The Spanish La Liga 2024/2025 Season Review with Barcelona's Dominance

The 2024/25 La Liga season, came to us like a delivery man. It delivered drama and flair culminating with Barcelona claiming their 28th title.

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Barcelona, under Hansi Flick, secured the crown with two games to spare after a 2–0 win over Espanyol, finishing with 102 goals scored and a 4-0 record in El Clasicos.

UEFA earlier confirmed additional spot for La Liga with Real Madrid coming second in the league table, followed by Atlético Madrid and Athletic Bilbao and the fifth spot clinched by Villareal, all earning UEFA Champions League spots. Celta Vigo and Real Betis grabbed Europa League places. Rayo Vallecano will be playing in the conference league next season.

Relegation friendship was shared albeit sadly between Almería, Leganés, and Real Valladolid were relegated to La Liga 2, with Almería’s fate sealed after a 1–3 loss to Getafe.

Top Scorer: Kylian Mbappé (Real Madrid) clinched the Golden Boot with 31 goals.

Top Assists: Lamine Yamal (Barcelona) led with 13 assists, shining as a young star.

Zamora Trophy: Jan Oblak (Atlético Madrid) set a record with 15 clean sheets, earning the award for the lowest goals-to-games ratio.

Key Players in the concluded season:

Dani Vivian (Athletic Bilbao) anchored the league’s stingiest defence (29 goals conceded), recovering the ball 364 times.

Iñigo Martínez (Barcelona) led defenders with 514 progressive carries and 4 assists.

Johnny Cardoso (Real Betis) impressed, scoring in upsets against Real Madrid and Girona.

Some Jaw dropping Moments:

Barcelona’s thrilling 4–3 El Clasico win after trailing 2-0.

Athletic Bilbao’s fourth-place finish, their best since 1997/98.

Girona’s surprising drop from third to near-relegation.

Next season, we await the magic.

The Premier League 2024/2025 Season Review

Today I want to take a dive into what we witnessed in the just concluded season of the English Premier League. The 2024/25 Premier League season was a fun ride, no doubt.  with Liverpool clinching their second PL title and 20th English top-flight crown under Arne Slot.

Official stats that showcases the beauty of the league:

League Winners - Liverpool dominated, finishing with 80 goals scored (league-high), 75.50 xG, and the fewest xG conceded (28.94). They lost just twice, sealing the title with four games to spare.

With the UEFA coefficient coming into play this season, the premier league was guaranteed additional spot for the UEFA Champions League.

And with thats And with the forgoing, Arsenal secured second, followed by Manchester City, Chelsea, and Newcastle United, all qualifying for the UEFA Champions League. They also got a sixth team representing the league at the tourney next season with Tottenham Hotspur, Europa League winners, also earning a spot.

Relegation battle was fierce but came to an end with Leicester City, Ipswich Town, and Southampton going down after one season. Marking the first time since 1997/98 that all promoted teams were relegated.

Top Scorer: Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) led with 29 goals, also topping assists with 18, breaking records with 47 goal involvements in a 38-game season.

Golden Glove: Matz Sels (Nottingham Forest) and David Raya (Arsenal) shared the honour with 13 clean sheets each.

 

Notable  Players:

Ryan Gravenberch (Liverpool) won Hublot Young Player of the Season, leading midfielders with 59 interceptions.

Alexander Isak (Newcastle) scored 23 goals, second only to Salah.

Bryan Mbeumo (Brentford) had 25 goal involvements (18 goals, 7 assists).

 

Key events that caught our attention:

Nottingham Forest’s surprising European qualification, driven by Morgan Gibbs-White (6 goals, 8 assists).

Cole Palmer’s standout games for Chelsea, including a 4-goal haul vs. Brighton.

Manchester City’s mid-season slump, winning just once in 13 matches.

GoaGoal statistics

A total of 1,115 goals were scored across all the 380 matches, with Liverpool leading shots per game (17.4) and big chances created (136).

Posted stats are official stats gotten from Premier League and other sources such as ESPN and Goal.

Is Eric Chelle saving the Super Eagles?

 A seemingly good start for Head Coach Eric Chelle following their two nil win over Rwanda on Friday 21st March, 2025 in their world cup qualifying group stage match. He was praised for a very good start winning his first match in charge of the Super Eagles.

Victor Osimhen opened scoring at the 11th minute of the game and completed his double and the only goals to be scored in the match at the 45+3 minutes of the first half. 

They were cheered despite missing numerous chances in the game. The sixth match of the group stage game was a game a home against the Zimbabwe national team. It was a game that maximum points were required to give the Eagles a hope of progressing and making to the world cup next year.

They were leading with a goal to nil till the eighty-ninth minute through a goal scored by Victor Osimhen at the seventy-fourth minute. They lost the lead at the ninetieth minute when the Zimbabwean team equalized through a mistake at the Nigerian defense. The game ended in a one all draw and see the Nigerian team on the edge of crashing out of the next world cup tournament.

Eric Chelle and his team were seeing to be visibly frustrated at the end of the match as they had expected more. But it seems that the expectation and the effort did not match at the end of ninety minutes.

Nigeria is however down to popular mathematical calculations and permutation on how to reach qualification. This is highly disgraceful for the giant of Africa. With the abundance of talent in the country, one would have expected a smooth qualification.

The new man in charge will be praying for miracle now as well as all Nigerians and lovers of the Super Eagles.

A sad day it is.