Madrid, bastion against the millionaire British Empire: the decade of Spain-England wars

Spain and England

have brought an eternal rivalry to football.

They have left wars and boats for sports and the ball, turning their football matches into a kind of new

.

What used to be decided in the

or in the

is now disputed at the

, at

, at the

and at

, among others.

And soccer, like empires and wars, also goes through eras.

Madrid's first six

,

,

,

,

, Messi's Barça,

... The decades have placed non-stop to the Spanish and English teams on the altar of continental football.

They have ceded the throne as a bipartisan state, and the last ten years have been a great example.

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Between

, the self-proclaimed inventors of the ball fell again and again against Madrid, Barça, Atlético or Sevilla while the

tried to reinvent itself with foreign money to once again fight for the crown of the ball.

There were

or finals between Spanish and English, with

and only 3 losses.

In games: 20 victories for LaLiga clubs, 8 English and 7 draws.

A bathroom.

There was the superiority of Atlético against

in the

or in the 2014 semis;

the

against Madrid (semis 2016) and

(eighth of 2014 and 2015);

's impotence

against the whites (eighth of 2013) or the ease of the Catalans against Arsenal (eighth of 2015).

Even in lackluster finals, such as the

, Sevilla appeared to defeat Liverpool.

Only the 'reds' in that year's semis against Villarreal,

in the 2017 Champions League round of 16 against

and United in the 2017 Europa League semis against

were able to prevail over our football, which crowned five years of success with Madrid's 2017 European Super Cup against United and the Thirteenth against Liverpool.

But from 2018, with that victory in kyiv as the final touch, everything changed.

Launched by the economic potential of their owners, the Premier hit the continental football table.

A fist that, for the moment, only supports Madrid.

At 17-18,

was unable to beat

and

and ended up in the Europa League.

In 2019, Barça's disastrous 4-0 win at

brought about the end of his cycle.

All a symptom, like the red and white eliminations at the hands of Chelsea and City in 2021 and 2022. In two of the last three seasons, Sevilla have lost in the group stage against Chelsea and City and against West Ham in the round of 16

Europe League of 2022.

's surprising performance

in the semifinals and final of the

against

gave way to the sadness of a few months ago, eliminated in the Champions League semifinals by Liverpool and beaten by Chelsea on penalties in the UEFA Super Cup. Europe.

And that is where the defeats of Valencia, Real Sociedad and Espanyol appear against Arsenal (Europa League semis 2019), United (32nd Europa League 2021) and Wolves (16th 2021).

A true reflection that the Spanish

is below the British.

Madrid, two finals, five crosses...

And then we come to Madrid and its 2021-2022 season, in which it built the Spanish bastion against the English football empire.

The whites, eliminated by City and Chelsea in 2020 and 2021, rose from the mud to get

over British clubs on their way to their

: Chelsea in the quarterfinals, City in the semis and Liverpool in the final.

Those from Chamartín have won 5 of the 15 qualifiers that the Spanish have won in the last five years, compared to 11 for the English.

Without Madrid, the Spanish balance in the last five years would be negative.

In games, there are

and 18 draws.

It is not the Hispanic superiority between 2012 and 2017, but the Premier is getting further and further away.

And one of the reasons is the influence of foreign money, key, among other issues, to the rebirth of Liverpool itself, which tonight hosts Madrid at Anfield for the fourth time in its history.

Liverpool, in American hands

After reaching their heyday in the 1970s under

, a businessman raised on the banks of the

, and winning their fourth European Cup under

, another city-born president, in 2005, Liverpool changed their hands in 2007. He removed from his power the men who had been neighbors of Anf

eld all his life and embraced the money of the

, specifically that of

, an investor group of the

.

They were one of the first American conglomerates to land in a Premier that now cannot be understood without their money and that of the Arab countries.

They bought the club for

and for months

.

A round deal and a decision caused by the "

" that its president, John W. Henry, had to ask for for agreeing

.

He signed first and then rejected it due to popular pressure and because "

," as criticized by

, the former president of Juve, a survivor of the project along with Madrid and Barça.

Tonight, a new battle in the Spain-England war.

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