La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

[klidex]

Even though Real Madrid only played with 10 players from the early minutes of the second half but ya, the reality Real Madrid still managed to dominate the match. After all, basically Alaves is just a mediocre team and of course, the difference in quality between Alaves and Real Madrid is very different. So yes, even though Real Madrid only played with 10 players, it wouldn't be a surprising result if Real Madrid still managed to beat Alaves.

After all, in reality Alaves also didn't have a good effort when Real Madrid played with only 10 players. So ya, I think it would be more surprising if Real Madrid failed to win this match, because basically Real Madrid has a very good chance of winning considering the competition that is taking place at the top of the La Liga standings at the moment.

Even though Real Madrid didn't playing with a full squad in the second half, at least Real Madrid were still able to balance their performance so they could still dominate the game and have more control over the ball. Even though Real Madrid seemed to have difficulty creating opportunities against the hosts, but in the end Real Madrid was able to scored 1 goals. in the final minutes it was also the deciding factor for Real Madrid, fortunately Real Madrid was able to maintain its defense so as not to concede a goal from Alaves because Alaves tried to make thing difficult for Real Madrid and tried to take advantage of opportunities when Real Madrid played with 10 people but Alaves couldn't do much because Real Madrid can remain stable.

Alaves continues to have difficulty breaking through Real Madrid goal because of the difference in squad strength, especially since Real Madrid defense is so strongs that it is not easy for a club like Alaves to penetrate it, especially for other weak teams.

[Mayor of ogba]

I no longer understand what has happened to Barcelona, ​​even though it currently has a better squad than 2020/2021/2022 season... and also a coach, one of the club’s legends and their beloved Xavi, who is one of the best midfielders in history, and the return of Laporta and Deco to manage the club, and despite that, they are going through the worst situation with this. They struggled even against the small teams.

 I believe that Barcelona hasn't been able to upgrade it level and there are many players who don't deserve to wear the Barcelona shirt, they should be sold as soon as possible. If they didn’t fix everything before the winter mercato, Barcelona will lose many or even all this season’s titles.

I'm not surprised by Barcelona's recent low performance in La Liga this season, because Barcelona signed up low-ranked players who can not perform well most times. This season, you can not compare Real Madrid players with Barcelona players, the difference is very clear. Barcelona will continue to perform like this unless something is done during the January transfer window.

[borovichok]

I'm not surprised by Barcelona's recent low performance in La Liga this season, because Barcelona signed up low-ranked players who can not perform well most times. This season, you can not compare Real Madrid players with Barcelona players, the difference is very clear. Barcelona will continue to perform like this unless something is done during the January transfer window.

Barcelona not inform because the management have failed to intrigue positive development for the club and the manager have tried his best to settle things down but nothing seems to be working. Before laying out blames to players, It's very frustrating because one don't have any clue on the lapses face by these players in question. Talking about Barcelona signing medicore players in the previous transfer window. Joao Cancelo, Joao Felix and IIkay Gundogan, are these average players? I don't think so because these players have become experienced and pro on the pitch, they served important purposes for their previous clubs and Barcelona doesn't seem to an exception why the club is having problematic issues.

[Luzin]

Barcelona not inform because the management have failed to intrigue positive development for the club and the manager have tried his best to settle things down but nothing seems to be working. Before laying out blames to players, It's very frustrating because one don't have any clue on the lapses face by these players in question.

Barcelona lost the friendly match. I didn't see it directly but are Barcelona playing seriously? I heard they got paid $5 million to go to America. It seems they continue to work to earn money. I think this match is not very effective when viewed from the benefits for the team. But the main factor seems to be Money. They are willing to fly 8200 km to arrive in America.

[Webetcoins]

Well, even if the Real Madrid board opens the door for a new defender in January it will be able to solve the problem of the existing shortage of central defenders. Even if they also realize the importance of new players for this season then the Board must start considering all the existing situations and not put pressure on every player to be able to fill the existing vacancies.

I am sure Real Madrid management plans to sign new defenders and attackers in the January transfer window. They need new players to maintain their performance. In UCL, the competition will be harder because it is already in knock-out phase. So, Real Madrid must always play with their best if they want to stay in the competition until the final round. In La Liga, they need to keep good performance because if they played worse, Girona will overtake their position in the 1st place.

