La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

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Atletico madrid played away to almeria.Both teams performed equally well in the match and there was no winner.This draw is of course more important for almeria.Even taking 1 point from an opponent like Atletico madrid is a great success for them.It's a sad situation for Atletico madrid.The points difference with the leader is getting wider and wider and we can say that they are out of the championship race. It seems difficult for them to recover from here.

Athletico's mistake was to relax the attack when they scored their first goal after previously carrying out a fast attack, that's what the club usually does, which sometimes after scoring a goal they relax the game to be more relaxed and finally almeria gives a surprise equalizer to a draw, clearly this is a fatal mistake that must be addressed so that one cannot underestimate the opponent in the next match

Most of the currently favored teams do this more often, I just don't understand what factors made them reduce the intensity of their attacks when they were ahead even with only one goal. Even though it is clear, this match is a big chance for Atletico to get full points and also with a win with a better score.
But regarding the title race, basically Atletico is not a team that always has the chance to win the title because Atletico is only a shadow of Real Madrid and Barcelona. So basically Atletico will still be fine if they still have a chance to finish in the top four.

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[LUCKMCFLY]

this victory is clear evidence that they have woken up, now Barcelona are still at the top of the La Liga standings and their performance is getting better, they just need consistency to be able to win the La Liga title.

this is Barcelona's first trophy after being handled by Xavi and this can be a point of their crew to continue to develop.
and seeing the performance of the two best Spanish teams at the moment is very inversely felt by Real Madrid, they seem to have experienced a significant decline in performance lately so this can be a big advantage for Barcelona.

apart from the European competition that Barcelona can still achieve, but I don't have high expectations because the journey is still very long, but for the La Liga title, I think for now the percentage of Barcelona to be able to win it is greater than Real Madrid.

Source Congratulations Barcelona, the first trophy for Xavi this season. I was really disappointed with Real Madrid's performance, they were not even able to control the ball well. They are even very neat in defense. Gavi is also very good, he deserves to be the best player today.
Gavi scored one goal and one assist, he became a star despite being only 18 years old. Xavi was also smart, he directly gave instructions to put pressure on Madrid so that they could not develop the game well, and it was proved. It's going to be even more exciting, for the League champion fight this season.

Firstly, I would like to say that Barcelona was well deserved to win the match and in terms of their defense, Real Madrid were really lacking. I have to say that this is Carlo Ancelotti's third loss in the finals and I must say that this has been a tough loss for him.

It is important to give credit where it is due, because Xavi was really effective with his tactics and I have to say that Gavi in particular played exceptionally well in midfield. There was only one goal scored by Real Madrid in the 93rd minute of the game. During the course of the game, Real Madrid's defense seemed to be all over the place.

Well, Real Madrid here came out with everything they had to do, they came out with their Arsenal, but apparently Xavi managed to decipher Ancelotti's strategy, that requires recognition, and yes, in part that gives a lot of oxygen to a Barcleona that comes. many problems of all kinds, not bad, I couldn't say that Real Madrid lost because they had no luck, they played with everything they had, maybe Ancelotti now has to make changes to his strategy, not be so persuasive, and one of the Things that they must manage is that they do not leave everything for the second half, it seems that all the energy they put into it is at minute 80 onwards, which is when they attack the most and do more, the games sometimes have to be assured from the beginning.

Here Valverder agrees with my opinion:

Speaking after the match, Valverde explained to MD that Los Blancos were not at full pelt when they started the match.

“Today the team was not good and it showed. In a final you have to go out to give 100% from the beginning and we didn’t do it. We went out to give 80 or 90 and that’s not enough.”

Even more concerning will be the precedent that Valverde’s statement sets. Real Madrid have won just two of their last five La Liga matches and needed penalties to surpass Valencia in the Supercup semi-final. If it really was a lack of effort that led their defeat, it opens the door for effort levels to be questioned in other games too.

Source: https://www.football-espana.net/2023/01/16/fede-valverde-admits-lack-of-real-madrid-in-damaging-defeat-to-barcelona

This is what stood out, without a doubt Ancelotti has to work more on the resistance of his players and make them give everything from the beginning until they give everything at the end of the game, sometimes 3 goals cannot be overcome in 10 minutes, this is a very bad resource that they always resort to, sometimes it has worked, but at this point that is not good, personally I do not think it is correct to leave everything in the hands of giving all the maximum effort to the last, because it does not arrive on time, they will be left short and in reality it is already very bad, it is a reckless strategy, the forwards wear out a lot and on this occasion they did not achieve anything.

