La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

[Don Pedro Dinero]

Barcelona might be facing some financial difficulties, having limits of signing expensive players. However, this doesn't mean that they cannot defeat Real Madrid. Though this is a friendly match, it's demonstrated that Barcelona is well prepared to face in this season. I've noticed that Ferran Torres has significantly improved his game. Fermin also delivered an outstanding performance, and I'm looking forward to see more of his skills throughout this season.

Well, in fact Barcelona already had these financial problems at the beginning of last season and ended up winning the league. Winning the league did not get them out of trouble, but at least it did not force them to become a SAD (Sociedad Anónima Deportiva).

Regarding the friendly I wouldn't give it too much importance, the teams are not ready yet and the coaches usually try with substitutes. What matters are the results of official competitions, not this type of match, which is why they are called friendlies.

[Raflesia]

I feel just the opposite.
There are more important things than just friendship when it comes to El Clasico because matches like this are always full of prestige.
I think we know how the tension and rivalry is when these two clubs play so I don't think there's anything to be relaxed about because egos and prestige are obviously bigger.

Even though this match will not mean anything and will not prove that they are the strongest in the next season, losing to rivals is something that is highly avoided in order to maintain the prestige that has long existed.
The match starts tomorrow and I think it will be an interesting first El clasico of the new season.

This El Clasico will be proof for both teams to welcome next season where the two coaches will try to compete against each other in today's game. I believe the tension of the game will spur on a match full of prestige in today's match. Most likely both squads will come down with the perfect squad to test their strength in today's game.

In the previous match Barcelona suffered defeat against Arsenal and for Real madrid they were able to win the 2 matches they had played. Statistically, it is very likely that Real Madrid will be able to maintain their winning streak in trial matches in today match. I think Real madrid will win today's match by a thin score.

The match was over and I wasn't really expecting the result
3-0 was really a massacre for the first match after their long break from rivalry matches.
Madrid's possession and chances were actually very good and I like the way they direct the ball, it's just that they really messed up towards the end of the second half.
Even if it's a friendly match this therapy should be taken into consideration by Ancelotti to improve their squad because if this goes on I think the same results as last season will continue to happen.
There is still 1 more match for Madrid in their remaining friendlies, hopefully there is something interesting and Ancelotti's scheme is not monotonous considering the formation in the last few matches has always been the same.

[Docnaster]

Barcelona was losing against real madrid. It surprises me to see how barcelona humiliated real madrid with 3-0 as the final scores. It seems like that if arsenal is far stronger compared with real madrid at this moment. The quality will never lie. Madrid needs to solve all of its problems.

The new players do nothing when it was facing barcelona while arsenal was able scoring so many goals against barcelona. It seems like that the quality from real madrid is still far below arsenal at this moment.

Real Madrid's performance was terrible in the friendly match, showing that Barcelona has a stronger squad.

Im very disappointed with the performance from real madrid players.  3-0 is a big scores.

Preseason friendly games are not competitive enough to to determine how good a club is or how poor they'll perform when the actual football season kicks off. It's just a glorified training games to me.
That being said and without taking anything away from Barcelona who won yesterday against Real Madrid, I think the Real Madrid team is still very much better than Barcelona in terms of quality players and would have a better season than Barcelona when next season kicks off.

[marcous]

Barcelona might be facing some financial difficulties, having limits of signing expensive players. However, this doesn't mean that they cannot defeat Real Madrid. Though this is a friendly match, it's demonstrated that Barcelona is well prepared to face in this season. I've noticed that Ferran Torres has significantly improved his game. Fermin also delivered an outstanding performance, and I'm looking forward to see more of his skills throughout this season.

Well, in fact Barcelona already had these financial problems at the beginning of last season and ended up winning the league. Winning the league did not get them out of trouble, but at least it did not force them to become a SAD (Sociedad Anónima Deportiva).

