La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

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There is only one game in Spanish La Liga. It's a match between two teams with no claims in the league. Alaves conceded 5 goals to Real Madrid last week. Before that, they had a 4-match unbeaten streak in the league. On the other hand, Getafe have lost their last 3 games in the league. I think this is one of the matches that bettors should stay away from. Alaves have been better in recent weeks. But Getafe can get a surprise result from this match. If I were to bet on this match, I would bet under 2.5 goals.

Betting on Getafe vs Alaves match is very risky. These two teams have no chance of climbing the points table and both teams' performances are erratic and weak right now. In the last match we saw that Alaves performed very poorly. Alaves team could not build any resistance against Madrid. On the other hand, Getafe is also in a very bad form. This team has lost in the last three matches.

I have checked the match statistics of these two teams. Four of the last 5 matches have been drawn. Getafe have won their home matches this season. But since Getafe is not in good form, this match is also likely to be a draw.

The match against Real Madrid I don't think can be taken into consideration at all because after all, Real Madrid is at a different level. But apart from that, that Alaves playing at home looks quite a favorite in this match although indeed, I don't think it's something wrong or strange. But even though Alaves are quite favored I personally don't believe Alaves will win because after all, at least they are also in the race for a better position.  Although it's only a competition in the middle of the table but I'm sure they will still do their best so any result can still happen. But yes,I personally choose the option for both teams to score because yes, I think it might be a moment for Getafe to score too in this match.

I thought the match would be a draw. But my guess was wrong. The match was not a draw. Alaves won the match 1-0. Despite losing by a big margin in the home match against Madrid, Alaves managed to get 3 points in the home match against Getafe.

To be honest I expected to see slightly better performance from getafe. But the Getafe team could not fulfill my expectations. The overall performance of getafe was not good. This is why Alaves' players managed to score a goal despite not attacking much. A win in this match saw Alaves move up a point in the points table. Now Alaves team is in tenth place in the table.

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Barcelona will always be stuck in the same place without being helped with the money. I remind you that the golden era of barcelona has already achieved when the club was giving privilage to the coach in buying the players he wanted. This time is very different compared to that time.
Barcelona is not even able in providing good amounts of money for his coach. How can club compete with real madrid? Barcelona may be facing another decline soon. Im not really sure club can leave from this financial problem.

I have a different view from you, Barcelona golden age was achieved when the squad was dominated by players from the La Masia academy, only a few star players were brought in to complement Puzzle's shortcomings in the squad. Barcelona can still get out of its downturn if they are able to take advantage of the talented young players who Xavi has just promoted to the main squad, they are Barcelona most valuable future investment.
The coach must give them confidence so that they can develop their talents, the second era of Barcelona's success has just begun, several talented young players from La Masia will be part of Barcelona success in the future as their seniors have achieved. Such as Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Busquets, Valdes, Punyol, Pique, Pedro and several other players who were part of the Barcelona squad when they won the Sixtuple.

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It is a big problem when a club is in a financial crisis. They will always find it hard to pay for the coaching crew and players' weekly wages, which would make them to perform poorly because everyone will not function well when they haven't received what is in their contract. Barcelona management should look for a way to raise money to solve the club's financial problems; if not, they might lose some of their good players to other big clubs that can give their players what they want.

I think with Barcelona's current condition, they are not unable but they don't want to.

Barcelona has always been faced with financial problems that have never ended for several years, but instead of solving financial and salary problems, they are still busy with the stadium construction project, which in my opinion, even though there are plans for that, in the end the condition of the club is much more important, but Barcelona seems to as if they want to delay and continue to wait until their time is really up when it comes to players' salaries.

This will not be resolved if it is not resolved, but what is happening now is not that it cannot be resolved quickly, but Barcelona does not want to resolve it in a hurry because they think this problem is not very important, even though this is precisely what caused Barcelona's golden era to just crumble.

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I thought the match would be a draw. But my guess was wrong. The match was not a draw. Alaves won the match 1-0. Despite losing by a big margin in the home match against Madrid, Alaves managed to get 3 points in the home match against Getafe.

To be honest I expected to see slightly better performance from getafe. But the Getafe team could not fulfill my expectations. The overall performance of getafe was not good. This is why Alaves' players managed to score a goal despite not attacking much. A win in this match saw Alaves move up a point in the points table. Now Alaves team is in tenth place in the table.

