La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

[slaman29]

Atletico Madrid are out of form. They have lost the last 4 matches. However, there is no reason to think that Atletico Madrid will lose against Rayo Vallecano. I would like to highlight two figures. Madrid have won four of the last five matches between Atletico Madrid and Rayo Vallecano. A match has been drawn.

Secondly, it is Atletico Madrid's home match. Rayo Vallecano's team is very weak in the away match. They have managed to score 5 points in 9 away matches. So I think Atletico Madrid will return to form through this match.

There was no reason to think they'd lose 2 of their past four matches too (fine, losing to Sevilla and Real Madrid could be arguable that we all expected it), and they still lost it anyway.

Rayo know how to score, but Atletico know how to hit back, so it's going to be a battle of who does what they do best first!

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[Sterbens]

FC Barcelona is having big problems!

There are a total of 14 Barcelona players injured and COVID-19 respectively. So who plays against Mallorca? Matches in La Liga on January 3rd are coming, but I don't expect top players to be available until then. I don't see this match taking place. It will be postponed. The Catalans are struggling, and worse things are about to happen.

Barcelona is experiencing a Covid-19 storm crisis after confirming that 10 of their players have been affected by Covid 19. After before seven Barcelona players tested positive for Covid 19, now three important pillar players of Barcelona were declared positive for Covid 19 such as Sergino Dest, Philippe Coutinho and Ez Abde. Certainly not a good thing for Barcelona and potentially they will have a postponed game against Real Mallorca on 3 January. However, there has been no decision from La Liga whether this match will be postponed or Barcelona are required to play without the presence of their main players.

It will only worsen the atmosphere at Barcelona, they will only continue to sink and cannot get out of the threat zone. In addition to the Covid storm, the condition of the players is also difficult for Xavi to control. They only take advantage of the situation but when dealing with opponents it is not convincing at all. Now Barcelona will be getting ready against Mallorca, but as you said, the unfavorable conditions are feared to be delayed.

[VanityWallets2015]

Barcelona recently just bought a player for 55 million. Still great that they can do something like this while the club is in the red. But yes, if you want to get into the plus first, you have to sell the entire team and you only have Barcelona B left. And dembele, for example, who thinks it's fine, gets a fortune in salary every year. He's not interested in leaving, why should he?

[hahay]

If tomorrow Valencia can win the match against Espanyol, at least Valencia will move up to 4th place maybe it will only be entertainment for them at the end of the year. However, Espanyol's performance so far this season also looks quite good or at least can balance Valencia's gameplay for tomorrow's match. But even so, the record from Espanyol's away matches so far this season was not good enough and also, Valencia dominated head to head. That way, it looks like Valencia will be able to take advantage of the moment at the end of this year to get full points.

[Fesatmas]

Barcelona not get good opportunity right now and out from top four position make them not really happy situation right now, although match begin one week later they have get Ferran Torres from Manchester City and I think still not enough. Many other player want get by Xavi but financial make situation bad for Barcelona, still optimist with fans trusted Barcelona can back to position again? I think many possible for other club change position from Sevilla and Real Betis if keep consistent performance will make Barcelona out from champion league position next years.

That's a possibility it seems and I also totally agree with what you're saying because in the last two years Barcelona have really had a bad time and that has to do with the finances at the Barcelona club itself and from some of the games I've seen. Barcelona doesn't look so strong anymore even though there are still fans who are still optimistic about the Barcelona Club until now, but the hopes of winning the league title are very slim.

Surviving even in the top 5 standings for Barcelona is enough than not making the slightest movement. indeed nothing can be expected too big for this year. For Barcelona, they can only play where they want Xavi. I see Xavi is serious about educating his foster children who are still quite difficult to control. Meanwhile Alves can't move alone with his good qualities but doesn't have friends to attack.

