La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

[JeromeTash]

Girona is smashing Granada by 7 goals to Nil. This year's race for the Pichichi has been so interesting. With a hattrick tonight, Artem Dovbyk leapfrogs Alexander Sørloth who scored four goals against Real Madrid last week. So as things stand

Artem Dovbyk - 24
Alexander Sørloth - 23

Alexander Sørloth's Villarreal is playing against Osasuna tomorrow.

[ginsan]

Finally, the riddle of the manager at Barcelona was solved and they parted ways with Xavi. He's replaced by Hansi Flick. Flick, who had previously done well at Bayern München, was disappointing with the German national team. Managing a club team is very different from managing a national team. Flick will have a good squad at his disposal but his opponents are also very strong. The Barca management should open their hands a bit in terms of transfers so that Flick can succeed at Barca by building a more competitive squad. It's not easy to compete for the title with Real Madrid. We will see if Flick is up to the challenge.

Maybe this was news that was not really expected, but in the end it happened where Xavi officially parted ways with Barcelona and Hansi Flick will replace Xavi role to become Barcelona new coach next season. If we look at Hansi Flick performance, of course he is a great coach and of course Barcelona management choice is certainly quite good. Well, apart from that, can Hansi Flick make Barcelona stronger next season because of Xavi performance in the two seasons where Barcelona recovered from adversity and competed again at the top of the standings.

I think of course there will be a lot of pressure on Hansi Flick because Barcelona is one of the big teams and fans always expect trophies every season. So his first season with Barcelona is certainly highly anticipated and the main step, of course, is to see Hansi Flick performance in the transfer market window. Will he change the existing squad by bringing in lots of new players or will he be prevented by limited finances from recruiting new players.

[Queentoshi]

Actually Girona was really outstanding throughout the whole season because even after they started having some difficulty in winning matches after losing to Real Madrid, yet they haven't gone beyond the third position if I'm not mistaken and this was as a result of the fact that they started the season in a good note and now even though the season is ending this weekend they are still ending in a good way as they're currently whipping a relegated Granada now by about 4:0 it may be more than that before the match ends.

Girona makes it seven goals against Granada who have defended very bad from the beginning of the game against Girona who have attacked so well even though they did not really have any reason to give the game their all.  Girona's last game of the season, and they have made sure to make history winning this game by the most goals they have scored in their La Liga history. Their striker Artem Dovbyk was the target for most of the Girona players because he is in line to win the player who has scored the most this season, and with the three goals he scored this night, it puts him as favorite with 24 goals.

Girona next season have more work to do, they need to improve on this season and make sure to still be contenders to win the La Liga next season, they are also in the champions league, they need to start preparing early.

[Cryptoprincess101]

Girona is smashing Granada by 7 goals to Nil.

Really smashing, Girona has been angered this night and they have used Granada to say goodbye to the season till next season, Granada have become a sacrificial lamb for Girona this night and Girona is taking advantage of every goal scoring opportunities they have and this will be the highest winning for the week because I don't see any other team that can win their opponents with this kind of huge goal margin so Girona should just rest and prepare for next season because they have got a lot of engagement in the upcoming seasons

[lalabotax]

Girona have closed the season with many goals, i really live the way they maintain their standards to get to this level, they are the second highest goals scorer after Real Madrid, now for us to see the real strength let wait for them in the next season champions league.

Girona really lost this time. They scored 7 goals against Granada. This was a really good performance for Girona because after all they were able to optimize their chances that Granada got a red card. And this is a bigger opportunity to optimize Girona's performance and win with a pretty fantastic score. Even Girona didn't leave even a single cent of the gap so that Granada could score at least 1 goal. Of course they have a lot of goals. Moreover, they also often score quite a lot of goals. So their position is to be in 3rd.

Artem Dovbyk - 24
Alexander Sørloth - 23

That's it. In fact, Artem Dovbyk was able to score a hat trick in this match. And this certainly provides a great opportunity for Girona players to continue to do their best to produce strong players too.

[ShowOff]

I would never say that Xavi has completely failed at managing his players so far. Barcelona have shown significant improvement under him, but losing several key players in the same season is very difficult. The financial crisis experienced by Barcelona has certainly slowed down Xavi in ​​building his best squad, but if Xavi and management can be patient, then the academy players who are currently carrying heavy responsibilities will prove their quality.

At least, Xavi ever won 2 trophies in the previous season. He won La Liga trophy and Spanish Super Cup in the season 2022-2023. It is wrong if we jduge Xavi totally failed managing Barcelona. He already proved it with 2 trophies.  

