La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

[Rampagoe004]

As a weaker team, Celta Vigo have to play like this with minimal target as a draw and 1 point from Barcelona. They nearly succeed but failed at the end because of Lewandowski but generally, their plan worked and revealed Barcelona's weakness.

You are right. Even though they managed to get a victory, it was an inconclusive victory. Barcelona almost couldn't win that game. They really struggled because Celta Vigo also played defensively after scoring 1 goal. This is actually a good strategy for a weak team like Celta Vigo. But Barcelona was lucky because they got a penalty at the end of the match. I see like Barcelona is very dependent on Lewandowski. This will be difficult because Lewi is too old and they must be able to find another striker in the next transfer market.

[hd49728]

I agree with you. Barcelona need an  experienced striker now. Barcelona  have quality strikers in their  squad. But they are not experienced  enough. Torres, Raphinha, Felix Roque  and Yamal are all talented. But  no one is experienced enough. Teams can't score goals at the right time, they need more time to develop their skills. And so with these  strikers, Barcelona needs another experienced striker. Who has the ability to score a lot of goals.

Those players in your list are not traditional strikers. They are like wingers or forwards or attacking midfielders than a traditional striker. Barcelona actually played in many seasons without a traditional striker and a previous successful striker is Luiz Suarez but it is many seasons in the past.

They tried to change their tactics from tiki taka to more directly attacking and by that change, they signed with Lewandowski as a free player. Need more strikers to replace or substitute Lewandowski, we will have to wait who will be a next head coach for Barcelona. Xavi will leave and a new head coach might bring new tactical philosophy to Barcelona so he will need a striker or won't need it at all.

[Swordsoffreedom]

I agree with you. Barcelona need an  experienced striker now. Barcelona  have quality strikers in their  squad. But they are not experienced  enough. Torres, Raphinha, Felix Roque  and Yamal are all talented. But  no one is experienced enough. Teams can't score goals at the right time, they need more time to develop their skills. And so with these  strikers, Barcelona needs another experienced striker. Who has the ability to score a lot of goals.

Against Cleta Vigo, Barcelona's players were  able to create several excellent scoring chances but the  team was still completely dependent on  Lewandowski to score. Barcelona must reduce this  dependence. Consistently good performance is not  possible depending on just one player.

Lewandowski is quite an experienced player but his age is no longer young so Barcelona should not be completely dependent on him while I don't think Barcelona's other young players have the chemistry that suits Lewandowski or can't match his performance to play together and take advantage of Lewandowski's presence in Barcelona's front line. .

This season, the Barcelona team is facing quite a lot of problems, not only on the front line, but overall they are not very good.
Slowly, Barcelona continues to gain important points and this makes them more comfortable at the top of the standings, this is important for the team's confidence.

There is no doubt that Lewandowski is very experienced. Lewandowski also  has the ability to score a lot of goals. But Barcelona should not rely on just one player. Barcelona need another experienced striker. At the same  time, Barcelona will also need to find a replacement for Lewandowski. Lewa is now 35 years old. Barcelona should look for  an experienced striker between the ages of 26-30.
Barcelona will probably get better  performances from their young players. But I think Barcelona will need at  least 2 more years to get good performances from these young players. If the players  are not experienced enough, they do not consistently  perform well. Barcelona is  unlikely to win the title this season. If Barcelona want to fight for the title next season, then  Barcelona must add another  experienced striker to the squad.

[rendravolt]

It's very rare this season that we see a team as lucky as Barcelona because we know that towards the last minute they always get lucky. I don't know if it's like profit or luck because both are almost the same and getting a penalty in the last minute is like a bonus and also protects itself from a draw or loss. Here I don't mean to attack Barcelona because the facts on the field are like that and as one of the big teams in La Liga and also the defending champions they should be able to rely more on winning with something more special or charming.

If we look at how many times Barcelona have won because of penalty kicks, they have been in the matches against Osasuna, Alaves, Las Palmas, and most recently last night's win against Celta Vigo. All scores are at the same number 2-1 or 1-2 in favor of Barcelona and I wonder how long they can survive with a win like this. Despite all that, a win is still a win and whatever the result is, it will still be satisfying, but if this continues they will be closer to an unexpected bad result.