Regarding the friendly I wouldn't give it too much importance, the teams are not ready yet and the coaches usually try with substitutes. What matters are the results of official competitions, not this type of match, which is why they are called friendlies.

This surprised Madrid to lose 3-0 without reply, although it was not too important because it was a friendly match but for Ancelotti this result could be an important record. I think Barcelona are motivated after the defeat to Arsenal last week, beating Madrid can add a mental boost to Xavi squad.

Yes it is true that Barcelona is a club that has the most financial problems, many reports say that Barca is a club in Europe that has the highest debt at the moment. Poor management, buying players at high prices and the Covid-19 pandemic made their debt increase.

[asriloni]

Fermin lopez's performance is far better compared with the match against arsenal. He was able contributing 1 goal and 1 assist in the friendly match against real madrid which is very good. Even though people called that as friendly match but it's still remain el classico for me.
The atmosphere will never change. The clubs will always be doing all in the duel between barcelona vs real madrid. He has been getting so many attentions after his great performance against barcelona.

He has been graduated from la macia and xavi was putting him into the main squad. It was also very good to say that how his performance is also amazing.
I think that so many clubs will pay attention to this guy. I do like to see more players from the academic to come into the main squad.

[borovichok]

Preseason friendly games are not competitive enough to to determine how good a club is or how poor they'll perform when the actual football season kicks off. It's just a glorified training games to me.
That being said and without taking anything away from Barcelona who won yesterday against Real Madrid, I think the Real Madrid team is still very much better than Barcelona in terms of quality players and would have a better season than Barcelona when next season kicks off.

Xavi Hernandez buckling his squad with good enchanced performance, they won against Real Madrid, they deserved accolades despite its a friendly game. I concord with your opinion, there's no limit to make comparison of a friendly game with a club's main performance when the league finally reopen. The blaugrana humiliated the Los Blancos 3nil in a friendly clash, that doesn't suppose to make us jump into conclusion about Carlo Ancelotti main game strategy. Real Madrid are always vulnerable to Barcelona but things are on a different level when it comes to pursuing competitive titles.  

[len01]

Xavi Hernandez buckling his squad with good enchanced performance, they won against Real Madrid, they deserved accolades despite its a friendly game. I concord with your opinion, there's no limit to make comparison of a friendly game with a club's main performance when the league finally reopen. The blaugrana humiliated the Los Blancos 3nil in a friendly clash, that doesn't suppose to make us jump into conclusion about Carlo Ancelotti main game strategy. Real Madrid are always vulnerable to Barcelona but things are on a different level when it comes to pursuing competitive titles.  

everything will change when playing in a real match, I mean this is just a friendly match for Real Madrid and Barcelona just testing each other strengths without having to compete seriously but to see how strong the players are and whether their formation is really good to use in the La Liga match later .
Im not surprised that Madrid had to lose to Barcelona in the past. many times in La Liga Madrid often lost to Barcelona because there were other things that had to be achieved, such as at that time Real Madrid was chasing the champions league title and in the end had to lower its performance a little in every La Liga match because maintain the physical stability of their players to perform well in the champions league. and I appreciate Barcelona performance even though it was only a friendly match but they did well even though they don't have reliable players anymore after bad finances they couldnt get high quality players this summer.

[Litzki1990]

Real Madrid's performance was terrible in the friendly match, showing that Barcelona has a stronger squad.

This is just a friendly match, with no reward or punishment, and it's mainly for testing the squad's purpose. Therefore, we can't evaluate whether Real Madrid's squad is weaker than Barcelona. It requires a longer period of time in the official season to make a proper evaluation.

