La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2024/25

[TastyChillySauce00]

Gavi has finished his season, I mean he won't be available until the end of the season because of the injury he suffered. Unfortunately he ended the season too soon and the serious injury he picked up may mean he is out of form when he returns. Obviously it is a huge loss for Barcelona, ​​Spain and the player, but injuries are something that cannot be completely avoided in this physical game.

Xavi needs to get another player who can occupy Gavi's position in the Barcelona squad. Fermin Lopez is the most likely and he will get more chances to prove his worth. Fatigue due to the large number of matches scheduled makes several players vulnerable to injury, but this problem does not only affect Barcelona but many other teams also suffer from it including Real Madrid.

The ACL injury that Gavi got is not just an ordinary injury, it is a very serious injury, currently Barcelona is fighting to be in the top 3 and in the UCL they are fighting to be able to win all the matches that will occur. Barcelona management was reportedly very angry with this incident, they said that dropping Gavi as a Strater was a stupid decision, hopefully, with the sophistication of medical treatment today, Gavi can recover from his injuries quickly.

The thing that makes me curious accord from some reliable sources said that if there are already signs of gavi to be injured but the spanish club was still forcing him to play. This stupid coach de la fuente was almost ruining his career. Spanish national club shall have sacked him for his unprofessionality. It's really unacceptable to see that how he was forcing gavi to play even with his injury. I can't even respect him anymore. This coach didn't care with his player. Stupid coach.

[temple]

Girona may be this one team that is in for a surprise this season. Winning the title is tough of course, needless to say if they are competing with Real Madrid, Barcelona and maybe Atletico Madrid, but Girona is on top of things at the moment. Their winning streak is remarkable, they have now two home games coming up, which is the perfect preparation for their game away against Barcelona.

I would go so far as to say if they can win both of their next two home games and then win the game against Barcelona in Barcelona, I believe that they are a potential title winner. Yes it is still a long way to go, but if they get a perfect 9 points out of 9 in the next three games, Girona has the potential.

It seems to me that it is too early to say that Girona can win La Liga, precisely because their rivals are Real Madrid and Barcelona. These teams have much greater capabilities, a deeper bench and much greater financial resources. I know that we all remember the example of Leicester in the Premier League, when everyone followed them, but it seems to me that this happens very rarely and if Girona cannot find proper funding and strengthen the team in the transfer window, then this goal will be difficult to achieve for them.

The financial resources literally help nothing because there won't be this one huge transfer in the winter transfer window that puts the team upside down and turns it into a 20% better squad. Those are mostly smaller transfers to fix some issues that occurred due to injuries or other players being out of form.

But when you read my post you will see what I said would be a condition for me to start thinking that Girona could have a chance. If they win the next two home games and then beat Barcelona in the Camp Nou, that would make 43 points for them after 16 games and a 7 points advantage over Barcelona. With that massive winning streaking backing up their form by then, I believe that people will start considering them a potential team to win the title. Real Madrid would still be the favorite then and nobody is arguing against that, but still.

[hyudien]

It is as if a mysterious force is working to ensure Girona continues its leadership. Many players were injured in Real Madrid and Barcelona. They continue to get injured in national matches. This is bad for them. Girona now has to win every match to continue its leadership. Barça and Real may suffer surprise defeats.

Taking advantage of the current bad situation of the Real Madrid and Barcelona teams, Girona can top the La Liga standings, but apart from that, we cannot underestimate Girona in strength and consistency because so far what they have done is not a coincidence, in fact this is all inseparable from The strong chemistry between the players and their increasing self-confidence is quite good this season.

From what Girona has done in the past, it is very possible for them to continue this positive thing until the end of the season and if Real Madrid and Barcelona don't recover immediately then what surprises will happen at the end of the season.

There is no doubt that Girona has risen significantly in just 2 seasons. Behind Xabi Alonso intelligence I'm sure there is a promising investment behind all of this. They don't have well-known players but if you look at this season the performances of all Girona players show high quality. This will have an impact on the hunt for big clubs. Girona already has a very mature plan as one of the clubs overseen by CFG (City Football Group) of course there will at least be Pep Guardiola intervention. Girona is becoming the attention of the world of Spanish football whether they realize it or not if they continue to be consistent until next season, this means that Barcelona and Madrid need to be alert.

[len01]

Girona may be this one team that is in for a surprise this season. Winning the title is tough of course, needless to say if they are competing with Real Madrid, Barcelona and maybe Atletico Madrid, but Girona is on top of things at the moment. Their winning streak is remarkable, they have now two home games coming up, which is the perfect preparation for their game away against Barcelona.

