La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

[nikola22]

Though Osasuna was an easy opponent, I too feel Barcelona are just setting in as a team. They were confident and fully dominant. I still believe they'd end up if not winning, in the top 3 of the league playing the next UEFA championship league. Even on current league, they would surely qualify for the round of 16 but things are very unpredictive this year and it would determine the status of different european league.

I would not say that Osasuna was an easy opponent. the first 30 minutes Osasuna had some chances to score and only after missing the first goal the team got frustrated. but the main episode of the match was Messi's goal celebration when he showed Maradona Newell's Old Boys jersey under his Barcelona shirt.

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[fullhdpixel]

Of course real madrid will have games when they lose, do you think they win every season with zero loss? Almost all teams have few losses every single year and this was one of the games Madrid left on the field. Just because you are a great team doesn't mean you should only lose to great teams, sometimes great teams lose to very low level teams as well.

However one thing is for sure, Barcelona was never "that" bad and madrid was never "that" good this year, the only team I can see looking like they are doing better than expected so far is Athletico Madrid. They play like they have a shot at becoming champions this year, not saying they will be, because it is la liga and usually only real or barça becomes champions and that may not change, but it looks like it is not impossible neither.

[JeromeTash]

Finally an easy win for Barca in La Liga - not that often thing this season. Total dominance today. What an amazing goal by Griezmann. And Messi made great tribute to Diego Maradona.
Still despite this win, we are still 9 points behind Atletico, but we are getting closer to Real.

They do have easy wins at times. If I recall well, one was against Villarreal and the other against Real Betis. The problem has been consistency just like their Real Madrid counterparts. They impress in one game, and then they disappoint in the next game

[BitcoinHunt3r]

Real Sociedad has been in the spotlight this season, starting the season on an almost perfect record so far recorded six consecutive wins in the local league
Villarreal also played well at the start of the season taking 3rd place in the standing so will Villarreal destroy Sociedad domination? today my choice goes to Sociedad

[Action Gamble]

Finally an easy win for Barca in La Liga - not that often thing this season. Total dominance today. What an amazing goal by Griezmann. And Messi made great tribute to Diego Maradona.
Still despite this win, we are still 9 points behind Atletico, but we are getting closer to Real.

they didn't really dominate the game, Osasuna missed some real chances to score, and were able to reach to the danger zone a lot of times
i think Barcelona's defense is not doing well, unlike their attack which showed they're doing just fine.

[boltz]

Real Sociedad has been in the spotlight this season, starting the season on an almost perfect record so far recorded six consecutive wins in the local league
Villarreal also played well at the start of the season taking 3rd place in the standing so will Villarreal destroy Sociedad domination? today my choice goes to Sociedad

Sociedad have their best start season of their history I think as they don't know how to loose points and today's game was really difficult for them as Villareal has a strong squad this year who are aiming for those Europa League spots. If sociedad keeps plays like this , they will have a real chance to fight for the title, it all depends on them when they will play against Real, Barca and ATL.Madrid.

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Real Sociedad has been in the spotlight this season, starting the season on an almost perfect record so far recorded six consecutive wins in the local league
Villarreal also played well at the start of the season taking 3rd place in the standing so will Villarreal destroy Sociedad domination? today my choice goes to Sociedad

Sociedad have their best start season of their history I think as they don't know how to loose points and today's game was really difficult for them as Villareal has a strong squad this year who are aiming for those Europa League spots. If sociedad keeps plays like this , they will have a real chance to fight for the title, it all depends on them when they will play against Real, Barca and ATL.Madrid.

Yeah Sociedad is the best history in this season but last night he make me cry because I loss opportunity with Sociedad for win more than $200 from predictor competition. I have choose Sociedad as the winner but few minutes game playing Sociedad have loss from Bacca penalty kick, although could scoring by Mikel Oyarzabal but draw is not score with my prediction. I think why Sociedad last night without David Silva on starting eleven and he does not in backup bench, does he was injury and not playing for Sociedad last night and I disappointed when Adnan Januzaj not paying at the first minute then make Sociedad game look not creative.

[celot]

38 years old Bilbao legend Adurit won game for Bilbao by scoring goal of the season. It's f*cking amazing.
Today I can't recognize Barcelona. They played low quality football without nothing dangerous in attack. Griezmann was too passive and he just waited till someone will pass him ball. Rafinha probably was best player on the pitch tonight and shows that something is wrong with current Barcelona.

