La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

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Real Madrid right now is having a difficult time pressing hard on Real Sociedad. The rearrangement in the team is large and Real Sociedad seems to be getting the better of them.

I am speechless this time. Real Madrid really suffered a bad moment right now against Real Sociedad. The position is now 2 - 0 amd Real Sociedad is still leading the match. Although Real Madrid is commonly great at the late time, I don't think they will make it right now with only 10 players. Their position is very difficult right now, moreover have been left 2 - 0 by Real Sociedad. It seems that their position will be over in the runner up and will be replaced by Atletico Madrid if they are able to win tomorrow.

I also didn't expect Real Madrid to be this bad when it played against Real Sociedad.
Actually, it was all because of the red card that Real Madrid player Carvajal got in the second half which made Real Madrid's defense weak.
Carvajal is one of the best defensive players too.

I was almost certain that Real Madrid would not win this match. But my guess was that the match would be a draw. Real Sociedad is not a weak team. A strong enough team. Vinicius, Benzema and Luka Modrich were absent in this match. The three most important players in the squad. And without these three players, I can't call Madrid a strong team. But I would have been happy if the match was a draw. Madrid should have played a purely defensive strategy and tried to draw the match goalless.

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[Lordhermes]

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Real Madrid right now is having a difficult time pressing hard on Real Sociedad. The rearrangement in the team is large and Real Sociedad seems to be getting the better of them.

I am speechless this time. Real Madrid really suffered a bad moment right now against Real Sociedad. The position is now 2 - 0 amd Real Sociedad is still leading the match. Although Real Madrid is commonly great at the late time, I don't think they will make it right now with only 10 players. Their position is very difficult right now, moreover have been left 2 - 0 by Real Sociedad. It seems that their position will be over in the runner up and will be replaced by Atletico Madrid if they are able to win tomorrow.

I also didn't expect Real Madrid to be this bad when it played against Real Sociedad.
Actually, it was all because of the red card that Real Madrid player Carvajal got in the second half which made Real Madrid's defense weak.
Carvajal is one of the best defensive players too.

I was almost certain that Real Madrid would not win this match. But my guess was that the match would be a draw. Real Sociedad is not a weak team. A strong enough team. Vinicius, Benzema and Luka Modrich were absent in this match. The three most important players in the squad. And without these three players, I can't call Madrid a strong team. But I would have been happy if the match was a draw. Madrid should have played a purely defensive strategy and tried to draw the match goalless.

it becoming obvious that Real Madrid depend only on talented players in the team to survive, any game Benzema ,vinicius and modrich are not available it's always hard for them to win such game, this is a big problem to Real Madrid , they must try and build a winning strategy from these guys. luka and Benzema are getting other, soon they will retire and the manager is yet to get their replacements. with this lost their out of the title race, they should focus on the Champions league only now, at the end they will end up in second position in the league, Altetico Madrid will end tthird, i don't see them ending above Real Madrid.

[Smartvirus]

I was almost certain that Real Madrid would not win this match. But my guess was that the match would be a draw. Real Sociedad is not a weak team. A strong enough team. Vinicius, Benzema and Luka Modrich were absent in this match. The three most important players in the squad. And without these three players, I can't call Madrid a strong team. But I would have been happy if the match was a draw. Madrid should have played a purely defensive strategy and tried to draw the match goalless.

Yeah, right from the first half. I was much more surprised when I saw the odds bookmakers had set for the game, Real Madrid at 4minutes in had 2.24 odds, this is Real Madrid, second on the table and champions in the UCL.  But, when you see how much the team was diluted, the absence of Benzema, Luka Modric, Vini Jnr and even Camavinga, there is no one there to push forward. We had Rodrigo, Asensio and T. Kroos to try but, they weren't going to get no where. Worst still, Dani Carvajai got ha first yellow in a controversial situation and then a second in an obvious fowl to produce the red. After that, there was nothing Real Madrid could offer. They just end up being gorged to make mistakes and they did with Real Sociedad scoring needed goals.

[Litzki1990]

I am speechless this time. Real Madrid really suffered a bad moment right now against Real Sociedad. The position is now 2 - 0 amd Real Sociedad is still leading the match. Although Real Madrid is commonly great at the late time, I don't think they will make it right now with only 10 players. Their position is very difficult right now, moreover have been left 2 - 0 by Real Sociedad. It seems that their position will be over in the runner up and will be replaced by Atletico Madrid if they are able to win tomorrow.

