Rounding up some of the most interesting La Liga headlines throughout the week, breaking through the good, the bad and the good.
Good
It’s hard to believe that Espanyol, the same side that went into survival with the finger of Joan Garcia, look like one of the smartest outfits in Spain right now. If you somehow missed it when former manager Manolo Gonzalez was once a bus driver, the speed at which it travels should be headline news.
Los Pericos is on the second side to keep a clean sheet against Celta Vigo this season, and just the third to make three points from Balaidos, behind tangcelona, high-level partners in the best things of Espanyol. As the all-seeing person knows, and Elche found out last week, anyone can get GetAfe. It strongly contributes to the European debate; The level in points with real betis, and in groups with four points to GetEFE and Athletic Club.
Axest moment. pic.twitter.com/0c5scsug4c
– RCD Espanyol de Barcelona (@RCDESPANYOL) December 1, 2025
Be the MidFielys who play with the ball you need, the coach of Espanyol can call on Urko Gonzalez, Ramon Terrats or Edu Exposito, the Edulent of the best delivery of pieces in La Liga. Tyrhys Dolan, Carlos Romero or Roberto Fernandez are all full of eating any space given to them, and extend the metaphor of the hungry Espayol side throughout. The hands are from Pere Milla, who always plays with the confidence of the best player in the voice. Trickery? Kike Garcia and Leandro Cabrera who are not just thirty, have the sense of veterans and personality, that is a wine molded in partial support.
Bad
In Asturias, there was a good dollar of anger on the board of Oviedo of the actual draw of veljko paunovic, the hero of the elevation who waited several childhoods to draw the motive. Paunovic was the first dismissal of the season, and this week Julian Calero became the second. A grave-like silence was reached at Evante’s decision; respecting but without acimony.
Calero has prayed in La Liga, emerging from the third Tier in just five seasons, with a lorry-load of admiration behind him. A motivational speaker, the former police officer was one of the first on the scene during the horrific 2005 terrorist attack in Madrid. Described as ‘the man who saved Lavange from depression and brought happiness’, even with his popularity in Valencia however, few were against him to settle in the storm.
One-time assistant Julen LopeTegui has failed to inspire the defensive tenacity his Basque boss was famous for at Sevilla, and los granotas have a superior collective record, conceding 14 times in 14 games. Levante have lost their last six, and their two wins this season have come against their friends who are close to the attack: Girona and Real Ovieto. As time went on, and especially in their 2-0 victory over Athletic Club, Calero’s systems confused his players as much as the fans, the home of a manager who has run out of logical plans in his battles.
The concern for the levante should be the following. Some of their players, UNAI veneror, Jon Olasagasti or Manu Sanchez, are able to do the tasks that are asked at the level of La Liga, but they remain consistent. So far, the only big bowl of Karl Etta Eyng, who is carrying a suitcase with the African Cup of Nations in less than two weeks. Football is a frame of mind, as Jorge Valdano always reminds us, but keeping it up looks like a headache for any manager.
Good
Evil was not in short supply in the Shille derby, as the grown men threw their toys out of the pram and into the protest pit itself and approached the real fight of the real betis. The manager of Sevilla Manager Matias Alyyda who was burned by the players of betis for celebrating in front of the ultras, argued that ‘it was only a few plastic bottles, and they did not hit anyone’. It is a confusingly confusing argument, made all the more surprising by his actions at La Bombonera as a player.
Campeón de la @Libertadores In 1996 and Multicampeleón de Tornteos Locals en @RiverPlate Matías Alyeyda turns 46 years old.
¡Feliz Cumpleaños, Pelado! 🎂 @PeladoMeyda pic.twitter.com/v95ppkwalxt
– Rosario es de River 🐔 (@rosarioesderiv1) December 21, 2019
The game of football is kept by Pablo qualities, of the kind that seem to laugh in a way that is amazing to the eye. Robbed by Inko, Giovani L Celso and Antony with a big event, the defectors were convinced that there was some magic in the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan. Barking the ball from baptiste Mendy, fakes bamboozled cesar azplicueta and, before looking back inside. Seeing his path blocked, his dummy sent Jose Angel Carmona wide with almost a shot, and Azpilicueta’s legs were moving him the wrong way when the fakes let his low drive into the net.
El vals de Pablo fornals en El sánchez-pizjuán 🤩#LaligaHeights pic.twitterst.com/ormraapdej
– Real Betis Balompié 🌴💚 (@realbetis) December 2, 2025
11 seconds of grit, determination, determination and precision to resist Sevilla’s confrontation. If the beticos were worried about the absence of their blue galacticos, the errors ended his request for star status on the soil of Sevilla.
