La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

[maju69]

Real Madrid match has ended with a score of 3-1, Real Madrid without Benzema could still get a good win, and now they will rest to be ready for match against Liverpool in the UCL events. Currently Elche vs Valladolid are playing, Elche previously success to get a win from Mallorca now Elche has to prove again to their fans, they must to get points in this match at home. But unfortunately Valladolid has take the lead by Cyle Larin score, now the home team has to fight very hard to equal the score and I think this match will be interesting.

A win that should have belonged to Real Madrid and they managed to finish very well. This is Real Madrid as I know it, I wasn't surprised when they went behind because they would have turned things around in the end. Benzema's absence doesn't really affect them in scoring goals, and that's what they should have done from the start, because it's impossible for them to always play with Benzema.

[puloweh555]

Real Madrid 3 - 1 Espanyol

 

Vinícius Júnior managed to score a goal, it didn't even seem that real madrid didn't have the benzema, maybe espanyol is an extremely weak team to the point that real madrid won without difficulties even without having the benzema or so the real madrid players started to make an effort even without benzema, this is a very important victory, now we must not let barcelona get too far away

Actually, I thought that at least Espanyol would score 1 goal in this match, but I was quite happy with the victory achieved by Real Madrid, it's just that the third goal scored by Marco Asensio made my multibet lose half. I thought the match would end 2-1 but this was not the case for Real Madrid, who even at the end of the match could still score 1 more goal. With this result, Real Madrid finally returned to its performance, having previously had quite a hard time scoring goals.

From the match, Real Madrid will hopefully extend Asensio's contract because every time Asensio plays, he always scores goals. Really hope that with this goal, Real Madrid will reconsider. At first, they did not want to extend their contract, so they want to extend their contract again and hope that in the next match, Asensio will get the main place in the Real Madrid lineup. With this win, it will be a good capital for Real Madrid when they face Liverpool in the UCL this week, especially since Liverpool have just lost to Bournemouth in the EPL.

[Hyphen(-)]

Another good winning for real Madrid. I knew from the start that Espanol won't be a problem to real Madrid. They were lucky with an open goal but couldn't go with a win, though I'm
 really impressed with their performance today, it is much more better compared to what they displayed against Valladolid. It is quite unfortunate that Real Valladolid is now above them with 1 point from a lucky draw against Elche. Real Madrid needs much winning to Cover the 6 point pace with FC Barcelona.
 

My issue with Real Madrid this season is the lack of consistency in league games; they have all the players they need, but some of them are out of form, which may be why they are dropping points we don't expect them to drop, and so many people believe Real Madrid will win the Laliga title despite the fact that Barcelona is doing very well.

Looking at the pool in this thread about who we expect to win the title this season, many people voted for Real Madrid, but I believe it is time to change our minds because they are not in good form and it will be very difficult for Real Madrid to overtake Barcelona right now, especially since Barcelona was eliminated from the Europa League; now their main focus is the Laliga title, and they will try their hardest to win it.

[Balmain]

Another good winning for real Madrid. I knew from the start that Espanol won't be a problem to real Madrid. They were lucky with an open goal but couldn't go with a win, though I'm
 really impressed with their performance today, it is much more better compared to what they displayed against Valladolid. It is quite unfortunate that Real Valladolid is now above them with 1 point from a lucky draw against Elche. Real Madrid needs much winning to Cover the 6 point pace with FC Barcelona.
 

My issue with Real Madrid this season is the lack of consistency in league games; they have all the players they need, but some of them are out of form, which may be why they are dropping points we don't expect them to drop, and so many people believe Real Madrid will win the Laliga title despite the fact that Barcelona is doing very well.

Looking at the pool in this thread about who we expect to win the title this season, many people voted for Real Madrid, but I believe it is time to change our minds because they are not in good form and it will be very difficult for Real Madrid to overtake Barcelona right now, especially since Barcelona was eliminated from the Europa League; now their main focus is the Laliga title, and they will try their hardest to win it.

Real Madrid after consecutive points losses and draws, they were pretty good against Espanyol today and they were superior win. The Vinius Jr goal was legendary there's so much he can do alone if it's his day then Vinius Jr. We can say that Real Madrid is guaranteed its second place, but they are soon following Barcelona for the first place. Barcelona have a very strong squad this season and they are not easily defeated. Barcelona is already ahead in terms of points, and the league championship, which seems to be better with at least the whole squad with backups, will be difficult for Real Madrid. Real Madrid looks much more ambitious in the Champions League.

