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The first round of the 2024-25 League is now history and, although half of the championship has been held, everything remains to be decided. The league title features a fierce battle between the three liners, while the fight for relegation is red hot with up to six teams in the heat. In this review of the initial 19 matchdays we are going to focus on individual and collective statistics that have gone under the radar or on the contribution of the 20 First Division clubs to those affected by DANA.
1. The Spanish top scorer has only played seven games as a starter
The award par excellence for the top scorer in the League is the top scorer. However, the Spanish gunners, who have not won the prize for 17 years, are content with the consolation trophy, the Zarra Trophy. Iago Aspas, Gerard Moreno, Raúl de Tomás, Joselu, Morata and Mayoral are the latest winners, but the injuries of some and the departure of others have left the award orphaned.
At the end of the first round, Ayoze leads the standings with eight goals, none from penalties, in twelve games, although he only started in seven of them. The Villarreal player lives an idyll with the goal in this first stretch of the season, despite the physical setbacks that have hampered him. His closest pursuers are Sancet (Athletic Club) and Sandro (Las Palmas), both with seven goals in 16 games.
2. Sandro’s rebirth and Betis’ ‘fair shotgun’
Precisely, Sandro Ramírez is being one of the revelations of the League. After several years with more shadows than lights, the Canarian has rediscovered himself, as he is the second Spanish player with the most goals and the footballer with the greatest difference between the goals he has scored, seven, compared to the expected goals, 2.5 , according to data from Who scored. That is, the youth squad Barça He has achieved several goals in actions where the probability of success was slim.
On the opposite side is Betis in general and Abde in particular. The Sevillian team is the team with the worst difference between the goals it has scored, 21, and the expected goals, 32. The mistake of Manuel Pellegrini’s team is reflected in the Moroccan footballer, who has scored one goal but should have eight, according to the expected goals.
Sandro is being one of the revelations of the League. He is the second Spanish player with the most goals and the player with the greatest difference between the goals he has scored, seven, compared to the expected goals.
3. Dodi Lukébakio, the footballer with the most successful dribbles
One of Abde’s characteristics is overflow. The Betic player is the fifth player with the highest number of successfully completed dribbles, 38. In front of him are the Real Madrid players Mbappé and Vinícius, both with 40, and Lamine Yamal and Lukébakio, equal at the top of the rankings with 51. Even so , the Sevilla player is ahead, as he has tried to leave the defender behind on fewer occasions than the Spanish international. The Barça pearl, in turn, is also the one who loses the ball the most times when facing a rival, 69. Behind him is his teammate in the ‘Red’ Nico Williams, with 66 losses, or Vini, with 61.
At a collective level, the club with the most dribbles attempted per game is Real Madrid, with 441. However, they do not lead the classification in successfully completed dribbles, as they accumulate 200 compared to Barça’s 207. At the opposite pole is Deportivo Alavés. The team currently led by Eduardo Coudet has attempted the overflow ‘only’ 240 times.
4. Osasuna, a club of colossi
Although the Navarrese are not the ones that generate the most aerial duels, Budimir is the footballer who competes in the most high actions in the entire competition, 150. As a consequence, the Croatian has lost 77, the most ahead of the ‘blue’ Christantus Uche, with 74, and the ‘pepinero’ Miguel de la Fuente, with 67.
On the other hand, his teammate Lucas Torró is the one who has won the most shares above, 85. Behind him are the Croatian striker and the Mallorcan player Muriqiwho have won 73 aerial attempts. The ‘rojillo’ midfielder, in turn, is the player who has committed the most fouls in the first round, 45, ten more than his closest pursuer, the franjirrojo Óscar Valentín.
5. The contrasts of Getafe de Bordalás
The Madrid team leads some classifications in this first round. The ‘Azulones’ are the ones that generate the most aerial duels, 852. This continuous overhead play, more prone to blows, makes them the squad that commits the most fouls in the first 19 competition matches, 325, ahead of Alavés, with 300, and Rayo Vallecano, with 274.
Likewise, Getafe is the team that receives the fewest shots per game, 8.5, and the team that causes the most offsides in its rivals, 2.7. The salvation of the Madrid team is based on defensive solidity, since in attack they have serious problems, since they are, along with Valladolid, the team with the fewest goals scored, 13. Even so, they are the sixth team that makes the most shots, with 238 launches in total.
