La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

[imamusma]

Villarreal 2-0 Osasuna, I don't know if the number of people that watched that match is lesser or even lesser than the ones that followed the Ballon d'Or ceremony

I didn't watch the Ballon d'Or ceremony and I didn't watch the Villareal game either. Benzema won the Ballon d'Or for this year, he was so excited to celebrate.

Win over Ossasuna was Villarreal's 4th win in the last 9 matches. Villareal have collected 15 points from 9 matches, but they will soon realize that this celebration of victory is unlikely to last long considering they will away match to Barcelona in the coming days. Villarreal have been inconsistent in the last 5 matches, they won only 1 match but will probably try their best when they away to Barcelona.

[fuguebtc]

Could it be said that Barcelona's previous opponents were on a different level? Real Madrid don't need how strong they are defensively, but they showed how effective they are in attack. I saw nothing special about what Real Madrid played, but they were able to calm down and make the game a win for them. Carlo Ancelotti's philosophy of football is nothing special again, but they are able to make the audience believe in them.

Alaba, Mendy, Militao, Carvajal and Rudiger will mad when they read this
Although they don't get a spotlight from the medias, it doesn't mean they're just an average defenders who play football. Actually the defenders on this match is really good since they're really make Barcelona's striker hard to shoot on the target since Courtois is injured, Lunin is just a substitute goal keeper who only play against weak club. If Courtois isn't injured, the match will end 3-0 since the goal from Barcelona is a mistake from the Real Madrid's goal keeper who play bad.

Solid Mendy, Carvajal, Alaba, and Militao made Barcelona fail to penetrate the Real Madrid defense. Because of the solid they made, Lewandowski, Dembele, and Raphinha could not do much. Combined with the overlapping conducted by Mendy from the left sector of Madrid's defense, which is quite good in my opinion.
The first El Clasico this season in La Liga shows Real Madrid is quite good at reading Barcelona games on all lines. as if they have memorised what Barcelona players will do when they hold the ball. 
The problem that Xavi had to fix in Barcelona after the El Clasico match at the Bernabeu was defense.

I have to say that Ancelotti played his tactics perfectly. He knew that Barcelona like to hold onto possession and thus he played the defense line quite low and played for counterattacks and which worked like a charm. Real Madrid were very fat on counterattacks and was also very spot-on with their passes.

If you look at the last-second pass from Federico Valverde in the first goal, you will see how accurate and passionate that pass was. That guy fell over, but he made sure that the pass goes through correctly. But overall, a solid defense by Real Madrid and also really good countertactics by Carlo Ancelotti.

[TopT3ns]

It was a really good and close classico yesterday. Barcelona's performance was on a high level and they have showed that they are close to Real.
Real just used their chances a bit better - but they have been doing that for a while already.

Barcelona conceded only one league goal in 8 games before yesterday - if they defended just a bit better, they would have gotten the wanted result.

Barcelona are indeed at a high level but they are still below Real Madrid now, maybe things will change with time. I like what Real Madrid is doing to regenerate its players. They have many options that can be played on various fronts, unlike Barcelona which is very difficult since several of their players are injured and cannot be played. It looks like the Real Madrid midfielder who is the lifeblood of their game is going well with a combination of young players who are able to match the experienced players. That is their good capital for a long time.

Real Madrid has a coach who is smart to analyze and use all the energy of his players to be the best to be able to beat Barcelona with a high score finally making Barcelona admit defeat and this must be taken into consideration for Xavi so that they evaluate his game so that one day can beat Real Madrid.

[Velvet78]

Villarreal have finally put an end to their poor form by defeating Osasuna 2-0 home.

Danjuma was the hero in this game by scoring both goals. These were his first goals of the season as well so Osasuna were quite unlucky about that. Actually the game wasn't one-sided for Villarreal but they still managed to get this nice win. I couldn't believe in Villarreal to win this game and preferred both teams to score for betting. I wish I bet on Villarreal.    Osasuna were just clumsy about finding the target mostly. They weren't having much difficulty in scoring on the recent weeks actually but they couldn't this time.

[CryptoPanda]

Barcelona loves playing fancy and entertaining football which is not benefiting when you are losing or needs a win.They really played well but couldn't win the match.Real Madrid are goals hunters they believe more in scoring goals than ball possession. Playing at home also gave them an advantage which they made us of properly. Benzema is a wonderful striker,he has scored 12 goals and assisted 9 goals so far for Real Madrid against Barca in 37 matches in all competitions. 3-1 is a big win. In recent seven matches played between both clubs Madrid has win 6 out of 7 in all competitions.