The two teams in the match actually no longer have the target they are chasing because both are now quite safe in the middle of the Spanish League standings, but even so, Alaves, who is indeed the home team, naturally does not want to be embarrassed by the away team, so when the first half began they immediately made an aggressive attack on Getafe defense which in the end made Alaves lead 1-0 in the 12th minute,  Although the match is no longer important, both teams look ambitious enough to get a victory so we can see both of them continue to attack each other in the match and play very hard as evidenced by the many yellow cards issued by the referee in the match, although Alaves acted as the home team, but Getafe who was 1 goal behind was able to dominate a little in the match.

The match was quite impressive and also loud so that the referee often had to stop the match, besides that there was something quite embarrassing happened in the match so that the referee had to stop the match for a while in the first half, after leading 1-0 goals the alaves fans vented their joy by chanting and also shouting racist towards Greenwood,  Throughout the first half it was heard that the Alaves fans continued to shout to insult Greenwood with words that were indeed inappropriate, I think even though the case against Greenwood has over, but instead the opposing fans faced by Getafe so far continued to attack Greenwood with racist forms due to the old incident.

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I thought the match would be a draw. But my guess was wrong. The match was not a draw. Alaves won the match 1-0. Despite losing by a big margin in the home match against Madrid, Alaves managed to get 3 points in the home match against Getafe.

To be honest I expected to see slightly better performance from getafe. But the Getafe team could not fulfill my expectations. The overall performance of getafe was not good. This is why Alaves' players managed to score a goal despite not attacking much. A win in this match saw Alaves move up a point in the points table. Now Alaves team is in tenth place in the table.

Alaves played better in this match and a 1 goal win was quite appropriate in my opinion because they played better and they were also playing at home, but this result has no further influence on the two teams because both of them are quite safe in the middle of the standings.
Getafe couldn't develop their game because in terms of quality they were on par with Alaves and also Getafe, who played at their opponent's home ground, couldn't do much.
I think this result is quite fair and I won my bet because I bet on under 2.5 goals.

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It is a big problem when a club is in a financial crisis. They will always find it hard to pay for the coaching crew and players' weekly wages, which would make them to perform poorly because everyone will not function well when they haven't received what is in their contract. Barcelona management should look for a way to raise money to solve the club's financial problems; if not, they might lose some of their good players to other big clubs that can give their players what they want.

I think Barcelona can definitely solve the problems they are facing at the moment so you don't need to worry about it. Because the club is also thinking about ways to solve several other things besides the problem you expressed in order to continue to compete more fiercely next season. Because this season there have been many failures experienced by Barcelona so they are definitely quite devastated and have to think about how to get up with more mature changes next season.

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I see people complaining about Robert Lewandowski and they think his performance was not good enough during this season because of losing some opportunities and not being the good form we always saw from this player.
But the fact about Barcelona and Lewandowski is about this player and his effect on the team.
In the last season, Lewandowski scored 23 goals for his team but in this season, he scored 17 goals so far.
But Lewandowski's goal made Barcelona to get 17 points so far and he scored 0.54 goals per game and without him, Barcelona couldn't even think about taking the Champions League ticket for the next season.

exactly Lewandowski is very weak this season, he did not help the team to win the league competition, but what I think is about the injuries he has gone through, that is why he can't perform anymore, but he is still a key player, and I am very sure next season if Xavi get some new players to the team, he can pickup with them and help the club, or they should look for his replacement because I see he is getting old already and they will try and get young players that are talented and perform better. Lewandowski can't score many goals due to the team's weakness, but I believe everything will be OK next season and they will win the trophy. The La Liga season ends today, and Lewandowski has the opportunity to top the scoring charts and win the Golden Boot, but it will not be easy because Bellingham and Dovbyk will undoubtedly score goals in today's game. Let's see who gets the opportunity and earns the award, and everyone believes Bellingham will receive the golden boot.  

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Regardless all of Xavi rumour i think Barcelona should be focus for upcoming matches because they still have 2 matches remaining before Laliga ended and today Barcelona opponent is Rayo and i think Rayo performance was decline compared to last season because Rayo last season can finish at 11th place but this season Rayo almost be relegated and about their statistics during this season Rayo performance while playing away was very poor because they only can able to collect 4 wins and 8 loses

For Barcelona they only required at least draw result from this match if want to stayed at runner up place and i think it's not hard for them considering from squad quality and recent performance obviously Barcelona much better from Rayo and i know Barcelona recent conditions is not really good because they have internal conflict between Xavi and Barcelona owner but i think it won't have any affect to their performance later because most likely Barcelona will be the winner of this match and as the favourite Barcelona win has low odds @1.33 but if people want the higher odds i think under 2.5 goals also good pick because my predictions for this match is Barcelona will win this match with narrow scores 1-0 or 2-0

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This is a controversial issue since Barcelona won the title when Real (and Atlético) were in obvious crisis, and their (relatively) successful performance in the Champions League this year was more likely due not to Xavi’s plans but to a successful draw. Which strong opponents did Barcelona beat in the Champions League? Porto, Shakhtar, Antwerp, Napoli (completely dead this season) - I see only luck here and not serious rivals.

