Spain are hoping to supply three UEFA Champions League semi-finalists this season, and that dominance is far from unusual.
If Barcelona, Real Madrid and Sevilla all claim last-four berths, it would be the seventh time one league has supplied three semi-finalists, and the second in a row for Spain. Even if only two of that trio advance (as the first-leg results suggest), it would be the eighth year in succession that the Liga has had more than one team standing at that stage (Spain has not been totally absent from the semi-finals since 2006/07).
In having a trio of semi-finalists for the third time after 1999/2000 and last season, Spain wou…