At the Anoeta stadium, Real Sociedad defeated almighty Real Madrid. The Los blancos who is battling with Barcelona for the La Liga title, has been totally knocked out of the race to compete with Barcá for the laliga title challenge. Despite having the upper hand against the visitors, Carvajal was sent off for a risky tackle on Aihen Muoz, who was down for several minutes. The referee, Juan Luis, made a hasty judgement and promptly sent him off. Madrid was outnumbered and struggled throughout the game, considered their defeats understood.

With the way Real Madrid is losing points in La Liga, it is very challenging to stay in the second position of the points table.  Real Madrid lost 2-0 to Real Sociedad in today's match. Real Madrid lost this match but T. Courtois was excellent in this match.  He saved many balls. Despite losing the match, T. Kubo(4.2*) was the highest rated player followed by T. Courtois(4*). 

Real Sociedad lined up the field differently today. In this 4-1-4-1 format they attacked as well as they defended and their player setup was excellent. Undoubtedly, Real Sociedad's performance today was extraordinary compared to Real Madrid.

[fzkto]

I am speechless this time. Real Madrid really suffered a bad moment right now against Real Sociedad. The position is now 2 - 0 amd Real Sociedad is still leading the match. Although Real Madrid is commonly great at the late time, I don't think they will make it right now with only 10 players. Their position is very difficult right now, moreover have been left 2 - 0 by Real Sociedad. It seems that their position will be over in the runner up and will be replaced by Atletico Madrid if they are able to win tomorrow.

At the Anoeta stadium, Real Sociedad defeated almighty Real Madrid. The Los blancos who is battling with Barcelona for the La Liga title, has been totally knocked out of the race to compete with Barcá for the laliga title challenge. Despite having the upper hand against the visitors, Carvajal was sent off for a risky tackle on Aihen Muoz, who was down for several minutes. The referee, Juan Luis, made a hasty judgement and promptly sent him off. Madrid was outnumbered and struggled throughout the game, considered their defeats understood.

Real Madrid hasn't competed with Barcelona for first place for a long time. La Liga is not their priority right now. Real Madrid will soon play Manchester City in the Champions League, but before that game they will also have an important match against Osasuna for first place in the Spanish Cup. That's why Madrid loses some matches, because Barcelona became the champion of Spain ahead of schedule.

[Velvet78]

There is a huge opportunity for Atletico Madrid to go for the second position in the standings right now. I was expecting Real Madrid to lose points in absence of some important players and they didn't make me surprised much. I don't think Real Madrid care about finishing the season as the second now either. They just gave up after falling behind Barcelona.

Atletico Madrid shouldn't have much problem on beating Cadiz home. They have been in wonderful shape for many weeks in the league and they definitely deserve the second position more than Real Madrid these days. Maybe they can't fight for the league title but this is still good for them at least.

[uswa56]

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Real Madrid right now is having a difficult time pressing hard on Real Sociedad. The rearrangement in the team is large and Real Sociedad seems to be getting the better of them.

I am speechless this time. Real Madrid really suffered a bad moment right now against Real Sociedad. The position is now 2 - 0 amd Real Sociedad is still leading the match. Although Real Madrid is commonly great at the late time, I don't think they will make it right now with only 10 players. Their position is very difficult right now, moreover have been left 2 - 0 by Real Sociedad. It seems that their position will be over in the runner up and will be replaced by Atletico Madrid if they are able to win tomorrow.

I also didn't expect Real Madrid to be this bad when it played against Real Sociedad.
Actually, it was all because of the red card that Real Madrid player Carvajal got in the second half which made Real Madrid's defense weak.
Carvajal is one of the best defensive players too.

this is not a surprising result because indeed in the last few matches Real Madrid has played very badly and there is no greater desire in the remaining La Liga matches after they were far behind on points from Barcelona and unfortunately now Real Madrid has the potential to drop to 3rd place in the La Liga standings because of Atletico Madrid currently only 2 points apart and Atletico haven't played 1 match this week, it is very possible for Atletico to replace Real Madrid in 2nd place in the standings.

and despite the poor performance of Real Madrid, it must be admitted that Real Sociedad's performance this season is extraordinary, they are very consistent, even now they are in 4th place in the La Liga standings which makes it possible for them to be able to finish in that position and get a ticket to UCL next season.