Real Madrid weren't in their best shape back then. I can agree. But Barcelona were still doing better than this which is a fact. 88 points collected vs 79 collected this season... That was thanks to their defense's being in much better condition than this as well. This season they have conceded the double amount of the number they did in the previous season.  

When it comes to the Champions League I agree. Those aren't big challenges. But they could have actually beaten PSG which was a bigger opponent. If it weren't for that red card by Araujo though...

Anyways, I'm not saying these like an excuse of course. Barcelona are in bad condition now which is obvious.

Yes, everything is clear with the state of Barcelona, but we are discussing this in the context of whether Xavi is a good coach? It seems that last season speaks in his favor - he taught (he had to, not because he wanted) to play Barcelona based on defense and won the title against Real Madrid (a great achievement in any case). But if we take all three seasons, then taking into account two failures in the Champions League (and then in the Europa League) and unconvincing play (even in the championship season, remember how many minimal victories were won?) it’s hard for me to say that he achieved more than any other average coach.

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You're right; Barcelona just needs to identify those positions that made them not to perform well in La Liga this season and look for a good replacement in the summer to help them go back to their winning ways. Barcelona management should try to convince Xavi to stay for another season so that he can help the club perform better next season since he was able to finish in second place in the La Liga table with the present condition of Barcelona.

The condition of Barcelona is devastating because they're also having struggles when it comes to finances. Barcelona have face a dissapointing season without going home with major titles, not really good on their end. Xavi Hernandez and his squad will have to try again next season, that's how to stay ontop and become one of the top club to compete with Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and finally this particular mediocre club that have greatly improved in their performance and game stats this season, we points to Girona.

Barcelona will always be stuck in the same place without being helped with the money. I remind you that the golden era of barcelona has already achieved when the club was giving privilage to the coach in buying the players he wanted. This time is very different compared to that time.
Barcelona is not even able in providing good amounts of money for his coach. How can club compete with real madrid? Barcelona may be facing another decline soon. Im not really sure club can leave from this financial problem.

Barcelona is struggling with economic issues and yet they are sending Xavi off the team. It is unbelievable because if there was another coach instead of Xavi in ​​this troubled table, they would not even dream of being in this ranking. I think they should even thank him. There is a serious gap between Real Madrid and this will widen with the Mbappe transfer. Real is becoming a superpower that can't lose.

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It is not easy to handle the team that is being hit by a financial crisis. Previously Barcelona had been slumped when handled by Ronald Koeman due to the crisis but since the arrival of Xavi all changed again and El Barca was able to compete again at the top of the top. But even though Xavi was able to make progress instead he did not have the full support of the President and fans so he decided to resign from coaching. Blaugrana management should provide great support to Xavi because he has been able to prove his capacity. I predict anyone who will coach Barca will not be easy especially with the conditions still hit by a crisis. I think Real Madrid will return to dominating La Liga next season.

Xavi Hernández has managed to change Barcelona even amid financial problems. He has also been able to raise young players like Pedri, Lamine Yamal and Pau Cubarsi who have been instrumental in the success of the club. His decision to step aside after the end of the season was because of the club's poor run a few months ago especially when they lost 5-3 to Villarreal on January 27. But since then the club has improved and I don't think the Spanish striker will be leaving anymore. He has committed his future to the club and preparation has started for the next season. Real Madrid might keep dominating La Liga until Barca comes out of financial problems.   

Xavi has done quite well despite starting with a very low budget but he has been burdening with very big target from laporta and it was also forcing to think even harder. I meant that if he is working so hard to make everything better than before with the only available resources owned by barcelona. Xavi's limitation was caused by Barcelona's inability to provide him with a large sum of money to rebuild his club. this is also preventing him to get the player that he wanted to build the club even better than before and xavi was not feeling fine with what happened to him.
Xavi was forced to take the players from La Masia due to a limitation on his ability to acquire new players. We'll see what happens if Laporta is unable to fulfill his commitment and xavi may be also deciding to leave from the club if the bad thing happened to the his agreement with laporta.

