La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

[herurist]

El Clasico is no longer the same. Because although Real Madrid's form is the same as before, Barcelona's form is not good. Real Madrid's players are very inexperienced, they play very tactical football, while Barcelona is full of young players and they have to work harder.

This happened because there were still some Barcelona players who had not been able to compete. As for whether it's the same or not, actually this season I see it's even more exciting, regardless of how the result of yesterday's match is, it's clear that El Clasico is something worth it, especially when compared to last season, it's clear that Barcelona can still be said to be much better at this time.
Losing in the game is quite natural but we can't force it because Madrid are in fact still above them.

[jakdanyel]

Things are getting really alarming for Barcelona from now on. Because their bad form in the Champions League has started to reflect on their La Liga matches as well. Because normally Barcelona would be able to put up a big fight against Real Madrid no matter where the match is played. But their performance was in this one was quite inadequate. Lewandowski was another disappointment especially for wasting a huge goal chance and not being very effective at all. This is like their second big match that he doesn't score any goal in.

Xavi must create a solution to this and he needs to do it fast. Otherwise it looks like they can fail in their target of winning the La Liga title this season. I know that they have had some injured players for some time but it doesn't feel like this is the main problem of the team right now.

[maju69]

Since losing several players, Barcelona has experienced a decline in performance. Those who are absent cannot be replaced by their substitutes who come off the bench. Initially everything was fine, but with the increasing number of opponents, the absence of the players who had been the mainstay was felt. The impact on unsatisfactory results, including during El Clasico matches. It is a job for Xavi to be able to strengthen the depth of their squad so that there is no leisure when the main players are absent.

[omgitsmehehe]

Barcelona loves playing fancy and entertaining football which is not benefiting when you are losing or needs a win.They really played well but couldn't win the match.Real Madrid are goals hunters they believe more in scoring goals than ball possession. Playing at home also gave them an advantage which they made us of properly. Benzema is a wonderful striker,he has scored 12 goals and assisted 9 goals so far for Real Madrid against Barca in 37 matches in all competitions. 3-1 is a big win. In recent seven matches played between both clubs Madrid has win 6 out of 7 in all competitions.

The match was an interesting and entertaining one. No doubt, Barcelona played quite well. But, Real Madrid was able to secure two goals in the first half of the game, which gave them an edge over Barcelona in the match. However, I was expecting Barca to bounce back in the second half and probably equalize the score. Madrid had only one obligation, and that was to win the game inorder to maintain their position on the standings.

[BALIK]

Things are getting really alarming for Barcelona from now on. Because their bad form in the Champions League has started to reflect on their La Liga matches as well. Because normally Barcelona would be able to put up a big fight against Real Madrid no matter where the match is played. But their performance was in this one was quite inadequate. Lewandowski was another disappointment especially for wasting a huge goal chance and not being very effective at all. This is like their second big match that he doesn't score any goal in.

Xavi must create a solution to this and he needs to do it fast. Otherwise it looks like they can fail in their target of winning the La Liga title this season. I know that they have had some injured players for some time but it doesn't feel like this is the main problem of the team right now.

I would say Xavi has stabilized the Barcelona team but he has not been able to strengthen the team. We all know Xavi is not yet experienced. Experience is definitely needed to strengthen a team. Because of Xavi's lack of experience, Barcelona's performance is not strong despite having a lot of talented players. Xavi is not able to find the team's weaknesses.

Barcelona is not getting good performances from Lewandowski. Lewandowski has the ability. But Lewandowski is not able to play well due to the weakness of their strategy. I would say Barcelona's midfield is still not strong enough. If the midfield is strong, the attacking players will be able to play better.

[makishart]

El Clasico is no longer the same. Because although Real Madrid's form is the same as before, Barcelona's form is not good. Real Madrid's players are very inexperienced, they play very tactical football, while Barcelona is full of young players and they have to work harder.

No, it's still the same but barcelona football's philosophy can be predicted easily. that's why this team is always loosing against another big team. Just put your team to the defensive - counter attack strategy and you can win against barcelona easily.
This team never learn from their past experience. They have very weak defensive that was wanna attacking its opponent too. they were leaving their position to attack their opponent which is very stupid.
ancelotti has been experienced with such strategy. it's very easy for him to beat barcelona.

