La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2024/25

[QueenVera]

According to the news by the famous football journalist Fabrizio Romano, the Villareal head coach Quique Setién has left the club and seize to be manager and the report says that it's due to his one win and three losses in for games this season that's made him lose his managerial position, the club director of football Miguel Angel Tena, will replace him on an interim basis and resume training tomorrow.
 Now this is what happens when a manager leave up to expectations and fail to deliver his club, he's a fine coach though he's currently very old but has managed in other Laliga clubs like Barcelona, and Realbetis but failed to be successful at Villareal, well I hope the former club director of football would be able to handle to the position of the head coach and probably win their next match, if feel they should had signed a new manager instead of appointing the director as an interim manager.

[Davidvictorson]

It must be admitted that so far Barcelona's game is still not optimal and it seems that Xavi is aware of that. I agree that it is still in its early stages and the Barca players may still need time to find chemistry between players. But this is also a warning for Xavi to evaluate so that the team's play is not monotonous. If you look at the squad this season they are stronger than last season, so it's only natural that Barca fans set big targets to be able to defend the title.

It was an average performance for Barca and the fans have aired their opinion on it. I hope that the coach is aware of it because we cannot have them play like this this season. Barca has a great team, but they need to improve more. They moved very slow at this point I wonder if they are afraid to shoot from long distance . Doesn't Xavi understand that by putting Gavi as a false winger, makes them lose the attack? He should go back to the traditional 4-3-3, with Joao Félix up top with Lewy and Raphinha. And finally, when Barca is winning 1-0, they should keep pushing for more. One goal is not enough.

[kawetsriyanto]

I personally do not want Ramos to play at Sevilla, because at least Ramos will play against Real Madrid later. Therefore, maybe Ramos will tarnish his loyalty to Real Madrid, and a case like this maybe remind me when Lampard played at Manchester City at the time. What's worse, Lampard made a goal when Lampard playing for Manchester City against Chelsea at that time.

Real Madrid fans may not expect Ramos to play in other teams in La Liga. But Ramos may choose Sevilla because it is the option to continue his career now. We know Ramos was a Sevilla player, it will be a great history that he returned to Sevilla again after he left Sevilla many years ago. If he decided to retire in Sevilla, he will be a legend both in Sevilla and Real Madrid.

Sure, when he plays for Sevilla, he will show his loyalty for Sevilla. Ramos has no responsibility to show hos loyalty to Real Madrid because he is no longer Real Madrid player. I'm sure every one will understand it although it seems a bit unusual when Ramos played against Real Madrid players. He probably does what Lampard ever did to Chelsea.

Although yea, at least I also really appreciate Ramos, because Ramos is not tempted by big money because Ramos also rejected an offer from a club in the Saudi Pro League. But yes, that doesn't mean Ramos has to be Real Madrid enemy in La Liga.

Ramos may feel uninterested with Saudi pro league. It is normal, each player may have a different priority and preference for his career. Joining Sevilla seems not a bad idea, he returned to his previous club. Sure, he will play against Real Madrid this season. He must be professional, it won't be a problem for him.  

[rahmad2nd]

3 wins and 1 draw is still pretty decent in my opinion. Barcelona is still in the early stages of the season so I believe Xavi has the players he wants last season he did well but this season will be even better. Barcelona has received a lot of injections of quality players such as Gundogan, Cancelo, and Joao Felix, I think despite the financial crisis that Barcelona is experiencing, it will still be the most difficult club to beat.

It must be admitted that so far Barcelona's game is still not optimal and it seems that Xavi is aware of that. I agree that it is still in its early stages and the Barca players may still need time to find chemistry between players. But this is also a warning for Xavi to evaluate so that the team's play is not monotonous. If you look at the squad this season they are stronger than last season, so it's only natural that Barca fans set big targets to be able to defend the title.

Xavi even said on several occasions that Barcelona demands a lot from Lewandowski, Xavi Hernandez said that Robert Lewandowski is a Barcelona player who carries too heavy a responsibility. Xavi on the same occasion also said that Barcelona was too demanding of Lendowski who had to give perfect points in the last 2 matches. In fact, Xavi was willing to defend him when Lewandowski's performance showed a decline in the early rounds of La Liga this season.