Management is surely doing all things which are required for the having best results, and they are achieving many things which were not expected from them before start of this season because they were lacking few quality players, but timing was not right for them to bring here currently they are leaders and having good chance for the doing another double after one year, but injuries are creating problems and now its right time with window is coming, and they can take good players which will make their lifer easier.

We have interesting situation with Barcelona is going to slip to fourth and Girona is having 45 points and goal difference is giving them top rank but if they are not keeping things at their best then surely they can suffer and now in second half situation will be not easy because they need to be more competitive and more realistic about their chances which are not possible without having quality players and full fit squad hopefully we will have good changes in coming weeks.

[BRINIRHA]

I'm not surprised by Barcelona's recent low performance in La Liga this season, because Barcelona signed up low-ranked players who can not perform well most times. This season, you can not compare Real Madrid players with Barcelona players, the difference is very clear. Barcelona will continue to perform like this unless something is done during the January transfer window.

Barcelona not inform because the management have failed to intrigue positive development for the club and the manager have tried his best to settle things down but nothing seems to be working. Before laying out blames to players, It's very frustrating because one don't have any clue on the lapses face by these players in question. Talking about Barcelona signing medicore players in the previous transfer window. Joao Cancelo, Joao Felix and IIkay Gundogan, are these average players? I don't think so because these players have become experienced and pro on the pitch, they served important purposes for their previous clubs and Barcelona doesn't seem to an exception why the club is having problematic issues.

The answer lies in the list of Barcelona players who are currently injured. The loss of several core players continues to have a big impact on Barcelona's performance this season. But despite this, Xavi actually still has most of the core players he needs to keep Barcelona strong. But Xavi seems to be having difficulties this season. He seems confused about creating a composition that remains stable. I think the Barcelona players recently also seem to be experiencing a decline in motivation. Their mentality seems unstable. Sometimes they are good and sometimes they are bad. It's just that I hope that Xavi can restore Barcelona's performance to be better before the UCL starts. The fight for the title in Laliga may be a difficult stage for Barcelona at the moment. Barcelona currently only needs to continue to stay in the top 4 to secure a UCL ticket. And Xavi now just has to focus more on getting better in the UCL. Because last season Xavi succeeded in winning the Laliga title. And now it's time for Xavi to present the best results in the UCL.

But it won't be easy. The reason is that the strengths of Barcelona and Real Madrid even look different this season. Even though Real Madrid is full of young players, they have a strong player mentality. They play equally well in the UCL and in the domestic league. So for the UCL, I even hope that Real Madrid will progress further. For Barcelona I also hope so. But realistically I'm not sure.

[Razmirraz]

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I'm not surprised by Barcelona's recent low performance in La Liga this season, because Barcelona signed up low-ranked players who can not perform well most times. This season, you can not compare Real Madrid players with Barcelona players, the difference is very clear. Barcelona will continue to perform like this unless something is done during the January transfer window.

Changes must be made immediately in the Barcelona squad to end the disappointing results achieved in the last few matches. Xavi must be more serious about improving Barcelona's performance, the back line is still filled with players who were mainstays last season, but they failed to maintain their performance which made it very easy for Barcelona to concede goals. The front line is also starting to lose balance, Lewandowski, who was a goal machine last season, is starting to lose his sharpness.

It is completely irrelevant to compare the quality of Barcelona's game with Real Madrid's, compared to the Girona squad, Barcelona has lost so well this season. The transfer market is one solution for Barcelona to increase their strength to compete again in the title race, they can still catch up on points from Real Madrid if they always appear consistent in the second half of this season.

