La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2024/25

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The team managed by Luis Carrion still doesn't deserve to be in La Liga, from the 8 matches they played, they could only get 3 points from 3 draws. There is still time to get out of this downturn zone, even if Luis Carrion is able to take advantage of it. The gap between them and Espanyol who are in 17th place is only 4 points, meaning that if Las Palmas can be more consistent in winning in the next few matches, they can get out of the relegation zone.

Some teams are just bad, every league has a winner which is awesome to watch and we like it, but remember that every league also have a last place, one team has to be in the last place no matter how good or terrible they are. Now I do not know how a team is managed or anything like that, I am very newbie when it comes to managing a team all together.

However, as someone who played football manager for over 20 years, I can tell you that I have come last place knowingly a few times during those days. I could have stayed in the league and still decided to get like 12 points all season long, terrible, worse than what Las Palmas will finish with, then why I did that when I could have gotten 40-50 points at least? The main reason is the fact that I can just sell all players, put all youth players in, save some money, recover financially and try again later on. Maybe Las Palmas has the exact same plan?

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All of that is thanks to the cool hand of Hansi Flick who has brought Barcelona back on the right track, he did not demand much from the owner to recruit targeted players but instead utilized young La Masia players and now it has been proven. No wonder, Blaugrana is a frightening threat to its opponents in La Liga this season even though previously many doubted Barca's performance.
And I agree that the presence of important players such as de Jong, Olmo and Gavi later after they recover will increase Barcelona's attack power.

On the other hand, Barcelona is reported to have targeted Mason Greenwood, their talent scouts have monitored this player in his 4 matches and Barcelona is ready to make an offer of up to 60 million and become a priority in the summer, if this happens Barca's strength will be even stronger, but PSG also wants this player, Barcelona must be ready to compete with PSG.
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Hansi Flick is not only good at exploiting the potential of young players there, but Hansi Flick is also good at exploiting the strengths of players who are no longer young at Barcelona, ​​namely Lewandowski, who suddenly became very sharp in attack. Currently, even in the Barcelona vs Young Boys match in the UCL, we saw that Lewandowski had managed to score another goal which made Barcelona now lead 1-0. And yes, when the players who are currently injured return, Barcelona's strength will be very difficult to stop. And if they are indeed targeting Greenwood then it is a good decision the club has taken. Currently, Barcelona will be the team that is truly the favorite to win the title in Laliga.

It must be admitted that so far Flick has brought Barcelona into a new era. Barcelona's game is more enthusiastic, continues to play fast and collectively Barcelona, ​​​​especially young and senior players are all compact.
To be honest, Barcelona has undergone major changes since being handled by Hansi Flick. He immediately implemented an attacking strategy in Barcelona. The tactics implemented by Flick can even revive the attackers who were considered to have failed, namely Robert Lewandowski and Raphinha. The two players immediately performed well under Hansi Flick's guidance, and the young players are also more mature.

All of this can happen because Flick made Barcelona dare to get out of the less effective game philosophy. Under Xavi, sometimes we see Barcelona waste a lot of momentum when there is open opponent space because there are too many left and right passes. Finally, the opposing team that was previously unorganized managed to improve its defense, finally unable to penetrate.

However, in the Flick era, even the smallest space is immediately utilized by Barca players and the passing pattern is carried out quickly and directly to the front. so that they can get many opportunities to score goals without waiting for the opponent to tidy up the defense. This kind of flick playing style is indeed suitable for today's football and hopefully the defeat to Osasuna last week can be a lesson so that it will not happen again in the next match so that they can compete closely with Real Madrid to win the La Liga trophy.

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Barcelona had an epic performance so far in this season and they got good results in the games we saw from this team so far. They are still paying younger players and they didn't spend money like Real Madrid for hiring expensive players for their teams.
We can't forget that Barcelona is getting these results while there are many injured players in this team and soon they will be able to use some of these injured players. Frenkie de Jong is going to be back in the good form again after being out for 5 months and Gavi will return on the 20th of October, Fermín López and Olmo in three or four weeks.
This can make Barcelona much stronger than what they are right now.

No arguments about the squad doing well but saw themselves losing the first game in La Liga to Osasuna away from home. The truth is that they had a great coach and manager who brought in his own terms, because they're more of a direct Barcelona who plays tiki-taka. All of these names would definitely return in midfied but I can tell you that they don't have a strong and solid defense right now. They have been a good side but believe me, they need depth at most when it comes to defending. Replacing Sergio Busquet is something I think they are yet to do. But it feels good to see Robert Lewandoski thriving after all of the bashing he received from fans last season.

I believe he just kept the player for a batch for the young boys in the Champions League or underrated Osasuna and kept the players, but now that he has learned his lesson, he will not do such things again. He has put Barcelona on beat fail because I believe they will not lose a match in the La Liga this season, but he has already broken the unbeaten streak. And now that Barcelona has lost to Osasuna, I believe Real Madrid will do everything they can to defeat Athletico Madrid so that they can close very well against Barcelona, but they fail and tie the game, but I will not blame the players the fault is on Ancelotti.  because why can you batch all your strikers and bring defends how can you win match, since he so is leading by one thinking he can win the match. When I just so Rodrygo is out and vini Jr is substitute too I know he will beveey hard if the match won't be a draw, I think everyone as learn lesson in there last matches so they won’t try to keep players on batch when they are in fitness.