Although the match between Barcelona and Real Madrid was a friendly match, Barcelona's performance in this match was quite good but Real Madrid's performance was a bit random. We saw good dribbling and ball passing from Venicius Jr towards the end but we didn't get his best early on. Compared to Barcelona, Real Madrid's ball pass accuracy was very bad in the last match, Real Madrid made many wrong passes against Barcelona. A team can lose in such a match but if they lose with such a poor performance then it's really disappointing because we expected more from Real Madrid. Real Madrid had a bit of bad luck in the warm-up against Barcelona as a number of short shots hit the post directly and came back without going inside the goal post. The warm-up match is expected to teach Real Madrid a lot.

[yudi09]

Yes, I am aware of the rumors that Ansu Fati is for sale.
There is nothing shown by Ansu Fati that makes Xavi have to make him a core player who is included in the starting eleven in every Barca match.
If Barcelona think that Fati cannot return to his best playing form, sell him and buy another striker as I have stated above.

Lewandowski is physically good so his role this season has really helped Xavi in the title fight with Real Madrid. Very different from the attacker listed in the Barcelona squad.
Ansu Fati also often experiences injuries so his name doesn't appear like Gavi and Pedri.

However, Ansu Fati is a valuable asset for Barca even though he doesn't seem to be able to show good performance. I think that in one or two seasons his performance will be more mature, considering that currently Fati is only 20 years old.

If Barcelona value Ansu Fati as their valuable asset, loan him to another club in order to get enough playing minutes rather than him being kept as a backup in the Barcelona squad. I have a feeling how good it is that Ansu Fati was loaned out to save their asset.
In the match against Real Madrid at AT&T Stadium, Texas, Ansu Fati was played by Xavi to replace Robert Lewandowski. Ansu Fati did not see a prominent role even though Barcelona won 3-0.

Apart from these rumors, it is possible that Barcelona will release their winger this summer. Thus Barca can bring in players who are more mature to get better squad depth, so they can defend the championship trophy next season, if they don't want to be taken over by Real Madrid.

I have no arguments about this. I wish them only the best.
IMO, Barcelona needs to bring in pure stickers.

[bering]

Barcelona was losing against real madrid. It surprises me to see how barcelona humiliated real madrid with 3-0 as the final scores. It seems like that if arsenal is far stronger compared with real madrid at this moment. The quality will never lie. Madrid needs to solve all of its problems.

The new players do nothing when it was facing barcelona while arsenal was able scoring so many goals against barcelona. It seems like that the quality from real madrid is still far below arsenal at this moment.

Real Madrid's performance was terrible in the friendly match, showing that Barcelona has a stronger squad.

Im very disappointed with the performance from real madrid players.  3-0 is a big scores.

Lets just look at to Real Madrid statistics match that they have 29 total of shots and none of them even can be a single goal for them i think this proven Real Madrid still unable performing well without Benzema and the players such as Joselu and Vinicius still wasted plenty of chances to scores goals but indeed Real Madrid a bit unlucky in this match because there were several shots attempts from their players who hit the crossbar however because this is only a friendly match then Ancelotti should be evaluate this result and one thing for sure Real Madrid have to find the replacement of Benzema immediately because at that match besides their defense which is still not solid Real Madrid also really struggled to scores even though they got a lot of chances

[ancafe]

Well, in fact Barcelona already had these financial problems at the beginning of last season and ended up winning the league. Winning the league did not get them out of trouble, but at least it did not force them to become a SAD (Sociedad Anónima Deportiva).

Regarding the friendly I wouldn't give it too much importance, the teams are not ready yet and the coaches usually try with substitutes. What matters are the results of official competitions, not this type of match, which is why they are called friendlies.

That's true and they have gone through difficult times related to financial problems at the start of last season and even Xavi could lead Barcelona to win the league. Even though for now Barcelona's financial condition is not stable, they have also taken the right steps by bringing in the players needed without spending a large budget and with the departure of several players who have large payrolls can also make Barcelona balance the club's finances.

The friendly match is only a trial run and not fully a benchmark, even though Barcelona was able to beat Real Madrid 3-0 without reply. But Xavi's real work when the competition starts and how he should be able to play better in the league and Champions, because the real competition is going to be more difficult and there's a lot of pressure there.