I would go so far as to say if they can win both of their next two home games and then win the game against Barcelona in Barcelona, I believe that they are a potential title winner. Yes it is still a long way to go, but if they get a perfect 9 points out of 9 in the next three games, Girona has the potential.

It seems to me that it is too early to say that Girona can win La Liga, precisely because their rivals are Real Madrid and Barcelona. These teams have much greater capabilities, a deeper bench and much greater financial resources. I know that we all remember the example of Leicester in the Premier League, when everyone followed them, but it seems to me that this happens very rarely and if Girona cannot find proper funding and strengthen the team in the transfer window, then this goal will be difficult to achieve for them.

I think it's too early for this dream, but their 11 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat in 13 matches shows how great they are. They continue to emerge as a big surprise this year. The harmony between the footballers is great. I hope they can make a big surprise like Leicester, because such big changes in football give people great pleasure.

whatever Girona has achieved at the moment is very impressive and surprising to many people thinking how is it possible for Girona to be able to dominate temporarily in La Liga while Real Madrid and Barcelona who have become part of the big teams are unable to shift Girona position and I realize that all this is just meanwhile, because Girona got the opportunity when Real Madrid and Barcelona were focusing on other competitions, Girona took advantage of the situation to continue adding points, giving them a point difference so that they could not be chased by the big teams below them.

just look, I still believe Girona will only be temporary and Barcelona or Real Madrid will take over the top position of the standings.

[Luzin]

Many people are feeling worry caused by their favorite players might be affected by this. It's a just matter of time until everything will be fixed by the coach. We can only trust xavi who knows better than us regarding the situation of club.
It's time for yamal to show his performance in the main squad. We will see what kind of line up will be preferred by xavi. barcelona has not yet faced the strong team in UCL.

Worry of course, because the player's choice options will be less. Barcelona themselves feel aggrieved because Gavi was injured in an insignificant match, because Spain has definitely qualified. It means that Xavi is certainly a big loss, they are missing a major player. With this long injury time, it will make Barcelona even more difficult. Maybe De Jong could be the best option besides Yamal.  There is news if Giovani Lo Celso is a potential new replacement for Gavi in the transfer in January.

Source: https://www.barcablaugranes.com/2023/11/20/23969169/barcelona-linked-with-move-for-giovani-lo-celso-after-losing-gavi-to-injury

[Salahmu]

Taking advantage of the current bad situation of the Real Madrid and Barcelona teams, Girona can top the La Liga standings, but apart from that, we cannot underestimate Girona in strength and consistency because so far what they have done is not a coincidence, in fact this is all inseparable from The strong chemistry between the players and their increasing self-confidence is quite good this season.

From what Girona has done in the past, it is very possible for them to continue this positive thing until the end of the season and if Real Madrid and Barcelona don't recover immediately then what surprises will happen at the end of the season.

Yeah of a truth Girona has really surprised everyone in this season even the big teams that normally lead on the league every season is surprised with the speed at which Girona is moving, Girona has been topping the league since day one of the La Liga, and I believe this is one of there best year so far with such a clean record, for playing numerous of matches but only lose one match, what a great performance they have.

I know that Girona has also been doing well in other season but this season is never like there other seasons, imagine leading the table were they have strong teams like, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Athletic Madrid and still maintains the first position so actually I really commend on there performance.

[bering]

Sociedad vs Sevilla i think during this season Sociedad performance was quite stable although they had several times to lose but those loses were comes from big teams just like Barcelona or Real Madrid and if they fight against mediocre teams Sociedad almost be certain to gets the winning results and for this weekend Sociedad consistency will be tested by Sevilla whether they can managed their consistency and beat Sevilla or not

Sevilla last winning on Laliga was happened on September and since that Sevilla never able to gets the winning results again in Laliga and i am sure Sociedad have already realized this records and they will attempts to collect 3 points from this match about team condition the latest news from Sociedad is their top scorer Mikel Oyarzabal will be doubtful to play because he has got injured when defend Spain national team and hopefully it won't have any affect to Sociedad performance later although i know he is important player for this team however considering Sevilla poor records i think Sociedad will going to win this match

[Ahli38]

It is as if a mysterious force is working to ensure Girona continues its leadership. Many players were injured in Real Madrid and Barcelona. They continue to get injured in national matches. This is bad for them. Girona now has to win every match to continue its leadership. Barça and Real may suffer surprise defeats.

