Premier League sides' European woes reveal strengths as well as flaws | Paul Wilson

English teams were exposed upper continental opposition this term, but it is as much a reflection on the competitive advantages of the Premier League as their weaknesses

Meet the new champions such as former champions. Manchester City show with all the determination and unwavering determination Mario Balotelli trying to walk more than a minor inconvenience, run the Premier League title seems to come to a premature conclusion and disappointing. Fun and games seem to promise most of the time spent in the first part of the season, leaving the rest to become a procession, while recognizing the remarkable attempt Newcastle United at the stage of a London club lawn outside positions League champions provided a totally unexpected excitement to the fight for the fourth year.

most people agree that it was one of the best seasons of Manchester United, and if the city had managed to get his act together correctly 19 times champions were there to take this time. Even Tony McCoy was it in the pages of the Guardian Sport Tuesday morning. "Fergie is a genius, because let's face it, it's crap States right now," said the champion jockey Donald McRae. "If Fergie was Manchester City who is 15 points ahead at this point."

not sure about that, actually. If Fergie had Balotelli Manchester City would never have signed to begin with, and Carlos Tevez would play for someone else too. One may wonder if the challenge to the City had strengthened or weakened without both, and, in turn, depends on who Fergie could have signed instead with the money available for Roberto Mancini, but certainly the reason main United States seem to have the title wrapped up at the moment is that the director and some of his players have been put in place for the last 20 years and have seen almost all of the foregoing. Now you can see why bearing and distance is not a term that applies only to horse racing. Experts and managers may have been boring people to death by blows to the lack of experience and the City States of him for a couple of months, but in the final stage, so to speak, these things become important .

• It is enough to fight for the title, however, the only point I wanted to make is that United are far from invincible and all-conquering this season, and if they in pursuit of the city, Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur could look it does not mean much to the English league standards. Neither the current situation in Europe, as commentators have been virtually the tail point. Not only were thrown States of the Champions League by the combined force of Basel and Benfica, they found things much easier and in the Europa League. As a result, the two best clubs in England were completely outside of Europe in mid-March.
• So all those who want to assess the relative strength of the Premier League and La Liga, for example, just look at the last square of the two European competitions. Spain with FC Barcelona and Real Madrid in the Champions League semi-final, and most people think of these two clubs lifted the trophy, while England can offer more fragile-looking Chelsea. The Europa League is even more damning, uninteresting English and three of the four semi-finalists Spain. With the excellence of Athletic Bilbao in the fight against Manchester United over two legs last month, which seems to be a open and shut case. Bilbao not even in the top half of the league, for the love of God. The Spanish league can not be a perennial two-horse race after all. Must be hard all the way down. Bilbao are in the same position in Spain and England and Stoke City, although Potter did enjoy a decent run for the knockout stages of the UEFA Cup before losing both legs in Valencia, he has never been a real sense of Tony Pulis side might be able to go through and win the thing.

So, having established that progress in both European competitions shows without a doubt that the Premier League and competitiveness standards are lower than those of La Liga, I'll try to pretend otherwise. Because I am not yet convinced that English clubs have the Europa League seriously. Although the two Manchester clubs it seemed, once they had negotiated their departure links glamorous opponents Ajax and Porto. One might hesitate to suggest that started the post, or deceive your audience in any way, but it was clear from the beginning that once the Champions League was out of the way priority was the battle of Manchester English title . It was not a distraction in Valencia, Bilbao and Atletico Madrid had to take into account in their calculations. In fact, we can assume that, precisely for the mid-table Spanish clubs have no hope of beating Barcelona and Real Madrid at the top of the league that can afford to give priority to "feasible" as competitions League Europe.

Stoke could

So you say, well they could. Stoke except competition in Europe for the first time in decades and yet the pedigree opponents such as Valencia, who were at the end of the Champions League this century. In addition, when in fact he played in Valencia Stoke in mid-February, were entering the game on the back of four consecutive defeats in the league, a series that has dropped as low as 13 in the Table. A good start to the season meant that there was no real need to worry about falling - Stoke had more points at this stage that Queens Park Rangers Bolton Wanderers or have now - but because the decline scrap usually involves half dozen teams of England had little room for complacency. No team in the lower half of the table as lost four consecutive league matches, and by the time of the European adventure Stoke has ended, it is doubtful that many people in the potteries were happy to be able to turn his attention to league.

what European competitions this season have shown that the best teams from all the top, are not really in England. Person not only Barcelona and Real Madrid beat in this country, but Bayern Munich, probably would too. Not to mention the Athletic Bilbao. English teams were far from being the leader of the Champions League this year, although the impressive resurgence Chelsea against Napoli has a silver lining. But the dominance of the Europa League has not established a reliable benchmark. It is unlikely that one of the English competitors sincerely regrets this season's competition, because they had other priorities. And this could be taken as a compliment to the competitiveness of the Spanish League, and not the reverse.

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