La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

[Velvet78]

Hazard is actually still quite young, isn't he something like 31-32? It is very early to announce that you are leaving the international team. I don't think he will regain his old form at Real Madrid, otherwise you don't say things like that. Maybe it's time for Hazard to leave Real Madrid and see if he can find another club where he can play football. Real Madrid could sell or rent him, but who can afford that? They also need reinforcements if they want to look up.

I think the best move for Hazard could be to return to the English Premier League if he still wants to play European football and compete in the Champions League as well. However I don't know how many teams with such criteria would be eager to sign him now. He is not too old of course but I believe he has already left his good times behind.

His having bad performances and injuries at Real Madrid just brought his career to a very low point. If he doesn't find such team for himself then he should go outside Europe I believe.

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[Tony116]

I think it should not be allowed that only one man wins a game, it could ruin the game later on, but I always thought that Real was the team that did not allow that. Every time they've lost someone for health reasons or whatever, their game hasn't changed at all, they've been just as strong and continued to win. They still seem that way to me now

Except on the attackers, I see they always have trouble making goals when Benzema is injured. That has been evident in some Madrid games. Many friends here also said so. So there's one that's missing and it's had a bit of an impact. Even though they have to try to keep winning and optimize the existing players. This is the reason why a club should have several player options. They want to always be strong and win, but sometimes the reality in the game is very different.

One of the major factors in Real Madrid's success is that their squad is very deep. You should just look at their midfield, they have Toni Kroos, Luka Modrić, Fede Valverde, Eduardo Camavinga, and Tchouameni. Even they have a great squad depth in their defense. But the only place they lack is the striker position. If you even consider that they have really good depth in the wing positions, the only place day needs players is the back up to Karim Benzema. So, that is the only reason when Karim Benzema is injured Real Madrid plays really badly because in order to win games team has the score goals and the striker position is the position that creates the goals.

[indah rezqi]

One of the major factors in Real Madrid's success is that their squad is very deep. You should just look at their midfield, they have Toni Kroos, Luka Modrić, Fede Valverde, Eduardo Camavinga, and Tchouameni. Even they have a great squad depth in their defense. But the only place they lack is the striker position. If you even consider that they have really good depth in the wing positions, the only place day needs players is the back up to Karim Benzema. So, that is the only reason when Karim Benzema is injured Real Madrid plays really badly because in order to win games team has the score goals and the striker position is the position that creates the goals.

You are right, Real Madrid's weakness at the moment is a shortage of strikers when Benzema is injured. Ancelotti should not be too selfish and confident that Real Madrid do not need an additional striker this season, clearly they do because Benzema will no longer be able to survive unscathed. He's getting older and his performance will drop, that's for sure.

Apart from that, Real Madrid may also need to focus on midfielders because some of the players there are also old. Kross and Modric will lose form as they age, so I'm sure Real Madrid will spend a lot of money to get good players from now on and next season.

[fuguebtc]

I'll be interested to see how the Barcelona players deal with the pressure after returning (in disgrace) from the World Cup. Spain had 8 players from Barcelona and 2 from Real Madrid, obviously the Barcelona players brought with them the habit of losing important games  It is interesting whether this will affect their morale and play at the club level or not.

Yes, I am also looking forward to this, will it have a significant effect on their game in Barcelona, if it is true that the Spaniard was affected mentally in the match against Morocco yesterday, it will have a very bad impact on the stability of Barcelona's game, and of course, the La Liga leader will be replaced immediately if that happens.
Unlike the case with Real Madrid players who only have two representatives, Dani Carvajal and Marco Asensio, of course, this will not affect the players at Real Madrid.

An additional negative factor is that before the first games in La Liga, which could possibly help to forget what happened, it is still far away and the players will think about what happened for the rest of the time until the resumption of the Spanish championship. By the way, Lewandowski also does not have the mentality of a winner - in a completely lost game, he rejoiced like a child at a goal scored (the score became only 3-1 and Poland went home).

I really hope that Barcelona will be able to start fresh. This does sound like it is quite impossible. But I hope the Barcelona players who played for Spain will be able to forget what happened in the World Cup and start playing well for Barcelona.

Actually, this is great motivation for them to play well in club competitions. They lost against a rather weak opponent in the World Cup and got knocked out. That should be unlimited motivation for them. The thing is the players will choose how they use that emotional drive. They can be sad and cry about what happened in the World Cup. Or they can man up and say that they cannot change the past. But they will have to prove by performing in the future.

