The weeks tick by in his 2023-2024 season The championship and Almeria He sinks further and further to the bottom of the rankings. The Indálico side are yet to win in this league and although they managed a draw against Betis last matchday, as the months go by they are getting a little more complicated in their aim to achieve permanence.
Almeria only adds four points after 15 matcheswith four draws and eleven defeatsincluding two defeats against them – a 5-1 loss at Sevilla and 5-2 at Girona-.
Real Madrid, Villarreal, Girona (Almeria won 2-0 and lost 5-2) and Getafe returned to games with Almeria in which the Andalusians started to win, while against Granada they had another tragic day in which they won 3- 0 with 25 minutes and they tied 3-3 playing at home.
Three managers have already left the club this season (Vicente Moreno, interim Alberto Lasarte and the current one, Gaizka Garitano) in a team that last season started in a decent way (they were in 13th place after 15 matches, with five triumphs ) but ended up avoiding relegation by just one point. Fewer relevant pieces were left from this team than were incorporated for this campaign: signings Luis Maximiano, Édgar, Lopy, Sergio Arribas, Iddrisu Baba, César Montes and Ibrahima Koné all got plenty of minutes.
Almeria have the sixth worst attack in La Liga in goals (16) despite being the seventh team to have created the most clear chances according to SofaScore (37) and have the most goals conceded (37 goals conceded and just one clean sheet) a formula to go straight to disaster. Ineffective offense and permeable defense that, to make matters worse, Over the next 50 days they will face Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Girona and Real Madrid (three of those games as visitors).
If you don’t react quickly, the indálicos can begin to see themselves doomed once winter passes.
The thing is Recent similar precedents signal a fatal fate for Almeria. In the last two seasons of La Liga, curiously, there were also teams that had not won after the 15th matchday. Elche relegated in 2022-2023 and Levante relegated in 2021-2022. Elche had 4 points, like Almeria, and won only the 20th game. Levante also managed to win matchday 20, but had at least seven draws in their first 15 appearances.
Other similar instances, which were winless until matchday 14 or 15, also dropped after that: Granada from 2016-2017he Cordoba 2014-2015 wave Royal Society 2006-2007.
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Who was the worst team in La Liga history?
He Sporting Gijon from Season 1997-1998 it doesn’t just have the worst start ever of La Liga, but also signed the the worst season in the league’s life. It ended up with me just 13 points in 38 games, achieving only two wins. Sporting Gijon were relegated and it took 10 years to return to the golden division of Spanish football.
That Sporting added only three points in the first 23 games and He just won in game number 24, 2-1 against Racing de Santander in February. In this group Only one player played more than 23 games as a starter (the Russian Yuri Nikoforov) and The only one to score more than four goals was another Russian, Dmitry Cheryshev.
Sporting from 97-98 fell on March 22 in the 30th matchdaywith a 0-0 draw against Merida – it was their first clean sheet of the season.