[poldanmig]

Barcelona recently just bought a player for 55 million. Still great that they can do something like this while the club is in the red. But yes, if you want to get into the plus first, you have to sell the entire team and you only have Barcelona B left. And dembele, for example, who thinks it's fine, gets a fortune in salary every year. He's not interested in leaving, why should he?

Do you mean the 55 million player is ferran torres? Ferran Torres has indeed been obtained by Barcelona at an expensive price, but that does not mean that Barcelona's finances have recovered, the good relationship between Barcelona and Guardiola is the reason for the success of the transfer, including the acceptance of Barcelona request to buy Torres with a four-time payment scheme or debt and the first payment will be made in the summer.
Dembele refused to reduce wages made by Barcelona and forced Barcelona to have to release Dembele now, in addition Dembele, barcelon also to releasing Coutinho and Samuel Umititi who have high salaries, Barcelona had to do so that they could register Ferran Torres and Dani Alves to the La Liga authorities.

[alpamar99]

FC Barcelona is having big problems!

There are a total of 14 Barcelona players injured and COVID-19 respectively. So who plays against Mallorca? Matches in La Liga on January 3rd are coming, but I don't expect top players to be available until then. I don't see this match taking place. It will be postponed. The Catalans are struggling, and worse things are about to happen.

Barcelona is experiencing a Covid-19 storm crisis after confirming that 10 of their players have been affected by Covid 19. After before seven Barcelona players tested positive for Covid 19, now three important pillar players of Barcelona were declared positive for Covid 19 such as Sergino Dest, Philippe Coutinho and Ez Abde. Certainly not a good thing for Barcelona and potentially they will have a postponed game against Real Mallorca on 3 January. However, there has been no decision from La Liga whether this match will be postponed or Barcelona are required to play without the presence of their main players.

Barcelona's ordeal is still ongoing at this time and this makes it even more difficult for them to navigate the current season.
On the other hand, it's actually not only Barcelona who are now infected with covid, their strongest rival and even the current leader of the standings, namely Madrid, has experienced the same thing. like Alaba, Asensio and Modric, which have been resting for the past few weeks due to the outbreak of a new variant

[Pulsar77]

Atletico Madrid - Rayo Vallecano is going to be one of the most interesting games of the week I guess. It would be a competitive game surely and there is no clear favourite in this one. Atletico Madrid are searching a way out of this poor condition of theirs. They lost many points recently and they are far away from their chance for the La Liga championship from now on. And Vallecano are the opposite. They have risen in the standings a lot and they are a big threat for Atletico Madrid here. But I want to believe that Atletico Madrid will put an end to their miserable condition by winning this.

[doomloop]

Atletico Madrid - Rayo Vallecano is going to be one of the most interesting games of the week I guess. It would be a competitive game surely and there is no clear favourite in this one. Atletico Madrid are searching a way out of this poor condition of theirs. They lost many points recently and they are far away from their chance for the La Liga championship from now on. And Vallecano are the opposite. They have risen in the standings a lot and they are a big threat for Atletico Madrid here. But I want to believe that Atletico Madrid will put an end to their miserable condition by winning this.

Surely this is going to be very important match for both teams before this break Atletico Madrid were second worst team behind Real Sociedad with losing four matches in row now it's good time for having some better result with few teams are now approaching for better spot with their form and this could be very big challenge for both teams.

With Currently Real Madrid and Sevilla are much ahead with their opponents in points gape these both teams will do their best for having all points and keep their place at top with Betis is staying at 3rd and now Valencia and Barcelona are also improved sides for having good challenge to top teams. Hopefully Atletico Madrid will be on better side in this match after very miserable end before break.

[nelson4lov]

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Do you mean the 55 million player is ferran torres? Ferran Torres has indeed been obtained by Barcelona at an expensive price, but that does not mean that Barcelona's finances have recovered, the good relationship between Barcelona and Guardiola is the reason for the success of the transfer, including the acceptance of Barcelona request to buy Torres with a four-time payment scheme or debt and the first payment will be made in the summer.
Dembele refused to reduce wages made by Barcelona and forced Barcelona to have to release Dembele now, in addition Dembele, barcelon also to releasing Coutinho and Samuel Umititi who have high salaries, Barcelona had to do so that they could register Ferran Torres and Dani Alves to the La Liga authorities.