I'm not sure if Xavi and Laporta have reached an agreement on this but i have seen that how xabi puts it as a very important requirement for laporta to keep him stay in th club for another season. The club must allow him to purchase the new players. Xavi must be capable of building a better club than this season.
The injury to the gavi has devastated the club and it was also the reason why xavi took yamal from la masia. Xavi also needs to purchase a good winger for the upcoming season.

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Barcelona is struggling with economic issues and yet they are sending Xavi off the team. It is unbelievable because if there was another coach instead of Xavi in ​​this troubled table, they would not even dream of being in this ranking. I think they should even thank him. There is a serious gap between Real Madrid and this will widen with the Mbappe transfer. Real is becoming a superpower that can't lose.

What Xavi said a few days ago after beating Almeria is of course Laporta anger, Xavi clearly mentioned that Barcelona will still compete with Madrid next season even though it is difficult because of the bad economy, I don't know what is the problem in these words so that Laporta wants to fire Xavi, currently reportedly the Barcelona squad has split into two camps,  Those who support Xavi and who are angry with Xavi, I think these conditions will certainly make Barcelona dressing room no longer conducive, actually what Xavi said about Barcelona financial condition is not an open secret anymore so Laporta should not be angry about all these remarks because they are facts.

Instead of Laporta getting angry and wanting to sack Xavi, wouldn't it be better for Laporta to find a way to fix their financial problems that continue to this day?
If Xavi is sacked of course it will only backfire on Barcelona, because after all Xavi has been instrumental enough to rebuild Barcelona from the slump they have experienced so far, actually I want also see Xavi being sacked for the incident, Because I want to see what Laporta will do, whether later he can find a better coach than Xavi or will regret his decision to sack Xavi in the future.

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You're right; Barcelona just needs to identify those positions that made them not to perform well in La Liga this season and look for a good replacement in the summer to help them go back to their winning ways. Barcelona management should try to convince Xavi to stay for another season so that he can help the club perform better next season since he was able to finish in second place in the La Liga table with the present condition of Barcelona.

The condition of Barcelona is devastating because they're also having struggles when it comes to finances. Barcelona have face a dissapointing season without going home with major titles, not really good on their end. Xavi Hernandez and his squad will have to try again next season, that's how to stay ontop and become one of the top club to compete with Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and finally this particular mediocre club that have greatly improved in their performance and game stats this season, we points to Girona.

Barcelona will always be stuck in the same place without being helped with the money. I remind you that the golden era of barcelona has already achieved when the club was giving privilage to the coach in buying the players he wanted. This time is very different compared to that time.
Barcelona is not even able in providing good amounts of money for his coach. How can club compete with real madrid? Barcelona may be facing another decline soon. Im not really sure the club can leave from this financial problem.

It is a big problem when a club is in a financial crisis. They will always find it hard to pay for the coaching crew and players' weekly wages, which would make them to perform poorly because everyone will not function well when they haven't received what is in their contract. Barcelona management should look for a way to raise money to solve the club's financial problems; if not, they might lose some of their good players to other big clubs that can give their players what they want.

It will also become increasingly difficult for Barcelona to transfer good players. I read that they were trying to get rid of Lewandowski because of his contract. If you are trying to send even a contributing player from the team because of his contract fee, you have definitely made a mistake somewhere. In order for Barcelona to improve this financial situation, they will need to find big sponsors. It would be better if they got used to less success due to economic problems for a few years. If they add new young and quality names such as Yamal, Pedri and Gavi, maybe they can manage for a few more years and bring their financial situation to better levels.

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Barcelona is struggling with economic issues and yet they are sending Xavi off the team. It is unbelievable because if there was another coach instead of Xavi in ​​this troubled table, they would not even dream of being in this ranking. I think they should even thank him. There is a serious gap between Real Madrid and this will widen with the Mbappe transfer. Real is becoming a superpower that can't lose.

What Xavi said a few days ago after beating Almeria is of course Laporta anger, Xavi clearly mentioned that Barcelona will still compete with Madrid next season even though it is difficult because of the bad economy, I don't know what is the problem in these words so that Laporta wants to fire Xavi, currently reportedly the Barcelona squad has split into two camps,  Those who support Xavi and who are angry with Xavi, I think these conditions will certainly make Barcelona dressing room no longer conducive, actually what Xavi said about Barcelona financial condition is not an open secret anymore so Laporta should not be angry about all these remarks because they are facts.

