For the second year in as many as we have run the Spanish inner pyramid, Barcelona emerged as the winner. But it was a bit more difficult for Barça, which won the division despite winning fewer than half of its games.
The difficulty of the Spanish Big Six is difficult to overstate. Two years in, only one team has managed to win half of its 10 games in a season.
That would have been Barcelona, which bagged seven wins and three draws in 2017-18 to win the Spanish Big Six with 24 points, nearly twice as many as second-place Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid.
Barcelona won the Spanish Big Six again in 2018-19, but not nearly so easily. This time, Barça only won four games and actually lost one, finishing with 17 points in the standings. This time, Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid finished much closer in second, each with 14 points.
Valencia and Villareal, which won three Big Six games between them, both are headed to the Middle Six in 2018-19. Coming up to the top are Sevilla, which had just been demoted, and Real Betis, which won the Spanish Little Six(ish) in 2017-18 and finished second in the Middle Six in 2018-19.
Espanyol, which had just been demoted from the Middle Six, won the Little Six(ish) in 2018-19 and is going back up to the middle. Also being promoted is Leganés. Girona, which had just been promoted to the middle, is going back down to the bottom in 2019-20, along with Alavés.
The difficulty of the Spanish Big Six is difficult to overstate. Two years in, only one team has managed to win half of its 10 games in a season.
That would have been Barcelona, which bagged seven wins and three draws in 2017-18 to win the Spanish Big Six with 24 points, nearly twice as many as second-place Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid.
Barcelona won the Spanish Big Six again in 2018-19, but not nearly so easily. This time, Barça only won four games and actually lost one, finishing with 17 points in the standings. This time, Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid finished much closer in second, each with 14 points.
Valencia and Villareal, which won three Big Six games between them, both are headed to the Middle Six in 2018-19. Coming up to the top are Sevilla, which had just been demoted, and Real Betis, which won the Spanish Little Six(ish) in 2017-18 and finished second in the Middle Six in 2018-19.
Espanyol, which had just been demoted from the Middle Six, won the Little Six(ish) in 2018-19 and is going back up to the middle. Also being promoted is Leganés. Girona, which had just been promoted to the middle, is going back down to the bottom in 2019-20, along with Alavés.
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