[bering]

Atletico Madrid vs Sevilla

As a host Atletico Madrid is not in the good shape because from 2 latest matches in Laliga they only got 1 point and they even lose from Bilbao and i am sure Atletico Madrid will using this match to bounce back and they shouldn't be lose anymore if want to compete with Barcelona and Bilbao for top 4 position however Sevilla also has high of motivation because they just return to the winning ways by beating Granada last week with final scores 3-0 and this match will be so interesting to watched because both teams are really required points to improved their positions on league standings

Based on head to head statistics i can see Atletico Madrid had good records from Sevilla especially while playing at Metropolitano because last season Atletico Madrid can win with big scores 6-1 from Sevilla and for squad update Atletico Madrid will lost 2 their defender players because of suspension the players just like Stefan Savic and Mario Hermoso will not be available today but their striker Antoine Griezmann and Alvaro Morata in the good shape and ready to play and about betting option the odds for Atletico Madrid is not too high @1.53 but i think this is safe bet and hopefully Atletico Madrid won't be slipped anymore and win this match

[temple]

The issue about luck is that if it repeats very often, what we call luck might also be a skill and in the case of Real Madrid I think it can be agreed upon that it is not coincidence every time when they score the decider late into the game or right before it ends. The point of Real Madrid's game is too make their opponents tired with every attack they are going for. The concentration has to drop along with physical exhaustion. That is why it feels like luck when the favorite teams win games in the last minutes, but one reason is exhaustion and Real Madrid is tough to defend.

It's not really a "luck" that they found a goal at the last minutes, it was basically by design to overload on offense to get a goal. For majority of the game you end up playing how you want to play, but if it's the last 10 minutes, you tell your players to attack a bit more, and if it is the 90th minute or so, you tell your players to basically overload on offense, like attack with the whole team, even defenders are attacking, hell there are moments in football when you send the goalkeeper for a corner kick right?

So, basically in those situations the team that's mainly defending has a trouble, because the attacking team is coming to you with 10 people, all around your half. This is how you score at the last minute, or you may fail too, but they didn't.

The analysis isn't quite that easy. The goal was a corner kick served by Kroos straight into the box where Alaves' defense lost orientation. Then Lucas Vazquez, one of the smallest players (or maybe the smallest active player) of Real Madrid was able to take the header and score. It should not have happened, but this is also a sign of exhaustion on the part of the Alaves players who played a brave and intense match. Conceding a header after a corner from Vazquez is something that should be avoided. But as always Real Madrid plays with high precision until the last minute and that makes it so demanding for their opponents.

[TastyChillySauce00]

I no longer understand what has happened to Barcelona, ​​even though it currently has a better squad than 2020/2021/2022 season... and also a coach, one of the club’s legends and their beloved Xavi, who is one of the best midfielders in history, and the return of Laporta and Deco to manage the club, and despite that, they are going through the worst situation with this. They struggled even against the small teams.

Mismanagement on its financial has been giving long term impact to the club. Some news were saying barcelona will put all of its players for sale to cover the debt that is still owned by the club. It doesn't even matter if you are having 10 top coaches and it will never change the situation if your club was in the financial issue. Barcelona got so many limitation starting from the recruitment, money to buy the new player, and many more. It's domino effect caused by the big debt owned by barcelona. I can also argue if barcelona will not remain till 10 years later.
This club can die anytime if it will unable to pay the debt owned by the club. Barcelona has already sold for the debt. Barcelona has sold lots of its shares too which was making the situation even worst.
barcelona is only having small income right now and the club is no longer able making profit from selling the players. The bad business has been running by barcelona and this is giving it boomerang effect.

I believe that Barcelona hasn't been able to upgrade it level and there are many players who don't deserve to wear the Barcelona shirt, they should be sold as soon as possible. If they didn’t fix everything before the winter mercato, Barcelona will lose many or even all this season’s titles.

You didn't even need to tell barcelona and the club will sell all of its talents if they do have demands. It can be said that it doesn't even matter how barclona do it and it will always be trapped into the debt.
It's a very hard for a non profitable club like barcelona to pay its debt. The club can only do that through selling its assets like players, shares, etc.

[wiss19]

I no longer understand what has happened to Barcelona, ​​even though it currently has a better squad than 2020/2021/2022 season... and also a coach, one of the club’s legends and their beloved Xavi, who is one of the best midfielders in history, and the return of Laporta and Deco to manage the club, and despite that, they are going through the worst situation with this. They struggled even against the small teams.

 I believe that Barcelona hasn't been able to upgrade it level and there are many players who don't deserve to wear the Barcelona shirt, they should be sold as soon as possible. If they didn’t fix everything before the winter mercato, Barcelona will lose many or even all this season’s titles.