That's like the Barcelona game without Messi, just an ordinary game. The game is far from the previous Barcelona which was very aggressive in every match. Bilbao broke many people's predictions (including mine)

In last 6 games without Messi, Barcelona has 4 losses and 2 draws. So actually this result is not a huge surprise, rest of the team simply don't know what to do when he is not on the pitch, no plan at all.



In the other news, Hazard got injured during training and he might be off the pitch for a couple of weeks.Big hit for Real Madrid

Eden Hazard suffers thigh injury in training

Without Messi or not not Barcelona have solid team right now after Martin Braithwaite showed he will can replace for position left by Luis Suarez, now exactly happen with him after scoring two goal for Barcelona in champion league and last night scored on goal again. I think just give him minutes playing to show could he proof as  better than Luis Suarez or not, maybe if Messi left Barcelona in this season I think is not really care and worry by Barcelona's fans because now they have many option for Messi place from Dembele, Ansu Fati and last with Martin Braithwaite. Just Koeman could give trust for Martin Braithwaite to get many minutes playing for Barcelona and give other chance for him in the middle week on champion league.

[Avirunes]

In the other news, Hazard got injured during training and he might be off the pitch for a couple of weeks.Big hit for Real Madrid

Eden Hazard suffers thigh injury in training

Marca article is from last year August, 19 but yeah Hazard got injured while playing against Alaves according to https://www.marca.com/en/football/real-madrid/2020/11/29/5fc3882b22601de2488b456a.html. He was substituted in 28th minute with Rodrygo. Not sure what is the injury this time but yeah ever since he has joined Madrid from Chelsea he has been more injury prone. 7 times ever since he joined Madrid says the article and 3 times in 3 months ever since the season started but the injury history page from transfermrkt shows more (including minor injuries): https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/eden-hazard/verletzungen/spieler/50202

[slaman29]

This is the seasons best game for Barcelona. Everything  was perfect.Messi,Cutinho,Griezmann, Dembele all performed  exceptionally well.And thats why Barca crashed Osasuna by 4-0.And Messi has scored a good  goal.But Griezmanns goal was the seasons best.Bad luck for Dembele that  his  goal was cancelled.  I just hope Barcelona  will perform  better in UCL.Without UCL,it feels that we are empty shell.And i think if we perform  la liga match then we can take our confidence  in UCL.

But you do know Barcelona are already qualified in UCL along with Juventus right? Both have 9 and 12 points, and the others have nothing to play for except Europa League now.

So in fact, Barca can just throw away the 2 games (unless they want to finish top of the group but that's pointless to me, doesn't seem to matter the seed for me).

[Raflesia]

This is the seasons best game for Barcelona. Everything  was perfect.Messi,Cutinho,Griezmann, Dembele all performed  exceptionally well.And thats why Barca crashed Osasuna by 4-0.And Messi has scored a good  goal.But Griezmanns goal was the seasons best.Bad luck for Dembele that  his  goal was cancelled.  I just hope Barcelona  will perform  better in UCL.Without UCL,it feels that we are empty shell.And i think if we perform  la liga match then we can take our confidence  in UCL.

But you do know Barcelona are already qualified in UCL along with Juventus right? Both have 9 and 12 points, and the others have nothing to play for except Europa League now.

So in fact, Barca can just throw away the 2 games (unless they want to finish top of the group but that's pointless to me, doesn't seem to matter the seed for me).

Barcelona still has a lot of opportunities to continue advancing to a higher stage at UCL, it's just that I still doubt in LaLiga for Barcelona but I'm sure it will be different from at UCL sometimes more aggressive and difficult to beat because Messi is ready in this case we will find out what happens in the future with yesterday's victory can continue there is no more bad that happened before.
I still believe that Koeman will be able to bring Barcelona to the championship at UCL if the game is mastered in his squad.

[AakZaki]

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Villarreal also played well at the start of the season taking 3rd place in the standing so will Villarreal destroy Sociedad domination? today my choice goes to Sociedad

Unfortunately they only ended in a draw, both teams played carefully. Sociedad started the game badly, they conceded a goal in the sixth minute through Gerard Moreno's penalty. Villrreal's defense grew tighter after they took the lead, but Sociedad was able to equalize in the 33rd minute with an Oyarzabal penalty. These results make Sociedad return to the top of the standings as well as 1 point ahead of Atletico Madrid.