Instead of Laporta getting angry and wanting to sack Xavi, wouldn't it be better for Laporta to find a way to fix their financial problems that continue to this day?
If Xavi is sacked of course it will only backfire on Barcelona, because after all Xavi has been instrumental enough to rebuild Barcelona from the slump they have experienced so far, actually I want also see Xavi being sacked for the incident, Because I want to see what Laporta will do, whether later he can find a better coach than Xavi or will regret his decision to sack Xavi in the future.

If there is such a difference of opinion in Barcelona, it will be very difficult to get things together in the team. It would be unfair to expect them to compete with Real Madrid with such a squad. Xavi did his best. Next season, if Barcelona does not make the right plans, Real Madrid will widen the gap significantly.

If Xavi is sent off, who will replace him? If there is a economic problem, is the solution to fire Xavi? There are so many questions to ask, but it is clear that things are not going well at Barcelona and Real Madrid seem to be doing the right things again.

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Villarreal vs Real Madrid will face two teams today, but the stars of the Real Madrid team may not play in this match today. We have seen Real Madrid win the title with few matches in hand Real Madrid has been voted as the most successful team in La Liga this season. Moreover, since Real Madrid will play at Villarreal's home ground today, Villarreal has a chance to win. But as far as possible, we can all make sure that Real Madrid will achieve brilliantly in today's match and will not let the opposition team win in any way. But today's match betting odds are good because we can say for sure that Real Madrid will win if we can bet on them then we will definitely win. So I think the players who bet on today's match will definitely succeed in getting a good amount of return if they place for Real Madrid and win.

Actually, this is not an important match for Real Madrid because they are the club that has been selected to win the league title so even if they lose it will not affect Real Madrid so I think the possibility of Villareal winning could happen when Madrid will prepare for their important match in the UCL against Borussia Dortmund I see that the Madrid match this time can be an opportunity for profit but it can also be detrimental if we place a bet on Madrid because after all Villareal will try to perform well at home.

Villareal's chances of winning are not very big but they as the host club will definitely try their best not to lose, but we know how Madrid doesn't want to lose even though they have won the title so I think a draw will be a satisfactory result for Madrid even if they don't win victory.

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Barcelona will always be stuck in the same place without being helped with the money. I remind you that the golden era of barcelona has already achieved when the club was giving privilage to the coach in buying the players he wanted. This time is very different compared to that time.
Barcelona is not even able in providing good amounts of money for his coach. How can club compete with real madrid? Barcelona may be facing another decline soon. Im not really sure club can leave from this financial problem.

Barcelona's on- and off-field struggles are hard to watch. I sympathise with fans watching their team fall behind teams. I agree—financial issues are just added salt to injury. Barcelona was an international power, winning trophies everywhere. Now those days seem remote. It's ridiculous that a team that could sign any player is now suffering. Although I hate to say it, Barcelona may stay in this rut unless something significant occurs. Turning things around will take hard work and smart decisions, but I'm hopeful that Xavi and the team can do it

I mean fans should realize that they can't get what they want every season. They were the la liga winners just last season, what is the expectation finishing the league above Real Madrid and lifting the trophy every single season? Of course that is not going to happen, Barcelona is an amazing team with a rich history so expecting success is of course what fans want, but at the same time we are going to end up with Real Madrid winning time to time, we are going to see that happen eventually, we can't just have Barcelona winning.

They won last year, they lost this year, and they will try their very best to win it next season as well. They begged Xavi to stay, not Laporte saying he is not sure, I think Barcelona fans are not sure about Laporte after all this.

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Maybe of the many matches that will take place today, I am quite interested in one of the matches that will compete for a better place in European competition and that match will bring together Real Sociedad against Real Betis. Currently the two teams are only separated by 1 point and even though this is an away match for Real Sociedad, they certainly don't want to suffer another bad result after beating Valencia in the last match.

If we look at the odds offered by the bookie, of course the odds will not be much different, but here we are presented with very tempting odds for each team. It will be very difficult for us to determine who wins considering that both teams have good records so far. Maybe I would bet on Real Betis because apart from being the host, they have a better record than Real Sociedad, which is sometimes less consistent. So the odds @ 3.10 for Real Betis to win are worth betting on.

