La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2016/17

[vv181]

Since Lopetegui was fired, Real won club world cup, but they continue to waste points against mid table teams like Sociedad, Eibar or Villarreal. If such results will continue, I wouldn't be surprised if Perez will sack Solari. But maybe now they will focus on UCL.

Gotta be honest Real Madrid play awfully this season. I don't think they able to compete too much on UCL and it's pretty safe to say UCL chance for Madrid is dead. They better to improve and focus to reserve the Laliga UCL spot.

[swogerino]

Today game is a delicate one in the Primera Division as Athletic Bilbao is in relegation zone while Celta Vigo is very few points ahead of this zone. I would not bet on this game and if I did I would surely bet on draw as both teams will probably play in a very defensive mode.

[Naida_BR]

Since Lopetegui was fired, Real won club world cup, but they continue to waste points against mid table teams like Sociedad, Eibar or Villarreal. If such results will continue, I wouldn't be surprised if Perez will sack Solari. But maybe now they will focus on UCL.

Gotta be honest Real Madrid play awfully this season. I don't think they able to compete too much on UCL and it's pretty safe to say UCL chance for Madrid is dead. They better to improve and focus to reserve the Laliga UCL spot.

I totally agree that they play very bad. I think that the main reason for this is that Real was building its team on Ronaldo. Since Ronaldo left, the whole team is not solid now and they have not a solution to give them the win (and eventually the 3 points) in games they don't play well. They need to sign a new leader or appoint a new one such as Benzema who will take all the chances of scores when the team is insufficient.

[DeathAngel]

Real Madrid are pathetic without Ronaldo. I guess it is the football God’s playing their part, you can’t have everything nice in life forever. You must experience sadness at some point. The same as Man Utd after Ferguson retires — misery.

[bering]

Real Madrid are pathetic without Ronaldo. I guess it is the football God’s playing their part, you can’t have everything nice in life forever. You must experience sadness at some point. The same as Man Utd after Ferguson retires — misery.

You're correct about this and Man utd still cannot recover their performance since Ferguson retire even for years and buy expensive players but Man Utd still cannot reach top performance again and same situations too for Madrid that i think they will feel difficulties to find Ronaldo replacement but one think for sure that Madrid will always be blaming the manager if they fail to get trophy and i don't think Solari position will be safe especially if Madrid lost again then possibly he would be got sacked too

[Harlot]

Real Madrid are pathetic without Ronaldo. I guess it is the football God’s playing their part, you can’t have everything nice in life forever. You must experience sadness at some point. The same as Man Utd after Ferguson retires — misery.

Yes it looks unbelievable that last season was they were 3rd in the table are now placed lower than Sevilla and Deportivo but it is just one season and I don't think all hope is lost with it, they still need their time to adjust because their star player is gone and I don't think even with a good team right now they are playing at their 100%. Real Madrid is a rich club both financially and their history so even if they are fifth in the table right now I don't think it says that it is over for Madrid.

[Barcode_]

Real Madrid are pathetic without Ronaldo. I guess it is the football God’s playing their part, you can’t have everything nice in life forever. You must experience sadness at some point. The same as Man Utd after Ferguson retires — misery.

I think it would be a disaster for Real Madrid if they are not able to qualify for the Uefa Champions League next season, Real Madrid have lost their last match to Real Sociedad at the stadium of Santiago Bernabeu, I think Real Madrid is truly making a big mistake when they sold Cristiano Ronaldo away to Juventus, it is also pretty strange to see other famous football stars who are playing in Real Madrid unable to perform without Cristiano Ronaldo leading the team in front.

[EdenHazard]

Real Madrid are pathetic without Ronaldo. I guess it is the football God’s playing their part, you can’t have everything nice in life forever. You must experience sadness at some point. The same as Man Utd after Ferguson retires — misery.

I think it would be a disaster for Real Madrid if they are not able to qualify for the Uefa Champions League next season, Real Madrid have lost their last match to Real Sociedad at the stadium of Santiago Bernabeu, I think Real Madrid is truly making a big mistake when they sold Cristiano Ronaldo away to Juventus, it is also pretty strange to see other famous football stars who are playing in Real Madrid unable to perform without Cristiano Ronaldo leading the team in front.

