La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

[herurist]

Xavi also said that current squad of Barcelona has a lot to work and improve in order to be on Bayern level and this tells a lot about how much he respects Bayern but also he knows how to put pressure on his players in order to perform well and it's currently working because Barca looks solid in LaLiga but not so good in UCL. For me , so far , the awesome surprise is still Betis and Juaquin who still amaze us at his age by even scoring in Europa League or even having assists which is crazy  

Bayern Munich is currently in crisis and Barcelona should be stronger when they play each other. Barca have scored 18 goals in 6 games and only 1 was scored against them. The game on 13.09. was strange and the series of Barcelona not matched. The German national team has now lost against Hungary, which is also due to the current problems at Bayern Munich. If Barcelona played vs Bayern this weekend, Barca would win.

Too optimistic is not too good and they already feel that they have to lose again in the first meeting of the Champions League.
Actually they have to put this aside first because their match is still very far away for the second meeting. Currently Barcelona must focus on the squad that is currently facing the closest against Inter and Madrid.

[Zackgeno96]

We can't say exactly where Barcelona are at the moment, but it is really much better than last season. I think we can give most credits to coach Xavi, she got them playing football. They are doing well in the league with good football, but we haven't played a lot of games yet. Barcelona will have to keep an eye on Real Madrid, who also make few mistakes. It is impossible for other teams to have a chance at the championship. Atletico Madrid is also not going to have a serious chance. More interesting is the 3rd place. So when we go into the winter break, we have a good idea of ​​the balance of power between Barcelona and Real Madrid.

[Alisha-k]

We can't say exactly where Barcelona are at the moment, but it is really much better than last season. I think we can give most credits to coach Xavi, she got them playing football. They are doing well in the league with good football, but we haven't played a lot of games yet. Barcelona will have to keep an eye on Real Madrid, who also make few mistakes. It is impossible for other teams to have a chance at the championship. Atletico Madrid is also not going to have a serious chance. More interesting is the 3rd place. So when we go into the winter break, we have a good idea of ​​the balance of power between Barcelona and Real Madrid.

How will you call Xavi a she. Xavi deserves any accolade he receives because he has succeeded in making Barcelona the formidable team they have always been during his days as a midfielder. He was disciplined enough to learn from Pep while he was still in the Barcelona team. Barcelona is one club that has what it takes to withstand Madrid in the Laliga

[Minecache]

Why do you think that, have you forgotten that there are better players in other teams than Lewandowski at Barcelona? What do you think about Haaland, Kevin De Bruyne and some of the other players in the Premier League, do you believe they don't have good chances?
Lewandowski's target is to be the top scorer, that's much more realistic to be true than the Ballon D'or. Lewandowski is currently the top scorer in Laliga, so if he consistently scores goals then he can win it this season.

Haaland or De Bruyne has a chance to win Ballon D'or if Man City wins both EPL title and UCL title. It is also the same as Lewandowski, I doubt he will win Ballon D'or if Barcelona can't win any title this season. In my opinion, Ballon D'or isn't only determined by the goal numbers or assist numbers of a player but the success of his team will be also considered. So, which player who probably wins Ballon D'or, will be determined by which team to be the most successful this season.

Of course the Ballon D'or does not only look at the individual performance of the player, but also the appearance of the club and also the player's
country into consideration. If we look at the candidates for the Ballon D'or there are a few names that catch my eye, I have no doubts about
the quality of Haaland, De Bruyne and also Lewandowski. But I think there is one more player who deserves the Ballon D'or, the player is
Karim Benzema, unfortunately in the last few games he could not strengthen Real Madrid because he was still injured. But if Benzema recovers
from injury and can put in a great performance like the previous season, I believe Benzema is the strongest candidate to win the Ballon D'or,
especially since Real Madrid's performances this season have been very consistent.

As we all know, the Ballor d Or is determined by calculating both the individual performance of the player as well as the team performance of the team as a whole. There is no doubt that Lewandowski is one of the best goal scorers in the world, but I believe that Barcelona will struggle to win any title this season due to Lewandowski's ability to score goals. Moreover, if we take a look at Manchester City, they seem to be in very good shape to win a title in the near future. In my opinion, they have a good chance of winning the English Premier League and even the Champions League if they are lucky. As a result, I personally believe that Erling Haaland and De Bruyne have a better chance of winning than Lewa, in my opinion.

[Docnaster]

We can't say exactly where Barcelona are at the moment, but it is really much better than last season. I think we can give most credits to coach Xavi, she got them playing football. They are doing well in the league with good football, but we haven't played a lot of games yet. Barcelona will have to keep an eye on Real Madrid, who also make few mistakes. It is impossible for other teams to have a chance at the championship. Atletico Madrid is also not going to have a serious chance. More interesting is the 3rd place. So when we go into the winter break, we have a good idea of ​​the balance of power between Barcelona and Real Madrid.

