La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

[pusaka]

Since being introduced by coach Xavi, Lamine Yamal has broken a series of records for Barca, La Liga, and Spain. Experts say that young talent Lamine Yamal has more natural talent than legendary senior Lionel Messi. This season, he just became the youngest player to start for Spain and Barcelona. Yamal has scored 357 goals in 249 matches at Barca's youth team levels since 2014. This is an unprecedented record in the history of La Masia. In the most recent game against Granada, his goal helped Barcelona draw 2-2. With injuries to Robert Lewandowski and Raphinha, it is almost certain that Yamal will join Joao Felix and Ferran Torres in Barca's attack. Lamine Yamal is Barcelona's new gem.

Lamine Yamal is one of the young players who has quite good progress and indeed as you said there are several achievements that he managed to do at a very young age, it's just that with his age now it is actually entering a transitional age where sometimes increases and decreases can occur.
It would be great if he continues to contribute well and Xavi must try his best with this player because his potential is quite large and he must be given more playing time so that what happened to Ansu does not happen again to this player because it would be a pity if it happened again.

[shinratensei_]

Bellingham, Anceloti's most successful purchase of the season. Young is dominant and he shows great confidence. Next season, if it is true that Mbappe comes, maybe Real Madrid will be very strong. If you add Guller, maybe Madrid will play better. An early-season injury problem does not seem to have seen Madrid struggle. Tchouameni also performed quite well, he became a substitute defender. This is because Nacho cannot play due to card accumulation penalties.

It's sad guler was still injured. I expect him to make his debut as soon as once he will be fully recovered. Real madrid needs the last piece to complete its puzzle and that's a beast striker. Having bellingham as a beast guy in scoring for real madrid was very good but it would be far better if real madrid will able to add more striker that has great instinct in scoring against its opponent? Mbappe?Osimhen? They are all good. Real madrid needs a great striker who has great physic combined with instinct and positioning.

This club will become another club that will be dominating the football again like a few years ago. The new real madrid will be born once madrid will get the great striker who can make goals as many as possible in any match.
Im waiting for such moment to come. I saw that how enthusiast all of madrid fans when they were watching bellingham was always scoring in any match for real madrid. This guy is a great player even though his age was 20 years old.

[TelolettOm]

Bellingham, Anceloti's most successful purchase of the season. Young is dominant and he shows great confidence. Next season, if it is true that Mbappe comes, maybe Real Madrid will be very strong. If you add Guller, maybe Madrid will play better. An early-season injury problem does not seem to have seen Madrid struggle. Tchouameni also performed quite well, he became a substitute defender. This is because Nacho cannot play due to card accumulation penalties.

Agree. Bellingham is a perfect purchase done by Ancelotti and Real Madrid. I think Real Madrid bought him at a cheap price. What he has done so far, showed that he is actually worth more than that. Once again Real Madrid knows well a talented young player for Real Madrid future.

If they sign Mbappe, Real Madrid will have perfect players in attacking line. The formation will be Vini-Rodrygo-Mbappe, or Vini-Guller-Mbappe. Since all them are young players, the formation will last a long time. Real Madrid only needs to build their defense because Real Madrid midfield already have enough young players.

[temple]

Bellingham, Anceloti's most successful purchase of the season. Young is dominant and he shows great confidence. Next season, if it is true that Mbappe comes, maybe Real Madrid will be very strong. If you add Guller, maybe Madrid will play better. An early-season injury problem does not seem to have seen Madrid struggle. Tchouameni also performed quite well, he became a substitute defender. This is because Nacho cannot play due to card accumulation penalties.

Agree. Bellingham is a perfect purchase done by Ancelotti and Real Madrid. I think Real Madrid bought him at a cheap price. What he has done so far, showed that he is actually worth more than that. Once again Real Madrid knows well a talented young player for Real Madrid future.

If they sign Mbappe, Real Madrid will have perfect players in attacking line. The formation will be Vini-Rodrygo-Mbappe, or Vini-Guller-Mbappe. Since all them are young players, the formation will last a long time. Real Madrid only needs to build their defense because Real Madrid midfield already have enough young players.