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

That's true and they have gone through difficult times related to financial problems at the start of last season and even Xavi could lead Barcelona to win the league. Even though for now Barcelona's financial condition is not stable, they have also taken the right steps by bringing in the players needed without spending a large budget and with the departure of several players who have large payrolls can also make Barcelona balance the club's finances.

Barcelona played well against Real Madrid in the last season and they did played well in past long season too. Xavi needs to help Barcelona play better in Champions League and in Cups. In La Liga, he looks good with his management in Barcelona but to win cups, it requires different skills and I am not sure Xavi already has enough coach experience to win cups.

The friendly match is only a trial run and not fully a benchmark, even though Barcelona was able to beat Real Madrid 3-0 without reply. But Xavi's real work when the competition starts and how he should be able to play better in the league and Champions, because the real competition is going to be more difficult and there's a lot of pressure there.

The win in a friendly match will help Barcelona to start a new season in La Liga with good belief in themselves. It shows Barcelona have been at least as strong as they were in the past season, if not yet becoming stronger in this summer.

Real Madrid will not easily let Barcelona to win another La Liga and they will seriously fight to take over La Liga title from Barcelona.

Lets just look at to Real Madrid statistics match that they have 29 total of shots and none of them even can be a single goal for them i think this proven Real Madrid still unable performing well without Benzema and the players such as Joselu and Vinicius still wasted plenty of chances to scores goals

Benzema left Real Madrid and from this big friendly match, their problems shown clearly. They need a world class striker to replace Benzema as Vinicius is not a striker and Joselu is not a world-class striker. If Real Madrid won't buy such a striker in this summer, they will have very big problem in a new season.

[Velvet78]

It was technically a friendly game between Barcelona and Real Madrid even if it is El Clasico. Therefore I would have waited for the players to have a sportsmanlike game. But at a moment of the game there was a really serious dive by a Barcelona player and the tension got really high right after that.

Nobody would like to see any of their player getting injured in a pre-season friendly game for sure. Apart from that Real Madrid's statistics were decent actually but they couldn't score a goal anyway. Barcelona got a really solid win by 3-0 especially thanks to the goals came in the last moments.

[SOKO-DEKE]

Barcelona was losing against real madrid. It surprises me to see how barcelona humiliated real madrid with 3-0 as the final scores. It seems like that if arsenal is far stronger compared with real madrid at this moment. The quality will never lie. Madrid needs to solve all of its problems.

The new players do nothing when it was facing barcelona while arsenal was able scoring so many goals against barcelona. It seems like that the quality from real madrid is still far below arsenal at this moment.

Real Madrid's performance was terrible in the friendly match, showing that Barcelona has a stronger squad.

Im very disappointed with the performance from real madrid players.  3-0 is a big scores.

I was not surprised by Barcelona's victory over Real Madrid in yesterday's friendly because it is common for both clubs to lose when they play each other even in La Liga and other competitions; sometimes Real Madrid defeats Barcelona and vice versa. Therefore, I don't need to be astonished because both teams are strongest teams in world that have accomplished a great deal and are expected to keep up their good play. Only if lesser clubs defeated Real Madrid should I be shocked. Barcelona upsetting Real Madrid does not imply that Real Madrid is a weak team because Real Madrid has also defeated Manchester United and AC Milan, two powerful European clubs, in recent preseason matches.Remember that Real Madrid beat Manchester United and Manchester United beat Arsenal, and Arsenal beat Barcelona? Those are preseason games for us.

[Oluwa-btc]

Of course, this season Real Madrid will not make mistakes like last season, they learn from mistakes. Real Madrid will be perfect if they succeed in signing Mbappe, Carlo Ancelotti needs a striker who is hungry for goals to win many titles this season. He asked the management of the Real Madrid team to bring him from PSG even though he had to spend the available transfer funds to smooth out his noble steps to win Laliga and the Champions League.