[reagansimms]

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Congratulations Barcelona, the first trophy for Xavi this season. I was really disappointed with Real Madrid's performance, they were not even able to control the ball well. They are even very neat in defense. Gavi is also very good, he deserves to be the best player today.
Gavi scored one goal and one assist, he became a star despite being only 18 years old. Xavi was also smart, he directly gave instructions to put pressure on Madrid so that they could not develop the game well, and it was proved. It's going to be even more exciting, for the League champion fight this season.

Gavi managed to steal the spotlight in this match, Gavi contribution to Barcelona success made him the best player in the Super Cup final. Barcelona game was much better than Real Madrid, Xavi also managed to form a solid defense.
Barcelona is entitled to this trophy after successfully humiliating Real Madrid through a beautiful game. The Super Cup trophy is a beautiful start for Xavi to win the next trophy.

[LGD2Business]

Today's match is very boring according to some because the teams in the last two rows of the league are playing. But I think it could be a good match. I follow Cadiz matches and they actually play well. It was absolutely surprising that they stayed on this point. They should have been much higher in standing. If you look at the league table anyway, there is only 4 points difference between Valencia in 12th place and Cadiz in 19th place. If Cadiz, who is missing a match, wins today, they will move up to 14th place. So the table is actually not what it seems. In the lower ranks, no team other than Elche didn't break in points.

[maju69]

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Congratulations Barcelona, the first trophy for Xavi this season. I was really disappointed with Real Madrid's performance, they were not even able to control the ball well. They are even very neat in defense. Gavi is also very good, he deserves to be the best player today.
Gavi scored one goal and one assist, he became a star despite being only 18 years old. Xavi was also smart, he directly gave instructions to put pressure on Madrid so that they could not develop the game well, and it was proved. It's going to be even more exciting, for the League champion fight this season.

Gavi managed to steal the spotlight in this match, Gavi contribution to Barcelona success made him the best player in the Super Cup final. Barcelona game was much better than Real Madrid, Xavi also managed to form a solid defense.
Barcelona is entitled to this trophy after successfully humiliating Real Madrid through a beautiful game. The Super Cup trophy is a beautiful start for Xavi to win the next trophy.

I have to congratulate Barcelona for winning the Super Cup, and another congratulations for Xavi Hernandez for bringing the trophy to Barcelona. Looking at this match, in my opinion they deserve to be champions with the game they presented so well, and even I think they are starting to see a decline in their productivity to score goals from Real Madrid. They need to quickly fix this for La Liga and the Champions League.

[hd49728]

Congratulations Barcelona, the first trophy for Xavi this season. I was really disappointed with Real Madrid's performance, they were not even able to control the ball well. They are even very neat in defense. Gavi is also very good, he deserves to be the best player today.
Gavi scored one goal and one assist, he became a star despite being only 18 years old. Xavi was also smart, he directly gave instructions to put pressure on Madrid so that they could not develop the game well, and it was proved. It's going to be even more exciting, for the League champion fight this season.

In a biggest crisis of the club after 20 years, Xavi managed to bring them to a trophy, in his second season as their coach. What do people want more from Xavi?

Honestly I believe Xavi is doing his job so great even before this trophy. With this trophy, he can convince many people that he is so good for Barcelona in these years. This trophy can be a milestone for Barcelona and Xavi to bigger success in future. Their young players now are not only talented but already experienced a feeling of lifting trophy. It is so helpful for them and can motivate them to train more, play better to win more trophies.

[hahay]

Today's match is very boring according to some because the teams in the last two rows of the league are playing. But I think it could be a good match. I follow Cadiz matches and they actually play well. It was absolutely surprising that they stayed on this point. They should have been much higher in standing. If you look at the league table anyway, there is only 4 points difference between Valencia in 12th place and Cadiz in 19th place. If Cadiz, who is missing a match, wins today, they will move up to 14th place. So the table is actually not what it seems. In the lower ranks, no team other than Elche didn't break in points.

Also, Cadiz and Sevilla are in fact at the moment they have the same points tally with 15 points and yes, Elche is the only team this season that has been very bad. Therefore, this match is certainly a big chance for Cadiz to win again after previously Cadiz managed to beat Valencia.
At least Cadiz has better quality in this moment and also, it looks like Cadiz got a better performance after the season break because Cadiz got points from the previous two matches. With such performance, it is certainly not surprising that in this match Cadiz is the favorite team.

[ILuckyGuyI]

In a biggest crisis of the club after 20 years, Xavi managed to bring them to a trophy, in his second season as their coach. What do people want more from Xavi?