[ShowOff]

Barcelona still has a lot of opportunities to continue advancing to a higher stage at UCL, it's just that I still doubt in LaLiga for Barcelona but I'm sure it will be different from at UCL sometimes more aggressive and difficult to beat because Messi is ready in this case we will find out what happens in the future with yesterday's victory can continue there is no more bad that happened before.
I still believe that Koeman will be able to bring Barcelona to the championship at UCL if the game is mastered in his squad.

Barcelona look weak and easy to beat in Laliga, but it is very different with every Champions League game they have played. Even though I'm sure they will still finish in the top 4 at the end of the season but I don't think that's the main objective. The aim is to get the title at the end of the season and I hope they can improve their consistency in every league game until the end of the season.

There are still plenty of opportunities for them to continue to improve in the table, they really need to do something more this season.

[kassex]

I can't believe how badly Barcelona and Real Madrid are doing this season. The Champions League, that is all still possible. The worst thing about Real Madrid's defeat is that it was deserved, even against Alaves.
It could just be that we get a different champion than Barcelona or Real Madrid.

Both Barcelona and Real Madrid have a lot of problems. Real Madrid has problems with the roster. Not all players are ready to play and the load on the rest is very large. As soon as all the players return and get in shape, Real Madrid will begin to show a stable game.

Will be the champion of La Liga in this season not Barcelona or Real Madrid? like happen few years later when Atletico Madrid change dominance champion La Liga from Barcelona and Real Madrid. I think look early to prediction Atletico Madrid as winner for La Liga during have many match, how this transfer window when Real Madrid get many potential player like Mbappe and Barcelona bring Depay and will change dominance for Atletico Madrid or not, still waiting what happen with Barcelona tonight can win or loss like Real Madrid.

New players will not come until the summer of 2021. In winter they will not buy players. Real and Barcelona have no money to buy. One is building a stadium, others are on the verge of bankruptcy. In fact, this season can be considered lost for both Real Madrid and Barcelona. There are chances in the Spanish Cup.

[hahay]

I can't believe how badly Barcelona and Real Madrid are doing this season. The Champions League, that is all still possible. The worst thing about Real Madrid's defeat is that it was deserved, even against Alaves.
It could just be that we get a different champion than Barcelona or Real Madrid.

Both Barcelona and Real Madrid have a lot of problems. Real Madrid has problems with the roster. Not all players are ready to play and the load on the rest is very large. As soon as all the players return and get in shape, Real Madrid will begin to show a stable game.

Will be the champion of La Liga in this season not Barcelona or Real Madrid? like happen few years later when Atletico Madrid change dominance champion La Liga from Barcelona and Real Madrid. I think look early to prediction Atletico Madrid as winner for La Liga during have many match, how this transfer window when Real Madrid get many potential player like Mbappe and Barcelona bring Depay and will change dominance for Atletico Madrid or not, still waiting what happen with Barcelona tonight can win or loss like Real Madrid.

New players will not come until the summer of 2021. In winter they will not buy players. Real and Barcelona have no money to buy. One is building a stadium, others are on the verge of bankruptcy. In fact, this season can be considered lost for both Real Madrid and Barcelona. There are chances in the Spanish Cup.

Real Madrid and Barcelona are the big and richest teams apart from MU, PSG and other big teams. That way, they have no financial problems and their poor performance this season may be due to the pandemic. Any team today has the same problem and if the La Liga title is won by another team, I think it will be interesting because La Liga is not only owned by these two teams, at least there will be time and opportunity for the other team to win the title.

[hd49728]

Real Madrid and Barcelona are the big and richest teams apart from MU, PSG and other big teams. That way, they have no financial problems and their poor performance this season may be due to the pandemic. Any team today has the same problem and if the La Liga title is won by another team, I think it will be interesting because La Liga is not only owned by these two teams, at least there will be time and opportunity for the other team to win the title.

