La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

[LTU_btc]

So, we sent Espanyol where they belongs - Segunda Division . But La Liga without Barcelona derby will be strange.
Match was really tough. I can't comment much about game because my broadcast lagged a lot during whole game, so it was almost impossible to watch it. But from what I saw, Espanyol played decent and had some good moments to score.

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[Ulven]

Espanyol bid farewell to Liga after losing to Barcelona, ​​in fact there is a significant decline in the performance of the Koran for Espanyol, he must search for a solution in order to return to the first degree in the next two seasons.
If Seville win against Bilbao in tomorrow's match, they will be able to compete against Atlético for the third qualifying seat for the CL.

[kawetsriyanto]

Did you watch Maradona when he played for Napoli and when he helped average team to become champion in Italy?

Yes, I did. I have watched many matches played by Maradona and I know well how they can make a big influence to the match. Indeed, Napoli can be a big team because of his unusual performance there. He is one of my favorite players in that era besides Pelle from Brazil.

One player really can make difference and help his team to win.

Yes, I know it and I never ignore it. Moreover, he is a striker, the same as Linoel Messi. He has done many times the difference in his matches. As players like Maradona, Messi, Pelle, Zidane, Maldini, CR7, Ronaldo from Brazil, Ronaldinho, or others have extraordinary skills, then it will be easy for them to make a difference in the matches. But when you are not in your best performance, you cannot do it all time. So, you need teammates to support you.

other players are also important but in the case of Barcelona,  right now only 2 players are on the top level,  Messi and ter Stegen and it's not enough for them to make good result.

Of course, Messi and Ter Stegen aren't enough to win the matches. How if others play badly? They can ruin the matches with their mistakes. In football, we don't focus on making goals only but also on how to prevent goal conceding. 

[MCobian]

So, we sent Espanyol where they belongs - Segunda Division . But La Liga without Barcelona derby will be strange.
Match was really tough. I can't comment much about game because my broadcast lagged a lot during whole game, so it was almost impossible to watch it. But from what I saw, Espanyol played decent and had some good moments to score.

I agree La Liga without the Barcelona derby indeed feels strange, but the match Barcelona vs Espanyol is indeed very exciting.
Seen the two teams struggling to get the victory, it was proven in the match that Jose Munuera's referee had to issue 2 red cards.
The game was very hard, but in Barcelona's quality was better. Therefore Luis Suarez managed to make Barcelona win the derby match.
And Espanyol must be willing to go down to the Segunda Divisions.

[ShowOff]

I agree La Liga without the Barcelona derby indeed feels strange, but the match Barcelona vs Espanyol is indeed very exciting.
Seen the two teams struggling to get the victory, it was proven in the match that Jose Munuera's referee had to issue 2 red cards.
The game was very hard, but in Barcelona's quality was better. Therefore Luis Suarez managed to make Barcelona win the derby match.
And Espanyol must be willing to go down to the Segunda Divisions.

Barcelona derby will always display interesting games. Almost every game, I think both Barcelona and Spain always look good and difficult. Although Barcelona are a star-studded team, but when the match starts, Espanyol will never feel afraid and this match is one of the awaited matches besides Elclasico.

Although there are two red cards in a match for each team, but the results of this match will be important for Barcelona because they must always win while hoping that Madrid loses. LOL. And of course, not the results desired by Espanyol because they will be out of the major league next season.

[Daniel91]

Tensions between Barcelona and Antoine Griezmann seem to have calmed down and love blooms again  
''Quique Setien started the Frenchman against Villarreal and Espanyol.
But the big news came this week when he met with the club and he was told that they have complete faith in him.''
So, it seems that the Frenchman is staying in Barcelona and that they are seriously counting on him.

Source: https://www.marca.com/en/football/barcelona/2020/07/09/5f06427946163f682b8b45b2.html

[-CryptoViking-]

Ath.Bilbao - Sevilla

This will be very interesting match to watch and hard to predict, which adds more charm to it

Both teams are looking for points. Sevilla needs to win to ensure Champions league as Villareal is getting closer and Bilbao still theoretically has a chance to reach Europa league.