That could only be said in hindsight that it was a cheap price. Of course that way you could always argue that someone was either overpriced or underpriced if you pay an amount and then look at what he has done in the future. But in the case of Bellingham I think the price was ok and not even Real Madrid expected Bellingham to become a player of such significance to the whole team. Ancelotti himself said that he is baffled. He said he knew what Bellingham was able to, but nobody could see this coming. I think the pricing was quite fair and Dortmund made a good deal. Yes, they now wish that Bellingham would have done the same for them, but that's the problem with pricing. Even if Bellingham stayed at Dortmund, he would probably not be the same because the Real Madrid team also offers him more opportunities to enfold his potential.

[bering]

Bellingham, Anceloti's most successful purchase of the season. Young is dominant and he shows great confidence. Next season, if it is true that Mbappe comes, maybe Real Madrid will be very strong. If you add Guller, maybe Madrid will play better. An early-season injury problem does not seem to have seen Madrid struggle. Tchouameni also performed quite well, he became a substitute defender. This is because Nacho cannot play due to card accumulation penalties.

Real Madrid didn't buy a lot of player to strengthen their squad this summer but their transfer were very effective because Bellingham can prove to the fans that 100 millions is decent price to gets him and Ancelotti regeneration squad currently was successfully because young players such as Bellingham, Tchouameni and Valverde can able to replace senior players just like Modric or Kroos and a bit surprised because in the first season Bellingham can able to performing well and replace Modric position in the squad even he can solved the worry of losing Benzema with being an Real Madrid top scorer and it would be fantastic if next summer Real Madrid can able to buy Mbappe and with the arrival of him i am sure Real Madrid will be more strong

[Josefjix]

Barcelona is weak financially and they are counting on their youth talents in addition to recruiting free players.
After the departure of Ronaldinho, Neymar, Saurez then Messi and the old squad, Barcelona suffered a lot and luckily they found some good players to join the team, especially Lewandowski for a short time but also Lamine Yamal for longer time hopefully. This player was talked about him a lot in press and everyone expect a lot from him in the future. He is doing well until now!

The team was doing fantastic when Ronaldinho, Neymar, and Suarez left because they had Messi, who was accomplishing the unthinkable with other talented players surrounding him. Up until two seasons ago, the team was also doing well financially.

You're true, though, they have been overly reliant on the club academy ever since they ran into financial difficulties. Players like Gavi and Pedri have come through, and now 16-year-old Lamine Yamal is bursting onto the scene.

[asriloni]

They made surprises, but I think they were only temporary. Staying in the top 10 teams in La Liga is good enough. Girona still have a lot of games and good stability to stay on top. I don't believe they will stay on top at the end of the season.

How Girona turned to a formidable team still surprises me. One unique thing about them is their resilience,  not minding of they are playing a big side like Barcelona or Real Madrid. I am very convince they will finish the season around the top to securing one of the European competitions.

Girona was a part of city football group. You do know how successful manchester city was last season. It was also greatly affecting the performance from girona. Girona may be a competitor for barcelona and real madrid some day.
Girona has spent small amounts of money to make it happen. No doubt if girona is slowly evolving to be one of big club in la liga. I thinks that this will still happen till griona will able to finish at the top 10 of la liga.

Many people surprised with the development that happened in girona. it feels like that if i were seeing a new horse was coming to the la liga. Girona is potentially to be one of strongest club in la liga soon.
Anyone was seeing unbelievable performance from girona.

[junder]

Lamine Tamal now holds the record of being the youngest player to score in the Spanish League. Though his goal wasn't that to put his side Barcelona ahead but such records are well honoured and remembered.
They ( Barcelona ) have a good squad regardless all the struggles they face. They will do better after international duties.

Tamal is too over rated, I don't see any magic that make him so special and just because he was featured early doest mean there aren't others like him, just that they aren't opportune like him and having one goal is nothing compared to early days of Messi when he was in the club.