How will you call Xavi a she. Xavi deserves any accolade he receives because he has succeeded in making Barcelona the formidable team they have always been during his days as a midfielder. He was disciplined enough to learn from Pep while he was still in the Barcelona team. Barcelona is one club that has what it takes to withstand Madrid in the Laliga

Could it be that his translator failed him or he purposely called Xavi a she.  Xavi was a successful player who turned to a successful coach. His success at Barcelona didn't start this season, it started last season when he met the Barcelona team in a serious mess and he put them together and ended comfortably in top 4 against so many peoples thought. He has set the club to be able to rub shoulders comfortably with Real Madrid again.

[JeromeTash]

Lewandowski has more attraction than Messi right now.
Messi time is gone even if he is playing good since attention on Ligue 1 is less than La Liga.

Need I remind you that Messi won his Seventh when he was already in ligue 1?

Lewandowski literally outperformed him in terms of scoring stats, but all Messi had to do was lift a Copa América trophy with Argentina and the accolade was his.
This time round we all know who's going to take it even if he gets injured until December. Lewandowski will have to work hard and wait for 2023

[Rengga Jati]

How will you call Xavi a she.

Could it be that his translator failed him or he purposely called Xavi a she. 

It's a common mistake, but yeah this is funny and we need to check twiceat least in advance.

But aside from that, exactly Xavi has had a hard time starting in Barcelona, when Barcelona was in very dropped condition, with not much money, serious financial problems, bad club performance, lack of talented players. In the last season, it was very hard, moreover, some of Xavi's decision was also debatable. However, time passed and he could really prove that Xavi is really capable to bring Barcelona up again, to bring the club to have better performance. Although he couldn't bring a title last season, at least, their performance at the late season was quite good. And in this season, Xavi really gives many changes in Barcelona, with the brave decision, bringing so many talented players and bringing Barcelona i the second position.

[sana54210]

Ousmane Dembele also experienced the same thing that had to be sent home due to injury. the main players in barcelona are injured, this is a big blow for barcelona. If Barcelona have to lose these 4 players in the upcoming match, I think this will affect their game performance. Moreover, there will be an El Clasico match in the future, of course their readiness must be really ready to be able to give a tough fight when they meet Real Madrid. Besides that, Inter Milan will wait for Barcelona in the UCL competition next week. I think Xavi will really be confused about what the core players are going through.

I would say that Depay would be fine, he could be replaced because he wasn't considered that much anyway. But De Jong could be a problem, he is looked as a good playmaker that makes decisions, but he could be eventually replaced as well, it is the defensive line that would worry me if they miss Kounde and Araujo at the same time, which would be a trouble but they can handle it one way or another.

I guess that it is coming down to not having proper bench players until these players heal, they can replace the players, but they can't replace the replacements, so if one more thing happens then they are going with third string players and that’s a problem.

[ShowOff]

But aside from that, exactly Xavi has had a hard time starting in Barcelona, when Barcelona was in very dropped condition, with not much money, serious financial problems, bad club performance, lack of talented players. In the last season, it was very hard, moreover, some of Xavi's decision was also debatable. However, time passed and he could really prove that Xavi is really capable to bring Barcelona up again, to bring the club to have better performance. Although he couldn't bring a title last season, at least, their performance at the late season was quite good. And in this season, Xavi really gives many changes in Barcelona, with the brave decision, bringing so many talented players and bringing Barcelona i the second position.

Xavi returned to Barcelona when Barcelona's conditions were very bad. They were poor financially and the Barcelona squad at that time was in a crisis of motivation. Messi's departure to PSG and Suarez's departure to Atletico Madrid made it difficult for Barcelona to find a way to score goals and win match. So Xavi has been really tested since his arrival because there are a lot of problems he has to solve for that team.

But Barcelona managed to bounce back even though in the end they had to give up all the titles that might be won at the end of the season, for example the Europa League when Xavi had to submit to Frankfurt. Everything changed because of Xavi, even this season Barcelona is willing to do everything to increase his chances in various competitions. I don't expect a disappointing end to the season even though at the moment Barcelona's performances have been very good.

[lalabotax]

I don't carelessly post here, I read news about injured Barca players here;
https://www.malaymail.com/news/sports/2022/09/23/barca-duo-kounde-and-depay-suffer-injuries-in-nations-league/29780

in this article what is called the "FIFA virus". and we know that kounde has become one of barca's mainstays in the back line, he is a defender that xavi really needs in the el Clasico match later.

