La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2024/25

[reagansimms]

Benzema is indeed a top priority at Real Madrid, but Carlo Ancelotti should not depend on Benzema alone because they have many players that can be used to work well together. The two teams are fighting very fiercely, so this will be a match that is highly anticipated for taking first place at the top of the La Liga standings.

It’s no secret that Benzema is a deadly force at Real Madrid and a goal scoring machine for the club. His position at the club has been and is still very much invaluable.
But that doesn’t mean they should depend on his skill set alone. The game is played by 11 players on the pitch and it takes the efforts of all to successfully win a game. Real Madrid has great players with a great game play as well. A very formidable team and with Benzema, the goals would just keep pouring in as he’s a goal magnet.

I doubt that this season Benzema will be able to maintain his performance as shown last season, Benzema is getting older and injuries have started to happen to him frequently. Real Madrid has started to take steps to find a replacement for Benzema, this does not mean that Real Madrid no longer relies on Benzema in their squad. Early anticipation needs to be done if something unexpected happens to Benzema again.

Last season Real Madrid relied heavily on Benzema. When he was not available, it was very difficult for other players to replace Benzema role and Real Madrid number of goals decreased slightly when Benzema was unable to play. I hope Real Madrid are able to bring in Mbappe in the transfer market to complete their squad when Benzema is not on the pitch, Mbappe has shown his quality in the world cup and fits perfectly in Real Madrid front line.

[TheGreatPython]

Barcelona does not need a complete overhaul at this moment. But they would have needed a complete overhaul if we were talking about six months or one year ago. Right now, the situation in Barcelona has stabilized a little bit and Barcelona is performing well in La Liga. That is something to be proud of for Barcelona right now, especially after what they have been through in the last couple of years. But right now I don’t think they need an overhaul. They just need a few good defenders on the team. And I also agree that they will also need players in the team so that there are good replacements for players getting injured. And I hope that Barcelona is trying to fix its financial problems as well.

Why do you think that Barcelona need good defenders? Barcelona conceded 5 goals in 14 games, this is the best defense in La Liga. They are followed by Betis in this indicator, they conceded 12 goals, do you understand how reliable Barcelona's defense is? Their attack also shares a leading position with Real, they scored 33 goals in 14 matches, they are doing great. There are still financial problems, but gradually they will be able to solve them, they also have a good bench, maybe Xavi just needs more time.

I am also feeling they still have one of the toughest defence in La Liga because they are surely done amazing stuff in all their early matches and not allowed any team to break their defence and give them any problem in last five matches just one goal from Osasuna and all other teams not able to done any serious threat is giving all report about how things working in this season even in Champions League they were not good enough, but hopefully they will fix and bring better results in the coming years under the Xavi leadership which is working hard for bringing bad glory days.

Now in January they are trying to sell their few players for solving their finances issues because things are still looking not good, and they have fixed this all otherwise this can bring more troubles and their hard work could be ruin due to this all.

[arimamib]

Modric will retire very soon or another possible thing for the contract of modrid will not be extended by real madrid's management due to the his age. I think that madrid was eyeing bellingham caused by he has potential to replace modric.
Madrid has some names that will be potentially to be replacement for madrid. Madrid consider modric won't play even longer in madrid. I think that the team management has been thinking about that.
That's why madrid was eyeing some young talented players from another club like dortmund.

I agree because most chances end of this season is going to be end of Luka Modrić here for Real Madrid as well because management is already having few players under their radar for the possible replacement, and they are doing all their efforts for bringing them in squad because they don't want to waste their time and right now they are hot favourite for the Jude Bellingham transfer from Dortmund and few other options are also in progress which will be also appeared soon even we can expect few signings in January as well because they are defending their two titles and right now things looking not good for them after having few poor results and losing top spot against rival Barcelona before this world cup.

Luka Modrić is already 37 and after end of this season and early days of the next season he could be 38 which mean they will be not going to renew his contract and want to bring his suitable replacement for the next season which is nothing new because he has already done enough for this club in last ten years.

His aging does not make Modric stay at Real Madrid any longer, his time with Real Madrid will end soon when his contract expires. Real Madrid will not bid a new contract for a player who will be 38 years old when he enters next season, moreover Perez does not like players who have passed their golden age in the Real Madrid squad.
Players who are deemed unable to contribute will soon be sold or their contracts will not be renewed, Modric can retire with Real Madrid as a form of love for the club he has defended for a long time, he also deserves to become a Real Madrid legend.