Maybe that's why Barcelona hasn't found their best playing rhythm. now, Barcelona has brought in two newcomers who are both from Portugal. Joao Cancelo will be a player that Xavi can rely on in Barcelona's defense. Likewise with Joao Felix, he will play a lot as a winger even though he will start from the bench. and what is certain, Barcelona has a competitive squad compared to last season. Now the problem is with the coach, how he creates an ideal system for his team's squad. I'm pretty sure Barcelona will show their best game in a short time.

[imamusma]

It must be admitted that so far Barcelona's game is still not optimal and it seems that Xavi is aware of that. I agree that it is still in its early stages and the Barca players may still need time to find chemistry between players. But this is also a warning for Xavi to evaluate so that the team's play is not monotonous. If you look at the squad this season they are stronger than last season, so it's only natural that Barca fans set big targets to be able to defend the title.

Barcelona's appearance is not as bad as one might think. Of course you may disagree with my statement, but you can prove it through the statistics of every game they play. I only saw that Barcelona had a little difficulty scoring goals at the start of this season, but they were unbeaten until matchday 4. It's natural that their goal statistics have decreased slightly compared to last season, but I won't forget the fact that they have lost Dembele, who played well last season.

After all Lewandowski seems to be on a downturn in goal stats, but I also admit that it's still early in the season. Xavi will need to take some different approaches to his game strategy in the upcoming matches, but I believe the target of retaining the title is not an impossible target for Barcelona this season.

[Sakanwa]

Last week I commented that it wouldn't take long to fire Sevilla's coach if results didn't improve and today I see this news:

𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: Quique Setién, 1st head coach in top leagues to be fired this season

Villarreal announce they part ways with Setién after three defeats, one win in the first four games

source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CwzoRptoUEW/

The strangest thing about this is that last season Sevilla was losing a lot to the point of reaching the relegation zone, so because of the bad results the club's management decided to fire the coach and in his place they hired the current coach who ended up being fired , it was this current coach who is being fired who took Sevilla out of relegation and also won the European league last season, but now this season Sevilla have not won in the 3 games they played in the league and are in the last place in the table, really, when you look at the table you realize that they are in a serious situation, but the league is starting

It's true that Sevilla played 3 games against very weak teams and still lost, when they should have at least won 2 games and got 1 draw, that is, in those 3 games the normal thing would have been for Sevilla to have managed to get at least 7 points, but So who is to blame for Sevilla's poor results? We need to go back a little to last season, Sevilla was weak last season, although with the new coach they managed to get some good results in the league, but the problem is that in this transfer window Sevilla didn't make any big signings for the attack, so according to the  https://www.transfermarkt.pt/sevilha-fc/transferrekorde/verein/368/saison_id/2023  

I'm not seeing any signing of strikers or even any mid-level strikers. which shows that the squad was not properly improved while the squad of Sevilla's other opponents in the league were improving their squads and this meant that Sevilla became the weak team and the other teams became strong, so even if the current coach uses the same strategy as last season, things are not going well. Now I wonder: with the transfer market almost closing, what will the new coach do? He will have to use the same squad, I wonder why the Sevilla management didn't make the decision to fire the coach sooner? Well, we'll see who the next coach will be

This Sevilla side are also suffering from what Chelsea are suffering because the same person they spoke good about yesterday,is thesame person they are speaking bad about today.He helped them from the relegation zone last season and they all said he was a good coach,this season,they haven't even played upto six matches,but they've sacked him,who knows whether the man wanted to change things,and before a process can be mastered,it would definitely take time.They needed to give this man time to master his process and game plan,quick action would only result in them Highering another bad coach.They needed to be patient with him,and see after ten games,if he is unable to deliver,then they could consider him a bad coach.So I think they were too quick to pass judgements on him.