It is undeniable that Ronaldo's contribution to Real Madrid is huge, a lot of new history is recorded by Real Madrid when Ronaldo is still in Real Madrid's uniform like winning UCL three times in a row. But now, we can see now in every match of Real Madrid without Ronaldo, there seems to be something missing. In other hand, there are other factors which in my opinion Real Madrid different from the previous season, the coach factor is very decisive in every match. I do not know the exact reason Zidane chose to leave Real Madrid even though until now he has not coached any team.

[Harkorede]

I think it would be a disaster for Real Madrid if they are not able to qualify for the Uefa Champions League next season, Real Madrid have lost their last match to Real Sociedad at the stadium of Santiago Bernabeu

Looking at how poor they have been performing and if it should continue further, Failing to qualify for the next Champions league would be a total possibility but let's just hope it doesn't  all come down to that and there's just only 5 points separating Real Madrid from the 2nd spot, I expect them to still be in title race as well and Except for the underdogs such as Alaves, Real betis and Getafe who had performed beyond expectations in the first half of the season, no team in La liga has been spectacularly brilliant this season.

[vv181]

I think it would be a disaster for Real Madrid if they are not able to qualify for the Uefa Champions League next season, Real Madrid have lost their last match to Real Sociedad at the stadium of Santiago Bernabeu

Looking at how poor they have been performing and if it should continue further, Failing to qualify for the next Champions league would be a total possibility but let's just hope it doesn't  all come down to that and there's just only 5 points separating Real Madrid from the 2nd spot, I expect them to still be in title race as well and Except for the underdogs such as Alaves, Real betis and Getafe who had performed beyond expectations in the first half of the season, no team in La liga has been spectacularly brilliant this season.

Indeed the UCL spot competition is still tight, and the league still a long way to go. But if Real Madrid doesn't make a significant improvement, it will increase the chance they will miss the spot. Real Madrid needs to turnaround their performance and figures out a way to fix Ronaldo and Zidane leaving.

[tomahawk9]

I do not know the exact reason Zidane chose to leave Real Madrid even though until now he has not coached any team.

I think he left because he saw this debacle coming. A lot of people seem to forget that this team has been shit since last season, especially in the league, the only difference is that Ronaldo always showed up at the right time to save day and score decisive goals but you could still see that the overall performance of the team was starting to decline.

I think the team needs a lot of chances, starting from the president, Florentino Perez, he needs to go, along with some players that are obviously past their prime like Marcelo or Benzema.

[raven7886]

Real has nothing to worry about they are just couple points behind champions league level.

They were much much worse at the start of the season but they are doing better now. One loss means nothing when there is still 15+ games to be played. I think the bigger problem is all coaches that had talks with real Madrid wanted to get a center back and wanted to bench Ramos for some reason, not because Ramos is a bad player, who can you buy that is better than Ramos?

It would be really difficult to bag someone like Dijk or similar levels so it must mean Ramos has been a cancer locker room guy, these dudes must be ganging up on the managers and making the life much harder for them. If any new manager comes to real Madrid and benches Ramos there would be a riot in the team which it shouldn't because a manager can bench anyone they want.

As long as real Madrid doesn't get rid of this issue and fix the players not ganging up together they will face with horrible future results and can say goodbye to winning the league for years until its resolved.

[Pettuh4]

I do not know the exact reason Zidane chose to leave Real Madrid even though until now he has not coached any team.

I think he left because he saw this debacle coming. A lot of people seem to forget that this team has been shit since last season, especially in the league, the only difference is that Ronaldo always showed up at the right time to save day and score decisive goals but you could still see that the overall performance of the team was starting to decline.

I think the team needs a lot of chances, starting from the president, Florentino Perez, he needs to go, along with some players that are obviously past their prime like Marcelo or Benzema.

I disagree on the part of the president because nobody can ran Real Madrid better than him in this current generation and i don't think his absence will do the team any good. The team in general needs complete overhauling together with the coaching staff, players like Karim Benzema should be sold or loaned away from the club in order to allow some young players the chance to play up there.

[Juggy777]

I do not know the exact reason Zidane chose to leave Real Madrid even though until now he has not coached any team.

I think the team needs a lot of chances, starting from the president, Florentino Perez, he needs to go, along with some players that are obviously past their prime like Marcelo or Benzema.