[BALIK]

Barcelona doesn't have much fun bringing in new players. I would buy the idea if you say to exchange them. But right now there aren't many players to exçhage because already the team is still competing in different leagues. Though there isn't much problem with any arm of the team than the defense. I think the team might move to another height if the management can bring in a vibrant central defender to cover up for Sergio Bosquet and a young defensive midfielder to cover up for Jordi Alba who is already 33 years old. Infact, the whole members of Barcelona's defense are 30 years and above which is quite unhealthy for the team.

There are many rumors that always link Barcelona with several newcomers, despite the fact that Barcelona is experiencing serious financial problems. however, that did not stop Xavi from hunting for players in the upcoming January transfer window. we do not know which players will be included in Barcelona's sale list and which players are the target to be brought to Camp Nou. however, if Xavi insists on bringing in newcomers. like it or not, Barcelona had to sell some of its players. and the one with the most high transfer value is De Jong. or maybe Barcelona will also include Ferran Torres, on their selling list in January.
For the defense line, actually Barcelona already has it, it's just that they need more high discipline. after all, Barcelona can maximize the potential of their young players. maybe we agree with Sergio Busquet, it looks like Xavi has to replace him even though Barcelona actually has several options. one more thing, Xavi must maximize his strategy. specifically increasing the potential of their wingers, Raphinha has not contributed much.
I hope, in the second half of this season he has strong chemistry and bonding. overall, there is a lot that Xavi has to fix especially since he is targeting two trophies at once this season.

I do not understand why Barcelona does not sell the players that they are playing very rarely.  That alone is going to make them a lot of money. I have no idea how Xavi will be able to bring new players to their team in this transfer market. Because Barcelona do not have any money at all. They are in huge amounts of debt.  If anything Barcelona will have to think about how to save money and make money right now. Which they are obviously not doing at this moment. Sergio Busquets is a player that Barcelona should get rid of right now. I do not think that he is providing too much help to the team right now. But he is taking a huge amount of salary. In his place, Barcelona can get other players who are better and younger.

[makishart]

the Real Madrid vs Valladolid match and the Barcelona vs Espanyol match seem a bit easy to predict. because the match should be a fairly easy game for Barcelona and Real madrid. But I am a little interested in the match between Villareal vs Valencia. Villareal is ranked 9th in the standings with 21 points acquired. while Valencia is ranked 10th in the standings with 19 points acquired. I think this match will be a little interesting. and it will also be a fierce match. but what's unique is that when Villareal fights Valencia, the match always ends with one of them losing or winning and rarely a draw.

Those were easy matches to be predicted. I think that barcelona and real madrid will be adding more points easily without any doubt caused by espanyol and valladolid were performing so bad. Villareal against valencia become hardest match to predict caused by the performance from villareal quite the same like valencia. Both were having small gaps of points in the la liga standing. I think that villareal may be winning the match but who knows.
The game from real madrid and barcelona didn't even need any effort to predict which will be winning the match. It seems like there will be no interesting match to be watched. Barcelona and madrid face easy opponents.

[onecall123]

Barcelona doesn't have much fun bringing in new players. I would buy the idea if you say to exchange them. But right now there aren't many players to exçhage because already the team is still competing in different leagues. Though there isn't much problem with any arm of the team than the defense. I think the team might move to another height if the management can bring in a vibrant central defender to cover up for Sergio Bosquet and a young defensive midfielder to cover up for Jordi Alba who is already 33 years old. Infact, the whole members of Barcelona's defense are 30 years and above which is quite unhealthy for the team.

There are many rumors that always link Barcelona with several newcomers, despite the fact that Barcelona is experiencing serious financial problems. however, that did not stop Xavi from hunting for players in the upcoming January transfer window. we do not know which players will be included in Barcelona's sale list and which players are the target to be brought to Camp Nou. however, if Xavi insists on bringing in newcomers. like it or not, Barcelona had to sell some of its players. and the one with the most high transfer value is De Jong. or maybe Barcelona will also include Ferran Torres, on their selling list in January.
For the defense line, actually Barcelona already has it, it's just that they need more high discipline. after all, Barcelona can maximize the potential of their young players. maybe we agree with Sergio Busquet, it looks like Xavi has to replace him even though Barcelona actually has several options. one more thing, Xavi must maximize his strategy. specifically increasing the potential of their wingers, Raphinha has not contributed much.
I hope, in the second half of this season he has strong chemistry and bonding. overall, there is a lot that Xavi has to fix especially since he is targeting two trophies at once this season.

I do not understand why Barcelona does not sell the players that they are playing very rarely.  That alone is going to make them a lot of money. I have no idea how Xavi will be able to bring new players to their team in this transfer market. Because Barcelona do not have any money at all. They are in huge amounts of debt.  If anything Barcelona will have to think about how to save money and make money right now. Which they are obviously not doing at this moment. Sergio Busquets is a player that Barcelona should get rid of right now. I do not think that he is providing too much help to the team right now. But he is taking a huge amount of salary. In his place, Barcelona can get other players who are better and younger.