You know, you two don't seem to be saying his name correctly. He is Lamine Yamal, not Tamal as you both mentioned.
Lamine Yamal feels special because Barcelona found him worthy to compete for a place with Raphinha. Yamal answered some of Xavi's needs in building an attack, but some media exaggerated the news. Yamal's performances with Barcelona are improving gradually and he recently got his first goal, which is good for increasing the player's motivation to train hard with his team.

I agree that Lamine Yamal is still too young to be expected to have a big impact on Barcelona's attack, but this player is really capable of showing his best form with good skills. No wonder several opposing defenders have to stop him with tackles and physical attacks, this is clear because Yamal has the potential to damage his opponent's defense because of his abilities.

Yes, Yamal can play well for Barcelona, he can score goals, in my opinion Barcelona is weak when dealing with opponents who use a five-back formation, as demonstrated against Granada in yesterday's match with a draw Granada who came down with a five-back formation appearance. The hosts defended desperately from the attacks built by Xavi Hernandez's squad To be able to steal two goals, Granada only utilized lightning counterattacks The two goals they scored in this match came from these counterattacks. This weakness of Barcelona seems to be an open secret No need for a professional analyst, even ordinary soccer fans understand Barcelona's weaknesses, it all starts with the characteristics of Barcelona's game under Xavi, which is oriented towards ball possession in this match, Barcelona's ball possession can be very dominant.

Yes with the youngest players can play well, although Barcelona was unable to beat Granada but the results in that match made Barca's young star Lamine Yamal break the record in LaLiga even Barcelona is unbeaten to date.
In the match at Granada headquarters, Barca had to miss two goals first. Only then Yamal reversed through his goal in the 45th minute. and followed by Sergi Roberto breaking into Granada's goal with normal time remaining five minutes and ending in a draw with a final score of 2-2.

[Sebas.tian]

Since being introduced by coach Xavi, Lamine Yamal has broken a series of records for Barca, La Liga, and Spain. Experts say that young talent Lamine Yamal has more natural talent than legendary senior Lionel Messi. This season, he just became the youngest player to start for Spain and Barcelona. Yamal has scored 357 goals in 249 matches at Barca's youth team levels since 2014. This is an unprecedented record in the history of La Masia. In the most recent game against Granada, his goal helped Barcelona draw 2-2. With injuries to Robert Lewandowski and Raphinha, it is almost certain that Yamal will join Joao Felix and Ferran Torres in Barca's attack. Lamine Yamal is Barcelona's new gem.

Barcelona coach is really doing a great job in Barcelona, because I thought Barcelona will not win la Liga league title last season based on their position in the competition table but their coach work on some players that made them to take over the first position from Real Madrid till the end of the tournament for the whole world to celebrate their coach. I think, Yamal has a lot of goals to help Barcelona to achieve before his contract will expire because he was able to save Barcelona from disgrace from the hands of Granada because he was able to scored a goal that made them to draw the match 2-2. I believe, Barcelona players that is experiencing injuries will soon recover for their fans to have full confident in any matches because the players injuries is seriously affecting the team is this period.

[MarjorieZimmermanGinger]

The team is definitely watching a lot of success because of Jude Bellingham. I believe he is currently leading the top scorer board of La Liga. So far Real Madrid has not felt the need of a good striker because he has been scoring a lot for Real Madrid. This was a great brace from Jude Bellingham. He was the one to score, the first two goals. And after that Vini Junior and Joselu scored a goal each. So Real Madrid got a relatively easy win in this match.

After watching these kind of matches, we have to say that Real Madrid is performing really well and has a really good squad. Let's see if Jude Wellingham can still score goals against big opponents.

Even though Jude Belligham is Real Madrid's top scorer at the moment, in my opinion they need a single striker as a solution to make their front line sharper. Joselu was not an alternative when Real Madrid reached a dead end because his style of play was not as prominent as that of a classy striker. When Real Madrid has a world-class striker like Mbappe, if they succeed in bringing him in, their game will be much more terrifying, like when Benzema, Ronaldo and Bale play together.

When they face a team that is much more balanced, this is where a quality single striker is needed and Jude Belligham can focus more on helping the attack so that it will produce a terrible collaboration on the front lines. Jude Belligham also may not be able to score every match because of the tight match schedule they face and having a single striker can help.

