barcelona’s official club stores at the end of January.

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Four points clear at the top of La Liga with two games in hand.

Atletico Madrid mean business :boom:

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