Taking advantage of the current bad situation of the Real Madrid and Barcelona teams, Girona can top the La Liga standings, but apart from that, we cannot underestimate Girona in strength and consistency because so far what they have done is not a coincidence, in fact this is all inseparable from The strong chemistry between the players and their increasing self-confidence is quite good this season.

From what Girona has done in the past, it is very possible for them to continue this positive thing until the end of the season and if Real Madrid and Barcelona don't recover immediately then what surprises will happen at the end of the season.

I don't know how, but Girona continues to show excellent performance. And what's interesting about Girona is that they have a strategy that is not monotonous. They have mastered several variations of strategy throughout this season. So the opposing team has difficulty guessing what strategy Girona will use in each match.

Girona was only promoted to Laliga again last season after they were relegated in the 2018/2019 season. And when they returned to Laliga last season, it turned out that Girona immediately showed quite good performance and managed to finish in the top 10. But seeing that this season Girona is at the top of the standings is very surprising. Girona even managed to create a 2 point difference with Real Madrid and 4 points with Barcelona. And it doesn't rule out the possibility that Girona will continue their good performance and continue to make the point difference even further away.

[Weawant]

Taking advantage of the current bad situation of the Real Madrid and Barcelona teams, Girona can top the La Liga standings, but apart from that, we cannot underestimate Girona in strength and consistency because so far what they have done is not a coincidence, in fact this is all inseparable from The strong chemistry between the players and their increasing self-confidence is quite good this season.

From what Girona has done in the past, it is very possible for them to continue this positive thing until the end of the season and if Real Madrid and Barcelona don't recover immediately then what surprises will happen at the end of the season.

Actually, earlier I wasn't really surely about Girona really stay this long on at the top of the table ,I felt it just a temporary performance and not long enough they will be displaced so bad we will get to understand their strength but their consistency has gradually won my confidence in them although I'm still watching them.

They could become a formidable force in the bundesliga soonest with this performance of theirs if it's backed up with continues consistency, they will be able to definitely pull up a surprise in the la Liga this season especially if the two giants happens to slack of which their current injury situations is an advantage for Girona to capitalize upon to continually stay at the top with a very large point difference ahead of bot teams.

[asriloni]

Girona may be this one team that is in for a surprise this season. Winning the title is tough of course, needless to say if they are competing with Real Madrid, Barcelona and maybe Atletico Madrid, but Girona is on top of things at the moment. Their winning streak is remarkable, they have now two home games coming up, which is the perfect preparation for their game away against Barcelona.

I would go so far as to say if they can win both of their next two home games and then win the game against Barcelona in Barcelona, I believe that they are a potential title winner. Yes it is still a long way to go, but if they get a perfect 9 points out of 9 in the next three games, Girona has the potential.

It seems to me that it is too early to say that Girona can win La Liga, precisely because their rivals are Real Madrid and Barcelona. These teams have much greater capabilities, a deeper bench and much greater financial resources. I know that we all remember the example of Leicester in the Premier League, when everyone followed them, but it seems to me that this happens very rarely and if Girona cannot find proper funding and strengthen the team in the transfer window, then this goal will be difficult to achieve for them.

Nothing impossible but we can still use our sense too. Girona is not yet as strong as people think and the consistency of club was still questionable at this moment. The differnt with leicester city if leicester was winning the EPL. Girona is having small chance to take the la liga trophy at this moment. Im not saying it has zero but girona was not as strong as real madrid and barcelona. It has lowest probability in the title race. Bookies were preferring atletico madrid instead of girona in the tile race.

The competition will be very strict at the end of season. I hope girona can still stay at the top place compete with real madrid and barcelona. This club has bright future consider girona was a part of city football group.

[Strongkored]

Girona may be this one team that is in for a surprise this season. Winning the title is tough of course, needless to say if they are competing with Real Madrid, Barcelona and maybe Atletico Madrid, but Girona is on top of things at the moment. Their winning streak is remarkable, they have now two home games coming up, which is the perfect preparation for their game away against Barcelona.

I would go so far as to say if they can win both of their next two home games and then win the game against Barcelona in Barcelona, I believe that they are a potential title winner. Yes it is still a long way to go, but if they get a perfect 9 points out of 9 in the next three games, Girona has the potential.