The team has a lot of players, but only a few are playing very rarely. In addition to selling unused players, Barcelona will enhance the teams' rosters by introducing young midfielders and defenders. Sergio Busquets won many titles for Barcelona. There was a time when he was one of the best midfielders at Barcelona. However, you need to move on to better options. If this continues, I don't think Barcelona has a chance to be champions. With these Catalan councils of elders, Barcelona could not win trophies. Signing players who are younger and better would have been a good move for Barcelona.

[bering]

But I am a little interested in the match between Villareal vs Valencia. Villareal is ranked 9th in the standings with 21 points acquired. while Valencia is ranked 10th in the standings with 19 points acquired. I think this match will be a little interesting. and it will also be a fierce match. but what's unique is that when Villareal fights Valencia, the match always ends with one of them losing or winning and rarely a draw.

The position for both of teams is not so different with Villarreal slightly better than Valencia and their recent performance too looks similar so this match is hard to predicted and apparently Villarreal new manager Quique Setien still looking for the best formula for this team because since he arrived Villarreal still cannot performing well in Laliga but since world cup tournament Villarreal has several friendly matches and the results was very satisfied because they can beat big clubs such as Napoli or Galatasaray and i know these results cannot be used as the reference for real tournament but at least there was an attempts for Villarreal to improved their performance and against Valencia this interesting to watched whether they can able to win or Valencia can stole points from them

[martyns]

It looks like Barcelona's appeal of a three-game suspension for Lewandowski has been finally dismissed. He will have to miss all three games, including the away game against Atlético. If Atlético doesn't fail again or something extraordinary happens, I think that Barcelona will score a maximum of one point in this game. If Real don't lose points, then we will again see equality in the first two places in the standings.

Previously, what problem did Lewandowski have that caused him to be suspended for 3 matches? I haven't heard any news about him today. The away match against Atletico Madrid will certainly be a crucial match considering that Barcelona must win this match if Real Madrid does not want to shift its position at the top of the standings.

If Lewandowski should miss all three matches for Barcelona this season,then it's indeed going to be a very bad news for Barca who find it difficult to score goals without Lewandowski in the team.They struggle to get goals and it looks as if Xavi have built the the around him which is bad.They will have to look at somebody else in the team that can score goals to play upfront just as Lewa does.
Let's pray his absence does not cause them to loose the three matches,I know they can't afford to loose,but I know Athletico might draw or win them.

[D-law]

Barcelona and Real Madrid both have comfortable fixtures ahead of them now. The opponents are Espanyol and Valladolid respectively. I don't expect any mistakes from both favourites.

Barcelona have already been very comfortable against smaller teams in the league for a long time. As for Real Madrid it has been a little complicated recently. They lost points in really unexpected games which was a big help for Barcelona to take the lead from Real Madrid. With the return of Benzema I think Real Madrid will fight stronger than before. Ancelotti should be successful with helping his players have full concentration on their games from now on.

Benzema is indeed a top priority at Real Madrid, but Carlo Ancelotti should not depend on Benzema alone because they have many players that can be used to work well together. The two teams are fighting very fiercely, so this will be a match that is highly anticipated for taking first place at the top of the La Liga standings.

It’s no secret that Benzema is a deadly force at Real Madrid and a goal scoring machine for the club. His position at the club has been and is still very much invaluable.
But that doesn’t mean they should depend on his skill set alone. The game is played by 11 players on the pitch and it takes the efforts of all to successfully win a game. Real Madrid has great players with a great game play as well. A very formidable team and with Benzema, the goals would just keep pouring in as he’s a goal magnet.

Sometimes football is played around a single player
With Real Madrid is not a new happening to overtime to he past Real Madrid do this especially around players who are chasing the highest and all time goal scorers.
With his absence Real Madrid find some games difficult to score

[Tumanggor]

the Real Madrid vs Valladolid match and the Barcelona vs Espanyol match seem a bit easy to predict. because the match should be a fairly easy game for Barcelona and Real madrid. But I am a little interested in the match between Villareal vs Valencia. Villareal is ranked 9th in the standings with 21 points acquired. while Valencia is ranked 10th in the standings with 19 points acquired. I think this match will be a little interesting. and it will also be a fierce match. but what's unique is that when Villareal fights Valencia, the match always ends with one of them losing or winning and rarely a draw.