Honestly I believe Xavi is doing his job so great even before this trophy. With this trophy, he can convince many people that he is so good for Barcelona in these years. This trophy can be a milestone for Barcelona and Xavi to bigger success in future. Their young players now are not only talented but already experienced a feeling of lifting trophy. It is so helpful for them and can motivate them to train more, play better to win more trophies.

The Super Cup title won't be enough to make the supporters satisfied enough for certain. Because the expectations from this team are much higher these days.

Unless they win the La Liga title Barcelona board also wouldn't count this season as a successful one. They need to win at least one of the La Liga or Europa League titles to meet the expectations. Because they have already been eliminated from the Champions League by showing a horrible performance. This was enough to start criticizing Xavi. Because this team were normally strong enough to qualify from that group. Now Xavi will be expected to win a big title to make up for that. They are strong enough to win one of those two tournaments I indicated.

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this victory is clear evidence that they have woken up, now Barcelona are still at the top of the La Liga standings and their performance is getting better, they just need consistency to be able to win the La Liga title.

this is Barcelona's first trophy after being handled by Xavi and this can be a point of their crew to continue to develop.
and seeing the performance of the two best Spanish teams at the moment is very inversely felt by Real Madrid, they seem to have experienced a significant decline in performance lately so this can be a big advantage for Barcelona.

apart from the European competition that Barcelona can still achieve, but I don't have high expectations because the journey is still very long, but for the La Liga title, I think for now the percentage of Barcelona to be able to win it is greater than Real Madrid.

Congratulations to Xavi and the rest of Barcelona on their Super Bowl victory! It's no secret that they've been on a roll as of late, so it's fantastic to see them bring home the first hardware of Xavi's tenure as coach. Even though Real Madrid didn't play particularly well, the fact that they lost merely highlights how wonderfully Barcelona accomplished. Even after Messi retires, we expect great things from Barcelona. Carry on, Barca

[ShowOff]

Gavi managed to steal the spotlight in this match, Gavi contribution to Barcelona success made him the best player in the Super Cup final. Barcelona game was much better than Real Madrid, Xavi also managed to form a solid defense.
Barcelona is entitled to this trophy after successfully humiliating Real Madrid through a beautiful game. The Super Cup trophy is a beautiful start for Xavi to win the next trophy.

You are right, Barcelona deserved that Super Cup after doing a great job. Gavi, Lewandowski and Pedri were the three players who stood out the most during the final, and they really caught the eye by scoring goals and providing assists. Of course winning in the final is great, especially against Real Madrid. Huge appreciation for Barcelona and its coach, so of course this is a good start to hope for even more success in the future.

Real Madrid certainly wanted to win this title too, but they failed because they probably underestimated Barcelona too much. The second volume of El Clasico match for La Liga will be more challenging, it will be held at Camp Nou.

[samcoin]

I have to congratulate Barcelona for winning the Super Cup, and another congratulations for Xavi Hernandez for bringing the trophy to Barcelona. Looking at this match, in my opinion they deserve to be champions with the game they presented so well, and even I think they are starting to see a decline in their productivity to score goals from Real Madrid. They need to quickly fix this for La Liga and the Champions League.

This title will surely give them morale boost, Barcelona has some amazing young players like Gabi, who contributed to all goals scored by Barcelona. Xavi started to adapt to the team so this season I expect a lot from Barcelona despite the fact they were kicked out of ECL. Apart from this, I felt that Real Madrid weren't playing seriously, I don't think they weren't interested in winning the match, but Barcelona looked more motivated.

[D-law]

In a biggest crisis of the club after 20 years, Xavi managed to bring them to a trophy, in his second season as their coach. What do people want more from Xavi?

Honestly I believe Xavi is doing his job so great even before this trophy. With this trophy, he can convince many people that he is so good for Barcelona in these years. This trophy can be a milestone for Barcelona and Xavi to bigger success in future. Their young players now are not only talented but already experienced a feeling of lifting trophy. It is so helpful for them and can motivate them to train more, play better to win more trophies.

The Super Cup title won't be enough to make the supporters satisfied enough for certain. Because the expectations from this team are much higher these days.

Unless they win the La Liga title Barcelona board also wouldn't count this season as a successful one. They need to win at least one of the La Liga or Europa League titles to meet the expectations. Because they have already been eliminated from the Champions League by showing a horrible performance. This was enough to start criticizing Xavi. Because this team were normally strong enough to qualify from that group. Now Xavi will be expected to win a big title to make up for that. They are strong enough to win one of those two tournaments I indicated.