[Distraction]

Wasn't it too early to sack Quique Setién for Villarreal? I mean the last season didn't went bad for this team in the first place. They finished in 5th place which helped them join the Europa League group stage. I'm aware of the bad start they have made to this season with only 3 points in 4 matches.

But it is still early to decide to sack your manager while your last season effort wasn't poor. Sevilla started even worse than them for example but they haven't sacked Mendilibar right away. They won the Europa League title of course. But still I don't think it is fair to make this decision at the beginning already.

[MarjorieZimmermanGinger]

In fact, the performance shown by Real Madrid in the early matches this season really exceeded everyone's expectations. But the problem is that Real Madrid doesn't really have a second tier player who is good enough when their main player has a bit of a problem, such as an injury. And this is what can reduce Real Madrid's performance. And Barcelona actually started the season not too well. But Barcelona gradually improved and found their game again.

Ancelotti's squad is not very even and does not have the same quality in a substitute capacity and this will be problematic when several of the core players they have are injured. On the other hand, the same thing happened with Barcelona because they also did not have a replacement player that was commensurate with the core players. Real Madrid still haven't found a striker to replace Karim Benzema and even from the several matches that have taken place Jude Belligham has become the top scorer compared to Joselu, although Ancelotti often places Joselu as a substitute or reserve player.

But to be honest, I'm currently happy because Barcelona were able to get J. Felix and J. Cancelo in the last seconds of the transfer market. Even if it's just a loan for one season. But this can make Barcelona have many good players up front at this time. So when the main players have problems, young players like J.Felix can be used to fill the attack line. The competition between Barcelona and Real Madrid will be fierce. In contrast to last season, Barcelona leads the standings quite comfortably. But this season it looks like the two teams will compete more fiercely than last season.

It must be admitted that Barcelona is a bit more shrewd in utilizing the current transfer market than Real Madrid. Even though Barcelona is experiencing financial constraints, the presence of several loan players such as Felix and Cancelo will be quite helpful and provide full strength on the front lines, so that Xavi has many options to reduce his squad when playing. Barcelona's current weakness is in the defense sector and maybe Xavi needs a few other players to fill it in and because the transfer market has closed, Xavi has to take advantage of existing players.

The competition between Real Madrid and Barcelona will be much fiercer this season and I think we also need to include several other teams as their competitors for the title and even if they are not able to last until the end of the season. Atletico Madrid, Girona, Real Sociedad and several other clubs also still have the opportunity to challenge Real Madrid and Barcelona.

[borovichok]

Wasn't it too early to sack Quique Setién for Villarreal? I mean the last season didn't went bad for this team in the first place. They finished in 5th place which helped them join the Europa League group stage. I'm aware of the bad start they have made to this season with only 3 points in 4 matches.

But it is still early to decide to sack your manager while your last season effort wasn't poor. Sevilla started even worse than them for example but they haven't sacked Mendilibar right away. They won the Europa League title of course. But still I don't think it is fair to make this decision at the beginning already.

Villarreal are competitive in previous Laliga campaign but are unable to meet the top ongoing competition. Recording losing streaks definitely demotivated the fans and leds to the immediate sack of their coach. Quique Setién is relieved from his position as headcoach, is one of the top headcoach for Villarreal, although his team record poorly in the early phases of La Liga. In my opinion, it's very early for the board to take such drastic decision, because it's just the starting phase of the league. For instance, Sevilla are yet to make good points and haven't sack their coach.

[lixer]

Osasuna had more attacks in the match. Barcelona is having a hard time finding offense. It was Barcelona's luck that they scored a penalty goal and Osasuna missed a red card. Even though Real Madrid is missing right now, it could be better than Barcelona once the injuries are over.

Luck was still on Barcelona side after the referee awarded a penalty before the end of normal time, Lewandowski was able to make it 2-1 after successfully breaking into Osasuna goal with his kick. An important victory for Barcelona as well as saving them from a draw due to the impressive performance of the Osasuna players. Barcelona appeared as a full team in this match, but their game was not as usual. Barcelona defense, which was very strong last season, needs to be maintained this season. After the four matches that have been played, Barcelona defense is still easy for opposing players to penetrate.