[bering]

Mallorca vs Sociedad

Previously i was impress to see Sociedad performance because in Laliga Sociedad has stable performance and in Champion league Sociedad can able to qualified to round of 16 with finish at first place but recently i do not really understand what happend to Sociedad because their performance were decline even in the last 5 matches Sociedad was unable to scores and they only gets 3 draw from those matches so their conditions is not really good and for Mallorca i have to says their performance a bit better compared to Sociedad because last week they had just get the winning results from Rayo

Both teams have been met on Copa Del Rey competition at that time they have to playing draw and from this record we can see although from league standings Mallorca position below to Sociedad but Mallorca potentially can stole points from Sociedad and for today match Mallorca still losing Pablo Maffeo and Martin Valjent but besides them all of their players will be available and for Sociedad they were facing unfavourable situations because at least Sociedad will lost 6 players who got injured including Mikel Oyarzabal and about the outcomes of this match i know Sociedad is the favourite but their condition makes me doubt they can able to win especially Sociedad facing storm injured so my prediction is this match will ended to draw and this option has high odds @2.60 or under 2.5 goals seems good pick for thus match

[Oluwa-btc]

It's very rare this season that we see a team as lucky as Barcelona because we know that towards the last minute they always get lucky. I don't know if it's like profit or luck because both are almost the same and getting a penalty in the last minute is like a bonus and also protects itself from a draw or loss. Here I don't mean to attack Barcelona because the facts on the field are like that and as one of the big teams in La Liga and also the defending champions they should be able to rely more on winning with something more special or charming.

If we look at how many times Barcelona have won because of penalty kicks, they have been in the matches against Osasuna, Alaves, Las Palmas, and most recently last night's win against Celta Vigo. All scores are at the same number 2-1 or 1-2 in favor of Barcelona and I wonder how long they can survive with a win like this. Despite all that, a win is still a win and whatever the result is, it will still be satisfying, but if this continues they will be closer to an unexpected bad result.

Lol. Is Penalty not part of football anymore? This is not something you should bring up for discussion and dragging. They won and that's all that matters now. Three points to the fans and the squad onto the next which is definitely Napoli.
The penalty was worth it, Yes ? There was a direct kick on the young star Yamal as the defender failed to get his chase and purpose.
Even the goalkeeper of Celta Vigo failed to stay in goal otherwise that should have been a goal in them favor.

Why all the comparisons? They're trying after all the setbacks they've faced this very season.
Rafael Benitez also has been give too much time, it's no different from what he did with Newcastle United during his stay with the Premier League Club.

[Republikcoin.com]

It's very rare this season that we see a team as lucky as Barcelona because we know that towards the last minute they always get lucky. I don't know if it's like profit or luck because both are almost the same and getting a penalty in the last minute is like a bonus and also protects itself from a draw or loss. Here I don't mean to attack Barcelona because the facts on the field are like that and as one of the big teams in La Liga and also the defending champions they should be able to rely more on winning with something more special or charming.

If we look at how many times Barcelona have won because of penalty kicks, they have been in the matches against Osasuna, Alaves, Las Palmas, and most recently last night's win against Celta Vigo. All scores are at the same number 2-1 or 1-2 in favor of Barcelona and I wonder how long they can survive with a win like this. Despite all that, a win is still a win and whatever the result is, it will still be satisfying, but if this continues they will be closer to an unexpected bad result.

I don't think so, it does look as if the Barcelona team is often lucky with goals in the final minutes but all of that cannot be separated from the hard work of the Barcelona team which produces results at the end of the match.

Overall this season Barcelona's performance is not that impressive and the Barcelona team has experienced quite a lot of problems this season and the crucial wins they have achieved are important enough to keep them at the top of the standings regardless of how they get them.

