La Liga Lowdown

Sevilla made history by winning the Europa League three times in a row and, in this podcast, the La Liga Lowdown crew tell that story.

It started in 2013/14 and Paco Polit (@pacopolitENG) explains the impact Unai Emery had and reflects on the epic semi-final against Valencia, which ended up sending Sevilla to Turin to defeat Benfica on penalties. Then they also won it in 2014/15 and 2015/16, in Warsaw and in Basel, and Sam Leveridge (@samleveridge) and Alex Fitzpatrick (@Mallorcalex100) respectively tell the stories of those campaigns.

We also here from Sevilla fan Chris Lail (@ChrisLail), the admin of @MonchisMen, and from La Liga Lowdown’s Sevilla correspondent Gregor Chappelle (@gregorchappelle). The story is told with Euan McTear hosting (@emctear), along with commentary clips of the most epic moments from Cadena Cope, BT Sport, Movistar and UEFA. 

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We have a new leader at the top of the LaLiga table after the results of matchday 21, with Real Madrid winning at Real Valladolid 1-0 and with Barcelona falling to a 2-0 loss at Valencia. Paco Polit (@pacopolitENG) analyses that match and the two teams' styles of play, while there's also discussion of Atlético Madrid with Brendy Boyle (@BrendyBoyle) and of the pressure Diego Simeone is under.

Elsewhere, Sevilla won the Andalusian derby against Granada and Gregor Chappelle (@gregorchappelle) reveals what he saw there. Geoff Gillingham (@GeoffGillingham) provides an update on the new-look Espanyol and their trio of new signings. Dom Tancock (@dorsetdom1905) shares his thoughts on Getafe's dramatic victory over Real Betis. And host Euan McTear (@emctear) goes through some of the other major stories of the weekend, such as Chimy Ávila's injury and the special debut of Fernando Niño. All with some commentary clips along the way, courtesy of LaLiga TV and Cadena Cope.

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This midweek podcast from La Liga Lowdown is all about Barcelona and Spain legend Carles Puyol. We tell his story, from his childhood to his playing days to his life after retirement.

Román de Arquer (@Aeroslavee) kicks the podcast off by detailing how Puyol went from playing as a goalkeeper as a kid to making his Barcelona first-team debut at right-back. Richard Fitzpatrick (@Richard_Fitz) then picks up the story and explains how Puyol became a world-class centre-back, the club captain and a key member of Pep Guardiola's Barcelona.

We also hear from Kevin Williams (@kevvwill) about the partnership Puyol developed with Gerard Piqué, from Paco Polit (@pacopolitENG) about his international career with Spain and from Matt Clark (@MattClark_08) about the work Puyol has done since retiring as a player.

Hosted by Euan McTear (@emctear), this podcast also features commentary clips of legendary Puyol moments and a clip of Piqué discussing the greatness of his former colleague.

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Barcelona changed their coach, but they didn't change their goalscorer. Once again, it was Lionel Messi who led them to victory, but their 1-0 win over Granada was a very different kind of performance under new boss Quique Setién and we break it down with Román de Arquer (@Aeroslavee).

Plus, host Euan McTear (@emctear) was in Mallorca this weekend to see Real Mallorca defeat Valencia 4-1 and he spoke to La Liga Lowdown's expert on the island, Alex Fitzpatrick (@Mallorcalex100), straight after the game about that huge result.

In this episode, we also hear from Dan Parry (@DanParry_) about Eibar's 2-0 win over Atlético Madrid and Athletic Club's 1-1 draw with Celta Vigo, from Paco Polit (@pacopolitENG) about Aleix Vidal's redemption in Alavés 1-0 win at Levante and from David Whitworth (@DCWh1tw0rth) about Real Betis smashing Real Sociedad 3-0.

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In this week's midweek podcast, we take a look at the Martin Ødegaard story so far.

We've got Alex Fitzpatrick (@Mallorcalex100) on his origins in Norway. We've got Sam Leveridge (@samleveridge) on his arrival at Castilla, Real Madrid's B team. We've got Román de Arquer (@Aeroslavee) on his loan spells in the Netherlands. We've got Dan Parry (@DanParry_) on his time so far at Real Sociedad. And we've got Matt Clark (MattClark_08) on his international career.