If Xavi failed to win any trophy in this season, it is because Barcelona doesn't have a competitive squad. Lewandowski is decreasing his performance and he got injured for a long time, Barcelona has no good defenders, and Ter Stegen also got injured for many months. This really bring big impacts to the performance of Barcelona, they have bad attacking and bad defense. Xavi actually needs new strikers and defenders to deal with this problem, but Barcelona has no money to buy proper players. Because of the financial crisis, Xavi can't solve the problem on Barcelona team.

With those problems, they are lucky that Xavi still lead Barcelona to finish as a runner up this season.

I agree with your statement, Xavi has never failed miserably for Barcelona. He worked hard and he proved it well, but things have changed and today I was really surprised when I saw the official announcement on the official Barcelona website.

Xavi's sacking really shocked me, it's obviously very ridiculous because I never wanted it. This is a bad decision from Joan Laporta, in my opinion.

Xavi not to continue as FC Barcelona first team coach
In a meeting at the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper, president Joan Laporta has informed Xavi Hernández that he will not be continuing as FC Barcelona coach in the 2024-25 season

Today Friday, FC Barcelona president Joan Laporta has informed Xavi Hernández that he will not be continuing as first team coach in the 2024-25 season.

The meeting happened at the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper and was also attended by sporting vice-president Rafa Yuste, director of sport Anderson Luís de Souza, Deco, Xavi, Òscar Hernández and Sergio Alegre.

FC Barcelona wishes to thank Xavi for his work as coach, as well as for his inimitable career as a player and as team captain, and wishes him every future success in the world.

Xavi Hernández will be coaching the team for the last time in Sunday's game away to Sevilla.

During the course of the next few days, FC Barcelona will be making an announcement regarding the new first team structure.

Source: https://www.fcbarcelona.com/en/football/first-team/news/4027349/xavi-not-to-continue-as-fc-barcelona-first-team-coach

Several main players may be sold by Barcelona in the upcoming transfer market, and even several players who are currently on loan are expected to be made permanent by the team that uses their services. Eric García, Ansu Fati and several other players may be made permanent by the team that provides them at the moment, but it is not known what Barcelona wants.

To have the funds, Barcelona may put some players on the transfer list. However, I don't know if it can give enough money to buy new players. Barcelona also has limited players, and most of them are young players from their academy. So, Barcelona has no many options for selling players. Anyway, I assume Xavi may plan to bring back Eric García and Ansu Fati to the main team. These players have performed well in this season, they will be good addition for the team.

Plans may have changed after Xavi was officially fired. Now everything really depends on who the prospective coach will coach Barcelona next season. I know Ansu Fati and Eric Garcia are good, but I'm not sure they'll be expected to come back and stay.

[Sexylizzy2813]

A wonderful performance from the home side Girona in the game against Granada, at the same time I'm very disappointed at the home team for putting on a good show against a team that's not worth it in any way. They (Girona) should have continued their better performance against every team that comes their way especially Real Madrid. How can they go two times against Los Blancos but couldn't get something positive out of the two legs this season and now they're unleashing their anger on a team that have already chosen their path to go back to where they came from (relegation), I can't applaud Girona in any way in this 7nil win.

[AYOBA]

Girona is the main sensation of this season in European football... To be honest, they surprised me even more than Bayer, who haven't lost a single match... Girona managed to be in first place for the first half of the season and managed to stay in the UCL zone... It will be interesting to see how they play next season...

Actually Girona was really outstanding throughout the whole season because even after they started having some difficulty in winning matches after losing to Real Madrid, yet they haven't gone beyond the third position if I'm not mistaken and this was as a result of the fact that they started the season in a good note and now even though the season is ending this weekend they are still ending in a good way as they're currently whipping a relegated Granada now by about 4:0 it may be more than that before the match ends. Next season will be very lively for Girona because they will be in the champions league competing with other Europe's top teams so it will be an interesting season for their fans.

The match between Girona and Granada is was a very interesting match tonight. I was very surprised with the way Girona made a good performance against Granada. Because of the way Girona relaxed all this while, I didn't expect that they could bring out positive changes. To be honest, Girona finished up this week with a wonderful result after ending the first half and leading the Granada by 3 goals. I was not expecting any more goals in the second half, but with their so much intensity, they made it happen with another 3 goals again.

As it stands now, if care is not taken, they will soon overtake Barcelona from the top standing since Barcelona is only ahead of Girona with with 1 points in my own view their next match will be very tough then today match.

