THE BATTLE BEGINS HERE…

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Football generally requires several good plays for a score. This means that skill has a larger impact on a team's probability of scoring on a given possession, so the importance of luck is smaller than it would be in most other sports with the same number of scores per game.
Over last two decades or so, there has been a surge in the viewership of European Football. The various leagues played across Europe have publicized the game and has made it the most popular sport in the world. The big names’ playing in these leagues is an added attraction for the viewers. The English Premier League might be the most popular of the European Leagues’, but there is a lot more quality found in other leagues such as the Spanish League and the Italian League. So what is that makes these leagues different from eachother? Let us compare the EPL and the Spanish La Liga…

Style of play: Well, this might be the major difference in these two leagues. The Spanish League promises to be more attacking. It's not the goals difference that tells you liga is more "attacking minded" than the rest but their playing style saying it all : possession in midfield and prepare to score goals in attack. EPL could be very exciting to watch too, if you prefer speed and not mind of "floating balls" (make sure your neck is good). Overall, it is the pace of English football that makes it exciting, and the possession play of La Liga quite elegant.

The name-game in the league: The EPL is like a paradise for Spanish Players also. It’s definitely not due to money, because Reyes came to Arsenal, Xabi Alonso, Garcia and others to Liverpool. There seems to have been a lot of La Liga to EPL moves rather than the inverse. I guess that’s due to the glamour and attraction of the league. One thing that the EPL does not have is what you call ‘World Player of the Years’, which La Liga has in abundance. Although, most times the polls are right, the 2003 was flawed one for the experts. Henry deserved it but Zidane won it. Gerrard had done much more than Adriano (plays in the Italian League) or Etto, but he was 7th, in the year 2005.

European Presence: The EPL big guns have had the better of the La Liga big guns in the Champions League in past 20 games or so. Most English managers will disagree that European competitions provide a good way to test the quality of local competitions, but it still is. English clubs, over-rated in media usually fail to perform against their European counterparts, and then their managers issue such statements. Arsenal is a good example. It is not very uncommon to find it rated better than successful clubs like Barcelona and Madrid did, but Arsenal has always failed to prove this in European competitions. The only reason why Chelsea has an upper hand is their Russian Link. With a spending of about half a billion within 2-3 years, any club can be a potential contender in EPL and Champions League. Even Manchester United has failed in Europe this year thanks to some good fight put in by the ‘Under Rated’ European clubs.

Competetion: Hardly ever could one imagine Chelsea loosing to a West Bromwich Albion or a Sunderland in EPL. These kinds of upsets are too rare in EPL. The only reason for that is that the low ranked teams are not as strong as compared to the top teams in the league.
Since the difference between 1st and 2nd ranked teams in the EPL is around 14 points or so. Then you have two teams in the EPL that will fight 2nd and 3rd place. Then the difference to 4th place is around 10 points. The difference of points between to top five teams and the bottom half of the teams is around 20 points which makes it immpossible for these teams to compete for a European place.
In La Liga, the difference is 3 to 6 points between between 1st and 2nd ranked teams. Then the competition for the 3rd and fourth place spots is crazy. Since the difference between the 3rd place team and the 11th place teams is 6 points. Meaning that a bottom half club are in competition for a European spot.
So if its competition you are making your desicion, then no doubt La Liga is better than the EPL.

Cup Football: The English cup football is much more popular than any other domestic cup football competetions in the world, the FA Cup and the Carling Cup are one of the oldest cup competeions in Europe and certainly outclasses the Spanish Kings Cup.

Public-City: This is where EPL scores the winning goal. The fan following for EPL is much more than La Liga. Every weekend a Football Maniac will get some time out of his busy schedule to watch either Manchester United or Chelsea or in that matter any Premier league team playing. The wide television coverage for the EPL has made it much more appealing for the viewers. It was only when David Beckham shifted to Madrid that a La Liga club was voted the most popular club in the world, but now the onus of carrying tha tag of Most Popular Clubs has shifted to England.
The popularity for EPL can be summed up by stating that, ‘most populated continent in the world is Asia, the most popular league in Asia in English Premier League, hence it is the most popular league.’