Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo has labelled La Liga as the 'hardest' domestic competition in the world.
The Portugal international played a key role in his club's Primera Division title success, netting 46 times in total, and freely admits that ending Barcelona's run of three successive titles represents the highlight of his career to date.
I can see where he can come up with a statement like that. Since we know La Liga is a two-horse race, every pt in the fixtures is crucial for Barca or Madrid, and winning almost every game is a very difficult task for even the best teams, whereas in the EPL, Man City can afford a few losses or draws because we know there will be upsets. Teams like Swansea, Wigan, Blackburn, etc upset the bigger teams and you rarely see that in La Liga. Still, I think the EPL is harder to win because there are a lot of clubs competing really well
Its funny that all the people who say epl is the best league in the world only watch and follow the epl and only tune in to watch Premiera la liga during El Classico's.
The arrogance of epl fan boys is astonishing. As someone who has followed both leagues closely for the past 3+ years. I have to agree with Ronaldo's comments. epl is just like COD, while la liga is like BF3.
I am saying that popularity doesnt equal quality. From my experience the bottom teams in la liga have better tactics and technique than most of the top ten in the epl. Ronaldo is honest and cannot be biased, he knows that he might end up playing once more in the epl before he retires.
There is so much evidence to support ronaldos claims. For the past 3 seasons, la liga players have dominated balon dor lists, spain has dominated international tournaments for 3 seasons, barcelona has dominated international club tournaments for the past 3 seasons, la liga teams have also dominated the Europa league which is the most accurate way to determine how strong a league is.
Well, we as viewers can never judge how hard a League is, we can only speculate, but since he's a player who actually plays, i believe him.
I guess just like COD, the epl will continue being more popular.
Go on the BBC website and you will find a video of English pundits saying that the spanish la liga has overtaken the epl as the best league in the world. If epl don't change their philosophy i can also see the German Bundesliga or the italian serie A catching up in a few years. However the spanish la liga is financially unstable so it is unlikely they will be able to maintain their number 1 position in the world if their problems are not addressed soon
I would rather watch Wolverhampton vs West Brom than Getafe vs Rayo Vallecano. La Liga is decent but when it comes to entertainment EPL is the one for me.