[len01]

Even though Jude Belligham is Real Madrid's top scorer at the moment, in my opinion they need a single striker as a solution to make their front line sharper. Joselu was not an alternative when Real Madrid reached a dead end because his style of play was not as prominent as that of a classy striker. When Real Madrid has a world-class striker like Mbappe, if they succeed in bringing him in, their game will be much more terrifying, like when Benzema, Ronaldo and Bale play together.

yep, thats right. even though currently it looks perfect because of Bellingham, Joselu and Vinicius, at least having special players to become reliable strikers to become scoring machines will strengthen Real Madrid even more like in the past when Madrid glory days were still very strong because of Benzema and Ronaldo. by bringing Mbappe to Madrid, this team can make its performance stronger and of course the glory will be felt again like in the past with a very perfect line up of players to win the title in every competition and well, we can only hope that Mbappe really will came to Real Madrid.

[BlackBoss_]

Even though Jude Belligham is Real Madrid's top scorer at the moment, in my opinion they need a single striker as a solution to make their front line sharper.

Jude Belling surely is a discovery of La Liga 2023 - 2024 season and he is even doing better than Federico Valverde in the last season. The Uruguayan player did had a good first half of last season but after World Cup 2022, his performance dropped a lot. In early matches of La Liga, Jude Bellingham even played better than Valverde and as a midfielder, his scoring intensity will drop in later months of season. I agree with you that Real Madrid must trigger scoring ability of other attacking players as they can not rely on Jude forever.

Joselu was not an alternative when Real Madrid reached a dead end because his style of play was not as prominent as that of a classy striker. When Real Madrid has a world-class striker like Mbappe, if they succeed in bringing him in, their game will be much more terrifying, like when Benzema, Ronaldo and Bale play together.

Joselu is their best striker now but he is not a world class striker and even in Spain, he does not have a solid position in Spanish national team. It tells us a lot about ability of Joselu but unfortunately, Mbappe still is a story of future and I don't know when he will become a Real Madrid player.

When they face a team that is much more balanced, this is where a quality single striker is needed and Jude Belligham can focus more on helping the attack so that it will produce a terrible collaboration on the front lines. Jude Belligham also may not be able to score every match because of the tight match schedule they face and having a single striker can help.

Jude Bellingham will get more attention from opponents after his latest excellent matches and his scoring intensity. When opponents pay more attention, use more players to control Jude, other attacking players of Real Madrid will get advantage from it.

[Litzki1990]

Barcelona is weak financially and they are counting on their youth talents in addition to recruiting free players.
After the departure of Ronaldinho, Neymar, Saurez then Messi and the old squad, Barcelona suffered a lot and luckily they found some good players to join the team, especially Lewandowski for a short time but also Lamine Yamal for longer time hopefully. This player was talked about him a lot in press and everyone expect a lot from him in the future. He is doing well until now!

The team was doing fantastic when Ronaldinho, Neymar, and Suarez left because they had Messi, who was accomplishing the unthinkable with other talented players surrounding him. Up until two seasons ago, the team was also doing well financially.

You're true, though, they have been overly reliant on the club academy ever since they ran into financial difficulties. Players like Gavi and Pedri have come through, and now 16-year-old Lamine Yamal is bursting onto the scene.

Barcelona had everything when they didn't have financial problems but since the financial problems they have let go of one player after another. First Ronaldinho left then Neymar left for Paris then Luis Suarez left and finally Lionel Messi left. Lionel Messi started his career from Barcelona and he wanted to finish his career in Barcelona but due to the financial problems of the club and according to UEFA rules, Barcelona finally failed to retain Lionel Messi. When Lionel Messi left Barcelona, he was crying bitterly for his club because it was the club that made him Lionel Messi. They managed to fly past financial problems soon after the departure of Lionel Messi, signing the likes of Robert Lewandowski and Raphinha from Bayern Munich and making several new signings this season. So let's go big now Barcelona have been able to slowly fly past their difficult times.