Basks are always tough opponent when playing at their home stadium so predict this will be a draw in the end. By looking at Sevilla's away form draw seems like less risky bet as I don't believe Sevilla will loose this, but with Basks you never know after all.

Anyway should be a fun match to watch.

[Harkorede]

Tensions between Barcelona and Antoine Griezmann seem to have calmed down and love blooms again 
''Quique Setien started the Frenchman against Villarreal and Espanyol.
But the big news came this week when he met with the club and he was told that they have complete faith in him.''
So, it seems that the Frenchman is staying in Barcelona and that they are seriously counting on him.

Why would anyone trust this Barcelona board ? Griezmann is fantastic talent, but he was never the player meant for Barcelona to begin with, the board only signed him for a big signing and publicity imho. Barcelona are able to get a perfect winger or Dembele up to speed (and out of consistent injury), Griezmann time in the club will be severely threatened.

Btw the win against Espanyol was a needed one, and a slip from Real Madrid would be welcomed too 

[jayce]

Btw the win against Espanyol was a needed one, and a slip from Real Madrid would be welcomed too 

Well don't worry, once things become tough and hard for Real Madrid to score, there would be a penalty given for sure lol.

[Harkorede]

Btw the win against Espanyol was a needed one, and a slip from Real Madrid would be welcomed too 

Well don't worry, once things become tough and hard for Real Madrid to score, there would be a penalty given for sure lol.

But there won’t be a Ramos to take and convert it, LOL 

[jayce]

Btw the win against Espanyol was a needed one, and a slip from Real Madrid would be welcomed too 

Well don't worry, once things become tough and hard for Real Madrid to score, there would be a penalty given for sure lol.

But there won’t be a Ramos to take and convert it, LOL 

Lol no problem mate. If Benzema couldn't convert it, guess what, there would be another penalty in next 10 mins

[Crypto22265]

Espanyol bid farewell to Liga after losing to Barcelona, ​​in fact there is a significant decline in the performance of the Koran for Espanyol, he must search for a solution in order to return to the first degree in the next two seasons.

I genuinely don't know what happened to Espanyol this season. Last season I think they were on a Europe League spot and now they are on the last place. With the squad they have available,I'm sure next season they will rip through every team in the second league and have no problems promoting back to LaLiga but this is still a terrible result for a club like Espanyol.

[tomahawk9]

Espanyol have been regalated...Sad day for us Real Madrid fans, playing against espanyol were 6 points 100% garanteed almost every season  

Lol no problem mate. If Benzema couldn't convert it, guess what, there would be another penalty in next 10 mins

Correct, because as Simeone says: "VAR favours those who attack because they're given more penalties"  

Anyways, we have a pretty big game tonight: Bilbao - Sevilla. Both need the 3 points to keep the europan dream alive (europa for Bilbao, CL for Sevilla). BTTS is decent pick, i might risk it with First Half O1.5 cards @1.53 in a multi, i've got a feeling we're going to see a lot of yellow cards (Bilbao avg yellow cards per home game after the restart is 4).

EDIT* forgot to mention that if Eibar wins against Leganes today, Leganes will be relagated...this one's gonna be an intense match too.

[snipie]

Espanyol have been regalated...Sad day for us Real Madrid fans, playing against espanyol were 6 points 100% garanteed almost every season  

Lol no problem mate. If Benzema couldn't convert it, guess what, there would be another penalty in next 10 mins

Correct, because as Simeone says: "VAR favours those who attack because they're given more penalties"  
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Never gonna get bored from Barca and Madrid fans comments lol
We evolved from complaining about referees decisions in the field to the VAR referees decisions behind closed doors. Well VAR isn't bad after all and a penalty for tomahawk9
Boring games today, maybe Athletic - Sevilla is slightly better...

[jayce]

Espanyol have been regalated...Sad day for us Real Madrid fans, playing against espanyol were 6 points 100% garanteed almost every season  

I thought it's only me who realizes that lol. That's a fact, Espanyol would rather let Madrid win the league instead of Barca.