It is one thing to play fancy football and another to win the game, when you play nice football and fail to create chances and convert them then everything worked for goes down the drain. As much as you have to play entertaining football you also have to win the games that is the beauty of it all when you entertain your supporters and sum it all with a win gives that extra excitement and that what every supporter wants, that is why they are supporting.

[Prince Malik]

Lewandowski is still not a winner despite scoring in some important games but you are right it has to rotate the striker with some other young players, maybe it will be Lewandowski's impressive again like that's what Xavi has to do.
Midfielder Sergio Busquets also said he would no longer be a mainstay and would be replaced by Frankie De Jong

I agree with the rotation of players, it needs to be done by a coach who in previous matches has seen how bad the performance of his players is. But of course the fatigue factor might make Barcelona not perform optimally in this El Clasico match. We know a lot of energy was drained when they played against Inter a few days ago, and it wasn't long before they had to face the ferocity of Real Madrid players who had prepared themselves for such a great and historic match.

Basically Barcelona are having problems with their defense at the moment, but Xavi's strategy doesn't seem too good to be expected to produce much magic. The total number of shots produced is not proportional to the number of goals they have scored, meaning maybe the finishing of the players is not good.

Fatigue may be possible because indeed they have always faced tough matches in the last few games but of course this is not an acceptable excuse especially for the fans.
The defeat in El Clasico actually made this a painful defeat because this was a prestige battle and they lost now.
Right now Xavi has to forget this and come up with a good plan to get out of his current situation which is a mission impossible but still doable in the Champions League.

i could have said that fatigue has nothing to do with it and Real Madrid are just better, but we have seen them win only 1-0 in La Liga and lose to Inter which is a good team but their performance been bad this season, it shows that there could be something wrong like fatigue and exhaustion, that's why it is really important to have a good squad all the way to the players in the bench.

[X-ray]

Real Madrid has a coach who is smart to analyze and use all the energy of his players to be the best to be able to beat Barcelona with a high score finally making Barcelona admit defeat and this must be taken into consideration for Xavi so that they evaluate his game so that one day can beat Real Madrid.

Xavi needs to evaluate himself about that. I meant look at how bad barcelona's play. He needs to change his play style. Xavi's strategy can be predicted easily. This coach is not so good for barcelona. Barcelona was always using tiki taka strategy. Xavi is caring even more to play beautiful football rather than winning the game. Barcelona needs to play beautiful and it doesn't need to win the match against another team. Xavi think barcelona can win the tittle through playing beautiful

[Gosgosking]

Barcelona loves playing fancy and entertaining football which is not benefiting when you are losing or needs a win.They really played well but couldn't win the match.Real Madrid are goals hunters they believe more in scoring goals than ball possession. Playing at home also gave them an advantage which they made us of properly. Benzema is a wonderful striker,he has scored 12 goals and assisted 9 goals so far for Real Madrid against Barca in 37 matches in all competitions. 3-1 is a big win. In recent seven matches played between both clubs Madrid has win 6 out of 7 in all competitions.

It is one thing to play fancy football and another to win the game, when you play nice football and fail to create chances and convert them then everything worked for goes down the drain. As much as you have to play entertaining football you also have to win the games that is the beauty of it all when you entertain your supporters and sum it all with a win gives that extra excitement and that what every supporter wants, that is why they are supporting.

Barcelona could not convert their chances they had. I already know that the game will end up to be that way. Barcelona defense was very poor that was why Real Madrid succeeded in winning the match. Xavi needs to his best to make Barcelona win the season.

[Rabi3]

Barcelona made me really disappointed with the result they got. I was expecting them to put up a much bigger fight than this but they struggled a lot. Even their goal came in the last ten minutes. I also saw how Lewandowski wasted a huge opportunity in the first half. Something happens to him in big games like this and I hope that he gets over this as soon as possible. Because the team need him the most in especially games like this. These are important games considering the title race.

it's showing that real madrid are still better than Barcelona, even with all the change Barca did and they can't get to the level were they can beat Real Madrid in important matches like the one they played today, Real Madrid came out on top again.