It seems to me that it is too early to say that Girona can win La Liga, precisely because their rivals are Real Madrid and Barcelona. These teams have much greater capabilities, a deeper bench and much greater financial resources. I know that we all remember the example of Leicester in the Premier League, when everyone followed them, but it seems to me that this happens very rarely and if Girona cannot find proper funding and strengthen the team in the transfer window, then this goal will be difficult to achieve for them.

It is understandable that there are many doubts in Girona that they will be able to maintain the same performance until the end of the season to win the Laliga title because this is their second season in Laliga after previously being relegated and only playing in the Segunda Division, so their capacity is not as good as Real Madrid, Barcelona or even Atletico Madrid has always been a strong team in this competition, and we have to wait until the end of the season or at least when they have more points and are difficult for any team to catch then those doubts will disappear.
If Girona succeeds in winning then this will be a surprise for the Laliga competition, but unfortunately usually teams other than the usual Laliga champions can only win once and after that they appear quite disappointing and that is due to financial factors, and clubs that have strong finances will be able to maintain the team's performance every season well.

[hahay]

It is as if a mysterious force is working to ensure Girona continues its leadership. Many players were injured in Real Madrid and Barcelona. They continue to get injured in national matches. This is bad for them. Girona now has to win every match to continue its leadership. Barça and Real may suffer surprise defeats.

Taking advantage of the current bad situation of the Real Madrid and Barcelona teams, Girona can top the La Liga standings, but apart from that, we cannot underestimate Girona in strength and consistency because so far what they have done is not a coincidence, in fact this is all inseparable from The strong chemistry between the players and their increasing self-confidence is quite good this season.

From what Girona has done in the past, it is very possible for them to continue this positive thing until the end of the season and if Real Madrid and Barcelona don't recover immediately then what surprises will happen at the end of the season.

At least Girona have managed to make a big surprise up to now, or maybe up to the first half of the season. So, even if, for example, the top position later is taken over by Real Madrid or Barcelona, but at least Girona have managed to improve their quality. So ya, if they stay focused on such great improvements, then surely Girona will be a team that can compete well also in the top four or maybe in the title race also for the next seasons, who knows. But indeed, I also expect Girona to be able to actually get the La Liga trophy this season, because that would be a big surprise of course.

[borovichok]

Nothing impossible but we can still use our sense too. Girona is not yet as strong as people think and the consistency of club was still questionable at this moment. The differnt with leicester city if leicester was winning the EPL. Girona is having small chance to take the la liga trophy at this moment. Im not saying it has zero but girona was not as strong as real madrid and barcelona. It has lowest probability in the title race. Bookies were preferring atletico madrid instead of girona in the tile race.

The competition will be very strict at the end of season. I hope girona can still stay at the top place compete with real madrid and barcelona. This club has bright future consider girona was a part of city football group.

No matter what, Real Madrid and Barcelona remained the Champions of La Liga despite their poor and inconsistent form. La Liga title are for elite teams and watching some random club putting up a show is mere performances that are not backup with proofs. I never for once consider Girona as potential competitor for La Liga title this season, you want to know why? Losing against Real Madrid alone have disqualified them, they might settle for top four but winning the trophy is impossible for them. Girona can only make attempts but won't succeed.

[temple]

Nothing impossible but we can still use our sense too. Girona is not yet as strong as people think and the consistency of club was still questionable at this moment. The differnt with leicester city if leicester was winning the EPL. Girona is having small chance to take the la liga trophy at this moment. Im not saying it has zero but girona was not as strong as real madrid and barcelona. It has lowest probability in the title race. Bookies were preferring atletico madrid instead of girona in the tile race.

The competition will be very strict at the end of season. I hope girona can still stay at the top place compete with real madrid and barcelona. This club has bright future consider girona was a part of city football group.

No matter what, Real Madrid and Barcelona remained the Champions of La Liga despite their poor and inconsistent form. La Liga title are for elite teams and watching some random club putting up a show is mere performances that are not backup with proofs. I never for once consider Girona as potential competitor for La Liga title this season, you want to know why? Losing against Real Madrid alone have disqualified them, they might settle for top four but winning the trophy is impossible for them. Girona can only make attempts but won't succeed.

But you are one of those rare football fans then who don't love to have some action from an underdog team like Girona... That's your opinion and it's fine, but it is also weird. If champions remain champions forever, why even bother if any other team claims the top of the table? This doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

I think that we need to wait for a little bit more and then see what's possible for the other teams in La Liga, but in most cases it is true that Real Madrid and Barcelona are the favorites.

