La Liga Heats Up: Barcelona and Real Dominate Early Season

Let's move on, Nick. Champions League, we're ready for it. It's going to be an exciting and we're going to have you here covering it closely with us. But what other things are happening in Europe right now? The tournaments are already on their way. Deadline, transfer deadline already happened this week. So we are who we are and we play how we play, Nick. What are the standouts in Europe right now? Yeah, so we got a few different things happening at once. Obviously, everything tends to kick off around this time. Spain, I mean, let's start with La Liga and we'll move eastward. La Liga is already obviously heating up. I'm looking here. Do you have the schedule to pull up? La Liga is heating up. Barcelona, Real Madrid, they both won their first three matches. Barcelona coming in absolutely hot. This is the Barca that we've been wanting to see. The goal scoring machine, Barca, the well-oiled, beautifully flowing Barcelona. Sometimes we've missed a bit of that consistency, but they're back 12 goals already. Kylian Mbappe for Real Madrid has four goals already. Rafinha leading the league right now with five goals. So the two giants of Spanish football coming in hot and absolutely doing amazing things right out the gates. But I will say Atlético, a squad that we've watched do absolutely well in Champions League as well, right behind them. So the big three are doing the big three things that they tend to do. But this weekend, Real Madrid is going to be going to Real Betis, Atlético visiting Athletic Bilbao and Barca heading to Valencia. So it's going to be an amazing weekend in La Liga. Who do you root for, Marce, when we're watching Spanish football? I mean, what does a Pumas fan default to? It's it is tough, man. It is tough for me because I have never really claimed allegiance to any Spanish team. Yeah. The closest thing in heritage will be El Real Oviedo, because that's where my family immigrated from. Rayo Vallecano has a close place in my heart because that was the first European team that I rooted for when Hugo Sánchez migrated to Europe. But then he went to Atlético de Madrid, and that's the team that I felt the most aligned with. That's the only team that I own a jersey for in La Liga. But then he went to Real Madrid and became a superstar. So there's a little bit of love for Real Madrid. I'm not a Real Madrid fan. I'm not at all. They've had some of the best players, so it's a must. But also, I've never been in the Barcelona train. I remember back in the 90s, I was very much a fan of Valencia when El Dragón Cañizares and Pablito Aymar were in the team, and they was a beautiful counterpart to Barcelona. And so I will say that in between Atlético de Madrid and Valencia, those are the teams that I'll support. Well, Nick, thank you so much for the time that you had today. And I see you that now you're like really getting into your new role as a news anchor again with the suit and the tie, making us all look like peasants. I took off the jacket for you, though. That's the difference between the nosebleeds and the club seats, my friend. I look like a manager on the sideline now. I just seem to be screaming.