[rendravolt]

Playing without Benzema and Modric seems Real Madrid has losing their balanced to attacking and defense even first goal from Sociedad is come from Militao mistakes and the situations are getting worse after Carvajal received red card which makes Real Madrid have to play with 10 players and since Carvajal sent off Madrid cannot develop their game

Madrid line up for this match seems very interesting to see because Ancelotti played Mariano Díaz since the beginning of match because usually Ancelotti put him on the bench and during this season he only played 10 times in all competitions and failed to scores and i have to say this is really bad idea because during the match Diaz seems invisible and he even didn't help the team and performing poor however after this result mathematically it took 1 win only for Barcelona to locked Laliga title

It was felt that Real Madrid's poor performance was without these important players and this was a good opportunity for Real Sociedad to secure full points at home. Even with Toni Kroos, Real Madrid's midfield still lacks creativity and Modric's role is really needed to organize the midfield. The presence of Mariano Diaz in the starting line-up was enough to surprise everyone, because this player has made almost no contribution this season. Although only as a reserve player, it seems that he still cannot give the Los Blancos public the full expectations.


Maybe if Ancelotti had included Alvaro Rodriguez in the starting line-up from the start there would have been a more realistic surprise because the young player had a good season with Real Madrid Castilla. I think Real Madrid will have to update their squad depth from next season, this has a clear impact due to the lack of back-up options which are felt to be lacking for important matches. We know that most of Real Madrid's players are no longer young and only have a few younger generation players left, the rest of them have to completely overhaul the existing squad by bringing in young, talented players, especially for the positions of strikers and midfielders.

[Cookdata]

Barcelona's match against Osasuna has 10 minutes left and it looks like this game will end in a goalless draw. Even though Barcelona had benefited greatly with one of Osasuna's players getting a red card in the first half, it seems that Xavi's squad can't do anything even to score 1 goal, they are having a hard time. On the other hand, Osasuna, who only played with 10 people, actually performed quite well with a very strong defense. Complete possession of the ball is on the Barcelona side with 76% and Osasuna with only 24% for now. But this domination doesn't seem to mean anything to Barcelona and let's wait to see if one of these teams can score a goal or not at the end of the match.

It was a tough match for Barcelona, because many people thought that Barcelona will use that red card Osasuna got at 27 minutes to achieve many goals from the match but they struggle to got one goal at 85 minutes to defeated Osasuna 1-0. If not the red card Osasuna player got in the first half, it would have be difficult for Barcelona to win this match because despite the 10 players in the field, Osasuna players still displayed well till 85 minutes before Barcelona strikers gain access to their goalpost to achieved victory from the match. I think, Barcelona coach need to work on their defense because their strikers were not comfortable in the front because of the defense that was not too strong through out the match.

When Jorge Herrando received a red card, Osasuna knew they were at a disadvantage and responded accordingly by adopting a defensive strategy in their match against Barcelona, but even with that, Barca keep cooking them with more pressure but Fernandez tried his best to always make the goal outside the net which result with many corner kick for Baercelona, but accolade is well deserve for Ossasuna, they tried their best because on a normal ground with the red card effect, they should have condeded more goals from Barcelona than what they had. With the rest of the matches, If Barcelona should win two out of the remaining 5, they will be declared as the league title winner.

[TopT3ns]

When Jorge Herrando received a red card, Osasuna knew they were at a disadvantage and responded accordingly by adopting a defensive strategy in their match against Barcelona, but even with that, Barca keep cooking them with more pressure but Fernandez tried his best to always make the goal outside the net which result with many corner kick for Baercelona, but accolade is well deserve for Ossasuna, they tried their best because on a normal ground with the red card effect, they should have condeded more goals from Barcelona than what they had. With the rest of the matches, If Barcelona should win two out of the remaining 5, they will be declared as the league title winner.

Osasuna played with a shortage of players on the field for 27 minutes, putting very serious pressure on them, and they couldn't move. Luckily, Barcelona didn't put too much pressure on the ball, so only one goal was created from Jordi Alba's kick in the final minutes. But look at the goals that were created by Barcelona in the final minutes; this proves that Osasuna's defense is quite good because it managed to hold off several of Barcelona's attempts to score.

[Jody.Drummer]

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Real Madrid right now is having a difficult time pressing hard on Real Sociedad. The rearrangement in the team is large and Real Sociedad seems to be getting the better of them.

I am speechless this time. Real Madrid really suffered a bad moment right now against Real Sociedad. The position is now 2 - 0 amd Real Sociedad is still leading the match. Although Real Madrid is commonly great at the late time, I don't think they will make it right now with only 10 players. Their position is very difficult right now, moreover have been left 2 - 0 by Real Sociedad. It seems that their position will be over in the runner up and will be replaced by Atletico Madrid if they are able to win tomorrow.

