It seems that nobody wants the La Liga title as Real Madrid and Barcelona seem to be doing their best not to win it judging by some of the performances and results lately.
Real Madrid have lost more games in the last 5 weeks or so than they have lost throughout the season and Barcelona have had numerous opportunities to capitalize, but for whatever reason they haven’t been able to.
The other contenders have also been quite uneven, as the likes of Villareal never seem to win games when they are close to the leaders, Atlético de Madrid had lost 6 of their last 8 games, Espanyol went through a period after losing their influential captain, Raúl Tamudo. to an injury, where they could not tie a game, much less win 1, as they kept losing game after game.
Sevilla had a very bad start to the season and are only beginning to show signs of recovery, while Real Zaragoza and Valencia are more aware of relegation than of a title challenge after having had terrible seasons thus far.
However, back to Real Madrid, but it seems that manager Bernd Schuster is doing everything he can to jeopardize his team’s season because the team he pulled out to play Deportivo de La Coruña on Saturday could only be described as a craziness.
To play Wesley Sneilder, Diarra, Guti and Royston Drenthe in midfield; then Raúl and Roberto Soldado who only played 45 minutes in the league before Saturday was just mind blowing.
To make matters worse, he had Robinho and Julio Baptista on the bench and only brought them in when it was almost late. It was almost as if he was trying to send a message to the board that has been complaining about his strange behavior all season. At this time it is not clear what message he was trying to send.
It is not surprising that they lost the game since they have not won theirs in 17 years and it was Barcelona’s turn to cut the difference in points to 6, but only managed to draw in Almería 2-2 after having conceded identical goals from corners.
It will be interesting to see if any team would take the league by the neck and try to win it since it seems that the most interesting thing about the league happens behind the scenes at each club.
Almost all coaching jobs are unsafe according to reports from Real Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Valencia, Real Zaragoza, Getafe, Atlético de Madrid apparently looking to change coaches next season.