[Razmirraz]

Snip.

The game yesterday was not really interesting for a long time. So after 2:0 there were many minutes without great chances or special highlights. Real Madrid's game was much more structured and there was a goal by Benzema that was not given because of offside, so they could have won higher. Barcelona has few players who are much younger, for example Pedri, Balde and Gavi. They have not more experience... Real Madrid currently has players with much more.

After Karim Benzema scored Real Madrid winning goal in the 12th minute, it was already confirmed who would win the first El Clasico of the season. Real Madrid quick goal signaled that Bercelona defense was not good, before the first half ended Real Madrid was able to easily break into Barcelona goal twice.
Ancelotti is very clever in strategizing, he can read Barcelona shortcomings. Ancelotti did not waste this opportunity to bring his team to the top of the table, Ancelotti hard work and supported by good performances from his players, Real Madrid was able to take the lead over Barcelona and make the gap between these two teams three points.

[Davian144]

El Clasico is no longer the same. Because although Real Madrid's form is the same as before, Barcelona's form is not good. Real Madrid's players are very inexperienced, they play very tactical football, while Barcelona is full of young players and they have to work harder.

That's just the judgment of some people, because I see Barcelona's players are also quite good at controlling the ball and attacking Real Madrid. But the chances can always be thwarted by the Real Madrid players so there are not many goals that can be created by the Barcelona players in the match except for just one. Regarding the young players at Barcelona, I see that not all of them are young, even though on average they are still young, but players like Lewandowski I don't think they are in the young category anymore at this point.

[LittleBitFunny]

Snip.

The game yesterday was not really interesting for a long time. So after 2:0 there were many minutes without great chances or special highlights. Real Madrid's game was much more structured and there was a goal by Benzema that was not given because of offside, so they could have won higher. Barcelona has few players who are much younger, for example Pedri, Balde and Gavi. They have not more experience... Real Madrid currently has players with much more.

After Karim Benzema scored Real Madrid winning goal in the 12th minute, it was already confirmed who would win the first El Clasico of the season. Real Madrid quick goal signaled that Bercelona defense was not good, before the first half ended Real Madrid was able to easily break into Barcelona goal twice.
Ancelotti is very clever in strategizing, he can read Barcelona shortcomings. Ancelotti did not waste this opportunity to bring his team to the top of the table, Ancelotti hard work and supported by good performances from his players, Real Madrid was able to take the lead over Barcelona and make the gap between these two teams three points.

Real Madrid is an experienced team. After Madrid scored the first goal of the match, it was well understood that Real Madrid was going to win the match. Because Real Madrid's strategy is excellent. After scoring, they played defensive tactics and secured their victory. Real Madrid who scored first kept their defense strong and then tried to attack. The performance of Real Madrid's defensive players was excellent. They were able to successfully counter every attack from the Barcelona players.
I agree with you that Ancelotti's tactics are excellent and he is very clever. He understood Barcelona's defensive weaknesses very well. And because of the weakness of the defense, Barcelona lost this match as well.

[aylabadia05]

Could it be said that Barcelona's previous opponents were on a different level? Real Madrid don't need how strong they are defensively, but they showed how effective they are in attack. I saw nothing special about what Real Madrid played, but they were able to calm down and make the game a win for them. Carlo Ancelotti's philosophy of football is nothing special again, but they are able to make the audience believe in them.

Alaba, Mendy, Militao, Carvajal and Rudiger will mad when they read this

Although they don't get a spotlight from the medias, it doesn't mean they're just an average defenders who play football. Actually the defenders on this match is really good since they're really make Barcelona's striker hard to shoot on the target since Courtois is injured, Lunin is just a substitute goal keeper who only play against weak club. If Courtois isn't injured, the match will end 3-0 since the goal from Barcelona is a mistake from the Real Madrid's goal keeper who play bad.

Solid Mendy, Carvajal, Alaba, and Militao made Barcelona fail to penetrate the Real Madrid defense. Because of the solid they made, Lewandowski, Dembele, and Raphinha could not do much. Combined with the overlapping conducted by Mendy from the left sector of Madrid's defense, which is quite good in my opinion.