I also didn't expect Real Madrid to be this bad when it played against Real Sociedad.
Actually, it was all because of the red card that Real Madrid player Carvajal got in the second half which made Real Madrid's defense weak.
Carvajal is one of the best defensive players too.

this is not a surprising result because indeed in the last few matches Real Madrid has played very badly and there is no greater desire in the remaining La Liga matches after they were far behind on points from Barcelona and unfortunately now Real Madrid has the potential to drop to 3rd place in the La Liga standings because of Atletico Madrid currently only 2 points apart and Atletico haven't played 1 match this week, it is very possible for Atletico to replace Real Madrid in 2nd place in the standings.

and despite the poor performance of Real Madrid, it must be admitted that Real Sociedad's performance this season is extraordinary, they are very consistent, even now they are in 4th place in the La Liga standings which makes it possible for them to be able to finish in that position and get a ticket to UCL next season.

The problem of the condition of the players is also a factor in this matter because indeed seeing from the condition there are not a few players who are absent in this match.
Vini, Benzema, Valverde, Camavinga are not in the squad which makes it very difficult too. On the other hand moving Rodrygo to a position he rarely does also does nothing in this regard.
But on the other hand this is also not a problem it's just that their race for second place is getting closer to Atletico now and of course it's not looking good for Madrid.

[Minor Miner]

When Jorge Herrando received a red card, Osasuna knew they were at a disadvantage and responded accordingly by adopting a defensive strategy in their match against Barcelona, but even with that, Barca keep cooking them with more pressure but Fernandez tried his best to always make the goal outside the net which result with many corner kick for Baercelona, but accolade is well deserve for Ossasuna, they tried their best because on a normal ground with the red card effect, they should have condeded more goals from Barcelona than what they had. With the rest of the matches, If Barcelona should win two out of the remaining 5, they will be declared as the league title winner.

Osasuna played with a shortage of players on the field for 27 minutes, putting very serious pressure on them, and they couldn't move. Luckily, Barcelona didn't put too much pressure on the ball, so only one goal was created from Jordi Alba's kick in the final minutes. But look at the goals that were created by Barcelona in the final minutes; this proves that Osasuna's defense is quite good because it managed to hold off several of Barcelona's attempts to score.

Barcelona's overall performance was not bad in this match. Players attack a lot. Even then they were not able to score. They played very well. But I'm happy that Barcelona won in the end. Osasuna was playing badly defensively from the start of the match. And after Jorge received a red card in just 27 minutes, Osasuna played completely defensively. They only repelled Barcelona's attacks. However, several counterattacks were made by Osasuna's players. Madrid lost their last match. And so now Barcelona is 14 points ahead of Madrid. Barcelona has no chance of losing the title.

[X-ray]

it becoming obvious that Real Madrid depend only on talented players in the team to survive, any game Benzema ,vinicius and modrich are not available it's always hard for them to win such game, this is a big problem to Real Madrid , they must try and build a winning strategy from these guys. luka and Benzema are getting other, soon they will retire and the manager is yet to get their replacements. with this lost their out of the title race, they should focus on the Champions league only now, at the end they will end up in second position in the league, Altetico Madrid will end tthird, i don't see them ending above Real Madrid.

Madrid has been thinking about that. If you were always keep update with the latest news and madrid is trying to find the successor for benzema. Benzema becomes even older, and this is already anticipated by real madrid, madrid is also working on buying the new midfielder and that's bellingham form dortmund. Since, these talented have been contributing a lot to the clubs and there's no something wrong with it. It's all big clubs are also relying upon their stars. I can even tell you now if manchester city is also relying on KDB and haaland as well as real madrid with Vini and benzema.
That's why the big club is always aiming to get a talented player caused by it can also become long term asset that owned by the club. Real madrid is always targetting serious players. I think that if it's a common thing. Real madrid just need to find better players.
Benzema and vini are playing so impressive this season. that's why real madrid is always losing its power once these players won't play.

[Cryptmuster]

this is not a surprising result because indeed in the last few matches Real Madrid has played very badly and there is no greater desire in the remaining La Liga matches after they were far behind on points from Barcelona and unfortunately now Real Madrid has the potential to drop to 3rd place in the La Liga standings because of Atletico Madrid currently only 2 points apart and Atletico haven't played 1 match this week, it is very possible for Atletico to replace Real Madrid in 2nd place in the standings.

and despite the poor performance of Real Madrid, it must be admitted that Real Sociedad's performance this season is extraordinary, they are very consistent, even now they are in 4th place in the La Liga standings which makes it possible for them to be able to finish in that position and get a ticket to UCL next season.

