La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

[Velvet78]

Barcelona - Villarreal is an interesting game tonight.

Barcelona lost a game finally after many weeks. The El Clasico loss might affect them badly maybe but I still expect them to improve their performance against Villarreal. Villarreal are still struggling with injuries and this will make things even more difficult for them here. Barcelona need to win to prevent the point gap with Real Madrid from increasing more. They lost to Villarreal in Camp Nou in their last head-to-head game. But I expect Barcelona to make up for that by getting a win. I've added their win @1.46 to my betslip.

[Pesona1]

Don't forget, Benzema scored 3 goals, but only one counts. In minute 6 and minute 60 both goals were disallowed for offside... Beznema maybe despaired. But in the 75 minute his goal counts. It was a game of the best against the worst in the league and that 3-0 is okay... there are 3 points and the next game on 22.10. vs FC Sevilla becomes difficult.

the match against Elche was very good by Madrid. no surprise they scored more than 3 goals. what is surprising is the number of shots that Madrid did against Elche. they don't get so many chances for finishing. but with 7 shots on target, they already got the full 3 points.

Against Elche is not a difficult match for Madrid, because the quality of the two squads is very different and I think if Madrid had played the reserves maybe they would also have won easily against Elche, the additional 3 points obtained from Elche in week 10 now makes Madrid is very firmly at the top of the standings with a difference of 6 points from barcelona, today we will see the match between Barcelona and Villareal and I am quite curious if Barcelona can again cut the distance with Madrid.

[LordShanken]

Xavi is not a bad coach but the crop of fans in football these days are not faithful to give any coach plenty of time. The overall playing style and quality of Barcelona team has improved. It is that Barcelona was not lucky in the Champions League, I don't know how it happened. But atleast Barcelona was expected to finish second behind Bayern if they cannot top the table. If fans have started to chant Xavi out, just know that is it a bad sign and can make Xavi loose confidence.

I also think Barcelona has improved a lot
I don't know if he will be able to scratch Real Madrid but I think he will have a fairly easy life against villareal
that is, in my opinion, Barcelona wins easily

it will probably be a good match too

I personally cannot be happy with Barcelona. Because they are winning well with smaller teams but when they are playing against good teams like Real Madrid, Bayern Munich they are losing. They need to fix these flaws very soon. Otherwise they will fail to get anything good.

[Z-tight]

Xavi understands the precariousness of his position and, judging by his latest interview, he is calm about his possible dismissal. He said that he would be sympathetic to the dismissal because Barcelona must fight for trophies and the head coach must achieve this. Now every unsuccessful game can be the last straw - even in La Liga, even in the Champions League. Everyone expects Barcelona to win and not just “regular” like over Villarreal, where the victory is “must be” but also in the next game with Bayern, even if this does not affect the outcome of the group stage.

Xavi knows that with the kind of money the owners spent this summer, what people expect from the club will rise too, and the coach has to deliver that, barcelona are expected to win almost every game and even if nobody expected them to win the champions league, but getting eliminated in the group stage cannot be acceptable by the fans and the owners of the club, when their elimination from the champions league is confirmed that is when Xavi will understand how impatient everyone will be with him, and by then it is only winning the La Liga that can change things for him, he helped them very well last season, but there must be progress in this season, or he will be fired very soon.

[skarais]

Against Elche is not a difficult match for Madrid, because the quality of the two squads is very different and I think if Madrid had played the reserves maybe they would also have won easily against Elche, the additional 3 points obtained from Elche in week 10 now makes Madrid is very firmly at the top of the standings with a difference of 6 points from barcelona,

Although it was actually an easy match for Real Madrid, I think they also struggled to score more than 1 goal during the first half to the middle of the second half. Real Madrid managed to score the second goal in the 75th minute and the third goal in the last 2 minutes of normal time before the match ended. Real Madrid's total points are now 28, and they are an unbeaten team until week 10.

today we will see the match between Barcelona and Villareal and I am quite curious if Barcelona can again cut the distance with Madrid.

I think Barcelona will struggle in this match considering Villarreal are the strongest team conceding 3 goals in their last 9 match. A strong defense is the best capital to face Barcelona, ​​but I think Barcelona are still the favorites in this match.

[LordShanken]

Barcelona - Villarreal is an interesting game tonight.

Barcelona lost a game finally after many weeks. The El Clasico loss might affect them badly maybe but I still expect them to improve their performance against Villarreal. Villarreal are still struggling with injuries and this will make things even more difficult for them here. Barcelona need to win to prevent the point gap with Real Madrid from increasing more. They lost to Villarreal in Camp Nou in their last head-to-head game. But I expect Barcelona to make up for that by getting a win. I've added their win @1.46 to my betslip.