I disagree on the part of the president because nobody can ran Real Madrid better than him in this current generation and i don't think his absence will do the team any good. The team in general needs complete overhauling together with the coaching staff, players like Karim Benzema should be sold or loaned away from the club in order to allow some young players the chance to play up there.

I’ll second that no one is better than Perez to run a club like Real Madrid, I’ll agree he’s impatient at times but that attitude is what has delivered trophies for the club. I’ll also disagree with the fact that he saw a debacle coming and left, it was due to lack of support from Perez over Bale issue which forced him to end his time at the club. I was surprised Benzema has lasted till now, half of their squad needs to be resold and they need someone like Neymar to get back their glory days.

[swogerino]

It looks strange to see Getafe and Alaves fighting for Europa League and Champions League places in La Liga. I am not a regular fan of La Liga but I know that these teams were in Spain Segunda a few years ago, that is why it looks strange to me that these teams are fighting for a Europe place this year.

[kenzawak]

Too much happened too fast for Real. Losing their best player, not being able to replace him with an offensive leader (Bale is not that !), losing a coach that was respected by the whole locker room, not getting the results they were expecting from players who should have grown with Ronaldo's departure (Asensio, Benzema, Bale, Isco...).
They sure have the potential but they need a major star, a real leader and a better coach.
Neymar is not what they need. Actually, I don't see anyone right now that could have the impact Ronaldo had. I'm guessing a few years of transition are coming for Real.

[Harkorede]

It looks strange to see Getafe and Alaves fighting for Europa League and Champions League places in La Liga. I am not a regular fan of La Liga but I know that these teams were in Spain Segunda a few years ago, that is why it looks strange to me that these teams are fighting for a Europe place this year.

Yes, the standings looks completely odd from what it used to look like Athletic Bilbao, Celta vigo, and Villarreal are all in the bottom six trying to avoid relegation. Alaves mostly has been a big revelation this season and could eventually secure at least the Europa league spot.

[upsidedown75]

I was just checking the real Madrid game with Leganes, never heard of them before and I saw real Madrid lost to them somehow. No bale, no Kroos, no Courtois, no Asensio, no Benzema, no Llorente, no Vallejo. I mean at what point is it still "real Madrid" and not "real Madrid bench"?

They had their defense at Varane  which is still awesome and probably the best player right now in the team but aside from that they only had Isco, that's it, three players worth of the jersey and bench players. I mean I hope they will figure out a way to dig themselves out of this pit they are in and they already moved to next stage since they won 3-0 at home so this loss didn't mean anything but the reputation is dropping as well, I know its just one season and these huge teams always recover but this is Madrid we are talking about, they should not suck so much. Anyone who bet on Madrid to win this game, I am sorry for your loss, you didn't deserve it.

[LTU_btc]

It looks strange to see Getafe and Alaves fighting for Europa League and Champions League places in La Liga. I am not a regular fan of La Liga but I know that these teams were in Spain Segunda a few years ago, that is why it looks strange to me that these teams are fighting for a Europe place this year.

It's really strange things happens in La Liga this season. Teams like Getafe or Alaves don't anything special in their sauads, but they showvsurprising results. While strong clubs like Athletic, Villarreal, Celta are in mid table or in relegation zone. But everything can happen in remaining part of season. Teams which now in 16 or 17 still can fight for Europa league spots because they only 6-7 points behind it and ghey have more deep squads than Getafe or Alaves.
@upsidedown75, I don't understand why you're surprised about their loss. Real won first leg 3:0, so it was good chance for some young players, especially when there are many key players injured. Real had already many shameful  defeats this season, but this loss doesn't really matters.

[tomahawk9]

I was just checking the real Madrid game with Leganes, never heard of them before and I saw real Madrid lost to them somehow. No bale, no Kroos, no Courtois, no Asensio, no Benzema, no Llorente, no Vallejo. I mean at what point is it still "real Madrid" and not "real Madrid bench"?

Real Madrid won 3-0 in the first leg which was more than enough to qualify, the team took advantage of that result and decided to use the bench players to rest the first team players, also, most of the players that you mention were injured so...

Today was the draw for the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey:

Real Madrid - Girona
Getafe - Valencia
Sevilla - Barcelona
Espanyol - Betis

Tough week for Sevilla, they're playing against Real Madrid in the league tomorrow, and 4 days later, against Barcelona.