Espanyol is one of the negative protagonists of our competition so far. Their hopes of maintaining the category rest on the gloves of Joan García. The goalkeeper is the goalkeeper with the most saves in the League
6. Sevilla and Mallorca, one expulsion every four games
‘Hispalenses’ and ‘Bermellones’, with five red cards each, are the clubs that have suffered the most expulsions in this first half of the championship. In Sevilla, Saúl, Agoumé, Marcão, Nianzou and Juanlu Sánchez headed towards the locker room tunnel early, while in Mallorca Muriqi, Raíllo, Samú Costa and Toni Lato were sent off twice.
However, they are not the most cautioned teams, as that ‘dubious’ honor falls to Villarreal, with 55 yellow cards. On the other hand, the most cautioned player in the League is Abdel Abqar. The Alavés defender has accumulated eight yellow cards in 18 games.
7. Joan García, the saint of Manolo González
Espanyol is one of the negative protagonists of our competition so far. The Catalans, along with Valencia, have not yet won at home. However, their hopes of maintaining the category rest in the gloves of Joan García. The Sallent goalkeeper is the goalkeeper with the most saves in the League, with 69, one more than Osasunista Sergio Herrera.
Likewise, Omar El Hilali and Marash Kumbulla, defenders of the ‘perico’ team, command two defensive classifications. The Moroccan full-back is the footballer with the most addresses in the first half of the championship, 55. For his part, the Albanian center back is the one who has blocked the most shots, 19, the same as Abdul Mumin, from Rayo Vallecano.
8. San Mamés and Vallecas, the stadiums with the highest attendance percentage
More than five and a half million people have entered the stadiums of the 20 Primera clubs during the course of the first round, according to data from Transfer market. San Mamés (Athletic Club) and Vallecas (Rayo Vallecano), with 91%, are the two stadiums with the highest percentage of attendance, while the RCDE Stadium (Espanyol), with 56.3%, and the Coliseum (Getafe) , with 62.4%, are those with the lowest average number of fans during the first half of the season.
The average attendance in the League is 81.7%, the third best figure of the five main leagues, although far from the 97% of the Bundesliga or 98% of the first division. Furthermore, there has only been a full house in these initial 19 days, at the Reale Arena in the match between Real Sociedad and Real Madrid.
9. The solidarity of Spanish football with those affected by DANA
The first round was colored by mourning for the ravages of DANA, which especially devastated the Valencian Community. The solidarity that came to light from the population also expanded to the world of football, as the 20 First Division clubs collaborated with those affected by the tragedy. Most teams, during the league day after the disaster, organized a collection of essential products in their stadium. Other teams chose to donate on their own, such as Betis, which allocated 100,000 euros and opened an account to receive donations, the same alternative that Valladolid carried out. Real Madrid, which provided one million euros, and Villarreal, which gave half a million, also donated on their own, while Barça auctioned the shirts of the first team players. Osasuna, for its part, will collaborate in the reconstruction of Massanassa, Vicente Moreno’s town, and clubs such as Girona and Las Palmas donated the proceeds from the box office.
The first round of the League has also been characterized by the confusion of the calendar. Up to eight matches have been played on dates that did not correspond to them
10. A calendar full of postponed games
The first round of the League has also been characterized by the confusion of the calendar. Up to eight matches have been played on dates that did not correspond to them. On the third day, the match between Betis and Getafe was postponed because the Andalusians were playing the previous round of the conference leaguesomething similar to what happened on the seventh date, when the matches between Mallorca and Real Sociedad and Leganés against Athletic Club were advanced, since the Basque teams had a European commitment that coincided with the league match.
As a result of DANA, three more duels were postponed. On the twelfth date, the matches between Villarreal and Rayo Vallecano and the match between Valencia and Real Madrid were postponed. Likewise, the Valencian team did not play the thirteenth matchday against Espanyol in solidarity with the victims. The last duels that were played at a different time were those on the nineteenth date, when the four Super Cup teams faced each other several weeks before.
The first round of the 2024-25 League is now history. Ahead are 19 exciting days that will mark the future of the 20 First Division clubs. Hold on, the decisive part of the season is about to start.
