History says that Madrid caresses a handle of the League trophy, if it does not already grip it tightly. Since victories are awarded with three points, being a winter champion is almost a guarantee of lifting the title at the end of the season. In the last 26 seasons, only six teams have been able to unseat the team that finished the first round at the top of the table from the lead. The last one, the white team in 2019-20. And nobody managed to overcome an advantage like the one that Madrid now enjoys over Sevilla in the absence of a day to reach the halfway point of the championship: neither the eight points reflected in the classification nor the actual ‘five’ if the advance match against Athletic is discounted, already belonging to the second round …
Ten winter champions were with an advantage of more than five points or more with a day ahead of completing the first half of the championship and none lost it. The greatest distance traced back was the one that Madrid treasured in Ancelotti’s second season, 14-15. Four points in favor of the whites over Barcelona that the Barça team turned around to proclaim themselves champion in the absence of a matchday and finish that League with two advantage.
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* Data updated as of December 23, 2021
As soon as In the 64 two-point leagues, there were 41 winter champions who did not sing the alirón. But only six teams managed to snatch La Liga from the winter champions when they had a four-point advantage. (equivalent to two victories or one victory and two draws) and in no case greater than six points. Three other teams managed to overcome a three-point lead over the winter champions.
The biggest comebacks in the league
With historical statistics in hand, only Sevilla would be in a position to deprive Madrid of the title. Betis, third to 13 points (10 ‘reals’) would have to star in an unprecedented feat to win the title.
In fact, only three teams in the history of the League were able to win it after being eight points behind or more over the leader. The biggest comeback in the history of the championship, according to Blog The League in Numbers, It starred in Van Gaal’s Barça in the 1998-1999 season. The Catalans were able to overcome the nine points of advantage that Mallorca had on matchday 14 and sing the alirón with three days to go. The vermilion, who under the command of Héctor Cúper reached the final of the Recopa, finished third, after giving up the runner-up that Madrid ended up taking, which finished 11 points behind Barça.
The second biggest comeback in the ranking can be considered more meritorious, because then victories were awarded with only two points and, therefore, the real distance was four victories. Was the first of the two leagues of Tenerife. Barça culminated on the last day a path to the title in which they wiped out the eight points of advantage that Madrid reached on matchday 14.
Great comebacks in the League with Madrid involved
2003-2004: Madrid squanders an eight-point lead in the last 12 matchdays
The Whites have a bad precedent in which they saw an eight-point advantage disappear, as it is now. In the 2003-2004 season, Madrid were not winter champions, but in a more advanced stage of the championship, on matchday 26, with twelve remaining to go, they were eight points ahead of Valencia., who had been the leader at the end of the first lap and then also ended up being the champion. Queiroz’s team ran out of gas in the final stretch of the season and in a matter of weeks lost the League, the Cup and the Champions League. The fall of the Whites off the cliff began on March 17, with the defeat against Zaragoza in the KO tournament.
Still with 10 days ahead, Madrid took four points from Valencia, nine from Barça and 11 from Deportivo. The Whites lost five of the last six league games (they only won the derby, to maintain the custom of that time) and finished fourth, seven points behind champion Valencia, five from Barça and one from Dépor. Queiroz’s Madrid squandered the eight points of advantage it had over the Che on matchday 26 and the 18 that it took from Barcelona on matchday 18, a day before the end of the first round, although the Catalans were not served to be champions.
2002-2003: The biggest white comeback
From a year before, 2002-2003, dates the biggest comeback of Madrid towards the title. The championship started crooked for the whites, who in the first eight days only achieved three victories. That poor start allowed Raynald Denoueix’s surprising Real Sociedad to amass a seven-point lead over Del Bosque’s team.. That mattress allowed the Donostiarras to maintain the pull until the penultimate match, when Real lost 3-2 in Vigo. Madrid rose to the lead by thrashing 0-4 in the derby against Atlético at the Calderón and won the title against their fans with a victory (3-1) over Athletic. On day 18, the txuri-urdin they had arrived with three points of advantage.
2006-2007: Five points in ‘La Liga del Clavo Burning’
It was not seven, but five. The most mythical comeback of Real Madrid to win a League took place three years later, in 2006-2007, The League of Burning Nail. Barça managed to open a gap of six points on matchday 24 that remained at five with eight days remaining. But after a defeat at El Sardinero, Fabio Capello’s dressing room was conspired to win the League. A magical minute of the penultimate day decided the League. At the same time that Van Nistelrooy managed to tie (2-2) Madrid’s duel at La Romareda, the ‘Tamudazo’ at the Camp Nou left the League on a tray for the whites, who sentenced her a week later at the Bernabéu against Mallorca. Both teams finished level on points, but the champion decided on the goal average particular: Madrid prevailed (2-0) at the Bernabéu Classic and drew (3-3) at the Camp Nou.
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