La Liga form table since World Cup shows Barcelona’s title rivals next season

One other Clasico duopoly was brewing on the high of La Liga, however Actual Madrid’s faltering type post-Qatar allowed Barcelona to waltz to their first league title since 2019.

Xavi’s Blaugrana had been the standout outfit in Spain throughout all the marketing campaign, though one workforce’s type through the second half of the season might come as a slight fear heading into 2023/24.

For fairly a while, it appeared as if 2023 would lastly be the 12 months Diego Simeone departed his beloved Atletico. Los Rojiblancos’ home type earlier than the World Cup was patchy and so they had been quite embarrassingly knocked out of Europe fully after ending fourth of their Champions League group.

Stories intensified on El Cholo’s departure, however his Atletico outfit discovered one other gear within the new 12 months and Simeone’s keep within the Spanish capital seems set to proceed.

No workforce amassed extra factors after the World Cup in La Liga than Simeone’s Atleti (53) however they nonetheless completed 11 factors behind the champions. Simeone’s tactical flexibility aided Los Rojiblancos through the second half of the season, with the Argentinian’s defence additionally benefitting from the supervisor deploying a decrease block.

Atletico aren’t the rugged, park-the-bus retailers of their apex, however Simeone’s extra proactive stance merely wasn’t working through the first half of the season and his choice to drop deeper facilitated a definite defensive enchancment which introduced higher outcomes.

Barcelona completed simply behind Atletico within the post-World Cup desk and it is doubtless they’d’ve topped the standings had they not gained the title so early. Xavi’s aspect misplaced three of their 4 video games after they wrapped up proceedings in opposition to Catalonian rivals Espanyol.

Actual Madrid suffered seven defeats of their last 24 video games of the season as their focus finally turned to the Champions League and Copa del Rey. Actual Sociedad, in the meantime, completed third within the post-World Cup desk and secured a top-four end.

On the different finish of the desk, it is no shock that the 2 worst-performing groups through the second half of the season, Actual Valladolid and Elche, succumbed to the second tier. They have been joined within the Segunda Division by Espanyol, whose late four-game unbeaten run wasn’t sufficient to maintain them up.

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Sevilla had been the largest improvers after the World Cup. They had been 18th by 14 video games this season, however the arrival of José Luis Mendilibar as supervisor aided their revival. They amassed the sixth-most factors within the division after the World Cup and completed in mid-table, all whereas including one more Europa League title to their cupboard. Cadiz, who additionally seemed in bother on the break, rallied through the second half of the season to complete 14th.

Quite the opposite, Athletic Membership, who had been fourth as soon as the World Cup rolled round, pale significantly in 2023 and completed outdoors of the European spots. Ernesto Valverde’s aspect picked up simply 27 factors from their remaining 24 video games as they squandered an initially promising place.