So, what now for Real Madrid?
Los merengues were on top of the football world Sunday morning, having come back from a 2-0 second half deficit to defeat Sevilla, 3-2, at the Santiago Bernabeu Saturday night.
Less than two hours before Rafael van der Vaart poked in the injury time game-winner, Barcelona was held to a 2-2 [...]

The current wisdom suggests Atletico de Madrid is an impossible team to figure out.
Really, it’s the opposite. Take a look at what it did the week before, and then predict the exact opposite – it’s your best bet.
At the Vicente Calderon on Feb. 14, Atletico handed Barcelona its first league defeat of the season, 2-1. [...]

In what promises to be an entertaining match between two attacking teams, Sevilla will take on Atletico de Madrid in this season’s Copa del Rey final.
Sevilla – conquerors of holders Barcelona and Deportivo la Coruna in the prior two rounds – had a tough go of it in Wednesday’s semifinal second leg at Getafe. Holding [...]

Two years ago, Zaragoza was the classic “too good to go down” team that did, in fact, go down to Spain’s second division.
The club was coming off a sixth place finish in 2006-07, and with the likes of Pablo Aimar, Sergio Garcia, Ricardo Oliveira and a not yet calcified Roberto Ayala leading the way, many [...]

Two of Spain’s biggest clubs are one step away from the Copa del Rey final.
In Wednesday’s first leg semifinal, Sevilla defeated Getafe at the Sanchez Pizjuan, 2-0. Atletico de Madrid upped the ante today, romping over Racing Santander, 4-0, at the Vicente Calderon.
Sevilla and Atletico will have to defend those leads on the road in [...]

The ax has fallen on Ernesto Valverde at Villarreal.
Sunday’s 2-0 home loss to Osasuna was the final straw in a tough first season for Valverde at the helm of the Yellow Submarine.
Villarreal got off to a horrendous start this season, spending most of the first two months in the relegation zone after taking just three [...]

As La Liga begins the second half of its season, it’s time to look back at the first 19 match days.
There have been some things that have gone as expected, and there have been some surprises. To see examples of both, we need not look any further than my predicted table from before the season.
Let’s [...]

When Sunday’s Real Madrid-Malaga fixture ends, the La Liga campaign will have reached the halfway mark.

While Barcelona and Real top the league table as expected, there have been plenty of surprises, good and bad. Two of the good ones – Deportivo la Coruna and Athletic Bilbao – meet Saturday in Spain’s match of the weekend [...]

They could very well be playing in Spain’s third division next season, an incredible fall from grace from recently lofty heights.
But for one night, Celta de Vigo is again in the limelight.
An injury time penalty from Roberto Trashorras in Tuesday’s Copa del Rey round of 16 match at Villarreal gave the Galicians a 1-0 victory [...]

Last week’s draw for the last 16 of the Copa del Rey saw four of the top five teams in the La Liga table pitted against one another in the same bracket.

The marquee tie has league leaders Barcelona taking on fourth-place Sevilla, while third-place Valencia is paired with Deportivo la Coruna, currently fifth in the [...]