After winning La Liga last season, Xavi's Barca is now 7 points behind Real Madrid in this season's championship race after only 18 rounds. Many players have lost themselves, but Lewandowski is not the only one. His reasons are injuries and age. It's not easy to change when you're a football player at the end of your career. Kounde, Balde and Raphinha were all not at their best. Their midfield, too, is poor.
As for the coach, Xavi's vision is not far-fetched. And the final issue is still decisive. The debt in Barcelona is still a threat. They do not have the main financial resources to change players. On the contrary, they have to sell their players.

Situation is not good at Barcelona with their finances are also not positive which give them something relief so just because of this currently even they are defending champions but suffering badly and having nothing special which bring them out of this problem few players are injured and few are having problems with are bringing them down now if today Atlético won against Sevilla which is having good chances then Barcelona could be at the fourth which is another below for them with still we have second half of this season, but their performance is not ideal to stay into good hunt.

Currently, coach is doing good job but side effects are surely brought their all good work badly down, and they are not able to have youngsters which make things improved for them in coming weeks even they have good as they are not into knockout stage of the Champions League but now for this needs good improvement which allow them for having better results.

[Jegileman]

I'm not surprised by Barcelona's recent low performance in La Liga this season, because Barcelona signed up low-ranked players who can not perform well most times. This season, you can not compare Real Madrid players with Barcelona players, the difference is very clear. Barcelona will continue to perform like this unless something is done during the January transfer window.

Barcelona didn’t signed low-ranked players last season that they are performing poorly now, they just need to sign up more players to increase and strengthen their squad depth. I don’t see any low-ranked player amidst them that was just signed recently. The coach needs to observe his players more and know how to use them better in all of their matches. Because without knowing when and how to use those players, it will be very hard for him to win games with them.

[slapper]

I no longer understand what has happened to Barcelona, ​​even though it currently has a better squad than 2020/2021/2022 season... and also a coach, one of the club’s legends and their beloved Xavi, who is one of the best midfielders in history, and the return of Laporta and Deco to manage the club, and despite that, they are going through the worst situation with this. They struggled even against the small teams.

 I believe that Barcelona hasn't been able to upgrade it level and there are many players who don't deserve to wear the Barcelona shirt, they should be sold as soon as possible. If they didn’t fix everything before the winter mercato, Barcelona will lose many or even all this season’s titles.

I'm not surprised by Barcelona's recent low performance in La Liga this season, because Barcelona signed up low-ranked players who can not perform well most times. This season, you can not compare Real Madrid players with Barcelona players, the difference is very clear. Barcelona will continue to perform like this unless something is done during the January transfer window.

Regarding Barcelona's play, I understand your point of view, but let's not forget the effect of illness. Poor performance due to the loss of important stars. But I think Xavi still has enough key stars to make things right. A team's success depends on more than just its players. It also depends on how those players are used. Not to mention confusing, Xavi's strategy choices this season. In addition to physical skill, players' mental strength and drive have clearly gone down. Although Real Madrid's young team lacks experience, their mental toughness more than makes up for it. Focusing on the Champions League and getting stronger mentally are what Barcelona needs to do.

[Xcode7]

Regarding Barcelona's play, I understand your point of view, but let's not forget the effect of illness. Poor performance due to the loss of important stars. But I think Xavi still has enough key stars to make things right. A team's success depends on more than just its players. It also depends on how those players are used. Not to mention confusing, Xavi's strategy choices this season. In addition to physical skill, players' mental strength and drive have clearly gone down. Although Real Madrid's young team lacks experience, their mental toughness more than makes up for it. Focusing on the Champions League and getting stronger mentally are what Barcelona needs to do.

If we look at the players in the squad that Barcelona currently has then it is not too far from last season but the decline in performance this season is very confusing, in addition to the many injuries suffered by Barcelona players but no one thought that their performance would as bad as it is now.
The players' self-confidence and mentality are quite influential so that it is difficult for them to get out of this situation, but I don't think that they should focus on the Champions League this season, in fact if their target is in the UCL which is difficult to get, they will get worse.

I think the January transfer market is the only one that Xavi can use to bring in several new players who can change the performance of the Barcelona team, apart from that there is no other way for them to recover.