Lol no problem mate. If Benzema couldn't convert it, guess what, there would be another penalty in next 10 mins

Correct, because as Simeone says: "VAR favours those who attack because they're given more penalties"  

He is right! Though I think the amount of penalties given in La Liga because of VAR is higher than other leagues

[RapTarX]

a slip from Real Madrid would be welcomed too  

Not expected at all although Ramos and Carvajal will be missing. Militao will be replacing Ramos but there's no certainty of who will be replacing Carvajal. Since it's home and the opponent is pretty much weaker, I think Madrid will make it easy.

Well don't worry, once things become tough and hard for Real Madrid to score, there would be a penalty given for sure lol.

Lol, it's being so controversial. Benzema sometimes should have scored.

[BIT-BENDER]

He is right! Though I think the amount of penalties given in La Liga because of VAR is higher than other leagues

La Liga has a high penalties awarded when comparing them with the English league or some top European leagues, when we hadn't no VAR talking point where about possible penalties that where not given, now we have it, it kind of getting too much. Defenders can get them self lost in a game and lack professionalism in there tackling even when we have VAR, and attackers or attacking team are taking advantage of this.
To balance this out there should be strict penalties for attackers/attacking team after VAR had decided no penalties, not just yellow card for diving, it should be a possible red card offense for any attacker/attacking team.
VAR assist referee in decision there are not sure of, and this VAR also wastes time -it is added in the extra time though- but momentum, players can loose momentum on the field, it can cause out rage, like the last match between althletico Bilbao and real Madrid-it was a correct decision-.
If attacking/attackers knows there is a possible red card if a VAR decision goes the other way, deceit, tricky acting will reduce

[davinchi]

Lol Real Madrid gets plenty of penalties but lets not act like Real Madrid got favorably calls to become bigger champion chance team, Barcelona had to lose games themselves as well. Sure they beat Espanyol right now but they lost to and draw against weird teams, hence I think there is really no reason to think that Madrid somehow became leaders thanks to refs, it was also Barcelona that lost points.

However Madrid will face Alaves, a team they should beat very easily, and if they fail to do that, I am sure Barcelona will find a way to win all other games and get the leading back, if however Madrid wins this one as well, I doubt there is anything Barcelona can do, even if they end up winning all other games they are not going to be there since Madrid wouldn't lose that many games.

[jayce]

La Liga has a high penalties awarded when comparing them with the English league or some top European leagues, when we hadn't no VAR talking point where about possible penalties that where not given, now we have it, it kind of getting too much. Defenders can get them self lost in a game and lack professionalism in there tackling even when we have VAR, and attackers or attacking team are taking advantage of this.
To balance this out there should be strict penalties for attackers/attacking team after VAR had decided no penalties, not just yellow card for diving, it should be a possible red card offense for any attacker/attacking team.
VAR assist referee in decision there are not sure of, and this VAR also wastes time -it is added in the extra time though- but momentum, players can loose momentum on the field, it can cause out rage, like the last match between althletico Bilbao and real Madrid-it was a correct decision-.
If attacking/attackers knows there is a possible red card if a VAR decision goes the other way, deceit, tricky acting will reduce

The match will be paused if the VAR assistants find a possible penalty, offside goal, or nasty foul, which they will inform the referee to discuss the situation. If the players were diving, I think it's already clear on the screens VAR assistants are monitoring and no need to ask the referee to pause the game. Though referee often gave yellow card directly for those who did diving. Red card is too much imo.

[Captain Corporate]

 Honestly VAR did improved a lot of stuff according to how fair the games are, thanks to VAR now we know whats going on and if there is any decision thats not obvious, teams go to VAR and request it and even the VAR room can sometimes say to ref that there is something and he should check etc etc. However this obviously brings in some negatives as well, for example it brings in the fact that game indeed loses momentum and stops for a while, thats true, or for example team that has been running and pressing all game has a chance to relax and gather around, or whatever other bad decision is, in the end there could be some bad stuff but its not that important compared to fact that VAR made the game all that more fair and thats the important part.