But losing Kounde isn't a very big problem for Barcelona, they still have Piqué, Eric García, and Christensen. I think Piqué-Christensen will be a good duo for the center-defenders in the upcoming El Classico. About Depay's injury, it won't impact anything for Barcelona attacking line since the main CF is Lewandowski. Depay is only a substitution player on Barcelona squad now, the absence of Depay shouldn't be a serious problem. You don't need to be so worried because most of Barcelona key players are still availbale.

[Porfirii]

That's absolutely correct! Barcelona needs to do everything possible to get back to the Barcelona of old with Xavi Hernandez Inesta and Busquet, especially having two chance's and converting those two chance's into goal.

It is almost impossible to replace certain players and legends, this period you made mention of was the time Barcelona played some of their best ever football, and do not forget that the greatest footballer of all time, Lionel Messi was in that team too, it takes a very long time to build a team as ruthless as that, or to get a manager as good as pep Guardiola, no disrespect to Xavi, he is doing great with the team, but he is still a very long way away from taking the team to glory days again.

From time to time a dream team arises in all sports (being the most famous the one who won the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992. I don't think that the current Barça is somehow near to meet the requirements to be called this way, but as you said, Xavi and many of the players still have a long way ahead.

[logfiles]

But losing Kounde isn't a very big problem for Barcelona, they still have Piqué, Eric García, and Christensen. I think Piqué-Christensen will be a good duo for the center-defenders in the upcoming El Classico. About Depay's injury, it won't impact anything for Barcelona attacking line since the main CF is Lewandowski. Depay is only a substitution player on Barcelona squad now, the absence of Depay shouldn't be a serious problem. You don't need to be so worried because most of Barcelona key players are still availbale.

Did you just mentions Pique and Eric Garcia?

Why do you think Barcelona tried to bring in the likes of Kounde even when their financial position sucked? Because a player like pique is way past his top quality football performance. Pique is no longer the kind of Defender you used to know.

Imagine him facing up with the likes of Vini Jr one on one 

[Alanaz]

Lewandowski has more attraction than Messi right now.
Messi time is gone even if he is playing good since attention on Ligue 1 is less than La Liga. Nevertheless, winning CL with PSG while performing great could let him get a chance to grab Ballon d'Or again. World Cup is the other opportunity but harder to achieve. Getting these two will grant the gold

The problem is can he do something like that? The Champions League matches its current name, and is filled by every club that is indeed the best in their respective leagues.
Putting everything else aside, the EPL and La Liga teams currently dominate quite a bit in the Champions League and even though PSG is a big team and there are a lot of star players there, the Champions League is not that simple to win.

It is not that he is better than Messi, that he is in a team that is giving all the possible support, it is something else, it is taken into account that here any player can be the best with the help of his team, but Benzema due to the recent injury It does not mean that it is painted on the wall, for many the name of Lewa shines a lot because they are fans of Barcelona, but I think that Lewa still lacks many merits, it would be good to wait.

For this season the Ballon d'Or will still belong to Benzema and it would be very strange if Benzema didn't win considering his performance and contribution last season for Madrid was very clear but this might only last one season considering that at the moment his condition doesn't seem to be good - fine plus the injury at the beginning clearly made his performance a little hampered.

[Furious 7]

Do you really think that there are alternative formations that don't pose the risk of being too week, taking into account the potential absences? They are talking about four players, which is quite a hardly foreseeable scenario. The decision making process will be hard, but I have hope in Xavi.

Barca has dense squad now and even with four players out, I think they will be able to put good squad against Mallorca. The difficult part is that three days later they have game against Inter in CL and that is very important for them if they want to keep good chances of advancing to the next stage. Xavi has to make some tough calls here.

But if you look at two of the 4 players who have to recover, it's not very good.
De Jong and Kunde's performances are needed now especially as they will face Inter and El Clasico in the near future. The absence of this player is clearly a bit of an obstacle, especially since Barcelona currently always plays with De Jong and Kunde as the main choices.

[nurilham]

If we look at the candidates for the Ballon D'or there are a few names that catch my eye, I have no doubts about
the quality of Haaland, De Bruyne and also Lewandowski. But I think there is one more player who deserves the Ballon D'or, the player is
Karim Benzema, unfortunately in the last few games he could not strengthen Real Madrid because he was still injured. But if Benzema recovers
from injury and can put in a great performance like the previous season, I believe Benzema is the strongest candidate to win the Ballon D'or,
especially since Real Madrid's performances this season have been very consistent.

You are right. Benzema deserves to be the candidate for Ballon D'or, too. His role is always very crucial for Real Madrid, he is a captain and a machine goal as well. I am sure he will return to play again as soon as possible. Benzema injury isn't very serious and it recovers well, at the end of this month is the estimated time for him to play again.