I thought that if the result from pre season was wrong. I meant real madrid didn't wanna play seriously against full team of barcelona caused by it will be saving its performance to be used for the impotant match like this time.
Im thinking about seeing from so many perspective and barcelona was still under real madrid. That's why i were not even thinking barcelona can beat real madrid at this moment. That proves that if benzema is far better than lewandowski as a striker that has been winning bunch of champion league compared with lewandowski  that was not ever winning so many UCL. The real world class striker was benzema and it's not lewandowski. People are always overhyping him like he was able winning UCL in a row

i totally agree, i think that lewandowski is overrated, they just look at the number of goals he scored throughout a whole season with a team like Bayern Munich which scores so may goals every season with or without him because most of the teams in their league are very weak, Benzema would probably score the same amount of goals or even more with Bayern Munich.

[Rengga Jati]

Real Madrid has a coach who is smart to analyze and use all the energy of his players to be the best to be able to beat Barcelona with a high score finally making Barcelona admit defeat and this must be taken into consideration for Xavi so that they evaluate his game so that one day can beat Real Madrid.

Indeed. One of the most important things when 2 giant clubs are opposite lies in how the coach decides at that time. Because, when the squads from both teams are really good and professional and strong, it's the strategy and decisions of the coach when playing that will also determine how he wins. In this case, it is not a matter of which club plays better and more beautiful, but who can best take advantage of all opportunities with the most appropriate strategy, effectively and accurately at that time without wasting opportunities. And in this case yesterday, Real Madrid had more of it, with Ancelotti as its excellent coach.

I totally agree, Xavi still needs to learn more to decide the best strategy against big clubs like Real Madrid and others.

[EdenHazard]

Real Madrid has a coach who is smart to analyze and use all the energy of his players to be the best to be able to beat Barcelona with a high score finally making Barcelona admit defeat and this must be taken into consideration for Xavi so that they evaluate his game so that one day can beat Real Madrid.

Xavi needs to evaluate himself about that. I meant look at how bad barcelona's play. He needs to change his play style. Xavi's strategy can be predicted easily. This coach is not so good for barcelona. Barcelona was always using tiki taka strategy. Xavi is caring even more to play beautiful football rather than winning the game. Barcelona needs to play beautiful and it doesn't need to win the match against another team. Xavi think barcelona can win the tittle through playing beautiful

Lol calm down dude , you seems so upset ...

Xavi have a system that blend into barcelona bloods , to play a quick pass and then get through the penalty box ... but that time against real madrid yesterday ... ancelotti did really good counter against xavi system , so for me nothing wrong with xavi , he's been developing the club from its dark times into the barcelona today , it's just a couple upset matches , yet he still doing good.

[kawetsriyanto]

Xavi needs to evaluate himself about that. I meant look at how bad barcelona's play. He needs to change his play style. Xavi's strategy can be predicted easily. This coach is not so good for barcelona. Barcelona was always using tiki taka strategy. Xavi is caring even more to play beautiful football rather than winning the game. Barcelona needs to play beautiful and it doesn't need to win the match against another team. Xavi think barcelona can win the tittle through playing beautiful

You don't need to remind Xavi, he must evaluate everything after Barcelona was defeated by Inter Milan and Real Madrid. He should know if the tactic doesn't work effectively and the lineup looks not properly. According to the big matches against Inter Milan and Real Madrid, the problem is in Barcelona defense. Barcelona defenders performed very poorly, in the last two matches Barcelona already got 6 conceded goals. Actually, they didn't play so badly, the stats showed that Barcelona was always better in ball possession and shots attempts. It simply means that Barcelona attackers and midfielders played quite well. So, Xavi needs to strengthen Barcelona defense. He should plan to buy experienced defenders in January (next transfer window).

By the way, I disagree if Xavi only focused on playing beautiful. He knows that scoring goals should be the priority. He is only unlucky that Barcelona squad doesn't really as strong as expected. In the previous transfer window, Barcelona too focused on signing attackers, they forget to sign more top defenders. Kounde seems not enough to strengthen Barcelona defense.

[X-ray]

Real Madrid has a coach who is smart to analyze and use all the energy of his players to be the best to be able to beat Barcelona with a high score finally making Barcelona admit defeat and this must be taken into consideration for Xavi so that they evaluate his game so that one day can beat Real Madrid.

Xavi needs to evaluate himself about that. I meant look at how bad barcelona's play. He needs to change his play style. Xavi's strategy can be predicted easily. This coach is not so good for barcelona. Barcelona was always using tiki taka strategy. Xavi is caring even more to play beautiful football rather than winning the game. Barcelona needs to play beautiful and it doesn't need to win the match against another team. Xavi think barcelona can win the tittle through playing beautiful

Lol calm down dude , you seems so upset ...