Sociedad in top 4, for La Liga this is a good indicator. After the removal of Karvakhal, it became clear that Real could not correct the current situation and this became another loses for Real Madrid. Atletico in excellent shape and may well beat Cadiz today, however, Real with such a game deserve himself such a situation. Real will play the next game with Osasuna, perhaps in this match, Real will also lose points because they will be prepared for the game with City.

[Raflesia]

Barcelona's match against Osasuna has 10 minutes left and it looks like this game will end in a goalless draw. Even though Barcelona had benefited greatly with one of Osasuna's players getting a red card in the first half, it seems that Xavi's squad can't do anything even to score 1 goal, they are having a hard time. On the other hand, Osasuna, who only played with 10 people, actually performed quite well with a very strong defense. Complete possession of the ball is on the Barcelona side with 76% and Osasuna with only 24% for now. But this domination doesn't seem to mean anything to Barcelona and let's wait to see if one of these teams can score a goal or not at the end of the match.

The match ended and only 1 goal was scored in this match and even then in the last 10 minutes.
It's quite interesting what Osasuna did in this match, they were very good at defending even though they played with 10 players in this match.
Too bad they had to concede a goal in the 85th minute otherwise it would have been better for them.
Barcelona took 3 points hard against 10 men in this game on the other hand Lewandowski failed to keep away from Benzema of course it would be great if Benzema came back close to scoring against Sociedad today.

If you were to look at Barcelona's statistics from the games they have already played, you would discover that they are not making a lot of an effort to score more than one goal in a match. They are a lot less anxious now because they aren't worrying about scoring many goals to win their remaining games. Since they already leading the LaLiga table by 14 points over Real Madrid. One goal is acceptable for them to keep the winning pace rolling for being the champions of the Laliga 2022/2023 season.

I don't think that was the point, they weren't planning to score more than one goal but they did struggle there.
The chances they created were many and indeed it shows that they keep trying it's just that the results in the last few matches were not as expected.
They still have difficulty in maintaining the productivity of their goals. On the other hand, this is actually not a problem for now because Madrid really doesn't really intend to chase and prioritize other things over La Liga.

actually real madrid's performance in their laliga is not too serious anymore after they failed in the race for the Laliga title, I agree with you that the place in the laliga that madrid is after is to be the leader of the standings and the champion at the end of the season and they don't care if they finish the season in 4th place  if they lose again next week.

The second or fourth positions in the La Liga standings are actually not much different because they are still in the UCL zone, so that makes Real Madrid have the option to look after the core players who are being hit by injuries. I think the only pressure Real Madrid will feel in the near future apart from the UCL game is the Copa Del Rey final even though the opponent will be Osasuna.

Even though this is indeed no different, I think there is still prestige that must be maintained.
Madrid was last in third place in the 2018 season and of course it's been quite a while so they really don't want to let their position be overtaken again even though in this case the champion position already belongs to Barcelona but for position 2 they shouldn't give up that either.
Even though the results remain the same in terms of tickets to the Champions League, prestige remains the differentiator.

[barisbilgili]

When Jorge Herrando received a red card, Osasuna knew they were at a disadvantage and responded accordingly by adopting a defensive strategy in their match against Barcelona, but even with that, Barca keep cooking them with more pressure but Fernandez tried his best to always make the goal outside the net which result with many corner kick for Baercelona, but accolade is well deserve for Ossasuna, they tried their best because on a normal ground with the red card effect, they should have condeded more goals from Barcelona than what they had. With the rest of the matches, If Barcelona should win two out of the remaining 5, they will be declared as the league title winner.

Osasuna played with a shortage of players on the field for 27 minutes, putting very serious pressure on them, and they couldn't move. Luckily, Barcelona didn't put too much pressure on the ball, so only one goal was created from Jordi Alba's kick in the final minutes. But look at the goals that were created by Barcelona in the final minutes; this proves that Osasuna's defense is quite good because it managed to hold off several of Barcelona's attempts to score.