Mbappe will complete the attack line by accompanying Vinicius Jr and Rodrigo Goes, as well as Jude Bellingham who will accompany Brahim Diaz who is a local talent who can later become Real Madrid's King of Goals such as Raul Gonzalez. Aurelien Tchouameni, and Eduardo Camavinga (which happens to be a sensational midfielder duo from France), and Thibaut Courtois is also ready to lead the defense where he is ready to accompany Anthony Rudiger, Eder Militao and David Alaba.

This means that Real Madrid's line-up has been neatly arranged with 3 in defense and attackers and 4 in midfield who are ready to compete with attackers who are no less great to be able to win all domestic and European titles. at the end of the season.

Not having a replacement for Karim Benzema is another huge error, a virus. They'll get to keep good ball possession, defend well but scoring goals like they did two seasons back would be difficult. I don't know if the missing puzzle is Kylian Mbappe, but they should know better that wanting and signature of the france international can be possible thus season. It has got to be mere fantasies. The valuation from Paris Saint Germans is way too much and Real Madrid spending such would be pure stupidity unless they never learned them lessons from the signature of Eden Hazard.

Have got no issues with the midfielder's, but the defense might be a little bit shaky for me especially when it comes to the right wing back defender ( Dani Carvajal ) Real Madrid also didn't notice he flopped during the game against Manchester City. They might believe in him but he's currently a weak link. He might look solid to many but nothing more like a teddy bear to me. He should get competition.

Yeah, most big dogs are adopting that formation and shape, three man defense I meant to say four, but three staying behind while one joins the midfielder's to help them advance and attack freely knowing they've got a shield behind. John Stones and Rodri did similar shit last season a whole lot during the champions league final.

[Fuso.hp]

Barcelona was losing against real madrid. It surprises me to see how barcelona humiliated real madrid with 3-0 as the final scores. It seems like that if arsenal is far stronger compared with real madrid at this moment. The quality will never lie. Madrid needs to solve all of its problems.

The new players do nothing when it was facing barcelona while arsenal was able scoring so many goals against barcelona. It seems like that the quality from real madrid is still far below arsenal at this moment.

Real Madrid's performance was terrible in the friendly match, showing that Barcelona has a stronger squad.

Im very disappointed with the performance from real madrid players.  3-0 is a big scores.

I was not surprised by Barcelona's victory over Real Madrid in yesterday's friendly because it is common for both clubs to lose when they play each other even in La Liga and other competitions; sometimes Real Madrid defeats Barcelona and vice versa. Therefore, I don't need to be astonished because both teams are strongest teams in world that have accomplished a great deal and are expected to keep up their good play. Only if lesser clubs defeated Real Madrid should I be shocked. Barcelona upsetting Real Madrid does not imply that Real Madrid is a weak team because Real Madrid has also defeated Manchester United and AC Milan, two powerful European clubs, in recent preseason matches.Remember that Real Madrid beat Manchester United and Manchester United beat Arsenal, and Arsenal beat Barcelona? Those are preseason games for us.

The match between Real Madrid and Barcelona was a friendly match. Basically the two teams organized such a match to test themselves against each other. Although it was a warm-up match, we saw good excitement in this match. Barcelona's early lead followed by Real Madrid's equalizer was all in the Real Madrid vs Barcelona match. But Real Madrid could definitely play a little better. In this friendly match, we saw Barcelona and Real Madrid fans behaving in a friendly manner. The gallery was mixed with Barcelona and Real Madrid fans. In other words, Real Madrid and Barcelona fans sat side by side and enjoyed this match which looked great. The match between Real Madrid and Barcelona was a great match after the win or loss.

[abhiseshakana]

Benzema left Real Madrid and from this big friendly match, their problems shown clearly. They need a world class striker to replace Benzema as Vinicius is not a striker and Joselu is not a world-class striker. If Real Madrid won't buy such a striker in this summer, they will have very big problem in a new season.