Xavi have a system that blend into barcelona bloods , to play a quick pass and then get through the penalty box ... but that time against real madrid yesterday ... ancelotti did really good counter against xavi system , so for me nothing wrong with xavi , he's been developing the club from its dark times into the barcelona today , it's just a couple upset matches , yet he still doing good.

Wrong, too much passing. Barcelona was always getting big ball possession against intermilan but why inter was always doing better than it. I don't wanna compare it to real madrid caused by real is too good for barcelona. I just compare it with inter and how inter is even better in term of execution with low ball possession.  It's better to seeing the truth about that https://twitter.com/brfootball/status/1581740844729581570

[Bobrox]

You don't need to remind Xavi, he must evaluate everything after Barcelona was defeated by Inter Milan and Real Madrid. He should know if the tactic doesn't work effectively and the lineup looks not properly. According to the big matches against Inter Milan and Real Madrid, the problem is in Barcelona defense. Barcelona defenders performed very poorly, in the last two matches Barcelona already got 6 conceded goals. Actually, they didn't play so badly, the stats showed that Barcelona was always better in ball possession and shots attempts. It simply means that Barcelona attackers and midfielders played quite well. So, Xavi needs to strengthen Barcelona defense. He should plan to buy experienced defenders in January (next transfer window).

By the way, I disagree if Xavi only focused on playing beautiful. He knows that scoring goals should be the priority. He is only unlucky that Barcelona squad doesn't really as strong as expected. In the previous transfer window, Barcelona too focused on signing attackers, they forget to sign more top defenders. Kounde seems not enough to strengthen Barcelona defense.

I don't think with Xavi Hernandez evaluate with his tactic keep ball possession dominance and created many passing in a games because he has adopted with this games style on every match. Seems Barcelona match prefer with how beautiful and many passing created not try how effective make counter attack and created many attempt chance than ball possession dominance only. I think need to changed mindset about Barcelona games play always try with tiki taka, all team know what the weakness from tiki taka.

Goal from Karim Benzema at el casico last match building from counter attack how Vinicius Jr success make great dribbling and weakness from Barcelona defender most slowly and not ready with counter attacking by against team. I think tiki taka is not wrong but need to evaluate and go ahead adopted how to make faster counter attack when have chance, not focul with ball possession only or passing but also how effective created many attempt and scoring many goals.

[Despairo]

Alaba, Mendy, Militao, Carvajal and Rudiger will mad when they read this

Although they don't get a spotlight from the medias, it doesn't mean they're just an average defenders who play football. Actually the defenders on this match is really good since they're really make Barcelona's striker hard to shoot on the target since Courtois is injured, Lunin is just a substitute goal keeper who only play against weak club. If Courtois isn't injured, the match will end 3-0 since the goal from Barcelona is a mistake from the Real Madrid's goal keeper who play bad.

How can you say real Madrid didn't played well defensively, I thought everyone will be praising the real Madrid defence today, here you are talking what I don't understand, don't you know if the defence was not great the attack will be shaken, Mendy and alaba works their sucks off, Rudiger show us what Chelsea were missing since the season start, true be told if courtois was on the goal post, Barcelona won't have seen a single goal in that game.

If you didn't read my post, don't quote my post just to hit your quota requirement!
When did I say Real Madrid defenders are playing bad? I say they're deserve a spotlight from the medias because they're playing very good.

Another thing we're discussing about Real Madrid and Barcelona here, what's the relation with Chelsea lol.

Real Madrid's players play so well, their coach always puts them under a lot of pressure, I think that's why Real Madrid plays very well in every match. But we have to admit that Real Madrid has many good players. But Real Madrid  He is far behind.

I don't think Ancelotti is put a lot pressure to Real Madrid's players, it will make the players can't play well since they're being forced to play. Ancelotti is a professional coach who keep motivating his teammates, that's why Real Madrid's players have a tough mental among other clubs.

[mamesso]

Real Madrid's players play so well, their coach always puts them under a lot of pressure, I think that's why Real Madrid plays very well in every match. But we have to admit that Real Madrid has many good players. But Real Madrid  He is far behind.

Technically, Real Madrid is more favored in this El Clasico, apart from being the defending champion and playing at home, Real Madrid also have better players and play more effectively.
True, Ancelotti has built a strong team foundation, Real Madrid has been formed as a Champions team in the hands of Ancelotti and another advantage that Real Madrid has is that the chemistry between the players is very strong.
El Clasico volume one this season has officially become Real Madrid, they successfully beat Barcelona 3-1. This result deserves to be celebrated by Real Madrid because they have managed to return to the top of the standings with a difference of three points from their arch-rivals.