There are many matches that will occur on December 31 and it will be the best year-ending match. for my bet i will put madrid, barcelona, sociedad and villareal

madrid vs valladolid will take place at home to valladolid while barca vs espanyol will take place at home to barca. I will watch these two matches while welcoming the new year waiting

[Zanab247]

the Real Madrid vs Valladolid match and the Barcelona vs Espanyol match seem a bit easy to predict. because the match should be a fairly easy game for Barcelona and Real madrid. But I am a little interested in the match between Villareal vs Valencia. Villareal is ranked 9th in the standings with 21 points acquired. while Valencia is ranked 10th in the standings with 19 points acquired. I think this match will be a little interesting. and it will also be a fierce match. but what's unique is that when Villareal fights Valencia, the match always ends with one of them losing or winning and rarely a draw.

Villarreal will surely showcase some tactics that will make Valencia to loose confidence of winning the game, since this is the first game after the FIFA world cup competition. Villarreal will not give Valencia any opportunity to beat them or make the game draw than to apply what will make them to smile at the end of the game. Barcelona will beat Espanyol 2:0 because, they will use this game to encourage their fans ahead of other games.

[giammangiato]

I expected benzema withdrawal
What you say seems strange to me, Real Madrid is a professional team and as such if a player serves, they take it

either way, he needs a replacement now and so I assume he's moving on about that

[Razmirraz]

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Since the teams will be playing after a long time, I would say that even if the opponent is weak, it will not be easy for them to win. Valladolid and Espanyol are relatively weak teams. However, Madrid and Barcelona are likely to drop points in this match if they don't perform carefully.

Villarreal and Valencia are only two points apart. Both teams will want to climb to the top of the table. And so this match is very important for both the teams. But I think Villarreal will win against Valencia. Because it is their home match. And Villarreal have won their last 3 home matches against Valencia.

Assuming the weak strength of the opposing team is a big mistake made by a team. Barcelona and Real Madrid will not reduce the tension of their attacks in this match, especially Barcelona who want to maintain their position in first place. On paper, Barcelona can easily score three points from Espanyol, moreover most of Barcelona's main players are filled with players who have strengthened their country in the world cup. Even though Espanyol can make it difficult for Barcelona, the chances for Barcelona to win this match are very large.

[SquallLeonhart]

The team has a lot of players, but only a few are playing very rarely. In addition to selling unused players, Barcelona will enhance the teams' rosters by introducing young midfielders and defenders. Sergio Busquets won many titles for Barcelona. There was a time when he was one of the best midfielders at Barcelona. However, you need to move on to better options. If this continues, I don't think Barcelona has a chance to be champions. With these Catalan councils of elders, Barcelona could not win trophies. Signing players who are younger and better would have been a good move for Barcelona.

I think it's clear that they are not really great at getting rid of players that easily. I mean we have seen them keep players, even players that gets high salaries as well for a long time and unfortunately they just can't get rid of them.

I personally believed that Pique should have been gone during the summer and not during middle of the season, Busquets the same way, and plenty others. If they can get rid of these players and not pay them as well, so it is not just firing but mutual agreement, then we could had some decency for sure. In any case, I believe that it will get better next summer, a lot of players gone, and all that opened up salary could be used.

[TopT3ns]

In my opinion, Xavi is terrible as a coach and even if by some miracle he gets a super team at his disposal (as happened with Guardiola who got the golden team of Spain) with which he will receive titles, this will not be proof that he is perfect. To consider a coach great, you need to see his strategy, his flexibility (and not "put together a top team and play only plan A") and of course confirmation of his status in different clubs. I think Xavi is cosmically far from it.

There is nothing the Barcelona management can do because Xavi is currently under contract to coach Barcelona until June 2024. Meanwhile, if Barcelona wants to replace him immediately, it will have to spend a lot of money on severance pay for Xavi, further deteriorating the club's financial situation. At least Xavi still has time to make changes and try to get lucky with his achievements to bring Barcelona back to being the best again in the field of football.

[G_Besar]

The team has a lot of players, but only a few are playing very rarely. In addition to selling unused players, Barcelona will enhance the teams' rosters by introducing young midfielders and defenders. Sergio Busquets won many titles for Barcelona. There was a time when he was one of the best midfielders at Barcelona. However, you need to move on to better options. If this continues, I don't think Barcelona has a chance to be champions. With these Catalan councils of elders, Barcelona could not win trophies. Signing players who are younger and better would have been a good move for Barcelona.

I think it's clear that they are not really great at getting rid of players that easily. I mean we have seen them keep players, even players that gets high salaries as well for a long time and unfortunately they just can't get rid of them.