[Odohu]

Girona did exactly what I expected from them which is mercilessly beating Granada using their home advantage and their goal scoring prowess. Despite that this win does not mean anything for them since they are already bound to remain in third position, the match gave them the opportunity to score as many goals as they possibly can. A match ending 7:0 with all their major scorers, including Artem Dovbyk scoring hat trick and Eric Garcia registering a goal should indeed be celebrated as a good match. On the part of Granada, the loss does not really matter much to them as they have already been relegated alongside Cadiz and UD Almeria... so "he that is down need fear no fall".

I am looking forward to Real Madrid against Real Betis, a match I expect the former to win to seal the season in victory. There should be no excuse as to why Madrid will fail to deliver, not even the Champions League final will deter them from collecting the 3 points.

[Smartvirus]

A wonderful performance from the home side Girona in the game against Granada, at the same time I'm very disappointed at the home team for putting on a good show against a team that's not worth it in any way.

Ain’t nothing there to be disappointed about mate, they’ve got no reason to be any more competitive or reserve there performance but, to end the season in a way that would be memorable to the home supporters and mark the season’s performance. Many thing was archived by Girona this season and the most of all was there UCL qualification. They didn’t think they would get to that level, in fact the aim for them was Europa and shortly after they bagged that, they went over to qualify for UCL.
Hence, having to deliver such a final performance for its home side is a necessity.
Granada didn’t do much to resist them and the worst still was having to conceive a penalty and got a red card. 3 goals in first half and another 4 goals in the second, that’s indeed spectacular.

[Mame89]

Finally, the riddle of the manager at Barcelona was solved and they parted ways with Xavi. He's replaced by Hansi Flick. Flick, who had previously done well at Bayern München, was disappointing with the German national team. Managing a club team is very different from managing a national team. Flick will have a good squad at his disposal but his opponents are also very strong. The Barca management should open their hands a bit in terms of transfers so that Flick can succeed at Barca by building a more competitive squad. It's not easy to compete for the title with Real Madrid. We will see if Flick is up to the challenge.

Finally the Barcelona coach's drama was resolved, initially Xavi said "I want to leave" but Laporta "Actually I want you to stay here, then Xavi answered "Okay, I'll stay here", and until the end of the season Laporta "You're fired". Really. There is something strange, but I see that Barcelona made the decision to fire Xavi because he made a blunder, how could it not be that Xavi is not good managerially, this should not be allowed to be revealed. the condition of the team's management to the public, it is natural for the management to be angry because it has become an open secret that Barcelona's financial condition has been problematic since the management before Laporta, so Xavi should not like looking for alibis as reasons for the failure of this season. As a player Xavi is great but as a coach he must be wiser like Jurgen Klop.

I think he is a pretty good manager. Won the Supercopa and La Liga in his first full season. He brought young players through the academy and they have started many games for Barcelona. the only difference this season is that Real Madrid are incredible. But anyway, I hope that under new coach Hansi Flick, Barcelona will get better and can compete again in La Liga and UCL next season.

[Rengga Jati]

Girona did exactly what I expected from them which is mercilessly beating Granada using their home advantage and their goal scoring prowess. Despite that this win does not mean anything for them since they are already bound to remain in third position, the match gave them the opportunity to score as many goals as they possibly can.

Yes, this time, Girona really fulfilled the wishes of its fans, even to a greater extent. This is a very encouraging end to the season for Girona, because here, they were able to make a big comeback, even with 7 goals. This is truly appropriate and above expectations. Even though this doesn't change their position at number 3, at least it has a beautiful ending so the future will be even more beautiful. So whatever the conditions, Girona will be truly ready for the match much later. This will become history for them.

Finally, the riddle of the manager at Barcelona was solved and they parted ways with Xavi. He's replaced by Hansi Flick. Flick, who had previously done well at Bayern München, was disappointing with the German national team.

So sick.
Initially they begged for Xavi to stay at Barcelona. And in the end the Barcelona boss was able to persuade Xavi to stay at Barcelona. And after Xavi said yes, the Barcelona boss actually sacked him and replaced him with Hansi Flick. Isn't this quite strange, right? Just now Xavi and Laporta held each other's hands and shook hands to agree and in the end Laporta sacked Xavi. Isn't this quite surprising? Or maybe Xavi himself already knows about this situation. This is really unfair, it looks like Barcelona doesn't want to look like they left Xavi but Barcelona sacks Xavi. Hmmm..

Our expression might look like this.  