[Warkop]

Barcelona are relying too much on Robert Lewandowski in two latest seasons and they succeeded with the past season but have problems in this season. Robert is old already and even he still plays better than many players at old age like him, he can not carry Barcelona on his shoulders forever. This match ended well for Barcelona with excellent performance of Lewandowski but Barcelona will not have a happy season if they continue this dependence on the striker.

Maybe Xavi still trusts Lewandowski as Barcelona's striker, because Lewandowski has a very good ability to put pressure on the opponent's back line, therefore Xavi always relies on Lewandowski in every match. In this match, Lewandowski performed very well and was able to contribute 2 goals so that Barcelona was able to win this match. Barcelona should not continue to rely on Lewandowski, because as he gets older, Lewandowski's performance will definitely decline. If we continue to rely on Lewandowski, I am sure Barcelona's attack power will become weaker. Barcelona must immediately look for a new striker to replace Lewandowski, that way Barcelona's future will definitely be even better.

[Velvet78]

Lol. Is Penalty not part of football anymore? This is not something you should bring up for discussion and dragging. They won and that's all that matters now. Three points to the fans and the squad onto the next which is definitely Napoli.
The penalty was worth it, Yes ? There was a direct kick on the young star Yamal as the defender failed to get his chase and purpose.
Even the goalkeeper of Celta Vigo failed to stay in goal otherwise that should have been a goal in them favor.

Why all the comparisons? They're trying after all the setbacks they've faced this very season.
Rafael Benitez also has been give too much time, it's no different from what he did with Newcastle United during his stay with the Premier League Club.

Penalty or not it really doesn't matter for Barcelona now. They should just win as many games as possible to not drop down from their current position at least. Besides in case of Girona's losing points tomorrow it would be really helpful for Barcelona to catch up with them in the standings. 

Maybe the league title is like a dream for Barcelona from now on but they should at least be able to finish behind Real Madrid. They are still struggling to win even simple games on paper unfortunately. I hope they can get better especially at defending in time.

[Solokan]

Lewandowski was great and he became a hero for Barcelona and he scored 2 goals for Barcelona. Lamine Yamal's performance was also very good and he was also very instrumental in winning Barcelona's match against Celta and he gave a good pass to Lewandowski and finally scored a goal for Barcelona. Now Atletico Madrid and Barcelona have a difference of 3 points, it seems that if Barcelona can maintain consistent winning, of course there is still time to shift Girona's position.

Madrid today will compete against the team coached by Inigo Perez, namely Rayo, it seems that in this match Madrid must win in order to pocket lots of points to make it difficult for their rival team to surpass in terms of points. But I'm sure that in the next match against Rayo, Madrid will have great potential to win and it seems like many people will predict that Madrid will beat Rayo. and if you look at the last 2 matches, of course Madrid's performance is still good, like when they competed against Girona, Madrid was able to beat them with a score of 4-0 and in the Champions League they also managed to beat Leipzig and of course in the next match it will certainly give Madrid the confidence to beat Rayo.

and I saw on the news that it said Bellingham and Rodrygo would not play in this match but I believe Madrid will have great potential to win because there are still Vini and the others. and I want to bet on Madrid winning.

[GbitG]

Lewandowskii really displayed well in this match to help Barcelona to scored the two goals that lead them to victory, because people thought that the match will end up draw 1-1 for the both teams to share the points but Barcelona used extra time to achieved the winning goal.

Barcelona are relying too much on Robert Lewandowski in two latest seasons and they succeeded with the past season but have problems in this season. Robert is old already and even he still plays better than many players at old age like him, he can not carry Barcelona on his shoulders forever. This match ended well for Barcelona with excellent performance of Lewandowski but Barcelona will not have a happy season if they continue this dependence on the striker.

Robert Lawandoski is so good with his goal scoring ability, and he has done his job brilliantly, but the thing is that Barcelona has no problem in their attacking sense. They have big issues in their defense. Tell me, mate, that if a club has a strong attack but their defense is quite poor, how will they perform better, like score a goal, despite the fact that they can't maintain their goal net. 
 