There are rumors that there has been an agreement between Mbappe and Real Madrid, in which Mbappe will go to Real Madrid when he becomes a free agent next season. If the rumors are true, it means that Real Madrid will get Mbappe for free, so it wouldn't hurt for Real Madrid to sign a new striker before Mbappe joined them. Real Madrid doesn't have many strikers now, so with a new striker, it can fill the hole left by Benzema. Even though Mbappe did eventually come, I think the striker could be Mbappe's backup (or even become his sidekick).

[Luzin]

There are rumors that there has been an agreement between Mbappe and Real Madrid, in which Mbappe will go to Real Madrid when he becomes a free agent next season. If the rumors are true, it means that Real Madrid will get Mbappe for free, so it wouldn't hurt for Real Madrid to sign a new striker before Mbappe joined them. Real Madrid doesn't have many strikers now, so with a new striker, it can fill the hole left by Benzema. Even though Mbappe did eventually come, I think the striker could be Mbappe's backup (or even become his sidekick).

Of course it would be interesting if this was true. Many rumors are circulating but the matter is complicated. My hope is of course that soon in the 23/24 season Madrid will have the added strength to keep competing for La Liga and UCL titles. Because today Madrid lost 0-3 to Barcelona. Real Madrid had many chances but they failed to make good use of them. I'm a little worried about this result, because Barcelona are the toughest contenders. Although this cannot be described in a long competition.

[shinratensei_]

It is said that Real Madrid made a transfer offer of 230 million euros for Kylian Mbappe. If Paris SG does not accept this offer, Mbappe will go down in history as a bad transfer policy for them. The money offered by Real Madrid should be the maximum transfer fee to a player scheduled to join the team for free next year.

There is no bid coming from real madrid yet. Liverpool is strying to take mbappe as a loan from PSG but there's no concrete talk betweeen liverpool and PSG at this moment. I would like to say if everything about mbappe is still remain uncertain at this moment.
Real madrid asked mbappe's agent to lower its transfer price but there's no development from this thing. It is likely that the final price for Mbappe will be around 230m.

Madrid has not sent yet any official bid for him to the PSG. I don't even think that real madrid gonna spend more than 200 millions for him at this season. It's too much for madrid for only a single player like mbappe. We shall wait for further news to come from mbappe's transfer.
Real madrid needs a good player. The team was facing big losses against barcelona. It was also hurting all the fans. Even though people called that a friendly match but el classico is also remaining el classico.

It's a way to proven which is better between madrid and barcelona.

[Docnaster]

Preseason friendly games are not competitive enough to to determine how good a club is or how poor they'll perform when the actual football season kicks off. It's just a glorified training games to me.
That being said and without taking anything away from Barcelona who won yesterday against Real Madrid, I think the Real Madrid team is still very much better than Barcelona in terms of quality players and would have a better season than Barcelona when next season kicks off.

Xavi Hernandez buckling his squad with good enchanced performance, they won against Real Madrid, they deserved accolades despite its a friendly game. I concord with your opinion, there's no limit to make comparison of a friendly game with a club's main performance when the league finally reopen. The blaugrana humiliated the Los Blancos 3nil in a friendly clash, that doesn't suppose to make us jump into conclusion about Carlo Ancelotti main game strategy. Real Madrid are always vulnerable to Barcelona but things are on a different level when it comes to pursuing competitive titles.  

Great input and expression from you and I am not in any form undermining Barcelona in any form.
As we saw last season, one of the best achievements of Xavi apart from the Laliga title is that he had more wins against Real Madrid.  He first learnt how to beat Madrid in the Laliga. However Xavi Hernandez has much work to do this season and that is to learn how to be successful in Europe.
If he can deal with this, he will make more success, but unfortunately many teams are prepared more than Barcelona for this season's champions league.