I personally believed that Pique should have been gone during the summer and not during middle of the season, Busquets the same way, and plenty others. If they can get rid of these players and not pay them as well, so it is not just firing but mutual agreement, then we could had some decency for sure. In any case, I believe that it will get better next summer, a lot of players gone, and all that opened up salary could be used.

I think that Xavi will do it soon, several senior players will no longer grace the Blaugrana squad next season. Xavi certainly has the vision to revolutionize his squad. Several players brought in this season have been able to prove their capacity even though they have not reached the expected level. I believe that next season Xavi will be more flexible in concocting the team and the hope of giving El Barca a title will very likely be realized.

[Cookdata]

the Real Madrid vs Valladolid match and the Barcelona vs Espanyol match seem a bit easy to predict. because the match should be a fairly easy game for Barcelona and Real madrid. But I am a little interested in the match between Villareal vs Valencia. Villareal is ranked 9th in the standings with 21 points acquired. while Valencia is ranked 10th in the standings with 19 points acquired. I think this match will be a little interesting. and it will also be a fierce match. but what's unique is that when Villareal fights Valencia, the match always ends with one of them losing or winning and rarely a draw.

Looking at their recent 5 matches, one can easily tell that Barcelona and Real Madrid may easily win those matches and not just that alone, they are both teams that are currently leading on the table, they are good structurally to beat Valladolid and Espanyol but I am just concerned that the past record is just small margin, Barcelona and Real Madrid couldn't give them much goals which mean they were always difficult for them, just that they always come true, who knows this time, they wouldn't succeed like they used to? judging from the goals they scored against them, at least Espanyol wouldn't struggle from relegation eviction.

[bestcoins1]

There is nothing the Barcelona management can do because Xavi is currently under contract to coach Barcelona until June 2024. Meanwhile, if Barcelona wants to replace him immediately, it will have to spend a lot of money on severance pay for Xavi, further deteriorating the club's financial situation. At least Xavi still has time to make changes and try to get lucky with his achievements to bring Barcelona back to being the best again in the field of football.

I also agree with what you said, because replacing Xavi with another coach in the middle of the season like now will not be very good for the Barcelona team, so the Barcelona team itself must keep Xavi at least according to the time of Xavi's contract, and after that the team management Barcelona can see and assess how Xavi and the team have performed while training Barcelona. After all, this season Barcelona is also not looking bad in La Liga, so there is no story to replace him in the middle of the season.

[asriloni]

In my opinion, Xavi is terrible as a coach and even if by some miracle he gets a super team at his disposal (as happened with Guardiola who got the golden team of Spain) with which he will receive titles, this will not be proof that he is perfect. To consider a coach great, you need to see his strategy, his flexibility (and not "put together a top team and play only plan A") and of course confirmation of his status in different clubs. I think Xavi is cosmically far from it.

There is nothing the Barcelona management can do because Xavi is currently under contract to coach Barcelona until June 2024. Meanwhile, if Barcelona wants to replace him immediately, it will have to spend a lot of money on severance pay for Xavi, further deteriorating the club's financial situation. At least Xavi still has time to make changes and try to get lucky with his achievements to bring Barcelona back to being the best again in the field of football.

Barcelona can terminated his contract anytime. The decision owned by the management. Barcelona didn't need to spend a lot of money to get a new coach. Signing a new coach will be far cheaper compared with buying the players. I think that barcelona's management must think about once xavi will get another bad achievement and he must be sacked. Barcelona has been using everything to follow his instruction but once barcelona will get nothing at the end of season and lporta shall sack him as soon as possible.
That means id xavi has not even had competence to be a barcelona's coach again.

[tulusikhlas]

There is nothing the Barcelona management can do because Xavi is currently under contract to coach Barcelona until June 2024. Meanwhile, if Barcelona wants to replace him immediately, it will have to spend a lot of money on severance pay for Xavi, further deteriorating the club's financial situation. At least Xavi still has time to make changes and try to get lucky with his achievements to bring Barcelona back to being the best again in the field of football.

I also agree with what you said, because replacing Xavi with another coach in the middle of the season like now will not be very good for the Barcelona team, so the Barcelona team itself must keep Xavi at least according to the time of Xavi's contract, and after that the team management Barcelona can see and assess how Xavi and the team have performed while training Barcelona. After all, this season Barcelona is also not looking bad in La Liga, so there is no story to replace him in the middle of the season.

After all, what is the reason for changing coaches in the middle of a season like this, even though they haven't really returned to the Barcelona we used to know, slowly I can say that Xavi Hernandez has been quite successful in bringing Barcelona to improve from their downturn last season. And also whether replacing it will give the expected performance? I think there is no guarantee for that. So keeping Xavi is a good move for now.