More:
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[entertheabyss]

Finally, the riddle of the manager at Barcelona was solved and they parted ways with Xavi. He's replaced by Hansi Flick. Flick, who had previously done well at Bayern München, was disappointing with the German national team. Managing a club team is very different from managing a national team. Flick will have a good squad at his disposal but his opponents are also very strong. The Barca management should open their hands a bit in terms of transfers so that Flick can succeed at Barca by building a more competitive squad. It's not easy to compete for the title with Real Madrid. We will see if Flick is up to the challenge.

Hansi Flick is one of the top managers to handle Bayern Munich and led them to glory during his regime as coach. Perhaps he's currently in Camp Nou as the newly appointed headcoach, replacing Xavi Hernandez and this have become one of the bothering factors for Barcelona president, Joan Laporta. He's keen on making Barcelona a better club that would be able to match the exact strength against Real Madrid for the La Liga title next season. We know how competent Hansi Flick have grown to become and we know him to be one with pressing pattern.

[Harkorede]

Girona did exactly what I expected from them which is mercilessly beating Granada using their home advantage and their goal scoring prowess. Despite that this win does not mean anything for them since they are already bound to remain in third position, the match game them opportunity to score as many goals as they can possibly can. A match ending 7:0 with all their major scorers, including Artem Dovbyk scoring hat trick and Eric Garcia registering a goal. This was indeed a good match. On the part of Granada, the loss does not really matter much to them as they have already been relegated alongside Cadiz and UD Almeria... so "he that is down need fear no fall".

I am looking forward to Real Madrid against Real Betis, a match I expect the former to will to seal the season in victory. There should be no excuse as to why Madrid will fail to deliver, not the even the Champions League final will deter them from collecting the 3 points.

An easy win could pretty much have been anticipated, but to put up 7 goals against Granada isn't what I think anyone one saw coming, and they easily could have ended the match with a double goal difference, because they were in total control of the game and dictated the tempo of the game for the entire 90 minutes.. I think the referee was to soft on a number of calls, especially with the second yellow card offense that led to Pellestri being handed his matching orders, the play really should have been overlooked given the score line and how marginal the pull was, maybe it should have been a free kick no doubt, but issuing a second yellow card for that was way too soft, I believe.

The comfortable riot win for Girona is a testament to how successful one can conclude their campaign for this season was... and they'll be playing champions league football next season, for team that got promoted to La Liga 2 seasons ago, and then finished 10th in the league last season, that is a really significant progress, to say the very least!

[MAAManda]

Girona did exactly what I expected from them which is mercilessly beating Granada using their home advantage and their goal scoring prowess. Despite that this win does not mean anything for them since they are already bound to remain in third position, the match gave them the opportunity to score as many goals as they possibly can. A match ending 7:0 with all their major scorers, including Artem Dovbyk scoring hat trick and Eric Garcia registering a goal should indeed be celebrated as a good match. On the part of Granada, the loss does not really matter much to them as they have already been relegated alongside Cadiz and UD Almeria... so "he that is down need fear no fall".

The first match in the final week of La Liga this season opened with a surprising result, there was no reason for Girona to lose, they were playing at home and playing against a team that was certain to be relegated. Closing the season in third place, they should be playing in the UCL next season, but from several articles I read that they can't play in the UCL because they're under the same company as Manchester City.

Are the reports true that Girona will not play in the UCL next season? does anyone have any information regarding this?

[Sexylizzy2813]

A wonderful performance from the home side Girona in the game against Granada, at the same time I'm very disappointed at the home team for putting on a good show against a team that's not worth it in any way.

Ain’t nothing there to be disappointed about mate, they’ve got no reason to be any more competitive or reserve there performance but, to end the season in a way that would be memorable to the home supporters and mark the season’s performance. Many thing was archived by Girona this season and the most of all was there UCL qualification. They didn’t think they would get to that level, in fact the aim for them was Europa and shortly after they bagged that, they went over to qualify for UCL.
Hence, having to deliver such a final performance for its home side is a necessity.
Granada didn’t do much to resist them and the worst still was having to conceive a penalty and got a red card. 3 goals in first half and another 4 goals in the second, that’s indeed spectacular.

Only if they had channel all the energy we saw in that encounter against the relegated Granada to some important games I believe they would've been in a better spot like the number 1 position instead of Real Madrid. They're a better side that nobody thought they would even qualify to the champions league next season but fighting and backing down isn't how they're suppose to challenge for the title, was expecting them to finish the job at least win the league title from Real Madrid, after all they had less competition compared to Madrid and Barcelona. A good way to end the season but it wasn't enough for me.

