Premier League vs La Liga- A Statistical Analysis

flameas wrote:The only fact is that EPLs titlerace is between 6 teams, La Ligas between 2 teams.

Raptorgunner wrote:The only fact is that EPLs titlerace is between 6 teams, La Ligas between 2 teams.

che wrote:

Raptorgunner wrote:The only fact is that EPLs titlerace is between 6 teams, La Ligas between 2 teams.

manchester united, manchester united, manchester united, manchester united, manchester united and, let's see, manchester united?

anyway, i'm giving this three pages at best before rb section/lock

also link not working for me...

flameas wrote:The only fact is that EPLs titlerace is between 3 teams, La Ligas between 2 teams.

jibers wrote:Read this earlier, very interesting, the only difference is the intensity and the physicality. Most people know that. ANd before people start calling la liga a two horse race, rememebr since 2004, only us and chelsea have won the league, and arsenal, the 4th best team in england got smashed 8-2 by us and villareal, the 4th best team in spain got beaten 5-0, same goal difference. Statistics is a bitch.

jibers wrote:

flameas wrote:The only fact is that EPLs titlerace is between 3 teams, La Ligas between 2 teams.

Manchester United, Manchester City and Chelsea.

Raptorgunner wrote:

jibers wrote:Read this earlier, very interesting, the only difference is the intensity and the physicality. Most people know that. ANd before people start calling la liga a two horse race, rememebr since 2004, only us and chelsea have won the league, and arsenal, the 4th best team in england got smashed 8-2 by us and villareal, the 4th best team in spain got beaten 5-0, same goal difference. Statistics is a bitch.

You forgot is not the same team who finished 4th place, I am not trying make an excuse for the loss, but it was not the same team who beat united and lost 1-0 to united and also united got stronger.

Doc wrote:Very interesting read. Only one that is a bit surprising is the successful dribbles statistic. Either the EPL has better dribblers on the ball or the defenders are more gullible in going into the challenge and being evaded with more ease than La Liga. That can be read differently depending on how you view data...

Doc wrote:Very interesting read. Only one that is a bit surprising is the successful dribbles statistic. Either the EPL has better dribblers on the ball or the defenders are more gullible in going into the challenge and being evaded with more ease than La Liga. That can be read differently depending on how you view data...

che wrote:

Doc wrote:Very interesting read. Only one that is a bit surprising is the successful dribbles statistic. Either the EPL has better dribblers on the ball or the defenders are more gullible in going into the challenge and being evaded with more ease than La Liga. That can be read differently depending on how you view data...

it also depends on what's considered dribbling... if kicking the ball past a defender and running faster than him to get it counts as a successful dribble it's not that surprising tbh...

Gil wrote:

jibers wrote:

flameas wrote:The only fact is that EPLs titlerace is between 3 teams, La Ligas between 2 teams.

Manchester United, Manchester City and Chelsea.

and Liverpool.

flameas wrote:The only fact is that EPLs titlerace is between 2 teams, La Ligas between 2 teams.

flameas wrote:The only fact is that EPLs titlerace is between 4 teams, La Ligas between 2 teams.

aford92 wrote:

flameas wrote:The only fact is that EPLs titlerace is between 4 teams, La Ligas between 2 teams.

This obviously means that EPL is better doesn't it? This means nothing, to judge the quality of a league you look at all the teams not just the title challengers. Also the EPL race is between 3 teams at most, Arsenal, Spurs and Liverpool aren't title challengers this season (Spurs never were and never will be challengers).

If you were to look at the final league standings of last season and do team vs team then you will see that 1st and 2nd the La Liga teams are better, 3rd-6th (except 5th) the EPL teams are better and from 7th downwards with the exception of 10th, the La Liga teams are better.

Also the quality of players is something to look at, there is a reason that most of the top players play in La Liga, the top 10 players in La Liga is something like this 1. Messi 2. Ronaldo 3. Xavi 4. Iniesta 5. Ozil 6.Fabregas 7. Villa 8. Rossi 9. Pedro 10. Navas. Meanwhile the EPL top 10 is something like this 1. Rooney 2. Aguero 3. Silva 4. Suarez 5. Nasri 6. Nani 7. VDV 8. Mata 9. Lampard 10. A.Young. All of the players in the La Liga list would walk into any team in the EPL.

Now let's look at the relegated teams. In La Liga Deportivo, Hercules and Almeria went down. Deportivo had Guardado, Adrian, Riki and Valeron and still went down, even with this calibre of player. Hercules still had Trezeguet, Valdez, Rufete, Drenthe (now at Everton) Tote and Kiko (now at Barca) and still went down. Even Almeria who finished bottom had a few decent players. Whereas in the EPL Blackpool, Birmingham and West Ham went down. Blackpool had only one decent player, Charlie Adam. Birmingham didn't have any except maybe Roger Johnson and West Ham only had Parker. If teams go down in La Liga with great players but in the EPL Blackpool nearly stayed up due to Charlie Adam alone, without him they would've finished bottom by a long way, if in the EPL one player can almost save a team then surely there is a difference in quality.

Now let's look at the best players from last season. In La Liga the top 4 players last season were Messi, Ronaldo, Xavi and Ozil. Meanwhile the best 4 players in the EPL were Parker Adam, Bale (don't know how he won the PFA Player of the Year considering that Charlie Adam was better) and Wilshere. Surely that tells you something. Even the top scorers show you that La Liga is better, the fact that players like DJ Campbell and Peter Odemwingie are in the top 10 EPL scorers shows you again that the EPL standard is slipping.

Quality of team La Liga >>> EPL
Quality of players La Liga >>> EPL
Quality of football La Liga >>> EPL

If an Englishmen is telling you that La Liga is better then surely that counts for something. People in England get caught up in the media hype about the EPL being the best league in the world but if they were to step back and take a look then they would, like me, realise that La Liga is by far the better league.

Sushi Master wrote:If people don't believe Liverpool will challenge for the title with a great squad, legendary manager and them being completely out of any European competition, enabling them to focus their attention at home: you're insane.

If you're writing off Arsenal after 3 matches, you're also insane.

La Liga is not a bad league, but when it comes to competiveness it has a huge, huge gap when you compare it to other leagues.

But to settle this, you want an exciting unpredictable league, underdogs beating giants, goal fests with decent tactics, awesome youth players, international stars up the ass and one of the best historical teams in football history, weekend after weekend?

Watch the Bundesliga, kids