All hosted by Euan McTear (@emctear) and with commentary clips from Sky Sports and Cadena Cope.

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It was a bit of a different weekend this weekend. A very different weekend, in fact. There was no LaLiga, but there was the Supercopa for Valencia, Barcelona, Atlético Madrid and Real Madrid and the Copa del Rey for everyone else. Well, apart from Alavés. Sorry Alavés...

Looking at the Supercopa, Valencia fan Cesar Benoit (@amunti), Barcelona fan Román de Arquer (@Aeroslavee), Atlético Madrid fan Jeremy Beren (@JBBeren) and Real Madrid fan Kristofer McCormack (@K_mc06) all share their thoughts on how their teams did in Saudi Arabia.

Later, Matt Clark (@MattClark_08) recaps what went on in the Copa del Rey over the weekend as we lost another LaLiga side in the form of Getafe. It's all hosted by Euan McTear (@emctear), along with commentary clips from Cadena Cope and Movistar.

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We asked you, our listeners and followers, to vote in a survey to decide your top XI from the first half of the 2019/20 LaLiga season and the results are in. In this special podcast, we reveal each player who made the XI one by one, with analysis on their first half of the season from the journalists and fans in the know.

It's all hosted by Euan McTear (@emctear) and the contributions come from Román de Arquer (@Aeroslavee), Alex Fitzpatrick (@Mallorcalex100), Sam Leveridge (@samleveridge), Matthew Clark (@MattClark_08), Dan Parry (@DanParry_) and Gregor Chapelle (@GregorChappelle).

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The first matchday of 2020 was a thrilling one, and potentially an important one for the LaLiga title race. Barcelona dropped points in the Catalan derby against Espanyol as they conceded a late equaliser to Wu Lei and Román de Arquer (@Aeroslavee) shares his thoughts on that match. Real Madrid moved level on points with Barcelona thanks to their victory over Getafe and Emily Wilson (@wilson_emt) praises Fede Valverde, Thibaut Courtois and Éder Militão when reflecting on that game.

In the second half of this week's episode, Alex Fitzpatrick (@Mallorcalex100) summarises the start to the season for each of this year's newly promoted sides, Sam Leveridge (@samleveridge) looks back at those frantic five minutes of goals in Atlético Madrid vs Levante and Matthew Clark (@MattClark_08) analyses the Real Sociedad vs Villarreal attacking football showdown.

Every other game from the weekend is covered as well, with the episode hosted by Euan McTear (@emctear).

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We've just had the final LaLiga matchday of 2019, so here's your final La Liga Lowdown podcast of the year!

In this one, we reflect on Sevilla finishing the calendar year in third with Gregor Chappelle (@GregorChappelle), on Villarreal's latest win and Valencia's fighting spirit with Paco Polit (@pacopolitENG) and on the basement battle between Leganés and Espanyol with Panos Kostopoulos (@Panos88K).

Looking at the title battle, Kiyan Sobhani (@KiyanSo) analyses Real Madrid's 0-0 draw with Athletic Club and Los Blancos' recent bad luck, while Román de Arquer (@Aeroslavee) looks back on Barcelona's 4-1 victory over Alavés that puts them top over Christmas.

It's all hosted by Euan McTear (@emctear), along with some commentary clips from Cadena Cope.

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It had been a long wait for this Clásico, as we'd had to wait an extra 55 days before finally getting to see Barcelona and Real Madrid go head to head. And, it had been a long time since we'd seen a goalless Clásico, as there hadn't been one since 2002. We discuss what happened at the Camp Nou in this podcast, starting with a discussion between Euan McTear (@emctear) and Paco Polit (@pacopolitENG).

Then, Román de Arquer (@Aeroslavee) and Hasan Karim (@TheHasKarim) give us their player ratings, with Román running the rule over the Barça players and Hasan doing likewise for Real Madrid.

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