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Regardless all of Xavi rumour i think Barcelona should be focus for upcoming matches because they still have 2 matches remaining before Laliga ended and today Barcelona opponent is Rayo and i think Rayo performance was decline compared to last season because Rayo last season can finish at 11th place but this season Rayo almost be relegated and about their statistics during this season Rayo performance while playing away was very poor because they only can able to collect 4 wins and 8 loses

For Barcelona they only required at least draw result from this match if want to stayed at runner up place and i think it's not hard for them considering from squad quality and recent performance obviously Barcelona much better from Rayo and i know Barcelona recent conditions is not really good because they have internal conflict between Xavi and Barcelona owner but i think it won't have any affect to their performance later because most likely Barcelona will be the winner of this match and as the favourite Barcelona win has low odds @1.33 but if people want the higher odds i think under 2.5 goals also good pick because my predictions for this match is Barcelona will win this match with narrow scores 1-0 or 2-0

looking at the history of meetings between the two teams, of course someone will be a little afraid to bet on Barcelona winning because after all, Rayo knows Barcelona weaknesses and we can see how the two teams will look when they meet on the field to compete and Rayo can always be superior.
but if you look at Barcelona ambitions and the point difference with Girona, it looks like Barcelona chances of winning are greater than having to end in a draw because they definitely don't want Girona to take over as runners up and Barcelona definitely won't lose at home.
on the one hand, in the upcoming match, Girona will also have an opponent that is not too difficult, against Valencia, who consistently loses, it will definitely be easy for Girona to get 3 points.

so, today's match is a bit risky taking Barcelona win to bet on but for me betting on the total score would be more comfortable to avoid any surprises.
and if it's just a score prediction, it looks like I predict it will end 2-0

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Maybe of the many matches that will take place today, I am quite interested in one of the matches that will compete for a better place in European competition and that match will bring together Real Sociedad against Real Betis. Currently the two teams are only separated by 1 point and even though this is an away match for Real Sociedad, they certainly don't want to suffer another bad result after beating Valencia in the last match.

If we look at the odds offered by the bookie, of course the odds will not be much different, but here we are presented with very tempting odds for each team. It will be very difficult for us to determine who wins considering that both teams have good records so far. Maybe I would bet on Real Betis because apart from being the host, they have a better record than Real Sociedad, which is sometimes less consistent. So the odds @ 3.10 for Real Betis to win are worth betting on.

It is quite difficult to make a choice, because Betis and Real Sociedad really have an equally good chance of winning. Because after all, the fact is that although Real Sociedad is playing away, but Real Sociedad is also still quite favored even though indeed, I am also not entirely sure Real Sociedad will win. Because anyway, at least based on the record of home and away match results so far this season, that Betis and Real Sociedad are also fairly good as teams competing for Europa League places. So yes, I think this match will probably be tough and probably, the final score will not have many goals because it looks like Betis will also maintain its position in sixth place and that is enough even if it only ends with a draw.

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I was surprised for a second because I was of the opinion that his contract expires in 2025, but you are right. His salary does reach its peak this season is this correct? I think for 2024/25 it is going to go up to 16 million net per year, but correct me if I am wrong.

However, a quick glance into some of the details of the contract shows that he has some clauses that could lead to his contract expire earlier. There is something like a minimum playtime per season or so. Can't sort out all the details, but he is an interesting individual right now. I think the last word hasn't been spoken yet and Barcelona is most likely not satisfied with him.

Yes, at the end of the season, Lewandowski will experience a salary increase, which of course will burden Barcelona, which has financial problems, even though Barcelona wants to recruit new players at the end of the season and Barcelona still needs a lot of money to be able to recruit players if Barca increases Lewandowski's salary according to the contract agreement, I think. Barca will give up their intention to recruit new players at the end of this season but if Barca sells Lewandowski to a Saudi Arabian club I think Barca will get enough money to buy players to cover Lewandowski's gap.

Barca has to make quite a tough decision if they let go of Lewandowski who is their mainstay player in the squad but if they don't let him go Barca won't be able to recruit new players, Lewandowski's performance is no longer sharp so if Barca let him go it won't make them regret it as long as Barca can recruit a striker who is better than Lewandowski.

It is again another example for Barcelona making long-term commitments that can hurt them big time down the road. If Lewandowski scored 30 goals a season, then ok. But setting up these contracts for a guy who is approaching his 40s doesn't make sense to me. His salary increases with increasing age in times when he is already old.

No clue whether there are other clauses involved, but in a worst case scenario Lewandowski could decide to sit out the contract. Like Bale did in Madrid. And again important resources are tied to a player that doesn't bring the fruits Barcelona was hoping for. But this happened so often now.