So it's meant to say that no matter how strong the attack of a club is and the defense is weak, the more difficult the match becomes for this team, despite whether the attack scores a goal or two more, but if the defense cannot stop the opponent, it is difficult to win the match. becomes Thus, in a similar scenario with Barcelona, Lawandoski is a better striker but if Barcelona can't stop their opponent then how will they provide chances for the attack. So problems, I think Barcelona's lack of attack in defense means 70% fault of defense and 30% attack.

[TastyChillySauce00]

Lewandowski scored one of the goals he made me miss today in the Celta Vigo match. After Celta Vigo, I think it was two minutes later, they equalized with Aspas' goal. Luckily, he hit the Barcelona defender next to them and the ball changed direction. Even so, it was obvious that the attack developed by Celta Vigo would be dangerous and it resulted in a goal.

While Celta could have finished the match with a draw, they won a penalty at 90+3, and Yamal and Barcelona had scored the goal they needed to win. Yamal is a very talented kid, he was there at the most important moments in this match.

Barcelona got what they wanted and this was a very meaningful win for them after experiencing bad results along the way. Celta Vigo can make Barcelona work harder in this match and maybe if there were no goals in the last minute from the penalty box, the result would definitely be a draw like before. Lewandowski looks to be back to his best and he was the winner for Barcelona with two goals. Lamine Yamal is indeed a talented young man and I think he can become a future Barcelona star if he continues to contribute well.

Barcelona got it through very difficult match against celta vigo. Celta was playing equally against barcelona. The performance from club is still far from my expectations. Celta vigo was strong and barcelona was able winning the game through lewandowski during additional time. Barcelona was almost missing two points caused by it was still performing so badly this season.
Xavi seems not able to improve the performance from the club. Finishing has always become the main problem that may never be solved by barcelona. it feels like that i was seeing different lewandowski. The current lewandowski has lost his ability to scores a lot in any game.

His positioning is the worst now. The fact that if celta vigo has been also making a lot of goal attempts but there is most important thing that must be concerned. it's related to th statistic of barcelona. It was creating 11 goal attempts but only 2 goals. That's TWO GOALS which is very bad finishing.
How can barcelona has very high goal attempts but it's unable to score more than two goals. I think the attacking line is still the main problem owned by barcelona. Things are going to be even more difficult for barcelona. The club can only wait for th

[Strongkored]

You are right. Even though they managed to get a victory, it was an inconclusive victory. Barcelona almost couldn't win that game. They really struggled because Celta Vigo also played defensively after scoring 1 goal. This is actually a good strategy for a weak team like Celta Vigo. But Barcelona was lucky because they got a penalty at the end of the match. I see like Barcelona is very dependent on Lewandowski. This will be difficult because Lewi is too old and they must be able to find another striker in the next transfer market.

A victory is still a victory even though it has to be done with difficulty because Barcelona's condition is not that impressive this season, because they experienced quite a significant decline compared to last season where they managed to become champions, and actually Barcelona is not that bad but because Real Madrid and Girona are performing very well so it makes Barcelona look bad and they are out of contention for the title this season.
Barcelona must consider bringing in a younger but more experienced striker because it will be impossible for next season to rely only Robert Lewandowski, who is already starting to decline due to age, but unfortunately financial problems will make it difficult for the club to get the striker they want, and their defense will also have to has improved because that is one of the factors where Barcelona has lost a lot of points so far because their advantage in matches is often in vain because their opponents can break through Barcelona's defense which is quite weak this season.

[LGD2Business]

Real Madrid took the lead at the beginning of the match with Joselu, but Rayo Vallecano won a penalty. It was a penalty because Camavinga intercepted the ball going to the goal with his hand. Raul de Tomas converted the penalty into a goal. There are both goals in the match and those who play with more than 1.5 goals have already won. Those who play for more than 2.5 goals also will win because this match won't end 1-1. Rayo Vallecano doesn't seem to have a striker who can score goals, but maybe they can get an opportunity when Real Madrid is making defensive deficits to win the match. I still believe Real Madrid will score and win the game.