Winning the Super Cup is a good start for Barcelona
Xavi finally has something this year to talk about
They will be optimistic about the league and not more of Europa

[Porfirii]

In a biggest crisis of the club after 20 years, Xavi managed to bring them to a trophy, in his second season as their coach. What do people want more from Xavi?

Honestly I believe Xavi is doing his job so great even before this trophy. With this trophy, he can convince many people that he is so good for Barcelona in these years. This trophy can be a milestone for Barcelona and Xavi to bigger success in future. Their young players now are not only talented but already experienced a feeling of lifting trophy. It is so helpful for them and can motivate them to train more, play better to win more trophies.

The Super Cup title won't be enough to make the supporters satisfied enough for certain. Because the expectations from this team are much higher these days.

Unless they win the La Liga title Barcelona board also wouldn't count this season as a successful one. They need to win at least one of the La Liga or Europa League titles to meet the expectations. Because they have already been eliminated from the Champions League by showing a horrible performance. This was enough to start criticizing Xavi. Because this team were normally strong enough to qualify from that group. Now Xavi will be expected to win a big title to make up for that. They are strong enough to win one of those two tournaments I indicated.

Winning the Super Cup is a good start for Barcelona
Xavi finally has something this year to talk about
They will be optimistic about the league and not more of Europa

Indeed, this victory will allow FC Barcelona to focus in La Liga with a renewed hope. In addition, the fact that they have won 4 out of their 5 last games (not 5 out of 5 due to a draw) and that they have collected to date three more points that Real Madrid put them in an advantageous position.

I'm happy por Xavi, who has been so criticized lately for his style of management. Yes, he is quite young, he has been a player until quite recently, but we shouldn't judge a book by its cover.

[Sirait]

This title will surely give them morale boost, Barcelona has some amazing young players like Gabi, who contributed to all goals scored by Barcelona. Xavi started to adapt to the team so this season I expect a lot from Barcelona despite the fact they were kicked out of ECL. Apart from this, I felt that Real Madrid weren't playing seriously, I don't think they weren't interested in winning the match, but Barcelona looked more motivated.

the thing that a team needs most is self-confidence and barcelona seems to be getting that more because they won 3-1 over madrid in the match for the Spain supercup. I salute the current president of Barcelona's belief in Xavi, Xavi's future will be very bright and his sincerity to revive Barcelona again is clear.

[KTChampions]

Bookmakers evaluate the chances of teams as follows:
3.04 - 3.53 - 2.16.
In my opinion, this is just ridiculous. Are Barcelona favorites based on being ahead of Real Madrid in La Liga? But Real Madrid is in the Champions League, and Barcelona is no longer there, plus in head-to-head meetings, Real has an advantage. In general, an easy bet on Real Madrid. And I'm not sure that there will be red cards - in recent years in the Classico there is not that glow and dirt as in the days of Mourinho (Xavi talked about this the other day).

It's also a bit strange with the odds in the Spanish Super Cup final, but it doesn't matter that this could be profitable for Real Madrid, including me, one of the bets @ 3.04 is quite large and it is reassured that Real Madrid has better than Barcelona in terms of head to head too.

But still, if they meet, it will be said that the El Clasico match will always heat up, it is unlikely that there will be a red card in this match, I don't know and it's not going to happen.
It's the level of trophy haul they will take.

I must admit that in this particular game, the bookmakers were right. But if it was possible to place the bet again, I would again make it on Real. Real Madrid played the whole first half from the position of the first number, and Barcelona turned out to be lucky on the counterattacks and then the game was already done. The result is fair (congratulations to Xavi on the first trophy), but Real Madrid does not look like a weaker club. I think it will win the next face-to-face meeting.

[Silence Scream]

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Congratulations Barcelona, the first trophy for Xavi this season. I was really disappointed with Real Madrid's performance, they were not even able to control the ball well. They are even very neat in defense. Gavi is also very good, he deserves to be the best player today.
Gavi scored one goal and one assist, he became a star despite being only 18 years old. Xavi was also smart, he directly gave instructions to put pressure on Madrid so that they could not develop the game well, and it was proved. It's going to be even more exciting, for the League champion fight this season.

Gavi managed to steal the spotlight in this match, Gavi contribution to Barcelona success made him the best player in the Super Cup final. Barcelona game was much better than Real Madrid, Xavi also managed to form a solid defense.
Barcelona is entitled to this trophy after successfully humiliating Real Madrid through a beautiful game. The Super Cup trophy is a beautiful start for Xavi to win the next trophy.

Gavi more than deserves this award.  Despite being 18 years old, she has accomplished more than expected.  It is obvious that the young star player, who has accomplished important works in the midfield, will sweat this jersey for many years.  He has the potential to be one of the icon players of the team.  An excellent player.  Gavi has a very important place in Xavi's plans.