[Strongkored]

yep, thats right. even though currently it looks perfect because of Bellingham, Joselu and Vinicius, at least having special players to become reliable strikers to become scoring machines will strengthen Real Madrid even more like in the past when Madrid glory days were still very strong because of Benzema and Ronaldo. by bringing Mbappe to Madrid, this team can make its performance stronger and of course the glory will be felt again like in the past with a very perfect line up of players to win the title in every competition and well, we can only hope that Mbappe really will came to Real Madrid.

Kylian Mbappe's chances of going to Real Madrid are still very gray, he really wants to be at this big club because being with Real Madrid will fulfill all his hopes of getting lots of titles which will be quite difficult to fulfill if he stays with his current club, but if Kylian Mbappe is really going to Real Madrid imagining that they will become the most productive team and return to their glory days.
The question will be how much will Real Madrid have to spend to bring in this striker? I'm sure PSG will not let him go below 150 million euros and maybe 200 million euros is the value set by PSG because the French club also spent quite a lot of money when buying him from Monaco.

[klidex]

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I think Xavi can't continue to rely on Lewandowski, he has to prepare a backup to replace Lewandowski when he is absent due to injury or something else, Barcelona didn't perform well last night, even against a bottom club it was quite difficult to score goals, I know in the end they can hold a draw, but this could be a lesson that Barcelona must have a replacement for Lewandowski to be better.

Granada really looked good at the start of the match and they played attacking and were able to score quick goals against Barcelona. Just look at Barcelona's back line which didn't look good so they had to concede two goals. Xavi needs to pay attention to that, Barcelona should be able to win that match , but unfortunately they have to share points with Granada. it looks annoying for those betting on Barcelona  

Yes, Xavi must have other options besides relying on Lewandowski to score goals. Luckily, Lewandowski did not suffer a fatal injury because if he suffered a fatal injury, it is not impossible that Barcelona would lose balance in the match they were facing. and yes I thought Barcelona would win the match especially this match but with a draw it was quite surprising to many people especially the fans and bookmakers who bet a lot on Barcelona, we all know this match should be quite easy for Barcelona without Lewandowski because Granada is not a tough club but in fact Barcelona had to share points with Granada in that match.

[KTChampions]

Quite a strange situation: Barcelona lost points for the second time in a game with an outsider and is now 3 points behind Real Madrid. At the same time, Real lost points only in the game with strong Atletico. In turn, Atlético, if we take into account the game in reserve, is one point ahead of Barcelona. But the title quotes are as follows:

Real Madrid 1.89

Barcelona Fc 2.20

Atlético Madrid 10.00

In my opinion, Real and Atletico are underrated and Barcelona are overrated. I don’t see Atlético as a contender for the title, but the numbers are such that they should be rated higher.

For me Atletico Madrid is on the best run here having won 2 great games,both at home against Real Madrid which gave them a huge boost in confidence and they have continued winning by beating this last weekend another very good performing team lately,Real Sociedad.

Barcelona with the draw of yesterday game should have the odd of 3.5 at least as they are three points behind Real Madrid and they are on equal points or just one point disadvantage to have that low odd nearly identical to Real Madrid.

Yes, Barcelona is clearly overrated. I wonder what the bookmakers expect after Barcelona suffers in games with outsiders and loses points in them, that Barcelona will win all head-to-head matches against Real and Atlético? This is naive (although this can happen, I do not deny it, but the likelihood of this is low). By the way, on October 28th the Barcelona - Real Madrid game will take place and we will see how right (or wrong) the bookmakers are.

[Falconer]

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Did anyone think that the performance from ter Stegen was below average in the last match? At first I thought he was getting old. But then I realized he is 31.  Not even anywhere near Manuel Neuer.  Or maybe he had just a bad match.  At the same time the defense was also pretty weak from Barcelona.

Anyway, Barcelona has been losing some matches that they really should not be. Just like the last match. Barcelona failed to win.  these matches are definitely going to affect them a lot. They are the defending champion of La Liga. it will definitely be a problem for them if they cannot win these matches. Real Madrid is already ahead by three points. Barcelona will have to keep that in mind.