The first El Clasico this season in La Liga shows Real Madrid is quite good at reading Barcelona games on all lines. as if they have memorised what Barcelona players will do when they hold the ball. 
The problem that Xavi had to fix in Barcelona after the El Clasico match at the Bernabeu was defense.

[borovichok]

Could it be said that Barcelona's previous opponents were on a different level? Real Madrid don't need how strong they are defensively, but they showed how effective they are in attack. I saw nothing special about what Real Madrid played, but they were able to calm down and make the game a win for them. Carlo Ancelotti's philosophy of football is nothing special again, but they are able to make the audience believe in them.

Alaba, Mendy, Militao, Carvajal and Rudiger will mad when they read this

Although they don't get a spotlight from the medias, it doesn't mean they're just an average defenders who play football. Actually the defenders on this match is really good since they're really make Barcelona's striker hard to shoot on the target since Courtois is injured, Lunin is just a substitute goal keeper who only play against weak club. If Courtois isn't injured, the match will end 3-0 since the goal from Barcelona is a mistake from the Real Madrid's goal keeper who play bad.

How can you say real Madrid didn't played well defensively, I thought everyone will be praising the real Madrid defence today, here you are talking what I don't understand, don't you know if the defence was not great the attack will be shaken, Mendy and alaba works their sucks off, Rudiger show us what Chelsea were missing since the season start, true be told if courtois was on the goal post, Barcelona won't have seen a single goal in that game.

[kro55]

Could it be said that Barcelona's previous opponents were on a different level? Real Madrid don't need how strong they are defensively, but they showed how effective they are in attack. I saw nothing special about what Real Madrid played, but they were able to calm down and make the game a win for them. Carlo Ancelotti's philosophy of football is nothing special again, but they are able to make the audience believe in them.

Alaba, Mendy, Militao, Carvajal and Rudiger will mad when they read this
Although they don't get a spotlight from the medias, it doesn't mean they're just an average defenders who play football. Actually the defenders on this match is really good since they're really make Barcelona's striker hard to shoot on the target since Courtois is injured, Lunin is just a substitute goal keeper who only play against weak club. If Courtois isn't injured, the match will end 3-0 since the goal from Barcelona is a mistake from the Real Madrid's goal keeper who play bad.

How can you say real Madrid didn't played well defensively, I thought everyone will be praising the real Madrid defence today, here you are talking what I don't understand, don't you know if the defence was not great the attack will be shaken, Mendy and alaba works their sucks off, Rudiger show us what Chelsea were missing since the season start, true be told if courtois was on the goal post, Barcelona won't have seen a single goal in that game.

Real Madrid's defense was not good? Seriously?! I am very surprised to hear this. I would say that Real Madrid won this match only because of the excellent performance of their defenders and goalkeeper. Barcelona players attacked a lot. And every attack was successfully blocked by Real Madrid's defenders and goalkeepers. Had the defenders not performed well, this match would have been a 3-3 draw. However, at the top of the table now is Real Madrid. They are 3 points ahead of Barcelona. Madrid will be able to hold the top spot for a long time.

[EdenHazard]

Could it be said that Barcelona's previous opponents were on a different level? Real Madrid don't need how strong they are defensively, but they showed how effective they are in attack. I saw nothing special about what Real Madrid played, but they were able to calm down and make the game a win for them. Carlo Ancelotti's philosophy of football is nothing special again, but they are able to make the audience believe in them.

Alaba, Mendy, Militao, Carvajal and Rudiger will mad when they read this

Although they don't get a spotlight from the medias, it doesn't mean they're just an average defenders who play football. Actually the defenders on this match is really good since they're really make Barcelona's striker hard to shoot on the target since Courtois is injured, Lunin is just a substitute goal keeper who only play against weak club. If Courtois isn't injured, the match will end 3-0 since the goal from Barcelona is a mistake from the Real Madrid's goal keeper who play bad.

How can you say real Madrid didn't played well defensively, I thought everyone will be praising the real Madrid defence today, here you are talking what I don't understand, don't you know if the defence was not great the attack will be shaken, Mendy and alaba works their sucks off, Rudiger show us what Chelsea were missing since the season start, true be told if courtois was on the goal post, Barcelona won't have seen a single goal in that game.