You can be sure that Barcelona will beat Villarreal. Because they are a much better team than Villarreal. But Villarreal will try to take advantage of Barcelona's defense weakness. But I think Villarreal will play defensively to get a draw.

[KTChampions]

It would be better to play in EL and win it rather than leaving in the next stages imo. Barcelona has a lot of good players and potentials, yet they failed to use the maximum of its capacity. Real Madrid players have more confidence. 3-0 vs Elche, with Benzema scoring his first goal in the first match post Ballon d'Or.
For me I was surprised today when I found Rayo scoring a late goal against ATM. They just lost 2 points at the end of the game..
Barcelona will face tomorrow Villarreal. Odds are better for Barcelona obviously.

If I remember correctly, the financial profit from playing in the Europa League is five times less than from playing in the Champions League, so it is more profitable to get into the playoffs of the Champions League than to win the Europa League. In addition, where did you get the idea that Barcelona can win the Europa League "on order"? Arsenal, United, Roma, etc. have plans for this 

[Getmon]

Barcelona - Villarreal is an interesting game tonight.

Barcelona lost a game finally after many weeks. The El Clasico loss might affect them badly maybe but I still expect them to improve their performance against Villarreal. Villarreal are still struggling with injuries and this will make things even more difficult for them here. Barcelona need to win to prevent the point gap with Real Madrid from increasing more. They lost to Villarreal in Camp Nou in their last head-to-head game. But I expect Barcelona to make up for that by getting a win. I've added their win @1.46 to my betslip.

You can be sure that Barcelona will beat Villarreal. Because they are a much better team than Villarreal. But Villarreal will try to take advantage of Barcelona's defense weakness. But I think Villarreal will play defensively to get a draw.

A draw is also in my mind. Barcelona has its own injuries that limit the options of Xavi. Villareal in its ten La Liga games only gave up three goals in three games. If Barcelona has not moved on from their prior defeat at El Clasico this will be a draw or 1-1. But if the fans at Camp Nou can lift the morale of their players, they can sink the Yellow Submarine by 1-0, 2-0 or 2-1. I also think Villareal will play defensively so I just took the under 3.5 market @1.60.

[Jody.Drummer]

It would be better to play in EL and win it rather than leaving in the next stages imo. Barcelona has a lot of good players and potentials, yet they failed to use the maximum of its capacity. Real Madrid players have more confidence. 3-0 vs Elche, with Benzema scoring his first goal in the first match post Ballon d'Or.
For me I was surprised today when I found Rayo scoring a late goal against ATM. They just lost 2 points at the end of the game..
Barcelona will face tomorrow Villarreal. Odds are better for Barcelona obviously.

If I remember correctly, the financial profit from playing in the Europa League is five times less than from playing in the Champions League, so it is more profitable to get into the playoffs of the Champions League than to win the Europa League. In addition, where did you get the idea that Barcelona can win the Europa League "on order"? Arsenal, United, Roma, etc. have plans for this 

This is true but don't know for sure how many things are for sure when Barcelona are in the Europa League they will have to lose again and if you look at them last season with a loss of almost 17 million because they failed to advance to the last 16 phase.

As for now I read some news that says if Barcelona qualify for the round of 16 then the profit is around 125 million and most likely this will go and be replaced with the europa League which will only get income of 20 million. Obviously the comparison is quite far.

A draw is also in my mind. Barcelona has its own injuries that limit the options of Xavi. Villareal in its ten La Liga games only gave up three goals in three games. If Barcelona has not moved on from their prior defeat at El Clasico this will be a draw or 1-1. But if the fans at Camp Nou can lift the morale of their players, they can sink the Yellow Submarine by 1-0, 2-0 or 2-1. I also think Villareal will play defensively so I just took the under 3.5 market @1.60.

Currently only Christensen, Depay and Araujo are undergoing treatment, the rest of them have recovered and this clearly must be a reference because now they can play back Kounde and De Jong which will add to their pounding power in this match.

[dwminer1]

Today's match Barcelona vs Villarreal looks very interesting. The visitors were in weaker form lately, but in the last game they finally won against Osasuna and it seems that they are forgetting about the crisis. They badly need points if they still dream of reaching the Champions League. Barcelona's goal is unchanged: competing with Real for the Spanish championship. After yesterday's matches Barcelona's loss to the leader is already 6 points, so Barcelona must win in today's match.

[MuffinMaster]

Today's match Barcelona vs Villarreal looks very interesting. The visitors were in weaker form lately, but in the last game they finally won against Osasuna and it seems that they are forgetting about the crisis. They badly need points if they still dream of reaching the Champions League. Barcelona's goal is unchanged: competing with Real for the Spanish championship. After yesterday's matches Barcelona's loss to the leader is already 6 points, so Barcelona must win in today's match.