There is no doubt in this match against Osasuna luck was completely with Barcelona specially in last few minutes as Penalty was vital for them to have 2 lucky points because with the performance of Osasuna things were completely favouring for the draw their comeback was timely, and they were having good aggressive approach against team like Barcelona.

Right now, after four rounds we have good situation at the top with Real Madrid is staying at the top and surprise package Girona is having second spot due to better goals difference from Barcelona which is facing some issues in defense, but hopefully things will be improved, but Atlético Madrid is also doing impressive job they can also have good start of this season due to postpone game against Sevilla they are at the fourth spot otherwise they can jump at the second which could be good and deserving for them.

[hahay]

It must be admitted that so far Barcelona's game is still not optimal and it seems that Xavi is aware of that. I agree that it is still in its early stages and the Barca players may still need time to find chemistry between players. But this is also a warning for Xavi to evaluate so that the team's play is not monotonous. If you look at the squad this season they are stronger than last season, so it's only natural that Barca fans set big targets to be able to defend the title.

It was an average performance for Barca and the fans have aired their opinion on it. I hope that the coach is aware of it because we cannot have them play like this this season. Barca has a great team, but they need to improve more. They moved very slow at this point I wonder if they are afraid to shoot from long distance . Doesn't Xavi understand that by putting Gavi as a false winger, makes them lose the attack? He should go back to the traditional 4-3-3, with Joao Félix up top with Lewy and Raphinha. And finally, when Barca is winning 1-0, they should keep pushing for more. One goal is not enough.

Anyway, I personally don't doubt Xavi quality to make Barcelona even better. Because after all, Xavi has succeeded in recovering Barcelona from destruction in the Koeman era and because of that, of course at this moment Xavi will be able to keep Barcelona well in La Liga. Apart from that, given that Felix and Cancelo have just joined, at least over time they will be able to play even better. There's still plenty of time of course, and at least Xavi will also make adjustments first to settle Felix in the starting eleven later.

[BITCOIN4X]

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Villarreal are competitive in previous Laliga campaign but are unable to meet the top ongoing competition. Recording losing streaks definitely demotivated the fans and leds to the immediate sack of their coach. Quique Setién is relieved from his position as headcoach, is one of the top headcoach for Villarreal, although his team record poorly in the early phases of La Liga. In my opinion, it's very early for the board to take such drastic decision, because it's just the starting phase of the league. For instance, Sevilla are yet to make good points and haven't sack their coach.

The biggest stress every coach faces is when they fail to live up to management's expectations of their team's performance. There are teams that can fire their coach just because of a few consecutive defeats, while there are also those who choose to support and find the best solution. I believe Real Madrid would also fire Ancelotti if he had a bad record with a losing streak in a number of matches, but the good news is that Ancelotti doesn't have such a bad record so far.

Villareal were only able to win 1 match out of the 4 matches they played. It is very difficult to retain a coach with a record like that so being relieved of his duties is the best way for a team to better compete with other coaches.

[LGD2Business]

Lewandowski Robert wake up (great) he is -3 from the top one: Bellingham J. with 5 goals

Bellingham is a midfielder. Now he started the league well, but he will not score the goals all season. He scored 8 goals in the league in Germany last season, now don't expect him to score goals in every match just because he scored 5 goals in the first matches. If he closes the season with 15 goals, he will have accomplished a great job. Lewandowski, on the other hand, can score a hat-trick in a match if necessary and catch them. It's very easy for Lewandowski to score goals, he is a complete finishing striker. If Barca's wingers and midfielders can feed him better, he will continue to score goals at full speed. At the end of the season, Lewandowski and other forwards will be in the top scorer race, but not Bellingham.

[Falconer]

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Bellingham is a midfielder. Now he started the league well, but he will not score the goals all season. He scored 8 goals in the league in Germany last season, now don't expect him to score goals in every match just because he scored 5 goals in the first matches. If he closes the season with 15 goals, he will have accomplished a great job. Lewandowski, on the other hand, can score a hat-trick in a match if necessary and catch them. It's very easy for Lewandowski to score goals, he is a complete finishing striker. If Barca's wingers and midfielders can feed him better, he will continue to score goals at full speed. At the end of the season, Lewandowski and other forwards will be in the top scorer race, but not Bellingham.