Barcelona's overall performance was not bad in this match. Players attack a lot. Even then they were not able to score. They played very well. But I'm happy that Barcelona won in the end. Osasuna was playing badly defensively from the start of the match. And after Jorge received a red card in just 27 minutes, Osasuna played completely defensively. They only repelled Barcelona's attacks. However, several counterattacks were made by Osasuna's players. Madrid lost their last match. And so now Barcelona is 14 points ahead of Madrid. Barcelona has no chance of losing the title.

against 10 Osasuna players it will still be difficult for Barcelona to score goals, I think even though Barcelona won the match their front line did not play well in this match.
no one doubts Barcelona to get the La Liga title this season after Real Madrid has been inconsistent now they even lost 2 goals to Real Sociedad.
After losing to Barcelona in the second half of the season, Real Madrid seemed to have given up on fighting for the La Liga title, so they focused on the UCL and Copa Del Rey, which was very evident when they were inconsistent and often got bad results.

[len01]

Barcelona's overall performance was not bad in this match. Players attack a lot. Even then they were not able to score. They played very well. But I'm happy that Barcelona won in the end. Osasuna was playing badly defensively from the start of the match. And after Jorge received a red card in just 27 minutes, Osasuna played completely defensively. They only repelled Barcelona's attacks. However, several counterattacks were made by Osasuna's players. Madrid lost their last match. And so now Barcelona is 14 points ahead of Madrid. Barcelona has no chance of losing the title.

I think that at least Osasuna can play very well against Barcelona while only playing with 10 players and being able to withstand attacks from Barcelona and only get a score of 1-0.
it is very difficult for a football team to compete with 10 players and usually concede up to 2 more goals but Osasuna was able to hold off Barcelona's attack until it ended with 1 goal that Barcelona got.
I don't expect more from Real Madrid in the Spanish league but I have hope for Madrid in the Champions League to win the UCL

[Porfirii]

Barcelona's overall performance was not bad in this match. Players attack a lot. Even then they were not able to score. They played very well. But I'm happy that Barcelona won in the end. Osasuna was playing badly defensively from the start of the match. And after Jorge received a red card in just 27 minutes, Osasuna played completely defensively. They only repelled Barcelona's attacks. However, several counterattacks were made by Osasuna's players. Madrid lost their last match. And so now Barcelona is 14 points ahead of Madrid. Barcelona has no chance of losing the title.

I think that at least Osasuna can play very well against Barcelona while only playing with 10 players and being able to withstand attacks from Barcelona and only get a score of 1-0.
it is very difficult for a football team to compete with 10 players and usually concede up to 2 more goals but Osasuna was able to hold off Barcelona's attack until it ended with 1 goal that Barcelona got.
I don't expect more from Real Madrid in the Spanish league but I have hope for Madrid in the Champions League to win the UCL

At this point, it would be a miracle if Real Madrid won all the remaining matches and Barcelona lost them all. I think that this is the only possible scenario for Madrid to win La Liga. Maybe a draw by Barcelona would also be allowed. But it would be one of the most epic things I have ever seen in sports.

In addition, the fact that Madrid lost their last match and Osasuna, with a red card in the beginning of the game, did so well against Barcelona, makes me think that the final of Copa del Rey will be more even than we might expect.

[giammangiato]

Barcelona are probably starting to get tired
he pushed hard to be where he is in the standings and the fatigue is starting to make itself felt
after all, they were really obliged to win to demonstrate that Barcelona are returning to the field as they once were

[RaltcoinsB]

When Jorge Herrando received a red card, Osasuna knew they were at a disadvantage and responded accordingly by adopting a defensive strategy in their match against Barcelona, but even with that, Barca keep cooking them with more pressure but Fernandez tried his best to always make the goal outside the net which result with many corner kick for Baercelona, but accolade is well deserve for Ossasuna, they tried their best because on a normal ground with the red card effect, they should have condeded more goals from Barcelona than what they had. With the rest of the matches, If Barcelona should win two out of the remaining 5, they will be declared as the league title winner.

Osasuna played with a shortage of players on the field for 27 minutes, putting very serious pressure on them, and they couldn't move. Luckily, Barcelona didn't put too much pressure on the ball, so only one goal was created from Jordi Alba's kick in the final minutes. But look at the goals that were created by Barcelona in the final minutes; this proves that Osasuna's defense is quite good because it managed to hold off several of Barcelona's attempts to score.

They even had a hard time holding the ball. The whole team was trying not to concede a goal defensively, but they couldn't. Still, Osasuna's effort was commendable. After Real Madrid's 2-0 loss to Sociedad, Atletico Madrid's match against Cadiz tonight has gained more importance. If they beat Cadiz, they will move up to second place in the league.