[execijutiere]

Real madrid made no mistakes at home and took the 3 points with 3 goals in a dominant and beautiful game. Espanyol is not a difficult opponent but real madrid was a bit surprised with the goal they conceded in the first few minutes.fortunately they recovered quickly and closed the first half 2-1 ahead.madrid scored the last goal towards the end of the second half and got a comfortable win.
Vallodolid, on the other hand, went 1-0 up with a goal in the first minutes but couldn't hold on in the last minutes and conceded a goal to draw.Elche were in positions from the beginning to the end of the match and it would have been a pity for them if they hadn't scored. At least they got a draw.

[izsara]

Ancellotti has confirmed if benzema will not play against espanyol. We do know that it's very bad choice for ancellotti but since the gap with barcelona is very big and i think that ancellotti was putting all if his focus into the UCL rather than la liga.
I think that if real madrid really need a good striker like benzema. That's why pushing the club to buy osimhen from napoli will become a very good decision. Rodrygo is not capable to replace benzema.

I think that is not that much of a bad idea, forget about La Liga because they are going to be second anyway and it would be pretty difficult for them to win it, definitely not worth the extra effort that would take away from UCL. On the other hand, they could do it this game because they already beat Liverpool good enough that they could end up with a Benzema-less team on UCL and still get a win, even if they lose I doubt that it would be with 3 goal difference which means that we are talking about a situation that could be a lot harder.

I think the best thing to do right now would be making sure they get a win in the league and barely a draw at Liverpool, or a small loss.

Real Madrid won the game against Espanyol Bezama because they still had other players to replace with him and they scored three goals in this game which can show us Real Madrid is not dependent on one player and Benzama, also since Benzama is getting old he gets injured time after time and these injures can be even more when we get older than this that's why I think Real Madrid should start seeking for a young player to replace with Benzema soon.

After Joselu's surprise goal early in the first half they started to bounce back and this was the kind of performance expected from Madrid. Even though right now they still can't get close to Barcelona because they will also still be playing and most likely three points but still the margin must be maintained so that this doesn't come back away.

[Rengga Jati]

Actually, I thought that at least Espanyol would score 1 goal in this match, but I was quite happy with the victory achieved by Real Madrid, it's just that the third goal scored by Marco Asensio made my multibet lose half. I thought the match would end 2-1 but this was not the case for Real Madrid, who even at the end of the match could still score 1 more goal. With this result, Real Madrid finally returned to its performance, having previously had quite a hard time scoring goals.

When Espanyol scored 1 goal earlier than Real Madrid, I was still calm because I am sure that the position will be exchanged soon. and finally Real Madrid was able to turn things around and lead with goals from Vini JR, Militao, and finally in extra time too, Asensio was able to complete 1 more goal. But it must be admitted that even though Espanyol lost and had less ball possession, they were still able to put some pressure on Real Madrid's defense and this was a bit of a pain. What's more, Real Madrid also put pressure on Espanyol many times, but missed several times. But in the end, Real Madrid still excel and win.

[Pulsar77]

The first fifteen minutes were like torture for Real Madrid. Espanyol started the match really solidly and got ahead first as well. Joselu's shot was so incredible that Courtois didn't have anything to do about it. They were even nearly scoring their second goal but Courtois prevented it nicely. Thankfully Real Madrid started to pull themselves together after this bad start. Vinicius Junior was impressive today and he started this comeback with a nice goal. I appreciated Asensio's effort as well.

But I still don't think this will change anything about Asensio's contract. Ancelotti doesn't seem very willing to keep him in the team. He seems indifferent to this situation. Hence we could still see Asensio leaving.

[KTChampions]

I am 100% sure that in the summer Real will solve the problem with the attack. They would have already solved it last summer if the bastard Mbappe was honest in his intentions (Real refused Haaland only because it was confident in Mbappe).
By the way, interesting quotes for the game Athletic - Barcelona:

3.55 - 3.35 - 2.16

It doesn't matter anymore but it looks like Barcelona will lose points - the double chance for Athletic is the clear favorite according to the bookies.

10 minutes into the game and Real Madrid were already trailing to a visiting Espanyol  . Just like I thought, this is going to be another long match where Real Madrid tries to at least draw. Good news is that Vini equalized for now.