LGD2Business, I agree with you and rihgt now I don't have high expectations for Bellingham.
So far Bellingham has proven to us that he is a good attacking midfielder for Real Madrid. He scores goals and helps Real Madrid win games, but I can't fully expect him to score every game Real Madrid has this season. Of course I can expect him to score more than 10 goals because La Liga may be very different from the Bundesliga in terms of team defence, but still high expectations for him are not expected.

Lewandowski is a striker, of course he tends to be more expected to lead the top scorer standings and compete with several other strikers. Lewandowski has not been at his best at the start of this season, but with time he will find his identity again. This season Barcelona has got a good winger from Joao Felix, so that will make Barcelona better in terms of attack power, and of course it can help Lewandowski score goals with his assists.

[klidex]

Wasn't it too early to sack Quique Setién for Villarreal? I mean the last season didn't went bad for this team in the first place. They finished in 5th place which helped them join the Europa League group stage. I'm aware of the bad start they have made to this season with only 3 points in 4 matches.

But it is still early to decide to sack your manager while your last season effort wasn't poor. Sevilla started even worse than them for example but they haven't sacked Mendilibar right away. They won the Europa League title of course. But still I don't think it is fair to make this decision at the beginning already.

Villarreal should not have done this and this would actually make things worse when they fired Quique Setien when Villarreal was in an unstable situation and if this happened the coach would definitely be replaced with a new coach who would waste a long time to build chemistry with the players who had to be trained and You will also be given a good strategy, even if you waste time adapting and end up with a decrease in performance.
There are examples of clubs from other leagues that I can't mention here, when the club performance was bad, they even fired the coach which ultimately made the club situation worse and even had their performance decline further at the end of the season and I know that Villarreal currently doesn't look like it performed like last season, but this is just an early start to the season that doesn't need to be taken seriously.

[ndutndut]

Lewandowski Robert wake up (great) he is -3 from the top one: Bellingham J. with 5 goals

Bellingham is a midfielder. Now he started the league well, but he will not score the goals all season. He scored 8 goals in the league in Germany last season, now don't expect him to score goals in every match just because he scored 5 goals in the first matches. If he closes the season with 15 goals, he will have accomplished a great job. Lewandowski, on the other hand, can score a hat-trick in a match if necessary and catch them. It's very easy for Lewandowski to score goals, he is a complete finishing striker. If Barca's wingers and midfielders can feed him better, he will continue to score goals at full speed. At the end of the season, Lewandowski and other forwards will be in the top scorer race, but not Bellingham.

Agree, it is not worth comparing Jude Bellingham with Lewandowski in terms of scoring goals, because their positions are clearly different. This is what is worrying all fans about Jude Bellingham right now is when the time will come when he doesn't score anymore goals, and fans forget that Jude Bellingham's main attribute that is needed is not to score goals. Indeed, Jude's quality in the last four matches surprised us because he scored a lot of goals.

But what we forget is the main quality required at Real Madrid from him is his ability to move with the ball and without the ball because he is a playmaker. Hopefully, when the time comes when Jude doesn't score again, even for a long time, we won't forget that the main contribution needed from him is more than just his goal scoring instinct but being able to control the game. Of course, if Real Madrid want their players to score a lot of goals, they must immediately replace Benzema.

[indah rezqi]

Lewandowski Robert wake up (great) he is -3 from the top one: Bellingham J. with 5 goals

Bellingham is a midfielder. Now he started the league well, but he will not score the goals all season. He scored 8 goals in the league in Germany last season, now don't expect him to score goals in every match just because he scored 5 goals in the first matches. If he closes the season with 15 goals, he will have accomplished a great job. Lewandowski, on the other hand, can score a hat-trick in a match if necessary and catch them. It's very easy for Lewandowski to score goals, he is a complete finishing striker. If Barca's wingers and midfielders can feed him better, he will continue to score goals at full speed. At the end of the season, Lewandowski and other forwards will be in the top scorer race, but not Bellingham.

