Quique Setién's Barça produced more than a thousand passes during Sunday's game but looking closely at this data, more than 70% of these combinations were backwards...

Style is non-negotiable, something sovereign… This is often heard in football and hangs on the lips and keyboards of the many Barcelona journalists that monitor the life of the club.

The world of football is still coming to terms from the aftershock following Barcelona's loss to Atlético Madrid in Jeddah last week in the Spanish Super Cup ...

We reach the halfway point of the season with Barça as winter champions on goal difference (28-26), level on 40 points with Real Madrid.

At the end of a year and a decade, France Football have selected their best XI of the last 10 years - a team which recognises Spain's LaLiga, notes Alfredo Relaño.

This time we were obliged to follow the Club World Cup from a distance and maybe even with an added degree of indifference

Football is, among other things, part of the entertainment industry. For that reason, it's a business that depends on fresh stars coming through...

With so little currently separating the sides at the top of LaLiga, the fact that this circumstance has come about just a year after VAR's introduction...

Diego Martínez is at the helm at recently promoted Granada, who have no glittering stars and catch the eye with their commitment and togetherness.

A steady game, neither fast nor slow, a kind of ‘allegro ma non tropo’ in contrast to the moderately slow ‘andante’ of those happy years of Xavi, Iniesta and co.