[Ruttoshi]

Madrid today will compete against the team coached by Inigo Perez, namely Rayo, it seems that in this match Madrid must win in order to pocket lots of points to make it difficult for their rival team to surpass in terms of points. But I'm sure that in the next match against Rayo, Madrid will have great potential to win and it seems like many people will predict that Madrid will beat Rayo. and if you look at the last 2 matches, of course Madrid's performance is still good, like when they competed against Girona, Madrid was able to beat them with a score of 4-0 and in the Champions League they also managed to beat Leipzig and of course in the next match it will certainly give Madrid the confidence to beat Rayo.

and I saw on the news that it said Bellingham and Rodrygo would not play in this match but I believe Madrid will have great potential to win because there are still Vini and the others. and I want to bet on Madrid winning.

The match is now 1-1. Real Madrid was lucky to score an early goal on the 5th minutes by Joselu with a great finish. Rayo didn't relent on making sure that the early didn't discourage them but rather they played and got an opportunity. Camavinga hand touched the ball inside the box which led to a penalty.

Raul de Tomas was the one that took the penalty, and it was indeed a splendid one, to equalize the goal on the 27th minutes. Rayo is playing the game with confidence, and Real Madrid is trying every means of scoring. Real Madrid was in total control of the game for the first 25mins, but after the equalizer, they have being trying to dominate the game again.

[bitLeap]

Real Madrid took the lead at the beginning of the match with Joselu, but Rayo Vallecano won a penalty. It was a penalty because Camavinga intercepted the ball going to the goal with his hand. Raul de Tomas converted the penalty into a goal. There are both goals in the match and those who play with more than 1.5 goals have already won. Those who play for more than 2.5 goals also will win because this match won't end 1-1. Rayo Vallecano doesn't seem to have a striker who can score goals, but maybe they can get an opportunity when Real Madrid is making defensive deficits to win the match. I still believe Real Madrid will score and win the game.

I applaud Rayo Vallecano for trying to get up and try to break through Madrid defense so they can equalize by getting a penalty. The second half will definitely be very exciting because this is a challenge for Rayo where Madrid often comebacks at crucial minutes. So far, after being able to get a penalty voucher, the Rayo players definitely have hope again of being able to steal the win. On the other hand I believe that Lunin will save Madrid goal from conceding again in the second half.

If we are observant enough when the first half started, Ancelotti used a 4-4-2 formation, the same as the formation that Rayo used, but now changed to 4-3-2-1 because he realized that there was a small gap that needed to be closed and forced Joselu to be alone at the front. .

[rendravolt]

It's very rare this season that we see a team as lucky as Barcelona because we know that towards the last minute they always get lucky. I don't know if it's like profit or luck because both are almost the same and getting a penalty in the last minute is like a bonus and also protects itself from a draw or loss. Here I don't mean to attack Barcelona because the facts on the field are like that and as one of the big teams in La Liga and also the defending champions they should be able to rely more on winning with something more special or charming.

If we look at how many times Barcelona have won because of penalty kicks, they have been in the matches against Osasuna, Alaves, Las Palmas, and most recently last night's win against Celta Vigo. All scores are at the same number 2-1 or 1-2 in favor of Barcelona and I wonder how long they can survive with a win like this. Despite all that, a win is still a win and whatever the result is, it will still be satisfying, but if this continues they will be closer to an unexpected bad result.

I don't think so, it does look as if the Barcelona team is often lucky with goals in the final minutes but all of that cannot be separated from the hard work of the Barcelona team which produces results at the end of the match.

Overall this season Barcelona's performance is not that impressive and the Barcelona team has experienced quite a lot of problems this season and the crucial wins they have achieved are important enough to keep them at the top of the standings regardless of how they get them.

Indeed, I believe it was the result of the hard work of all the Barcelona players before the match ended. It's just that I regret that against a team that they should be able to beat, they don't always have to face such a situation. What would happen if that continued and just relied on luck, wouldn't they also be even more miserable if they didn't win convincingly from the start. I criticize Barcelona so that they can improve their attack patterns to finish on target.