[Jody.Drummer]

Hazard is actually still quite young, isn't he something like 31-32? It is very early to announce that you are leaving the international team. I don't think he will regain his old form at Real Madrid, otherwise you don't say things like that. Maybe it's time for Hazard to leave Real Madrid and see if he can find another club where he can play football. Real Madrid could sell or rent him, but who can afford that? They also need reinforcements if they want to look up.

I think the best move for Hazard could be to return to the English Premier League if he still wants to play European football and compete in the Champions League as well. However I don't know how many teams with such criteria would be eager to sign him now. He is not too old of course but I believe he has already left his good times behind.

His having bad performances and injuries at Real Madrid just brought his career to a very low point. If he doesn't find such team for himself then he should go outside Europe I believe.

A true nightmare for Eden Hazard when he joined Real Madrid. I don't blame Real Madrid for Eden Hazard's decline because Hazard did have problems, one of which was an injury that made his game significantly decrease and he couldn't compete with other players who were more promising than him.
He couldn't keep waiting for luck to be on his side and make him back as Caro Ancelloti's first choice.
I would say the same, he'd better find a new club that wants him and get back to his best. But if I have to return to the Premier League, it seems I'm doubtful because the competition there is very competitive and also I haven't heard of any Premier League club wanting to recruit him.

[tulusikhlas]

I want to see how Atletico Madrid start again when the league is back up and running. Lastly they lost 2 times and got 1 draw before the break. So they now have to get off to a better start as they need to catch up on points from Real Madrid and Barcelona. Even though it was tough, at least they were back in the top 3 in Clement. They are scheduled to face Elche in their first game after the break, a good start for them as they are an easy opponent.

[baeva]

I think it should not be allowed that only one man wins a game, it could ruin the game later on, but I always thought that Real was the team that did not allow that. Every time they've lost someone for health reasons or whatever, their game hasn't changed at all, they've been just as strong and continued to win. They still seem that way to me now

Except on the attackers, I see they always have trouble making goals when Benzema is injured. That has been evident in some Madrid games. Many friends here also said so. So there's one that's missing and it's had a bit of an impact. Even though they have to try to keep winning and optimize the existing players. This is the reason why a club should have several player options. They want to always be strong and win, but sometimes the reality in the game is very different.

Hm, I've certainly noticed, but very rarely, I don't think it has much of an effect. The main thing is that it doesn't fail at the most important moment. Basically Benzema was able to replace Ronaldo who was missing after he left, I'm surprised to see that because it seems impossible to fully replace Ronaldo

[RILWAN]

Benzema can not be a best replacement for Ronaldo in any form and even though Benzema is performing well covering that gap that was left and being able to help the team to make a good point in the tournament the fact still remains that Ro also presence is still felt in all the marches most especially in his hatric score mode.

[el kaka22]

Benzema is healed? If that is the case then I feel like there is a good chance Real would play a lot better after the world cup, I thought his injury was until late January, early February thing, that is what I read when I first saw it, but if he is healed (I just checked, he looks to be cleared) that means he is going to be very important to Real and their goals.

Of course, he would need to gain some momentum, this year he hasn't done anything yet, so it would require a bit of working hard to be valuable again, otherwise he is a great player with an injury so plays badly type guy. Look at Neymar, great player, constantly injured. Real doesn't need something like that.

[SatoPrincess]

Since we talk about Hazard here , first of all , before he joined Real Madrid he was consider at that point in top 3 players in the world , right after Messi and Ronaldo because Neymar was not in a great shape in that period but after Hazard moved to Real , his big problems started to appear from every direction and this was the moment his career went down on spiral but if he somehow joins Juventus from January , this move might resurrect his career and he deserve one last chance. If he won't move to Juve , then , I guess , he will go in MLS without any question.

I think Hazard is already a surplus to requirement and Real Madrid are finally ready to part ways with him in January. Real Madrid need to complete some major transfers in January to boost the squad for the remainder of the season, a few exits will also happen in January. I’m not quite sure of his destination though but I read he might be moving to Juventus.

[Pokapoka124]

Since we talk about Hazard here , first of all , before he joined Real Madrid he was consider at that point in top 3 players in the world , right after Messi and Ronaldo because Neymar was not in a great shape in that period but after Hazard moved to Real , his big problems started to appear from every direction and this was the moment his career went down on spiral but if he somehow joins Juventus from January , this move might resurrect his career and he deserve one last chance. If he won't move to Juve , then , I guess , he will go in MLS without any question.