[imamusma]

Nothing impossible but we can still use our sense too. Girona is not yet as strong as people think and the consistency of club was still questionable at this moment. The differnt with leicester city if leicester was winning the EPL. Girona is having small chance to take the la liga trophy at this moment. Im not saying it has zero but girona was not as strong as real madrid and barcelona. It has lowest probability in the title race. Bookies were preferring atletico madrid instead of girona in the tile race.

The competition will be very strict at the end of season. I hope girona can still stay at the top place compete with real madrid and barcelona. This club has bright future consider girona was a part of city football group.

No matter what, Real Madrid and Barcelona remained the Champions of La Liga despite their poor and inconsistent form. La Liga title are for elite teams and watching some random club putting up a show is mere performances that are not backup with proofs. I never for once consider Girona as potential competitor for La Liga title this season, you want to know why? Losing against Real Madrid alone have disqualified them, they might settle for top four but winning the trophy is impossible for them. Girona can only make attempts but won't succeed.

Girona chances will be greater in the hunt for the La Liga trophy if favorite clubs such as Madrid, Barcelona and ATM experience a decline in performance. It is highly unlikely that these three clubs will lose their consistency in the future, allowing Girona to lead the standings throughout the season. This season La Liga has played 13 matches, there are still 25 more matches ahead, and Girona will face the three favorite clubs above 5 times, beacause first round with Madrid is over in week eight.

It's quite reasonable to say that Girona will lose points when they meet three favorite teams above, because we have seen their match in Week 8 against Madrid. But we also can't judge them by the impossible, because anything can happen in football, many surprises happen that we haven't forgotten, like story Leicester City in the EPL.

[KTChampions]

Gavi's injury is trending and I see a lot of sports media reporting about it. I know it is a big loss for Gavi and Barcelona, ​​but Barcelona should not be affected by the injury of one of its important midfielders this season. Barcelona will have an equally good line up with Gavi or without him as long as De Jong, Pedri and Gundogan are fine, but if these three players are absent then I believe Barcelona are in trouble.

De Jong reportedly will return soon and will be available for the match against Rayo Vallecano. I'm happy with the news, but I hope Xavi doesn't insist on playing De Jong if he hasn't fully recovered and got a game. Pedri, Ilkay Gundogan and Fermin Lopez can be played as midfielders, but I think Xavi will call up several other midfielders from Barcelona B to cover the lack of players.

Gavi is a first-team player, so his absence will in any case affect the club. Barcelona cannot play the whole season with 11 players, they need rotation and when the main player drops out it affects all plans. That is why Barcelona is now looking for options to replace him (and by the way, as always, they are doing this in tight financial conditions).

[Doell]

Sociedad vs Sevilla i think during this season Sociedad performance was quite stable although they had several times to lose but those loses were comes from big teams just like Barcelona or Real Madrid and if they fight against mediocre teams Sociedad almost be certain to gets the winning results and for this weekend Sociedad consistency will be tested by Sevilla whether they can managed their consistency and beat Sevilla or not

Sevilla last winning on Laliga was happened on September and since that Sevilla never able to gets the winning results again in Laliga and i am sure Sociedad have already realized this records and they will attempts to collect 3 points from this match about team condition the latest news from Sociedad is their top scorer Mikel Oyarzabal will be doubtful to play because he has got injured when defend Spain national team and hopefully it won't have any affect to Sociedad performance later although i know he is important player for this team however considering Sevilla poor records i think Sociedad will going to win this match

Indeed, Real Sociedad performance has been quite stable so far, from 13 matches they have managed to get 6 wins, 4 draws and 3 defeats. And also when playing at home they only one lost in La Liga so far, so maybe there is a possibility they can also get 3 points in the next match against Sevilla as you said, but still this match may not be easy for Sociedad.
The reason is, although Sevilla have a poor records but Sevilla defense is not too weak, because in their last 5 La Liga matches this team has never lost. Even, in my opinion there is still a possibility of a draw in that match.

[Razmirraz]

Nothing impossible but we can still use our sense too. Girona is not yet as strong as people think and the consistency of club was still questionable at this moment. The differnt with leicester city if leicester was winning the EPL. Girona is having small chance to take the la liga trophy at this moment. Im not saying it has zero but girona was not as strong as real madrid and barcelona. It has lowest probability in the title race. Bookies were preferring atletico madrid instead of girona in the tile race.

The competition will be very strict at the end of season. I hope girona can still stay at the top place compete with real madrid and barcelona. This club has bright future consider girona was a part of city football group.