El classico is el classico , both teams always play really great to entertain the entire football fans in the world ... but when it comes to a battle of opinions from real madrid fans and barcelona fans , nothing objective .. it's all about the die-hard football fanatic talk to defend their own dignity.

Barcelona did great to be more dominating the game but real madrid had the better result at the end of the 90minutes of these heating match.

[KTChampions]

Precisely. Without the goals, I give it to Barcelona, they played slightly better. And I would not call the victory of Real luck either. They did it too against Liverpool in the Champions League and in some other games.

And in terms of defense, Barcelona is formidable allowing only 1 goal. While at the same time in 8 league games, Real allowed all their 7 opposing teams to score except 1. Barcelona really struggled with their timing and barely scored a goal.

It looks like copium on max  Sorry, no offense 
Why do you only consider games in La Liga where Barcelona had one strong opponent? Maybe it's worth considering Barcelona's games only against strong opponents if you think that Barcelona is close to them? And in this case we see 0-2 with Bayern, 0-1 with Inter, 3-3 with Inter (where a draw is tantamount to defeat) and 1-3 with Real. Now the picture looks a little different, doesn't it?

[koang]

Barcelona loves playing fancy and entertaining football which is not benefiting when you are losing or needs a win.They really played well but couldn't win the match.Real Madrid are goals hunters they believe more in scoring goals than ball possession. Playing at home also gave them an advantage which they made us of properly. Benzema is a wonderful striker,he has scored 12 goals and assisted 9 goals so far for Real Madrid against Barca in 37 matches in all competitions. 3-1 is a big win. In recent seven matches played between both clubs Madrid has win 6 out of 7 in all competitions.

The reason for Barcelona's loss in the last three matches was due to the Bad choice of players
and Xavi's inability to read the opponent well before the confrontation.
But Barca still has a chance to win La Liga but no hope for UCL, Unless a miracle happens.

I'm convinced that Barca is bigger than Xavi's potential, unfortunately.

[CryptoBuds]

Precisely. Without the goals, I give it to Barcelona, they played slightly better. And I would not call the victory of Real luck either. They did it too against Liverpool in the Champions League and in some other games.
And in terms of defense, Barcelona is formidable allowing only 1 goal. While at the same time in 8 league games, Real allowed all their 7 opposing teams to score except 1. Barcelona really struggled with their timing and barely scored a goal.

It looks like copium on max  Sorry, no offense 
Why do you only consider games in La Liga where Barcelona had one strong opponent? Maybe it's worth considering Barcelona's games only against strong opponents if you think that Barcelona is close to them? And in this case we see 0-2 with Bayern, 0-1 with Inter, 3-3 with Inter (where a draw is tantamount to defeat) and 1-3 with Real. Now the picture looks a little different, doesn't it?

The Barcelona team is not strong yet. We must accept this. Barcelona have played well in La Liga because they don't face strong opponents. Barcelona's squad has already proven how effective it is against strong teams. Barcelona dropped points against all three teams, Bayern Munich, Inter Milan and Madrid. And their defense was very weak. While Xavi has focused on strengthening his attack, he has not strengthened his defence. As a result, Barcelona cannot play well against strong teams.

[Tumanggor]

Barcelona loves playing fancy and entertaining football which is not benefiting when you are losing or needs a win.They really played well but couldn't win the match.Real Madrid are goals hunters they believe more in scoring goals than ball possession. Playing at home also gave them an advantage which they made us of properly. Benzema is a wonderful striker,he has scored 12 goals and assisted 9 goals so far for Real Madrid against Barca in 37 matches in all competitions. 3-1 is a big win. In recent seven matches played between both clubs Madrid has win 6 out of 7 in all competitions.

The reason for Barcelona's loss in the last three matches was due to the Bad choice of players
and Xavi's inability to read the opponent well before the confrontation.
But Barca still has a chance to win La Liga but no hope for UCL, Unless a miracle happens.

I'm convinced that Barca is bigger than Xavi's potential, unfortunately.

