La Liga Heats Up: Barcelona and Real Dominate Early Season
Barcelona and Real Madrid kick off La Liga with strong starts; top scorers shine. Key matches ahead for major Spanish clubs. Nik Z gives his match picks.
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Let's move on, Nick.
Champions League, we are ready for it.
It's gonna be an exciting and we're gonna have you here- Yeah covering it closely with us.
But what other things are happening in Europe right now?
The tournaments are already underway.
Yes.
Deadline, transfer deadline already happened this week, so we are who we are, and we play how we play, Nick.
What are the standouts in Europe right now?
Yeah.
So we got, we got a few d- different things happening at once.
Obviously, everything tends to kick off around this time.
Spain, I mean, let- let's start with La Liga and we'll move eastward.
La Liga's already obviously heating up.
I'm looking here.
Do you have the, schedule to pull up?
You can pull it up.
La Liga is heating up.
Barcelona, Real Madrid, they both won their first three matches.
Barcelona coming in absolutely hot.
This is the Barca that we've been wanting to see, the goal scoring machine Barca, the well-oiled beautifully flowing Barcelona.
Sometimes we've missed a bit of that consistency, but they're back.
Twelve goals already.
Kylian Mbapp for Real Madrid has four goals already.
Raphinha leading the league right now with five goals.
So the two giants of Spanish football coming in hot and absolutely doing amazing things right out the gates.
But I will say Atletico- Yep a squad that we've watched do absolutely well in Champions League as well, right behind them.
So the big three are doing the big three things that they tend, that, that they tend to do.
But this weekend, Real Madrid is gonna be going to Real Betis.
Atltico visiting Athletic, Bilbao, and Barca heading to Valencia, so it's gonna be an amazing weekend in La Liga.
Who do you root for, Marce, when we're watching Spanish football?
Oof.
I mean, what does a Pumas fan default to?
It's, it is tough, man.
It is tough for me because I have never really claimed allegiance to any Spanish team.
Yeah.
The closest in, in heritage would be El Real Oviedo 'cause that's where my family immigrated from.
But Rayo Vallecano has a close place in my heart because that was the first European team that I rooted for when Hugo Snchez migrated to, to Europe.
Gotcha.
Jersey?
But then he went to, then he went to Atltico de Madrid, and that's the team that I felt the most, aligned with.
That the only team that I own a jersey for in the La Liga.
But then he went to Real Madrid and became a superstar, so there's a little bit of love for Real Madrid.
I'm not a Real Madrid fan and not at all.
They've had some of the best players, so it's a must.
But also I've never been in the Barcelona train.
I remember back in the '90s, I was very much a fan of Valencia cuando el Dragn Caizares y Pablito Aimar were in the team, and it was a beautiful, counterpart to Barcelona and, and So I would say that in between Atltico de Madrid and Valencia, those are the teams that I support.
Well, Nick, thank you so much for the time that you had today.
And I see you that now you're like really getting into your new role as, as a news anchor again with the suit and the tie making us all look like, like peasants here- I took off the jacket for you though in the bleachers.
That's the difference between the nosebleeds and the club seats, my friend.
I look like a manager on the sideline now.
Just need to be screaming and