It doesn't matter if Barcelona get a couple of bad games, Real Madrid will keep losing points as well and stay second, but Athletic club vs Barcelona is a huge one to keep an eye on.

As a result, Real won, but in fact it was an ordinary result, since before the game with Liverpool, Real was in a good mood and with a good margin of safety. This is roughly what I expected.
I don’t know what the bookmakers saw in the Athletic-Barcelona game, but this again looks suspicious - is Barcelona really going to lose points (as when Real played a draw with Betis) so that Clasico would have some meaning and interest from the audience.

[execijutiere]

Celta vigo took three points at home against a tough opponent.  Vallecano are out of form and can't win games. Celta vigo took advantage of this and scored 3 goals to get 3 points. While the first half ended in a goalless draw, Celta vigo started the second half fast. Celta vigo immediately scored 2 goals early in the second half and ended the match here.
In the last match of the day, Valencia are 1-0 up against Osasuna. Most probably the match will end like this because osasuna also received a red card.

[herurist]

Real Madrid and Espanyol scored a goal within 7 minutes of the match. Just then, Real Madrid was under a lot of pressure, and after many attacks, Real Madrid scored a goal in the 22nd minute. Vini. Junior scored this goal perfectly and brought the team level. The two teams then began attacking each other for goals and Real Madrid went ahead with another goal in the 39th minute. The goal was scored by Militao to end the first half at 2-1.

Espanyol could get a goal in the early minutes, but in reality Real Madrid would not allow itself to lose against Espanyol and finally managed to get a goal up to 3-1 and the game was won by Real Madrid. This is very rapid progress because Real Madrid managed to win without the presence of its flagship player Karim Benzema and the strategy used is very effective.

In the end this is again a good thing for Madrid after their 2 matches were hampered in terms of goals.
After being shocked by the goal of his former player, Madrid continued to press and actually this condition is normal, but the 3 goals that were scored in this match were really very good to watch.
This is a good step to improve their mood in facing Liverpool next week.

[AakZaki]

I heard the news in the local media if Barcelona was indicted by a Spanish court. Barclona was charged with bribing referees in the period 2011-2017. They accused the Vice President of the Spanish Referees Committee (CTA) of the period 1994-2018, Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira.
It has not been proven to be true, but the prosecutor's office seems to have given sentences to Negreira and two Barcelona presidents Sandro Rosell (2010-2014), and Josep Maria Bartomeu (2014-2020).

[püsür]

Real Madrid 3 - 1 Espanyol

 

Vinícius Júnior managed to score a goal, it didn't even seem that real madrid didn't have the benzema, maybe espanyol is an extremely weak team to the point that real madrid won without difficulties even without having the benzema or so the real madrid players started to make an effort even without benzema, this is a very important victory, now we must not let barcelona get too far away

Vinicius Junior moves like Ronaldinho into the goal. His football is getting better and better. As long as he plays like this, the absence of Benzema will not hurt Real Madrid much. Nevertheless, Real Madrid needs a clean up this summer. Benzema is half absent, a solid number 9 is definitely needed. A right front is also needed, I think Bukayo Saka would be a good name. If two a class players are taken to the right and left back, it will be a good team next year. Real Madrid manages to turn the match comfortably even if it falls back when it wants to. They are quite different in CL, in a good way, but things are not perfect.

[Iroh]

Another good winning for real Madrid. I knew from the start that Espanol won't be a problem to real Madrid. They were lucky with an open goal but couldn't go with a win, though I'm
 really impressed with their performance today, it is much more better compared to what they displayed against Valladolid. It is quite unfortunate that Real Valladolid is now above them with 1 point from a lucky draw against Elche. Real Madrid needs much winning to Cover the 6 point pace with FC Barcelona.
 

Yeah, another great win for Real Madrid. I think most people, I included predicted a Real Madrid win. I didn’t think Espanyol would prove to be difficult and it showed in the game as the game was pretty much dominated by Real Madrid.
I had initially feared that Espanyol would ride on the morale gotten from their early goal to score another one. But Real Madrid quickly turned the game around and went ahead to score 3 goals to win the game.

[Docnaster]

Ancelloti managed team showed a high level of superiority to their rivals today in their encounter in the Spanish laliga, but Espanyol scored the first goal of this match in the 8 minutes of the game but Real madrid upturn the everything in 22 and 39 minutes of play with 2 goals respectively, this match saw the Spanish giant defeating the visiting team, putting into consideration the head to head records and current form of both teams the host side have it all and they deserve the victory.