Barca's journey in La Liga is still very long because in the future Barca will face opponents who are not so strong and have to hope that Madrid make mistakes in order to shift their position at the top of the standings

but for the champions league, barca's hopes are really small, it's impossible for inter to lose that easily, currently barca's position in group C is in 3rd place and the chance of going down to the european league is very big

[nara1892]

Barcelona loves playing fancy and entertaining football which is not benefiting when you are losing or needs a win.They really played well but couldn't win the match.Real Madrid are goals hunters they believe more in scoring goals than ball possession. Playing at home also gave them an advantage which they made us of properly. Benzema is a wonderful striker,he has scored 12 goals and assisted 9 goals so far for Real Madrid against Barca in 37 matches in all competitions. 3-1 is a big win. In recent seven matches played between both clubs Madrid has win 6 out of 7 in all competitions.

The reason for Barcelona's loss in the last three matches was due to the Bad choice of players
and Xavi's inability to read the opponent well before the confrontation.
But Barca still has a chance to win La Liga but no hope for UCL, Unless a miracle happens.

I'm convinced that Barca is bigger than Xavi's potential, unfortunately.

The selection of players is poor because Xavi does not have a coating that is able to fill the vacancies of several positions left. That means that their squad is not evenly distributed, but rather they are only strong when key players are still playable and when they are not playable it creates quite an open gap in the line-up. Honestly, I don't like the Barcelona style of play that doesn't dare to make more diverse attacks from various lines. Also they are very difficult to shoot from long range to create chances. That's one of Barcelona's weaknesses that I see.

[Balmain]

Barcelona loves playing fancy and entertaining football which is not benefiting when you are losing or needs a win.They really played well but couldn't win the match.Real Madrid are goals hunters they believe more in scoring goals than ball possession. Playing at home also gave them an advantage which they made us of properly. Benzema is a wonderful striker,he has scored 12 goals and assisted 9 goals so far for Real Madrid against Barca in 37 matches in all competitions. 3-1 is a big win. In recent seven matches played between both clubs Madrid has win 6 out of 7 in all competitions.

The reason for Barcelona's loss in the last three matches was due to the Bad choice of players
and Xavi's inability to read the opponent well before the confrontation.
But Barca still has a chance to win La Liga but no hope for UCL, Unless a miracle happens.

I'm convinced that Barca is bigger than Xavi's potential, unfortunately.

Choosing such a large cast is a really difficult task. Xavi has a hard time choosing a player. For El-Clasico, Real Madrid has a very well-grounded squad. They do not play a dominant game, but they are completely result oriented. Xavi needs to strengthen his own team's defense or as long as that happens, it seems very difficult to win against tough opponents. I'm still hopeful for Xavi and Barcelona, but as a game. They don't have many options left for the Champions League and the League.

[Lordhermes]

Barcelona apparently failed to be a smiling team at the end of the El Clasico match which took place at the Santiago Bernabeu, Madrid's home ground.

IMO, I think Xavi repeats his mistake again so that his troops must be willing to be conquered by Los Blancos.
actually there are a lot of chances they have, it's just that their finishing is very poor. in the defensive line, they often ignore the movements of opposing players, as a result, Benzama and Valverde who scored in the match were able to shoot comfortably without an escort.
However, what deserves appreciation in this match is Madrid's very solid midfield. as a result, Madrid returned to the top of the La Liga standings.

this is inseparable from the poor performance of Barcelona in the last few matches and in this EL CLasico match it was proven that Real Madrid can play more comfortably without being burdened so that they can bring out all their best games.
this is not an unexpected result, for now the Real Madrid team is indeed better than Barcelona in all aspects.

and at the moment Real Madrid are the only team in La Liga that are unbeaten this season, they are really very strong and consistent. I think with the squad they have at the moment it will be difficult for other teams to break their dominance.

It was indeed not an unexpected result. It was so obvious that Real Madrid will win because they play better football and has a more aggressive attack. But at a time I had a double mind about the match because Barcelona is already on their way out of the champions league, I thought that they will therefore give their best in the Laliga which is the only major trophy they will chase this year. But my thoughts failed me.

I wasn't surprised by the outcome since I knew Barcelona couldn't compete with Madrid. Madrid will undoubtedly win La Liga this season, and Barcelona will likely struggle to finish in the top four. Assume they will fire Xavi and appoint a new management. A team without strategies, and Xavi is out of ideas. Busquet is now not fit to play, therefore I'm curious what he's doing on this Xavi team.