Let see how they will perform on there next games in the league this weekend but I believe no one will like to lose any game this week they will both get three point and continue chasing each other in the league table.

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Some coaches make coaching mistakes in their decision. It is a good news for Hansi Flick that Real Madrid could not get all three points in the game after they themselves had a bad week. Ancellotti must be considering the champions League maybe that's why he decided to substitute those players out and give new players and opportunity to shine. Mbappe would not have made much difference in that game, because Atletico Madrid defended well.
There is pressure mounting on Bellingham to score his first goal for the season.

It was a big match for Real Madrid and the biggest mistake in not getting 3 points was Antonio Rudiger. Because he broke the offside in the goal scored by Atletico Madrid. If he hadn’t broken the offside, Real Madrid would have left the match with 3 points. They would have gained significant motivation for the Champions League matches but the 3 points they lost in the last minutes demoralized them. Barcelona and Flick were the happiest about this. Although they lost, they didn’t lose too many points. The best result for them was for these two teams to end in a draw, and that’s how it ended.

Real Madrid’s draw in the La Liga has nothing to do with how they’re going to be playing in the champions league. When it comes to the champions league games, Real Madrid are always in their best form even when they’re not doing well in the domestic league. I don’t think that draw will demoralize them not to perform well in the champions league. It is a very important game for them just like the one played against Atletico Madrid. Barcelona are lucky that they already got more points ahead of Real Madrid and their loss in the last match didn’t affect them that much to make another team overtake and be on top of them on the standings. Real Madrid will definitely treat the champions league match with much importance as much as they will also do to their domestic league games.

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Real Madrid’s draw in the La Liga has nothing to do with how they’re going to be playing in the champions league. When it comes to the champions league games, Real Madrid are always in their best form even when they’re not doing well in the domestic league. I don’t think that draw will demoralize them not to perform well in the champions league. It is a very important game for them just like the one played against Atletico Madrid. Barcelona are lucky that they already got more points ahead of Real Madrid and their loss in the last match didn’t affect them that much to make another team overtake and be on top of them on the standings. Real Madrid will definitely treat the champions league match with much importance as much as they will also do to their domestic league games.

I think they are using presence of players to judge the next game of Real Madrid. I saw Courtois in their last game but seems he might not be present in the Champions League match against Lile because of a minor injury, it's not certain whether he is going to play or not but they forgot how Lunin was able to push these same team to the final last season until Courtois came back from injuries and represented the team in the final match because of his experience.

I love the fact that despite the instability of the team, they are yet to lose any match and that is good. It's better to be making a draw conclusions in matches than settle for lose, that's more better than having win today and have loss tomorrow, such inconsistency will not make them go far but this team is capable of winning their match either domestic Laliga or the Champions League.

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Barcelona had an epic performance so far in this season and they got good results in the games we saw from this team so far. They are still paying younger players and they didn't spend money like Real Madrid for hiring expensive players for their teams.
We can't forget that Barcelona is getting these results while there are many injured players in this team and soon they will be able to use some of these injured players. Frenkie de Jong is going to be back in the good form again after being out for 5 months and Gavi will return on the 20th of October, Fermín López and Olmo in three or four weeks.
This can make Barcelona much stronger than what they are right now.

In the grand scheme of things, I believe Barcelona will benefit from those losses they suffered against Monaco and against Osasuna. These are two games they could easily have won, but circumstances made it go against them. The Monaco game changed after the red card and they suffered for it. The Osasuna game was too much rotation and they paid for it. They were on very good form before those losses and that might start to make them feel invincible, so those losses are like reality check to put them always on their toes. It's better to lose now and sit up than lose at the knockout stage of the competition.

With their players beginning to return from injury, I believe they'll get better. The only thing that can ruin their season currently is injury. They have important players that should not get injured. If they can stay fully fit, they'll be excellent this season.

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In the grand scheme of things, I believe Barcelona will benefit from those losses they suffered against Monaco and against Osasuna. These are two games they could easily have won, but circumstances made it go against them. The Monaco game changed after the red card and they suffered for it. The Osasuna game was too much rotation and they paid for it. They were on very good form before those losses and that might start to make them feel invincible, so those losses are like reality check to put them always on their toes. It's better to lose now and sit up than lose at the knockout stage of the competition.

With their players beginning to return from injury, I believe they'll get better. The only thing that can ruin their season currently is injury. They have important players that should not get injured. If they can stay fully fit, they'll be excellent this season.

The Osasuna game was overlooked by Barcelona in the first place, though I didn't blame the coach for resting players, he was using them too much because of the injury in the team especially  the  forwards and some part of the mieldfield so rotation was bound to happen just that it was too much and by the time we brought on the players , they could only do more of defense and at the same time do some little attack and yet they were only able to get 2 goals throughout the game . Thus have seen alot of fans condemning the coach actions (not saying you did) but I don't think he has more choice here, currently there's has been arrival of Ansu and De Jong and that's a good news to the field field  I know more will join soon and there will be enough layers for rotation just as you've said