Like everyone else, I also think that the Ferran Torres deal is a really nice one for Barcelona as he would bring some creativity to the team - which is something that has been lacking in this Barcelona team. The most likely outcome now would be for Dembele to leave and Barcelona can finally breathe a sigh of relief as they don't need to worry about Dembele's high salary and yet he hasn't been producing the much-needed results since he's an injury-prone player.

I expect more departures and more arrivals in the January transfer window as Xavi would want to build his own team.

[KTChampions]

Atletico Madrid - Rayo Vallecano is going to be one of the most interesting games of the week I guess. It would be a competitive game surely and there is no clear favourite in this one. Atletico Madrid are searching a way out of this poor condition of theirs. They lost many points recently and they are far away from their chance for the La Liga championship from now on. And Vallecano are the opposite. They have risen in the standings a lot and they are a big threat for Atletico Madrid here. But I want to believe that Atletico Madrid will put an end to their miserable condition by winning this.

Have you looked at the quotes that bookmakers give for this match? I'm not saying that they are 100% correct, but roughly we can understand the combined opinion of fans + experts + AI analyzing statistics and many other countable factors. Atletico's victory in this match is quoted with odds of 1.33, which means that Atletico is ranked as the clear favorite in this confrontation.

[BuNga_cute]

Atletico Madrid - Rayo Vallecano is going to be one of the most interesting games of the week I guess. It would be a competitive game surely and there is no clear favourite in this one. Atletico Madrid are searching a way out of this poor condition of theirs. They lost many points recently and they are far away from their chance for the La Liga championship from now on. And Vallecano are the opposite. They have risen in the standings a lot and they are a big threat for Atletico Madrid here. But I want to believe that Atletico Madrid will put an end to their miserable condition by winning this.

The 19th round of La Liga is indeed the most interesting match is the Atletico vs Rayo Vallecano match, the result of this match will be very important
for both teams. Especially for Atlético who definitely want to recover from the bad results in the last 4 matches, I'm sure Atletico will try to win the game.
And for Rayo Vallecano they definitely want to stay in the top 4 so they can play in the Champions League next season. So Rayo Vallecano definitely don't
want to lose and they position will go down if they lose to Atletico. But my prediction is that Atletico will play more attacking than Rayo Vallecano.
Besides Atletico having better quality players, Atletico also play at home, so they are more obsessed with winning games. Honestly, this is a difficult match
to predict, but it looks like the game will end in a draw.

[beerlover]

By the looks of it, Barcelona will want to start the new year with a winning streak, with them doing "better" or basically others doing worse, they are at a good advantageous spot right now. Not saying that sociedad will end up losing more and more, but there is a good possibility. I agree with D-law that betis may end up losing points as well, which means there is a realistic chance that Barcelona could be second in the league.

I know that most people may consider "so what?" on something like that in any other year but this year it is obvious that they are not doing something that is regular and this is why it is definitely a different situation to be in. I am hoping for the best, but some stuff will change in the league for sure. Imagine things shaking where Barcelona moves from mid table which was crazy enough to second place, that will cause a lot of trouble for other teams for sure.

[JeromeTash]

Barcelona recently just bought a player for 55 million. Still great that they can do something like this while the club is in the red. But yes, if you want to get into the plus first, you have to sell the entire team and you only have Barcelona B left. And dembele, for example, who thinks it's fine, gets a fortune in salary every year. He's not interested in leaving, why should he?

Just because they managed to sign Ferran Torres recently does not mean they have a green light to sign anymore they feel like. Barcelona as a club is still in financial crisis and overhauling the team at once right now isn't a good idea.