The quality and experience of this Real Madrid side I think is the reason why they are playing good football at the moment but not all managers can utilize and rotate first team players like the way their manager Carlo Ancelotti is doing at the moment. He deserves some excellent credits and praises which I think he not getting from the media in particular and football fans generally. They eased past Espanol earlier today to remind Liverpool of the kind of opponent they will be facing in midweek and their message was really a strong one.

[snipie]

I heard the news in the local media if Barcelona was indicted by a Spanish court. Barclona was charged with bribing referees in the period 2011-2017. They accused the Vice President of the Spanish Referees Committee (CTA) of the period 1994-2018, Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira.
It has not been proven to be true, but the prosecutor's office seems to have given sentences to Negreira and two Barcelona presidents Sandro Rosell (2010-2014), and Josep Maria Bartomeu (2014-2020).

I heard the news from a while and I am not sure what could be the consequences, what risk Barcelona exactly? Points reduction like Juve? Dropping to a lower league?
I mean it is unlikely to see something like that happening and the worst scenario will be a fine tho.
Barcelona will have an away game vs Bilbao and the game will not be easy. Since Real Madrid won their game today, then Barcelona have to win to keep the nice gap they have until now.

[Velvet78]

Real Madrid just met the expectations by a decent level of performance. They actually worried me by their start to the game. Espanyol started really fast and scored a goal as well. But this was still not enough to demoralize Real Madrid players later on. They stayed focused and fought for the win hard. They got efficiency from their big effort as well. It was lovely to watch them in the attacking line.

Vinicius Junior is a really valuable player for this team. He is showing this regularly. Rodrygo could have scored a nice goal as well if his free-kick didn't hit the post.

[tiCeR]

Real Madrid just met the expectations by a decent level of performance. They actually worried me by their start to the game. Espanyol started really fast and scored a goal as well. But this was still not enough to demoralize Real Madrid players later on. They stayed focused and fought for the win hard. They got efficiency from their big effort as well. It was lovely to watch them in the attacking line.

Vinicius Junior is a really valuable player for this team. He is showing this regularly. Rodrygo could have scored a nice goal as well if his free-kick didn't hit the post.

It is good to see that Real Madrid won that game. Otherwise La Liga would become too boring early during the season already. This way we can all be looking forward to the clasico and be excited about it.

For the sake of excitement I hope that Barcelona loses two points or perhaps all three points in a best case scenario. If Real Madrid gets the chance in the clasico to get really close to them one more time, I think the game will be much better to watch and both teams will invest much more into the game.

If Barcelona can keep the distance they would also be a fine with a draw in the game against Real Madrid. It's better to see them being in need for the full three points.

[Rabi3]

Real Madrid just met the expectations by a decent level of performance. They actually worried me by their start to the game. Espanyol started really fast and scored a goal as well. But this was still not enough to demoralize Real Madrid players later on. They stayed focused and fought for the win hard. They got efficiency from their big effort as well. It was lovely to watch them in the attacking line.

Vinicius Junior is a really valuable player for this team. He is showing this regularly. Rodrygo could have scored a nice goal as well if his free-kick didn't hit the post.

it's another one of those Real Madrid comebacks, we're seeing a lot of them from Real Madrid, but it's not a good thing about their defense, they shouldn't be conceding goals so early in the match, it could end badly if they miss a lot opportunities to score.

[LittleBitFunny]

Real Madrid just met the expectations by a decent level of performance. They actually worried me by their start to the game. Espanyol started really fast and scored a goal as well. But this was still not enough to demoralize Real Madrid players later on. They stayed focused and fought for the win hard. They got efficiency from their big effort as well. It was lovely to watch them in the attacking line.
Vinicius Junior is a really valuable player for this team. He is showing this regularly. Rodrygo could have scored a nice goal as well if his free-kick didn't hit the post.

Every Real Madrid player performed well against Espanyol. Real Madrid has performed very well as a team. Having conceded a goal in just 8 minutes against Espanyol, I thought Madrid would share the points in the match. Because teams like Espanyol aim to get 1 point against big teams. And they scored early in the match, and played a defensive strategy throughout the match. And so it became a bit difficult for Madrid to win this match. However, the great performance of Vini and Rodrygo resulted in Real Madrid scoring 3 goals in the match. And they secured 3 points from the match.