You are correct. The match between Barcelona and Villarreal will be great. Everyone will favor Barcelona in this match, as they are in better form than Villarreal. Barcelona's team has the power to beat smaller teams easily. Xavi will need to implement more tactics to take Barcelona to the best position.

[Alanaz]

Today's match Barcelona vs Villarreal looks very interesting. The visitors were in weaker form lately, but in the last game they finally won against Osasuna and it seems that they are forgetting about the crisis. They badly need points if they still dream of reaching the Champions League. Barcelona's goal is unchanged: competing with Real for the Spanish championship. After yesterday's matches Barcelona's loss to the leader is already 6 points, so Barcelona must win in today's match.

currently Villarreal are still stuck in 7th position because they have lost a lot of points in the 5 matches they run.
Against Barcelona, it is clear that Villarreal will do defensively as Emery usually does when facing big teams.
Osasuna's victory should be a trigger for them at least they should be able to take one point even though this is difficult.

[Adbitco]

Today's match Barcelona vs Villarreal looks very interesting. The visitors were in weaker form lately, but in the last game they finally won against Osasuna and it seems that they are forgetting about the crisis. They badly need points if they still dream of reaching the Champions League. Barcelona's goal is unchanged: competing with Real for the Spanish championship. After yesterday's matches Barcelona's loss to the leader is already 6 points, so Barcelona must win in today's match.

You are correct. The match between Barcelona and Villarreal will be great. Everyone will favor Barcelona in this match, as they are in better form than Villarreal. Barcelona's team has the power to beat smaller teams easily. Xavi will need to implement more tactics to take Barcelona to the best position.

Is there anything I m missing?
I thought match is to start by
17:55 for Almeria v Girona
19:55 for Barcelona v V' Real.
Please correct me if I m wrong, I m using app to stream live matches most at time some past matches will be showing me live, therefore I have to do some clear cache for me to get the current matches.

[makishart]

Today's match Barcelona vs Villarreal looks very interesting. The visitors were in weaker form lately, but in the last game they finally won against Osasuna and it seems that they are forgetting about the crisis. They badly need points if they still dream of reaching the Champions League. Barcelona's goal is unchanged: competing with Real for the Spanish championship. After yesterday's matches Barcelona's loss to the leader is already 6 points, so Barcelona must win in today's match.

currently Villarreal are still stuck in 7th position because they have lost a lot of points in the 5 matches they run.
Against Barcelona, it is clear that Villarreal will do defensively as Emery usually does when facing big teams.
Osasuna's victory should be a trigger for them at least they should be able to take one point even though this is difficult.

It seems like that villareal needs to use counter attack strategy against barcelona. Villareal is still facing hard time with its performance. In my opinion if barcelona will be getting full points, there is always a chance for villareal to win against barcelona but i think that it's having a small chance. The fact that if barcelona is always having a tough game when it must have faced a fully defensive team. tiki taka strategy is not effective to face the fully defensive strategy.
Long pass strategy may become a good thing for that but i doubt barcelona's player has capability to do that.

[Google+]

Barcelona - Villarreal is an interesting game tonight.

Barcelona lost a game finally after many weeks. The El Clasico loss might affect them badly maybe but I still expect them to improve their performance against Villarreal. Villarreal are still struggling with injuries and this will make things even more difficult for them here. Barcelona need to win to prevent the point gap with Real Madrid from increasing more. They lost to Villarreal in Camp Nou in their last head-to-head game. But I expect Barcelona to make up for that by getting a win. I've added their win @1.46 to my betslip.

You can be sure that Barcelona will beat Villarreal. Because they are a much better team than Villarreal. But Villarreal will try to take advantage of Barcelona's defense weakness. But I think Villarreal will play defensively to get a draw.

On paper Barcelona are superior in all aspects over Villarreal in the 10th meeting in Jordana this season so it is very natural that some posts from members of this forum are more in favor of Barcelona will be able to win this match and of course strong support is the atmosphere at Camp Nou which can be a strong grip  Barcelona will be able to secure 3 points in the match against Villarrel. In addition, Villarreal, who are the guests in this match, of course they will try to give a tough fight in this match, especially the defense line will be the focus of Unai Emery to withstand the onslaught of attacks from Lewandowski et al.

[aylabadia05]

After losing to Real Madrid, Barcelona clearly wants to win against Villarreal. I also have a prediction that Barcelona will win.
Learning from the defeat when they were beaten by Real Madrid, Barcelona must improve their defense, which is their weak point in my opinion.
Villareal came to Camp Nou with the winning spirit obtained when they beat Osasuna 2-0 in their last match.

It will not be easy for Barcelona to get the desired victory, although Barcelona is considered to have quality above Villarreal this season which makes Barcelona the favorite to win.