[rendravolt]

~Snip

I understand why Tchouameni hates playing as a Real Madrid center back but he should be more mature if he looks at the current condition of the team which is full of injured players. Tchouameni cannot deny Ancelotti's instructions and he must obey what he says, after all, this is for the good of the team in the future. After Militao and Alaba's injuries recover, he will definitely return to his position as a defensive midfielder. I think Tchouameni also needs to be more patient because Nacho is likely to miss up to three matches due to a direct red card in the match against Alaves.

Well, even if the Real Madrid board opens the door for a new defender in January it will be able to solve the problem of the existing shortage of central defenders. Even if they also realize the importance of new players for this season then the Board must start considering all the existing situations and not put pressure on every player to be able to fill the existing vacancies.

Aurélien Tchouaméni must be able to play wherever the coach and his team need him, of course when the team is in urgent need. Aurélien Tchouaméni is a defensive midfielder, but he can play a little deeper if Ancelotti wants that. Injuries to Alaba and several other defenders should make Aurélien Tchouaméni accept a new job in that position, even if he is not happy with it.

You're right, Ancelotti will have Aurélien Tchouaméni in his preferred position again once several defenders return from injury, but Ancelotti may have to consider rotation and give his younger players time to feature in the next few easy games. Luckily for Real Madrid, in the next 4 La Liga matches, none of their opponents were strong teams, so player injuries or suspensions due to red cards were not the reason why they were unable to maintain their performance.

If we talk about the next 4 matches against opponents who are not that strong, then what do you think when Real Madrid has to struggle to win against Alaves? Do you think Alaves is a strong team? not right? So whoever Real Madrid's next opponent is, regardless of whether it is a weak team, it will definitely still provide fierce resistance to Real Madrid and usually this weak team can only press through a strong defense.

Real Madrid were repeatedly frustrated because they couldn't find the back of the net against weak teams and in the end they had to pull off a dramatic win at a critical moment which has always been their advantage throughout the seasons. Real Madrid this season has been destroyed by a storm of injuries and it is quite annoying to see a club with good finances but not wanting to bring in new players as cover, whether on loan or permanent status. The important thing is not to force pure player positions and also so that there will be more variation later.

[asriloni]

I no longer understand what has happened to Barcelona, ​​even though it currently has a better squad than 2020/2021/2022 season... and also a coach, one of the club’s legends and their beloved Xavi, who is one of the best midfielders in history, and the return of Laporta and Deco to manage the club, and despite that, they are going through the worst situation with this. They struggled even against the small teams.

 I believe that Barcelona hasn't been able to upgrade it level and there are many players who don't deserve to wear the Barcelona shirt, they should be sold as soon as possible. If they didn’t fix everything before the winter mercato, Barcelona will lose many or even all this season’s titles.

I'm not surprised by Barcelona's recent low performance in La Liga this season, because Barcelona signed up low-ranked players who can not perform well most times. This season, you can not compare Real Madrid players with Barcelona players, the difference is very clear. Barcelona will continue to perform like this unless something is done during the January transfer window.

We will be seeing another decline from barcelona. The financial condition is pressuring the club even more intensive since barcelona had so many unpaid debt combined with the transfer amounts owe from other clubs and many more.
barcelona will be declining even deeper once some important players will be leaving from the club. I expect xavi to sell gavi soon. He can give barcelona a lot of money and this is what the club is wanted right now.

The real test for barcelona is just starting now. I have surprised that once there have been many rumors that linked barcelona to the expensive players like haaland or even osimhen. Even barcelona is willing to sell lewandowski too.
The club's performance will always decline soon. The blaugrana needs to raised some money first to stay much longer in la liga. Real madrid and barcelona are not having good financial condition but barcelona was the worst compared to the real madrid. As laporta said barcelona could have filled for bankruptcy.

Barcelona and real madrid are trying to create new league to compete with UCL but it was failed caused by it will be only having barcelona and real madrid as participants.
La liga club is always taking the wrong direction compared to the other european club.

[len01]

I'm not surprised by Barcelona's recent low performance in La Liga this season, because Barcelona signed up low-ranked players who can not perform well most times. This season, you can not compare Real Madrid players with Barcelona players, the difference is very clear. Barcelona will continue to perform like this unless something is done during the January transfer window.