Many players tend to destroy their good career spell with wrong moves to different clubs that turn out to be wrong moves and cause them to decline in their performances and Hazard unfortunately is one of the victims of such situations. He was like a God for Chelsea in the premier league until he made a move to Real Madrid and we barely see the Hazard we know. Hopefully if he moves to Juventus this might change but a move isn't sure for now so let's watch and see what happens in January.

[lalabotax]

You are right, Real Madrid's weakness at the moment is a shortage of strikers when Benzema is injured. Ancelotti should not be too selfish and confident that Real Madrid do not need an additional striker this season, clearly they do because Benzema will no longer be able to survive unscathed. He's getting older and his performance will drop, that's for sure.

I do agree with you. Although Real Madrid still has Rodrigo, Asensio, and Vinicius JR, they are not in the same position as Benzema as CF. So, I think also they really need the position of Benzema replacement. Although they also have the second position by Díaz, his performance is bad so far, so Ancelotti prefers to use those three players as the tactic. And in the UCL, the competitions will be very hard, they need more than their squad right now, moreover when suddenly Benzema gets injured again.

[wmaurik]

I want to see how Atletico Madrid start again when the league is back up and running. Lastly they lost 2 times and got 1 draw before the break. So they now have to get off to a better start as they need to catch up on points from Real Madrid and Barcelona. Even though it was tough, at least they were back in the top 3 in Clement. They are scheduled to face Elche in their first game after the break, a good start for them as they are an easy opponent.

Atletico Madrid are currently in fifth place in the La Liga standings with points they have collected as many as 24 units and are only 2 units different from third place. This will make position changes always occur from the third in the standings to the fifth in the standings when the match results look different. I think there will be very exciting competition in the second half of the season considering that there are three teams that have the same number of points at the moment and they are all in a very good position in the standings (4, 5 and 6).

[Pokapoka124]

I think Sevilla must guard Yassine Bounou with the high price before the winter windows transfer opens, As we know how Yassine Bounou save his team and make the history world cup by zero conceded, which I think many clubs will interested to recruit him with high salary and bonus. As I remembered how he can be saved Raul Jimenez's penalty in 8 round Europe league, that was history because Jimenez never missed penalty from 18 shoots.

Yassine Bounou is the hero of Morocco on world cup so i am not surprising if later there is big club who want him and actually he is penalty saver specialist and he did it plenty with Sevilla and Morocco and during defend Sevilla he has 53 cleansheet this also makes him recognized as one of the best goalkeeper on Laliga so it's normal if other clubs want to bought him but last time i heard he was linked to premier league team Aston Villa even this team will attempts to gets him this January and Unay Emery confirmed Aston Villa will make an offers to gets him and Sevilla also apparently will allow him to left so lets see whether this rumour will became true or not

Yassine Bounou is enjoying his time in the world cup for his country side Morocco after his heroics in the game against Spain in the round of 16 stages. I'm sure he has caught the attention of top clubs already, as one of the best goal keepers in the Laliga many clubs will be interested in getting him on their side in January. Aston Villa happens to be one of the teams interested, the January window will tell what is installed for the goal keeper whether he moves or remains at his current club.

[X-ray]

Benzema can not be a best replacement for Ronaldo in any form and even though Benzema is performing well covering that gap that was left and being able to help the team to make a good point in the tournament the fact still remains that Ro also presence is still felt in all the marches most especially in his hatric score mode.

So, why talking about that if ronaldo itself has no chance to be a replacement for benzema? real madrid already confirmed rejected ronaldo. i think that you shall stop to talk it when even the team itself already announced that if the team has been rejecting an offer that already made by ronaldo for real madrid. It can be said that real madrid already confirmed itself to be a team that will not become a new team for ronaldo. I think that that's enough to prove that real has no intention for ronaldo.

[TopT3ns]

I want to see how Atletico Madrid start again when the league is back up and running. Lastly they lost 2 times and got 1 draw before the break. So they now have to get off to a better start as they need to catch up on points from Real Madrid and Barcelona. Even though it was tough, at least they were back in the top 3 in Clement. They are scheduled to face Elche in their first game after the break, a good start for them as they are an easy opponent.