This makes some people doubt betting on Barcelona's win and we know the results of the previous match must have been quite disappointing for the bettors. I'm happy Barcelona can win again even though in the end they won late. Barcelona is a big team and honestly I miss their competition with Real Madrid this season and we can't see that as long as they still have difficulty winning.

[Iranus]

Real Madrid took the lead at the beginning of the match with Joselu, but Rayo Vallecano won a penalty. It was a penalty because Camavinga intercepted the ball going to the goal with his hand. Raul de Tomas converted the penalty into a goal. There are both goals in the match and those who play with more than 1.5 goals have already won. Those who play for more than 2.5 goals also will win because this match won't end 1-1. Rayo Vallecano doesn't seem to have a striker who can score goals, but maybe they can get an opportunity when Real Madrid is making defensive deficits to win the match. I still believe Real Madrid will score and win the game.

At the end of the first half, the match was tied at 1-1. Rayo Vallecano players are performing better than we expected. On the other hand, in the first half, Real Madrid played somewhat defensively. They don't attack much. Important players like Mndy, Bellingham, Rudiger and Alaba are absent from the match due to injuries. On the other hand, Ancelotti has changed the formation of Madrid in today's match. In the previous matches, Madrid played in a 4-3-1-2 formation. But in today's match, Madrid is playing in 4-2-31 formation. We haven't seen better first half performances from Vini, Modric and Diaz.

[8rch7]

The match is now 1-1. Real Madrid was lucky to score an early goal on the 5th minutes by Joselu with a great finish. Rayo didn't relent on making sure that the early didn't discourage them but rather they played and got an opportunity. Camavinga hand touched the ball inside the box which led to a penalty.

Raul de Tomas was the one that took the penalty, and it was indeed a splendid one, to equalize the goal on the 27th minutes. Rayo is playing the game with confidence, and Real Madrid is trying every means of scoring. Real Madrid was in total control of the game for the first 25mins, but after the equalizer, they have being trying to dominate the game again.

First half match have been draw 1-1, Madrid leaded early trough Joselu but Rayo Vallecano get penalty kick after referee check the VAR and see there has potential for penalty kick. Actually Real Madrid performed on first half not really impressive well except fast counter attack trough Joselu goals on the early match begin, match statistic Real Madrid only had one shot on target than Rayo Vallecano success made 3 shots on target of 5 shots.

I think interested with second half match and Real Madrid won't losses three points to make their points gap with Girona and Barcelona success secured three points last match. Carlo Ancelotti make many rotation and I think he needs to make some change on second half match if want more aggressive and Madrid has opportunity get three points.

[shinratensei_]

Real Madrid took the lead at the beginning of the match with Joselu, but Rayo Vallecano won a penalty. It was a penalty because Camavinga intercepted the ball going to the goal with his hand. Raul de Tomas converted the penalty into a goal. There are both goals in the match and those who play with more than 1.5 goals have already won. Those who play for more than 2.5 goals also will win because this match won't end 1-1. Rayo Vallecano doesn't seem to have a striker who can score goals, but maybe they can get an opportunity when Real Madrid is making defensive deficits to win the match. I still believe Real Madrid will score and win the game.

I think that real madrid will be scoring another goal in the second half. The scode is still one one for both madrid and rayo but madrid has some weapons like rodrygo that can subs in to replace joselu which is not performing quite well in this game. Madrid needs to win against racism team like rayo. This garbage team must be going down to the bottom. Ancellotti can try to subs some players which were not performing good in this match. Based on my analyzation, brahim diaz can also be replaced with rodrygo. Rayo has god two yellow card. Focusing to attack through the right side will be good for madrid caused by rayo's players will be more careful in doing foul.
I think that vini can always become the key to score another goal in this game. Rayo played defensively and real madrid must be careful caused by the counter attack can also destroy the club easily. The second half is almost starting right now. I hope there will be some changes in the squad.
It will be so good to put rodrygo in the game coz this guy can become differentiate for this match. Brahim diaz for rodrygo. this is also helping real madrid to play better in this game. Lunin goes out and kepa in.