At this matchday, I will not mention the results obtained by Villarreal against Barcelona last season because Barcelona's condition had slumped in the middle of the season before Xavi replaced Ronald Koeman as coach.
This season Villarreal have had great results away from home. From 9 matches, Unai Emery's team managed to get 8 points in away matches. These statistics must be considered by Barcelona.

[Davidvictorson]

Don't forget, Benzema scored 3 goals, but only one counts. In minute 6 and minute 60 both goals were disallowed for offside... Beznema maybe despaired. But in the 75 minute his goal counts. It was a game of the best against the worst in the league and that 3-0 is okay... there are 3 points and the next game on 22.10. vs FC Sevilla becomes difficult.

I don't even know if VAR technology makes winning in football easier or more difficult. Imagine 3 goals disallowed? I can only imagine how frustrated Benzema would have felt. I felt really happy when, through sheer persistence, Benzema found the back of the net this time and sort of made a mockery of the VAR. In sum, I believe that the VAR helps weak teams with porous defence.

[sana54210]

Barcelona - Villarreal is an interesting game tonight.

Barcelona lost a game finally after many weeks. The El Clasico loss might affect them badly maybe but I still expect them to improve their performance against Villarreal. Villarreal are still struggling with injuries and this will make things even more difficult for them here. Barcelona need to win to prevent the point gap with Real Madrid from increasing more. They lost to Villarreal in Camp Nou in their last head-to-head game. But I expect Barcelona to make up for that by getting a win. I've added their win @1.46 to my betslip.

You can be sure that Barcelona will beat Villarreal. Because they are a much better team than Villarreal. But Villarreal will try to take advantage of Barcelona's defense weakness. But I think Villarreal will play defensively to get a draw.

If Villareal ends up playing to Barcelona’s defensive weakness, but also want to play defensively, they could do what smaller clubs have done against bigger clubs for decades and play counter attack system.

Have 2 fast wingers who come back to help with the wing backs, and could run very fast to help on attacks, have one striker who can shoot well but also a good passer, and that mean you could defend all game, and if you get the ball then just pass it long and hope that those three could somehow score. That has been the tactic for smaller clubs for many years so far and I am guessing that it will be what Villareal will play with in this game as well, no brainer decision.

[Slow death]

I don't think so. In football, there are no easy games.
Every match is crucial for Barca because, after October 30th, there will be XaviOut or Xaviball.
Barcelona risked it all. Lost El Clasico and a dramatic draw with Inter Milan gave Barcelona a lifeline.
Now, Villareal. Hopefully, Barca doesn't lose and qualify for the round of 16. Let's wait and see the score.

Xavi understands the precariousness of his position and, judging by his latest interview, he is calm about his possible dismissal. He said that he would be sympathetic to the dismissal because Barcelona must fight for trophies and the head coach must achieve this. Now every unsuccessful game can be the last straw - even in La Liga, even in the Champions League. Everyone expects Barcelona to win and not just “regular” like over Villarreal, where the victory is “must be” but also in the next game with Bayern, even if this does not affect the outcome of the group stage.

sometimes people complain for no reason, let's see the current statistics from barcelon:



barcelona played 9 games and had 7 wins, 1 draw and only one loss. scored 21 goals and conceded only 4 goals

even real madrid conceded 8 goals, and twice as many goals as barcelona conceded, I'm a fan of real madrid but I think people shouldn't exaggerate talking about things like firing xavi, barcelona is having good results, and that's it It's a fact. people's problem is that they want to see barcelona being superior to real madrid to the point of having a big difference in points, but that is an exaggeration, since years there was always time when real madrid won and other times fell and the barcelona would win and at other times fall.

tiki taka strategy is not effective to face the fully defensive strategy.

I think it's time for Barcelona to forget about old strategies and focus on creating new strategies, soccer also evolves in terms of strategies, so Barcelona needs to play thinking about scoring goals and not about finishing the game with greater possession of the ball. , it's even preferable to be a team that doesn't have the majority of possession of the ball but that scores many goals, it's no use having a beautiful soccer  when at the end of the game they lose. what matters in soccer  Is scoring goals and winning the game

[Sterbens]

Today's match Barcelona vs Villarreal looks very interesting. The visitors were in weaker form lately, but in the last game they finally won against Osasuna and it seems that they are forgetting about the crisis. They badly need points if they still dream of reaching the Champions League. Barcelona's goal is unchanged: competing with Real for the Spanish championship. After yesterday's matches Barcelona's loss to the leader is already 6 points, so Barcelona must win in today's match.

Even though Barcelona's game has decreased, their opponents Villarreal are also in the same condition even worse than what Barcelona experienced. They should be able to win this match so as not to be further adrift than real Madrid who won the match first this week. Now the distance of 6 points will be difficult for them to catch if in this match they do not get 3 points.