In any given season, the modern-day top flight in Spain has three stand-out contenders for the title and podium positions in the table.
Real Madrid are this year keeping up their end of the bargain, four points clear at the top and looking ready to keep the trophy in the capital city, but behind them comes not reigning champions Atletico Madrid, or perennial rivals FC Barcelona, but the two biggest teams in Andalucia: Sevilla and Real Betis.