Only Manchester United has solid financial condition but the other big clubs: Real Madrid, Barcelona and PSG have been in financial troubles. They are rich and have huge income each season but you know income can change very fast and the pandemic shows this fact. Barcelona is in troubles and try to force their players to cut salary to minimize salary burden on the club. They and Real Madrid are built up their operations base on debt and anything is built on debt is never solid and sustainable.

PSG is built up from huge budget from their rich owner but it does not give any solid support that the owner won't leave the club. In history, many clubs got troubles and went to bankcruptcy: Leeds United, Deportivo La Coruna, Parma, etc.

[kassex]

I can't believe how badly Barcelona and Real Madrid are doing this season. The Champions League, that is all still possible. The worst thing about Real Madrid's defeat is that it was deserved, even against Alaves.
It could just be that we get a different champion than Barcelona or Real Madrid.

Both Barcelona and Real Madrid have a lot of problems. Real Madrid has problems with the roster. Not all players are ready to play and the load on the rest is very large. As soon as all the players return and get in shape, Real Madrid will begin to show a stable game.

Will be the champion of La Liga in this season not Barcelona or Real Madrid? like happen few years later when Atletico Madrid change dominance champion La Liga from Barcelona and Real Madrid. I think look early to prediction Atletico Madrid as winner for La Liga during have many match, how this transfer window when Real Madrid get many potential player like Mbappe and Barcelona bring Depay and will change dominance for Atletico Madrid or not, still waiting what happen with Barcelona tonight can win or loss like Real Madrid.

New players will not come until the summer of 2021. In winter they will not buy players. Real and Barcelona have no money to buy. One is building a stadium, others are on the verge of bankruptcy. In fact, this season can be considered lost for both Real Madrid and Barcelona. There are chances in the Spanish Cup.

Real Madrid and Barcelona are the big and richest teams apart from MU, PSG and other big teams. That way, they have no financial problems and their poor performance this season may be due to the pandemic. Any team today has the same problem and if the La Liga title is won by another team, I think it will be interesting because La Liga is not only owned by these two teams, at least there will be time and opportunity for the other team to win the title.

Even the richest have problems. Real Madrid has a 500 million euro stadium renovation. Barcelona has 400 million debt and they went to lower the salaries of the players and the staff of the club. How to buy new players in such conditions?

[Cacingkemi]

Manchester City can also be placed in that list. A budget to set up an entire league, but winning the champions league is not there yet. While they are each other's favorite year, except this year.
This year, Bayern is the favorite if you ask me. We never have to underestimate Barcelona. They have wonderful squad.

[bounceback]

Real Madrid and Barcelona are the big and richest teams apart from MU, PSG and other big teams. That way, they have no financial problems and their poor performance this season may be due to the pandemic. Any team today has the same problem and if the La Liga title is won by another team, I think it will be interesting because La Liga is not only owned by these two teams, at least there will be time and opportunity for the other team to win the title.

Only Manchester United has solid financial condition but the other big clubs: Real Madrid, Barcelona and PSG have been in financial troubles. They are rich and have huge income each season but you know income can change very fast and the pandemic shows this fact. Barcelona is in troubles and try to force their players to cut salary to minimize salary burden on the club. They and Real Madrid are built up their operations base on debt and anything is built on debt is never solid and sustainable.

PSG is built up from huge budget from their rich owner but it does not give any solid support that the owner won't leave the club. In history, many clubs got troubles and went to bankcruptcy: Leeds United, Deportivo La Coruna, Parma, etc.

I think it is wrong with Manchester United which is a team with good finances, but in fact there are many players who are targeted by Manchester United who cannot be brought in by the coach because the management does not want to make up for the value determined by the player's club, we still remember when Soelkjaer wanted to bring Sancho to Manchester. , however, because the club could not afford the ransom set by Dortmund they failed to bring Sancho to old trafford.

[Renampun]

Manchester City can also be placed in that list. A budget to set up an entire league, but winning the champions league is not there yet. While they are each other's favorite year, except this year.
This year, Bayern is the favorite if you ask me. We never have to underestimate Barcelona. They have wonderful squad.

Barca does have a good squad but internal problems are still an obstacle for Barca to shine this season...
btw, Barca is hit by a new problem again, I'm afraid this will further affect Barca's finances https://www.givemesport.com/1623176-barcelona-face-fine-after-lionel-messis-tribute-to-diego-maradona