[hashrateproducts]

Real Madrid's players play so well, their coach always puts them under a lot of pressure, I think that's why Real Madrid plays very well in every match. But we have to admit that Real Madrid has many good players. But Real Madrid  He is far behind.

Real madrid are very good interms of getting experience players. They always go for the best young players in the transfer window, one that will be doing the dirty job in the team like doing the tackling and intercepting the ball when the opponents looks like gaining it. The los blancos coach, Carlo Ancelotti is really the perfect replacement of Zinedine Zidane. They're the most successful team in football with many UEFEA trophies to their collection and still eager for more.

[Sebas.tian]

An interesting game is about to start - Villarreal will be playing against Osasuna. This is a good opportunity for both clubs to pull away from each other in the standings. If there is no draw, one of the teams could overtake Valencia and get closer to fifth place. The last few games have not been very good for Osasuna, but the opponents have not been weak either. It's hard for me to predict who will win today, but I think it will be Villarreal, because they haven't had such serious games.

Villarreal 2-0 Osasuna, I don't know if the number of people that watched that match is lesser or even lesser than the ones that followed the Ballon d'Or ceremony
Villarreal is a good team and Osasuna could make surprises. Instable teams are the worst ones to be able to predict and this is exactly what Villarreal done today.

Congratulations to Villarreal for the massive victory they got from Ossasuna, because many people predicted for the favour of Ossasuna to defeat Villarreal 2-1 but the match ended up for the favour of Villarreal 2-0 to prove to people that many things has changed positively with the team in this season. Villarreal strikers are really demonstrating wonders in this season, showed that the team will go far in this season to achieve something good at the end of the tournament. If Villarreal defenders can maintain this strategies they are using not to allow their opponent strikers to have access to their goalpost, it will really help them to win their remaining matches.

[bering]

An interesting game is about to start - Villarreal will be playing against Osasuna. This is a good opportunity for both clubs to pull away from each other in the standings. If there is no draw, one of the teams could overtake Valencia and get closer to fifth place. The last few games have not been very good for Osasuna, but the opponents have not been weak either. It's hard for me to predict who will win today, but I think it will be Villarreal, because they haven't had such serious games.

Villarreal 2-0 Osasuna, I don't know if the number of people that watched that match is lesser or even lesser than the ones that followed the Ballon d'Or ceremony
Villarreal is a good team and Osasuna could make surprises. Instable teams are the worst ones to be able to predict and this is exactly what Villarreal done today.

I am aware for this match before and hoping Villarreal will be the winner of this match because before against Osasuna Villarreal has in the poor performance period and today finally they can able to get 3 points from this match and Villarreal deserved to get that because since the beginning of match they were dominated the match and Danjuma has deserved called as man of the match with his 2 goals and first goal also looks special because it came from back leg flip kick and after this result Villarreal current position at 7th below to Bilbao

[CryptoBuds]

The Barcelona team is not strong yet. We must accept this. Barcelona have played well in La Liga because they don't face strong opponents. Barcelona's squad has already proven how effective it is against strong teams. Barcelona dropped points against all three teams, Bayern Munich, Inter Milan and Madrid. And their defense was very weak. While Xavi has focused on strengthening his attack, he has not strengthened his defence. As a result, Barcelona cannot play well against strong teams.

Among the 7 new Barcelona players this season, then you should probably know that there are 4 defenders they have listed. Marcos Alonso, Christensen, Kounde and Bellerin are Barcelona's new signings this season and I think Xavi has also had a focus on his defense which has made your assumptions wrong. But the problem is, Barcelona must accept the fact that many defenders have to miss out due to injury. Honestly, this injury has put Barcelona's defense in trouble especially in the Champions League and more recently against Real Madrid.

Barcelona has added several defenders to their squad. I know this. But even then I would say that Xavi didn't focus on his defense. He added players to the squad but did not help them adapt to the team properly. He is more focused on his attack. But he is not interested in strengthening the bonding between the players. The performance will not be strong if the players of the midfield with the defense and the forwards with the midfield are not well balanced. Barcelona's gameplay clearly shows that the bonding between the players in the defense is not good. Their performance is poor due to poor understanding between the players. Xavi is not trying to improve the relationship between his defenders or he has failed.