Barcelona not inform because the management have failed to intrigue positive development for the club and the manager have tried his best to settle things down but nothing seems to be working. Before laying out blames to players, It's very frustrating because one don't have any clue on the lapses face by these players in question. Talking about Barcelona signing medicore players in the previous transfer window. Joao Cancelo, Joao Felix and IIkay Gundogan, are these average players? I don't think so because these players have become experienced and pro on the pitch, they served important purposes for their previous clubs and Barcelona doesn't seem to an exception why the club is having problematic issues.

the difference is simply financial and this is self-explanatory.
In the situation that Barcelona is currently experiencing, we can't blame anyone because it is the finances that make this team look bad, even though in fact, if we look deeper, Barcelona performance is very strong, but they need several high quality players to strengthen their performance, but back to Barcelona finances, they can't do anything can get free players from the transfer market and players like Felix are quality players for me he is not an average player and we can see it from his performance at the start of this season which is very good at making a contribution.

if we talk about improving finances by selling players who are not qualified, let's look at the efforts of Barcelona management trying to sell players who have decreased performance and retain young players and selling Lewandowski to Saudi Arabia but in fact this player refused to go to Saudi Arabia and chose to stay at Barcelona while If Lewandowski wants to accept the Saudi Arabian team's offer, Barcelona will definitely get quite good income because the Saudi Arabian team always dares to spend big money.

what is certain is that we have to be able to accept Barcelona situation and we cannot compare it with other teams because Barcelona has advantages and weaknesses that other teams dont have.

[naira]

I'm not surprised by Barcelona's recent low performance in La Liga this season, because Barcelona signed up low-ranked players who can not perform well most times. This season, you can not compare Real Madrid players with Barcelona players, the difference is very clear. Barcelona will continue to perform like this unless something is done during the January transfer window.

Actually, Barcelona does not lack good players, but the main problem is financial. Because I think it is still appropriate for players to demand fair salaries and good training facilities. Then Xavi also played an important role in why Barcelona performance was declining. Xavi is starting to lose effective strategies to implement on the field, his closeness with players and club owners is now quite tenuous because there are no mutually beneficial policies. In my opinion finances are the root of Barcelona problems because they are unable to maintain stable play on the field. So whether you like it or not, you can save costs by using several young players from your own academy and using players on loan or free transfers. There are quite a lot of problems facing Barcelona, so it's not surprising that the field looks chaotic.

Comparing it with Madrid at the moment is clearly unfair because Madrid has financial stability which makes it easy to buy players at high prices at any time, especially since there is no need to doubt Madrid training facilities because they prioritize the comfort of their players, they can get maximum results when playing on the field. Tested coaches and quality players are certainly able to create solid teamwork.

[laurenB7742]

Barcelona not inform because the management have failed to intrigue positive development for the club and the manager have tried his best to settle things down but nothing seems to be working. Before laying out blames to players, It's very frustrating because one don't have any clue on the lapses face by these players in question.

Barcelona lost the friendly match. I didn't see it directly but are Barcelona playing seriously? I heard they got paid $5 million to go to America. It seems they continue to work to earn money. I think this match is not very effective when viewed from the benefits for the team. But the main factor seems to be Money. They are willing to fly 8200 km to arrive in America.

Barcelona did not play seriously in this match. Barcelona's second row squad played in this match. Even then I thought Barcelona could win. Because the opponent was quite weak. But Barcelona lost the match 3-2. Xavi should work more on Barcelona's defense. In the last few matches we have seen poor performances from Barcelona's defenders. If Barcelona want to do well in the Champions League and La Liga, the defenders must play well. If the defenders play well, Barcelona's overall performance will be weaker in the future. Xavi should add more talented players in defense in the winter transfer window.

[Obari]

Barcelona this season are lacking something,and that is a consistent goal scorer.Lewandowski is no longer scoring goals as he did in his first season at the club,maybe his age is having effect on him,but I think signing a striker to assist him in the January transfer window would have been the perfect thing to do.Lewa is a good striker no doubt,but there are things he was doing when he was younger,which he find difficult to do now because he is no longer agile as he used to be,and this has made Madrid and Girona dominant throught out the first half of this season.It would be good if Xavi looks for an alternative,and stop relying on only Lewandowski to get the team goals.