If Bellingham and Lewandowski score the same number of goals until the end of the season, then Bellingham is sharper and better than Lewandowski. Because they both occupy different positions even though they have the same goal, namely scoring goals. We know that Lewandowski is a pure striker, while Bellingham is plotted as a false nine, this is fundamentally very different. With Madrid's current playing composition, which has been hit by many injuries and lack of front line options, I think Bellingham is one of the hopes for scoring goals at the moment.

I am quite optimistic that Bellingham can score more than 15 goals by the end of the season in La Liga, provided that Ancelotti uses a 4-3-1-2 formation. We'll see if he can enter the top three of La Liga's top scorers list.

[FanEagle]

Barcelona has been better than people actually think, sure they may not look like at the top, but they are doing pretty well actually. They made some good transfers and they should be doing some sort of talented result in the end as well if they wanted this.

So all in all, between their UCL group being a little bit easy, and the league seems like they could do fine, I am sensing that they could actually do great this season. I am expecting at least a quarter finals, possibly a semi finals at the UCL level, a league title, and maybe even the cup if they are lucky. That should bring in back all that financial loss and they could do quite well for the few next seasons and not really worry about the money anymore.

[Falconer]

Barcelona has been better than people actually think, sure they may not look like at the top, but they are doing pretty well actually. They made some good transfers and they should be doing some sort of talented result in the end as well if they wanted this.

So all in all, between their UCL group being a little bit easy, and the league seems like they could do fine, I am sensing that they could actually do great this season. I am expecting at least a quarter finals, possibly a semi finals at the UCL level, a league title, and maybe even the cup if they are lucky. That should bring in back all that financial loss and they could do quite well for the few next seasons and not really worry about the money anymore.

I don't expect Barcelona to defend the La Liga title this season easily. Real Madrid need to make amends for last season's mistakes by winning the La Liga title this season, meaning Barcelona should not get a big chance to lead the table and win it again.

I know Barcelona spent a little money this season in the transfer market but they got some top quality players. Ilkay Gundogan, Felix, Cancelo, Inigo Martinez and Oriol Romeu are good signings out of them, but I believe Real Madrid will make every effort to win the title this season. Barcelona has an advantage in the Champions League, but I don't think Xavi can realize the dream of millions of Barcelona fans to win the title.

[dezoel]

Sergio Ramos is back at Sevilla! 

I must admit that I wasn't waiting for this to happen. Because there were teams after him with much better contract offers. There were Saudi teams and Galatasaray. After turning down the Saudi I wondered if he was going to sign for Galatasaray. Because you know there have been rumours like he would join them on the condition that they qualify for the Champions League groups.

However he is back at home, Sevilla. I won't be surprised even if he decides to retire here but I don't know at what age he would like to retire. Do you think we would watch him in another place before he retires?

Sergio Ramos gave the reason why he chose to return to Sevilla rather than accept an offer from another team because it was a feeling of respect for his father and grandfather who had been fans of Sevilla for a long time. Even though Al-Ittihad offered a salary of 30 million euros, Galatasaray gave a salary of 8 million euros, while Sevilla only gave a salary of 1 million euros and he preferred to return to his old club, which he had left for 18 years. From this we can see why he turned down the big offer and maybe indeed returning home is what he needs most right now rather than making more money elsewhere. I think it's likely that Sevilla will be his retirement place and it's unlikely he'll be interested in trying something at another team.

Completely agreed it's not all about money it's all about dignity and love, so Sergio Ramos is surely one of the best player prove money is nothing respect and love is still existed, and I am really appreciating his this decision which he has done for the sack of his father and grandfather in current time rejecting offer like 30 Million is never been easy while we have many players those are escaping from big leagues for less than this amount, but he decided against this and now giving lesson spirit of the game is still existed.

Sevilla is currently at the bottom of league table, and now they already sack their coach as well hopefully things will be improved, and we will have better results from them in coming days with Champions League is also coming, so they need to be positive for this all.