Manchester United and Arsenal prove why the Premier League is still the best in the world
Posted by Cathal Breathnach on March 10, 2010 | 9 Comments
Manchester United 4-0 AC Milan.
Arsenal 5-0 Porto.
Real Madrid 1-1 Lyon.
There has been talk over the past few months that the Premier League has began to fall behind La Liga in terms of it’s overall quality. With players like Cristiano Ronaldo and Xabi Alonso swapping England for Spain last summer, many felt that La Liga would now become the best league in the world, however if last night’s and tonight’s results are anything to go by, the Premier League is still head and shoulders above La Liga.
Arsenal were expected to have a tough time of it at home to Porto as they looked to overturn a 2-1 deficit from their first leg in Portugal. To say that Arsene Wenger’s men made light work of the Portuguese giants would be an huge understatement. The Gunners won 5-0 on the night to progress to the quarter-finals of the Champions League with a 6-2 aggregate win.
Meanwhile, Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United were also expected to find it difficult against the Italian giants AC Milan, however just like Arsenal, they came through with flying colours. Two goals from Wayne Rooney helped United to a 4-0 win on the night and a incredible 7-2 on aggregate.
Contrast that to Real Madrid who have once again crashed out at the last-16 stage of the competition despite the fact they spent over €270 million on players during the summer. French side Lyon managed to nick a 1-1 draw at the Bernabeu this evening, which was enough to send them through to the quarter-finals with a 2-1 aggeragate win.
With 4 teams now through to the quarters, the Premier League has 2 teams, whilst La Liga has no teams, so those of you who say that La Liga is the best league in the world are wrong. Ok, it may, on occasion, be more enjoyable to watch, but the facts are there for all to see. The Premier League is the best in the world.
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What do you think? Comments below please.
Tags: AC Milan > Arsenal > La Liga > Lyon > Manchester United > Porto > Premier League > Real Madrid
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March 10th, 2010 @ 10:37 pm
La Liga is so good to watch because there as so many goals. There are so many goals because Goal difference doesn’t matter, so if malaga are playing Barcelona, a 1-0 defeat is as bad as a 10-0 defeat so as soon as malaga go 1-0 down they just go all out to equalise, then when they’re 3-0 down they just give up.
In England, that just isn’t the case. Every goal is valuable, so a Hull will cling onto a 1-0 or 2-0 defeat in an attempt to save their goal difference.
England is the best league with the best teams but due to different rules, La liga is more entertaining to watch.
March 10th, 2010 @ 10:47 pm
I think you’re jumping to conclusions to early. Next week, if Chelsea loses and both Barcelona and Sevilla win, how are you going to support your argument?
Real Madrid is just a case study by itself of buying big and thinking that, because FIFA awarded them the Best Club of the Last Century, that by default, their destiny is suppose to always be the best and win everything, which is not true if they don’t now how to make a proper team. And now, for them everything hurts even more due to Barcelona’s recent success.
March 10th, 2010 @ 11:57 pm
Good point Dan but I disagree..
Lower teams may cling on to draws in the EPL but teams like Hull never ever cling on to loosing positions unless its the final month of the season. Not only because the English fans would slaughter their team but also I find that the fighting spirit in the EPL is fantastic.
The reason the EPL is the more exciting league is because the lower 10 clubs are always much stronger in quality than the bottom half of la liga
Also althogh La Liga has great players it is too predictable with the dominance of just Barca and Real Madrid
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March 11th, 2010 @ 8:18 am
Agree with Anthony, except the fact that bottom teams are good is not the reason why but rather a result of the Premeier League being so good.
What is then the reason? My view is that the influx of foreign players and managers has caused a great combination of the technical game that we see in Southern part of the continent with the physical style and pace of the English game.
Unfortunately, right now the physicality may give the English game a setback as I feel the technical teams are less protected than they used to be – the bottom teams know this and use it. This balance needs to be re-visited or PRL will loose the technical players from abroad.
March 11th, 2010 @ 9:57 am
I strongly agree with Jan. Some bottom clubs like Stoke, Bolton and Blackburn use physical strength and kicking-opponent tactics to overcome techically stronger side, which is such a disgrace to EPL. Only the top 3-4 teams in EPL can compete in International level, the rest are just numbers.
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March 14th, 2010 @ 10:53 pm
The reason the top clubs are so good in England is cause they make 50 -100 million dollars more than real madrid, Barca, Inter, Ac milan, juve, roma etc. the reason Barca is great is cause most of their players are homegrown. AC milan lost to Man U cause they had so many injuries. Like Nesta, with him at CB it would have been a lot closer. We also didn’t have Pato, with him we could have been much better espescially counterattacking.