The era for messi is gone after he was leaving from barcelona.

You seem to blame him for leaving Barcelona, dude. 
IMHO, the era of Messi was over once Barcelona no longer has 2 main midfielders (Xavi, Iniesta).
Only these two players can support Messi to play at his best level.

[alpamar99]

The era for messi is gone after he was leaving from barcelona.

You seem to blame him for leaving Barcelona, dude. 
IMHO, the era of Messi was over once Barcelona no longer has 2 main midfielders (Xavi, Iniesta).
Only these two players can support Messi to play at his best level.

Agree with what you said because even though Messi was there when their midfield was not replenished by Maestro tiki taka because Xavi and Iniesta left actually Barcelona's golden era began to falter from there. Losing Messi was the culmination of the loss of the golden era at that time considering there was nothing to support him after it was gone. But it seems like things like this are slowly starting to come back and their tiki-taka is starting to take shape now.

[X-ray]

Losing 4 players at once will have a big impact, but I also believe Xavi can still think of some strategies to be able to take full points at there. Indeed, the fact is Mallorca are not a weak team in this new season they are in the top 10 with a good balance in their defense which so far can be quite solid. So this match will be tough for Barcelona.

Xavi will be thinking about how to rotating its player but i think this will give disadvantage for the club. We do know that if the best strategy can happen once those who got injury able to play but it seems like xavi must use pique as replacement for kounde. Mallorca is still showing good performance even though if that was not in the top 5 but this club is still able to give a difficult match for the big club like barcelona. Barcelona may able to lose against this club too.
Xavi can rotate its player but the result may not be so good like when he was playing with the best formation.

[naira]

Xavi having a big problem for his players as his key players hot injured when called up for international duty. It's sad to see the catalans having numerous players injured especially defend line. Kounde and Araujo are the main players for Xavi's defend, although he would cope without them and they will missed the tough games like the El Classico which is behind the corner. I couldn't believe when I saw it on the news that barcelona players got injured in their respective international games.

While Barcelona is in a transition period to get back on its feet with a maximum squad, but now Xavi is being tested so that he can survive with a lacking main squad. Of course, as a growing yim Barcelona experienced another disaster. I feel like this really can't be solved that easily. Dangerous club awaits in sight. Inevitably Xavi had to prepare a temporary backup plan. But can it really last? Tough matches still need to be passed. Apart from Mallorca, Barcelona will also face Inter in the Champions League. If the current squad looks weak in front of Mallorca, it does not close the possibility of Barcelona in the eyes of Inter is nothing but an opportunity that will not be wasted.

[makishart]

The era for messi is gone after he was leaving from barcelona.

You seem to blame him for leaving Barcelona, dude. 
IMHO, the era of Messi was over once Barcelona no longer has 2 main midfielders (Xavi, Iniesta).
Only these two players can support Messi to play at his best level.

Messi in PSG was not the same like when he was in barcelona. I just said based on what i have been watching between when he was in barcelona and PSG, there are different things when he was in barcelona and PSG. When xavi and iniesta gone, messi still able to give very big contribution to the barcelona. The era for messi already gone and this is the fact. This time his performance in PSG was not so impressive like when he was in barcelona but i know that there are so many variables who affected his performance in PSG

[hahay]

Xavi having a big problem for his players as his key players hot injured when called up for international duty. It's sad to see the catalans having numerous players injured especially defend line. Kounde and Araujo are the main players for Xavi's defend, although he would cope without them and they will missed the tough games like the El Classico which is behind the corner. I couldn't believe when I saw it on the news that barcelona players got injured in their respective international games.

While Barcelona is in a transition period to get back on its feet with a maximum squad, but now Xavi is being tested so that he can survive with a lacking main squad. Of course, as a growing yim Barcelona experienced another disaster. I feel like this really can't be solved that easily. Dangerous club awaits in sight. Inevitably Xavi had to prepare a temporary backup plan. But can it really last? Tough matches still need to be passed. Apart from Mallorca, Barcelona will also face Inter in the Champions League. If the current squad looks weak in front of Mallorca, it does not close the possibility of Barcelona in the eyes of Inter is nothing but an opportunity that will not be wasted.

As I said before Barcelona's next match will not be easy, because there are Inter, Real Madrid, Villarreal and then Bayern Munich to face next month. Even for an easy match against a mediocre team that Barcelona will face next month, at least it can't be underestimated at all like Celta Vigo, Bilbao and Valencia. If these players can't recover quickly then I'm pretty sure, it looks like next month Barcelona will experience a decline in performance that allows their points gap to be wide with Real Madrid.