[jostorres]

By the looks of it, Barcelona will want to start the new year with a winning streak, with them doing "better" or basically others doing worse, they are at a good advantageous spot right now. Not saying that sociedad will end up losing more and more, but there is a good possibility. I agree with D-law that betis may end up losing points as well, which means there is a realistic chance that Barcelona could be second in the league.

I know that most people may consider "so what?" on something like that in any other year but this year it is obvious that they are not doing something that is regular and this is why it is definitely a different situation to be in. I am hoping for the best, but some stuff will change in the league for sure. Imagine things shaking where Barcelona moves from mid table which was crazy enough to second place, that will cause a lot of trouble for other teams for sure.

Now after this break we are heading for very important time of season with many teams are having the worst time like Real Sociedad is currently at bottom of league in form and Atletico Madrid is also near them with four loses in a row on other side teams like Barcelona, Valencia and Villareal are improving their form they are also heading for spot in next European season if Real Sociedad and Atletico Madrid want to stay in touch then surely they need to give some better results otherwise with very good start they are going down and having no chance for fighting back and teams like Barcelona and Valencia are going to achieve their targets with late approach and having good results on crucial time of season.

Now after break Barcelona have 2 very easy matches before going to face Royal Volcano, hopefully they will do their best for good results.

[CLS63]

Real Madrid are going to be targeting Getafe next time. This is not a big obstacle for them obviously. Real Madrid have dominated the league so far and they can maintain this for a long time as it seems. Because they really don't have a serious competition against them for now. The toughest opponent for them might be Sevilla. But the rest of the teams are in a much poorer condition. Even Atletico Madrid are in a bad shape. I believe that Getafe will be losing this.

[nurilham]

Dembele refused to reduce wages made by Barcelona and forced Barcelona to have to release Dembele now, in addition Dembele, barcelon also to releasing Coutinho and Samuel Umititi who have high salaries, Barcelona had to do so that they could register Ferran Torres and Dani Alves to the La Liga authorities.

Yes. Barcelona failed to get an agreement for Dembele's contract extension, he seems to leave Barcelona in the next transfer window. Umititi, Coutinho, and even other players probably do the same way (not agree to reduce their salaries), they may ask to be released as well. I can understand why those players don't want to reduce their salaries, it will be used to buy new players. I think Barcelona is a little bit strange, why they force to buy new players if they have no money? Reducing current players' salaries isn't a wise way to gain money, it is not an acceptable way and seems not to respect the current players.

[Yogee]

I visited the la liga santander site and immediately noticed the video highlighting the young players of Barcelona. I don't know how you would call that but I see it as a PR thing for the club. Don't get me wrong. It's not really a bad thing to help promote the next generation and keep fans excited or hopeful for the future despite news of big players leaving.

[dataispower]

I hope to see Athletico Madrid come strong next year, they should be well prepared for Manchester united during the champions league.
Having bad results gor the past three to four games in tje la Liga games they have played.
Since the loss of Luis Suarez to injuries, they're not at there best no more.

Nobody is bigger than a club, thatd to say that, whosoever is feeling too big to reduce his/her salary he should be leg go off, simply showing no sign of loyal for the club.

[kawetsriyanto]

Rayo vallecano isn't in the right form to hold in to that position firm as top 4~

Do you mean Rayo Vallecano has no many quality players to defend the top 4?
You aren't wrong, if we compared their squad with Atletico Madrid or Barcelona, Rayo Vallecano squad seems not as strong as them. Although players' quality cannot guarantee to win in the match, mostly the team who have more quality players that have a bigger chance to win.

~just like that as athletico may not have the ability to score and earn much points against them.

Not sure what you mean. But Atletico attackers are strong enough. They should have the power to beat Rayo Vallecano. Moreover, the upcoming match will be at Atletico home. Atletico players are probably to have more motivation to secure 3 points.