No matter what, Real Madrid and Barcelona remained the Champions of La Liga despite their poor and inconsistent form. La Liga title are for elite teams and watching some random club putting up a show is mere performances that are not backup with proofs. I never for once consider Girona as potential competitor for La Liga title this season, you want to know why? Losing against Real Madrid alone have disqualified them, they might settle for top four but winning the trophy is impossible for them. Girona can only make attempts but won't succeed.

Girona may be able to repeat the success story achieved by Deportivo La Coruna when they won La Liga in the 1999–2000 season, in that season Deportivo La Coruna was able to destroy the dominance of Barcelona and Real Madrid. Now Girona is showing something extraordinary in La Liga, they are surprisingly able to sit at the top of the standings by surpassing Real Madrid and Barcelona in points, who have always dominated La Liga.

If the Girona coach is able to maximize his players to always maintain their best performance, they might become champions in La Liga. Regarding Girona defeat to Real Madrid, it won't be a big problem, so far they have only lost once, but after that their performance immediately improved with consecutive wins. Real Madrid and Barcelona could lose points in other matches, this scenario could happen because their schedules are busy due to still being active in several competitions.
Anything is possible, as long as Girona is able to maintain their best form, they still have a chance to win the La Liga title race this season.

[Chilwell]

Sociedad vs Sevilla i think during this season Sociedad performance was quite stable although they had several times to lose but those loses were comes from big teams just like Barcelona or Real Madrid and if they fight against mediocre teams Sociedad almost be certain to gets the winning results and for this weekend Sociedad consistency will be tested by Sevilla whether they can managed their consistency and beat Sevilla or not

Sevilla last winning on Laliga was happened on September and since that Sevilla never able to gets the winning results again in Laliga and i am sure Sociedad have already realized this records and they will attempts to collect 3 points from this match about team condition the latest news from Sociedad is their top scorer Mikel Oyarzabal will be doubtful to play because he has got injured when defend Spain national team and hopefully it won't have any affect to Sociedad performance later although i know he is important player for this team however considering Sevilla poor records i think Sociedad will going to win this match

Indeed, Real Sociedad performance has been quite stable so far, from 13 matches they have managed to get 6 wins, 4 draws and 3 defeats. And also when playing at home they only one lost in La Liga so far, so maybe there is a possibility they can also get 3 points in the next match against Sevilla as you said, but still this match may not be easy for Sociedad.
The reason is, although Sevilla have a poor records but Sevilla defense is not too weak, because in their last 5 La Liga matches this team has never lost. Even, in my opinion there is still a possibility of a draw in that match.

I agreed, the Sevilla last 5 Laliga matches they have not lost but still that show their poor performance, comparing Sevilla and Real Sociedad now I think Real Sociedad is very fit to win the match especially that they are the one hosting and they only loss one home match since the starting of the season and they will like to maintain that stand, apart from that looking at their previous game they did very well, Real Sociedad are now stronger than Sevilla, take a look at champions league game Real Sociedad are doing well to extend that they have even qualify to the next stage even before the completion of the group stage while Sevilla are even battling to qualify to europa which they know how to play.

[QueenVera]

Maybe it will affect his football career a little because Gavi had to be sidelined for so long when he got his current injury. For Barcelona this will have a bit of an impact because we can see how when he doesn't play, De Jong and Pedri will be mainstay players for Xavi going forward and they are lucky enough to have another creative midfielder in Gundogan. If not, it is possible that Xavi's squad will have quite a difficult time when they want to make some changes amidst the busy match schedule faced by Barcelona.

Entering De Jong as a starter will provide a much longer chance of injury because if he can play against Rayo Vallecano he will not be completely fit. Xavi must try playing another midfielder first and De Jong can play in the second half as a precaution because Barcelona has a busy schedule next month. Fermin Lopez might be much better than taking a player from Barcelona B because it will be much easier for Xavi to implement the strategy he wants.

Gavi is out of the season and Barcelona is hoping to defend it’s La Liga title and improve on form so as to qualify it’s Champions League group, he’ll miss the EUROS and the Olympic. Xavi will have the major setback in this long term injury because Gavi is a very influential person in his team and this is very big setback for Barcelona this season.

 But squad depth comes into play, the need for Gundo and De Jong comes into play. Xavi will have quite a difficult task going forward because he has to quickly get his team back into shape, De Jong who’s probably just recovering might mot be fully fit to begin play immediately except he’s ready to risk it and get into another injury anytime soon. Fermin Lopez will be a preferable option as against De Jong’s full recovery.