Atlético Madrid is starting to compete again, there is still a long gap, they will play Elche at the end of December so maybe they will still be easy to fight against this team and will have a chance to win. The points at the top of the table Barcelona and Real Madrid are too away and it is impossible for Atletico Madrid to chase that many points.

[Prince Malik]

I want to see how Atletico Madrid start again when the league is back up and running. Lastly they lost 2 times and got 1 draw before the break. So they now have to get off to a better start as they need to catch up on points from Real Madrid and Barcelona. Even though it was tough, at least they were back in the top 3 in Clement. They are scheduled to face Elche in their first game after the break, a good start for them as they are an easy opponent.

Atlético Madrid is starting to compete again, there is still a long gap, they will play Elche at the end of December so maybe they will still be easy to fight against this team and will have a chance to win. The points at the top of the table Barcelona and Real Madrid are too away and it is impossible for Atletico Madrid to chase that many points.

I agree, the gap is already big and for sure Barcelona and real Madrid will not giving up points easily, but regardless the fight for the title atleteco still not the same as the previous seasons and the team still need many improvement to recover their good preformence

[ilovealtcoins]

I want to see how Atletico Madrid start again when the league is back up and running. Lastly they lost 2 times and got 1 draw before the break. So they now have to get off to a better start as they need to catch up on points from Real Madrid and Barcelona. Even though it was tough, at least they were back in the top 3 in Clement. They are scheduled to face Elche in their first game after the break, a good start for them as they are an easy opponent.

Atlético Madrid is starting to compete again, there is still a long gap, they will play Elche at the end of December so maybe they will still be easy to fight against this team and will have a chance to win. The points at the top of the table Barcelona and Real Madrid are too away and it is impossible for Atletico Madrid to chase that many points.

I agree, the gap is already big and for sure Barcelona and real Madrid will not giving up points easily, but regardless the fight for the title atleteco still not the same as the previous seasons and the team still need many improvement to recover their good preformence

Atletico Madrid has no ability to fight for the title. Atlético Madrid is now 13 points behind Barcelona. This gap cannot be narrowed. Because Barcelona and Real Madrid's performances are more consistent than Atletico Madrid's. Also, Atletico Madrid's attack is very weak. And with a weak attack, it is not possible to score points in every match. Atletico Madrid needs an experienced striker now.

[OcTradism]

Atletico Madrid are currently in fifth place in the La Liga standings with points they have collected as many as 24 units and are only 2 units different from third place. This will make position changes always occur from the third in the standings to the fifth in the standings when the match results look different. I think there will be very exciting competition in the second half of the season considering that there are three teams that have the same number of points at the moment and they are all in a very good position in the standings (4, 5 and 6).

With the small differences with clubs at the third and fourth positions, Atletico Madrid have big hope to take over these positions. However, in another point of view, they are in a verge of good and bad ending. They can finish this season in top four or beyond it because with too many competitors for top four and with the unstable performance of Atletico Madrid, the race is very tight and not easy for all clubs.

Atletico Madrid will have impacts of poor performance of Belgium and Spain in World Cup 2022 because their players might return with bad form and bad mood.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Atletico Madrid are currently in fifth place in the La Liga standings with points they have collected as many as 24 units and are only 2 units different from third place. This will make position changes always occur from the third in the standings to the fifth in the standings when the match results look different. I think there will be very exciting competition in the second half of the season considering that there are three teams that have the same number of points at the moment and they are all in a very good position in the standings (4, 5 and 6).

With the small differences with clubs at the third and fourth positions, Atletico Madrid have big hope to take over these positions. However, in another point of view, they are in a verge of good and bad ending. They can finish this season in top four or beyond it because with too many competitors for top four and with the unstable performance of Atletico Madrid, the race is very tight and not easy for all clubs.

Atletico Madrid will have impacts of poor performance of Belgium and Spain in World Cup 2022 because their players might return with bad form and bad mood.

Atletico Madrid is just two points behind Real Sociedad in third place in the points table. Apart from Barcelona and Real Madrid, no other team has had a consistent performance in La Liga this season. Therefore, the position of the teams in the third to seventh place in the points table can change at any time. And Atletico Madrid will continue to do their best to qualify for the Champions League. Since Atlético Madrid's players are slightly more experienced than other teams, I think Atlético Madrid will qualify for the Champions League.

I don't think the performance of the World Cup teams will have any impact on club football. Because national team and club football are completely different. The performance of players in the national team usually has not made an impact on club football.