[leonair]

Girona did exactly what I expected from them which is mercilessly beating Granada using their home advantage and their goal scoring prowess. Despite that this win does not mean anything for them since they are already bound to remain in third position, the match gave them the opportunity to score as many goals as they possibly can. A match ending 7:0 with all their major scorers, including Artem Dovbyk scoring hat trick and Eric Garcia registering a goal should indeed be celebrated as a good match. On the part of Granada, the loss does not really matter much to them as they have already been relegated alongside Cadiz and UD Almeria... so "he that is down need fear no fall".

I am looking forward to Real Madrid against Real Betis, a match I expect the former to win to seal the season in victory. There should be no excuse as to why Madrid will fail to deliver, not even the Champions League final will deter them from collecting the 3 points.

Girona played brilliantly in this match. they get a big opportunity and make use of it.  In the 2nd half they completely controlled the ball.  And scored 5 consecutive goals. And scored a total of 7 goals.  It was a really amazing game that Girona scored 7 goals but their opponents didn't score even 1 goal. Girona is far behind Real Madrid in terms of points but is almost overtaking Barcelona. There is only 1 point gap between them now. Girona seem to be doing very well again

[Furious 7]

Finally, the riddle of the manager at Barcelona was solved and they parted ways with Xavi. He's replaced by Hansi Flick. Flick, who had previously done well at Bayern München, was disappointing with the German national team. Managing a club team is very different from managing a national team. Flick will have a good squad at his disposal but his opponents are also very strong. The Barca management should open their hands a bit in terms of transfers so that Flick can succeed at Barca by building a more competitive squad. It's not easy to compete for the title with Real Madrid. We will see if Flick is up to the challenge.

What is this? Crazy drama by Barcelona and Xavi after Xavi decided to leave and tried to be detained by Laporta who made Xavi melt and said that he would stay but at the end of the season he was fired?

So all this drama where when Xavi wanted to leave and was held back it was just a way to increase the exposure of Barcelona? I really can't understand what they're doing this season because they're so busy playing drama rather than trying to improve their situation.

In addition, this is also a ridiculous action because by sacking Xavi, they are indirectly required to pay compensation to Xavi and the nominal is still very large if you look at Barcelona's current condition.
I don't understand what path Barcelona will take because those who are now overwhelmed by financial problems actually create a condition that worsens their own finances.

[red4slash]

Girona is the main sensation of this season in European football... To be honest, they surprised me even more than Bayer, who haven't lost a single match... Girona managed to be in first place for the first half of the season and managed to stay in the UCL zone... It will be interesting to see how they play next season...

Girona have closed the season with many goals, i really live the way they maintain their standards to get to this level, they are the second highest goals scorer after Real Madrid, now for us to see the real strength let wait for them in the next season champions league.

Hopefully there will be no drastic decline in terms of performance for Girona because it would be a shame if their outstanding performance this season only lasted 1 season.
The problem is how they keep their current players. with Girona's current condition, it is certain that there will be several players who will begin to be ogled by other clubs, especially for big clubs.

Next season Savio is already in the uniform of Manchester City and it is possible that there will also be several offers for several other players such as Dovbyk, whose performance has been extraordinary this season.

They must now pay attention to that and try as much as possible to add players so that they are not left behind in terms of performance next season. I just don't want to get my hopes up for this because after all Girona next season still have to prove that they deserve to be in the Champions League and that can only happen if they can maintain the consistency of this season next season.

[TelolettOm]

Girona is smashing Granada by 7 goals to Nil. This year's race for the Pichichi has been so interesting. With a hattrick tonight, Artem Dovbyk leapfrogs Alexander Sørloth who scored four goals against Real Madrid last week. So as things stand

Artem Dovbyk - 24
Alexander Sørloth - 23

Alexander Sørloth's Villarreal is playing against Osasuna tomorrow.

Girona has no chance to finish in 2nd place of La Liga table, they only can support Dovbyk to be the top scorer. You can see Dovbyk executed all the penalties in this match, it is the way to give him more goals. However, it is interesting to see Girona playing very offensive in this match. They really dominated the ball position to have more opportunities in scoring goals.

Well, Artem Dovbyk is leading the top scorer with 1 difference goal. Alexander Sørloth still has a chance to have more goals in the final match against Osasuna. In my opinion, it won't be an easy match for Alexander Sørloth, he won't easy score goals in Osasuna home. Osasuna also has a motivation to win the match, they want to finish the season in the top 10. So, I'm not really sure if Alexander Sørloth can take the advantage from this match to score more goals.



Source: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/spanish-la-liga/top-scorers