Ter Steigen's performance dropped because Barcelona's defense was disrupted. Barcelona is unbeaten this season even though they have conceded 10 goals in the last 9 matches. So far Barcelona is still a good team in terms of goal statistics where they are the first team to score 21 goals in 9 La Liga matches, that means Barcelona has 1 more goal than Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid.

I'm not saying Barcelona have been so bad this season just because they haven't won all their games, that's clearly not true. However, I can't draw the right conclusions about them because I think Xavi has a chance to improve his team's form because this season is still very long. Real Madrid is 3 points ahead of Barcelona, ​​but that doesn't make us safe without pressure.

[borovichok]

Ter Steigen's performance dropped because Barcelona's defense was disrupted. Barcelona is unbeaten this season even though they have conceded 10 goals in the last 9 matches. So far Barcelona is still a good team in terms of goal statistics where they are the first team to score 21 goals in 9 La Liga matches, that means Barcelona has 1 more goal than Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid.

I'm not saying Barcelona have been so bad this season just because they haven't won all their games, that's clearly not true. However, I can't draw the right conclusions about them because I think Xavi has a chance to improve his team's form because this season is still very long. Real Madrid is 3 points ahead of Barcelona, ​​but that doesn't make us safe without pressure.

Xavi Hernandez is attempting to turn Barcelona into an enormous force undefeated squad in La Liga, and despite allowing numerous goals, they are unbeaten this season. He will concentrate only on his team, as injuries has been an ongoing problem for them this season, amounting to a downturn in performance. Barcelona is competing for the La Liga title and is considered the favorite to win it this season. They would face the same formidable opponents as in previous decades, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid. The blaugrana defendlines is the team's current weakness; they are not active enough to confront opponents when territory is invaded.

[rendravolt]

Barcelona have announced that one of their defenders, Jules Kounde, has suffered a left MCL sprain and he will be out for an unknown amount of time. Jules Kounde experienced this when playing against Granada and it seems that Barcelona will be quite disadvantaged by his absence in the next match, especially since at the end of October there will be an El Clasico match against Real Madrid. Of course Xavi will be very confused if he continues to lose his main players and we know that previously Lewandowski was also injured. Even so, at least Barcelona still has Ronald Araújo as a replacement for Jules Kounde so there are no problems for Barcelona's defense line.

Source: https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1711344747611050164

Kounde's performance was even better compared with araujo. It's still a problem for barcelona. More players injured will give bad impact to the club. Barcelona had been always conceding so many goals. That makes the club looks like a weak club on its defensive line.
The injury that happened to the kounde was making the club even worst. Barcelona may have weaker defensive line for upcoming game. Real madrid can take this as oppotunity caused by the more injured players meant real madrid will able to make the gap even bigger in la liga.

I can't even imagine if there will be more players will face injury. This will be greatly impacting the performance from barcelona.

It seems we will unable to see barcelona to play with its best squad.

I don't think the quality of these players is at the same level and both of them can fill the same two positions, namely as CB or RB. Therefore, we can see that Xavi often rotates these two players to determine the right strategy when facing a quite troublesome opponent. We know that when playing against Real Madrid, which has Vini in the left winger position, Xavi will put Araujo in the RB position and against other teams, Araujo will sometimes be the CB. However, with the presence of Joao Cancelo, this position is not a special need for Xavi and he often only rotates Kounde and Araujo as CB. From Real Madrid's side, it is very profitable when Barcelona does not appear with their best squad and maybe this could be their victory in the match away to Camp Nou later.

[Leviathan.007]

Bellingham, Anceloti's most successful purchase of the season. Young is dominant and he shows great confidence. Next season, if it is true that Mbappe comes, maybe Real Madrid will be very strong. If you add Guller, maybe Madrid will play better. An early-season injury problem does not seem to have seen Madrid struggle. Tchouameni also performed quite well, he became a substitute defender. This is because Nacho cannot play due to card accumulation penalties.

Jude Bellingham is a great palyer and regardless of his age, he had good performances while he was a young and inexperienced player in Real Madrid, but so far in Real Madrid Bellingham has an effective role and he was the reason for Real Madrid won many games, I think Real Madrid will have problems if this palyer gets injured because the other palyer in this team can't fill the place of Bellingham.