La Liga title winning odds before start of 2019-20 season- What are Real & Atletico Madrid’s odds of lifting the title?

We did this with the Premier League and the Championship (promotion odds), and here are the odds for each team to win the La Liga title this season before the official start of the campaign.

As expected, defending champions Barcelona are the favourites to lift the title this year as well. Somewhat surprisingly, there is a large gap between Real and Atletico, with the latter at 13 compared to the former’s 2.62.

The team least expected to win La Liga in 2019/20 is Mallorca, as can be seen below.

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Player Ratings Real Madrid 2-2 Roma 11 August 2019- Dzeko stars in friendly

Roma and Real Madrid’s friendly at the Olimpico, played in front of a 30,487 strong crowd, saw the Italian outfit emerge winners on penalties. All four goals of the game came in regular time, and with the scores tied at 2-2, we had a penalty shootout, which Roma won 5-4.

How did the players play- here are two different newspaper player ratings for the game. One from the Spanish press and the other from the Italian media.

Edin Dzeko and Zaniolo very influential for Roma; Florenzi not so much.

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