[wiss19]

After Athletico scored the first goal in the 18th minute, Almeria also scored in the 37th minute.  The first half of the game was 1-1 goal. but there was no goal in the second half.  However, although neither side's players committed too many fouls, one of Athletico's players named Sergio Reguilon was fouled multiple times and get two yellow cards and one red card. At the beginning of the game it looked like Athletico were playing well and maybe they could get a good result but they were not able to do so.

In first half while Atlético Madrid were doing good job I was also having feeling they can win and have good time in this game but 37th minute goal from Almeria player done things for them and after this nothing positive happen for the visitors which is surely now going from bad to worse if they are not going to change their strategy and having aggressive approach then surely they will suffer because now they have fourth spot which is sharing with two other teams which can overthrow them in any round, and they can go down at sixth or seventh place which will be surely not ideal for them and their management.

Attackers needs to be more aggressive for having better chances of goals and giving opponents tough challenge but in last few months they are not able to do more than one goal in matches which is surely not ideal situation.

[Furious 7]

The first trophy for Xavi, even though this is not really eye-catching, but this is still good for them because they can bring a trophy when they need it.
I would probably congratulate Barcelona even though the game is still not over.
The score has 3 goals and it is clear that with the current time, Madrid cannot be chased, regardless of anything, this has been a victory for Barcelona.
In the end my bet was lost in this match

Pedri scored the third goal to solidly their win against Real Madrid giving  Barcelonas coach Xavi, his first trophy and a much needed one at that. I along with others, I’m sure had thought that Real Madrid might just win the match with some difficulty but the game went otherwise as Barcelona had played and won the game with some ease.
Real Madrid defense was whack as they allowed Barcelona forward to continuously make attempts at goal and it paid off with 3 goals. Great game.
I believe a lot of people had placed bets on Real Madrid winning the game. That’s a bet lost.

At least with this result Xavi is a little safer because indeed with the condition of winning a trophy it will be very good for his continuity for the future because regardless of anything he needs this for the continuation of his career at Barcelona because to prove that he is able to compete and be a good coach even though he has a trophy I actually think this is not too prioritized.
On the other hand, seeing Madrid's development and their previous matches, I expected too much, even though if you look further, it's actually not very good for them, especially in the last few matches they haven't gone well, it should be a separate code, but I don't see that and I'm still convinced that finally lost.

[bitgolden]

Atlético Madrid misery is still going as they are losing their grip for the top ranks in league table because competition is tough, and Real Sociedad is already having strong hold on third spot, and they are having 28 points sharing with two other teams with most chances things are surely not easy for them in last five matches they have just five points with one win and two loses now they are losing points against weaker sides which is big concern for them because their strategy is not working, and all teams understand how things going for them in last few seasons with the same strategy.

In last match against Almeria they take early lead but quickly lost this and then no able to have any positive move which helps them for having better result and full three points which is surely not good for them and their end of this season result.

There is a legit concern about keeping them at bay during this period, we could see their manager fired. They are playing much worse than they should, and they weren't that bad of a team up until last year as well. However, this year they are looking like they are not going to be good at all and they are going to end up with a bad result.

I am hoping that it's going to be a bit of a great return for them in the long run, they do have the roster for it. They just need a better tactic that works for this roster and they need the players to be motivated a lot as well. This is why I believe that a manager chance could be a lot better, it could result with a good return.

[indah rezqi]

In a biggest crisis of the club after 20 years, Xavi managed to bring them to a trophy, in his second season as their coach. What do people want more from Xavi?

I hope Barcelona and all the management can fully support Xavi. Indeed, this is not easy because Barcelona's financial condition is in big trouble, but Laporta has given everything to support Xavi's efforts to build a better team. His first title is a great start for Xavi and his team in his second season. I probably hope he is more capable of bringing a lot of success to Barcelona in the years to come, because being good also takes time and sacrifice.

Honestly I believe Xavi is doing his job so great even before this trophy. With this trophy, he can convince many people that he is so good for Barcelona in these years. This trophy can be a milestone for Barcelona and Xavi to bigger success in future. Their young players now are not only talented but already experienced a feeling of lifting trophy. It is so helpful for them and can motivate them to train more, play better to win more trophies.

Winning many trophies is the desire of all coaches including Xavi, but when the majority of the players they have don't match what is expected, of course the quality of the team will be less competitive than other teams. Xavi has quality players, some of them are young and they will gradually become very important players in the game plan. So if Xavi still fails this season to win the Laliga title, then of course it's not a bad surprise for him.