La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2024/25

[Jossque]

After dropping points in the first week, Real Madrid made up for it a little bit with a win against Valladolid yesterday.Real Madrid did not allow their opponent to shoot accurately and won the match with 3 goals in the second half.The first goal was scored by Valverde in the early minutes of the second half and then they won the match with 2 goals in the last minutes.
Leganes, on the other hand, defeated Las Palmas at home with goals in the second half.Diz and Franquesa scored in the match and we can say that neither team played very well.

[Chilwell]

Villarreal vs Celta Vigo

Villarreal (confirmed lineup): Diego Conde, Kiko, Eric Bailly, Raul Albiol, Sergi Cardona, Yeremi Pino, Santi Comesana, Daniel Parejo, Alejandro Baena, Gerard Moreno, Arnaut Danjuma.

Celta Vigo (confirmed lineup): Ivan Villar, Javier Manquillo, Carl Starfelt, Jailson, Sergio Carreira, Oscar Mingueza, Ilaix Moriba, Damian Rodriguez, Alfon Gonzalez, Jonathan Bamba, Borja Iglesias.

Here we go for the three match of the season, Celta Vigo and Barcelona are currently leading with highest points because they are the only two teams the have win the their first two matches, and now Celta Vigo are playing against Villarreal at Estadio de la Cerámica, can Celta Vigo passes Villarreal to secure another win to make them maintain the top? Let's see how it ends.

[W Jr.]

After dropping points in the first week, Real Madrid made up for it a little bit with a win against Valladolid yesterday.Real Madrid did not allow their opponent to shoot accurately and won the match with 3 goals in the second half.The first goal was scored by Valverde in the early minutes of the second half and then they won the match with 2 goals in the last minutes.
Leganes, on the other hand, defeated Las Palmas at home with goals in the second half.Diz and Franquesa scored in the match and we can say that neither team played very well.

Leganes has had a good start to the league. They have not yet faced defeat in two matches. Their win over Las Palmas was also encouraging for them. They are playing promisingly for the rest of the league. I think not being relegated this year would be a success for them. If they are in the middle of the table, nobody would be happy with them. La Liga is a very difficult league and their primary goal is to stay in this league. As for Real Madrid, they made me doubt in the first half but they managed to win 3-0 with a very good game in the second half.

[Jegileman]

I also hope Ancelotti must be firm with Mbappe with his current position, he does not need to be in Vini's area so that Real Madrid's game flows more. It can be seen in this match that Madrid's front line often looks stacked and tight with the opponent, Mbappe's face looks confused and disappointed with the lack of ball supply which makes him not confident.

Mbappe should know from now that playing for a team like Real Madrid where everyone in the frontline wants to be a goal scorer can be hard for him to win plenty of goals with this team. If he happens to meet selfish players, he’ll be disappointed most of the times because the passes won’t be coming and will be a big competition between the three trios to want to be at the top of the team with more goals. Mbappe was a king at PSG but he can’t be another here because the condition there is different from what he’s experiencing here. It is better this players are able to come to some kind of acceptance between themselves and try to support each other and not looking for individual favour. They’re good, I hope they give us good results.

[rangga28]

Guys, let's calm down a bit. Mbappé has just joined the team. He doesn't even know the players properly yet. A new country, a new team, new dreams. He will do all of these in order, he will get used to them. He has now moved from the French league he has been used to for years to another league. Of course, he could play very comfortably in France because he had no adaptation problems. There is also a serious difference in quality between the leagues. If he scores 40 goals in France, scoring 20 goals here is considered a success for him. Of course, everyone expects more than 40 goals here, but let's be realistic, scoring 40 goals is close to impossible.

In addition to the adaptation factor, Mbappe may feel burdened because he is always touted as a new god at Santiago Bernabeu. I think that is normal, especially since this is still an early stage. Mbappe still has a long chance to prove his capacity and I think Ancelotti also understands the situation he is currently facing. Therefore, I strongly disagree if some people are too quick to judge something.

[CryptoBuds]

Girona has signed so many players like these in return for losing many important ones as well. But it looks like this isn't enough to keep a similar level this season. Dovbyk, Aleix Garcia, Savinho and more still don't seem to have been replaced by solid ones. 
Alvarez doesn't look like he has adapted yet. He isn't like Sørloth. Maybe the reason is that Sørloth has already been playing in the La Liga and scoring a lot of goals. Some players coming from other leagues might need more time to adapt.
Plus, Simeone's system is way more different than Pep's. 

Atletico played very well in the match, I liked it a lot, the problem is not Girona, at least for this match. Atletico had a much stronger start to the season. It's not easy for Girona to achieve the same success, you shouldn't expect too much from them. But Atletico have made transfers that can play for the championship. I think Sørloth will score a lot of goals again and Alvarez will start contributing soon. Although they are not on the same level as Real Madrid and Barcelona, they have a squad that can challenge them.

I think Atletico Madrid has a better squad than Barcelona. They have great players, especially in the attacking area. They have important players like Antonio Griezmann, Sorloth, Julian Alvarez. When De Paul, who caught his form last year, starts contributing to the attack in the middle of the league, we will see that they have an unstoppable attacking line. As for Barcelona, ​​no matter how good they seem, I think they will start to stagnate after a while. I think Atletico Madrid is in a better position in the race for second place right now.

I agree with you. Atletico Madrid's squad is very strong this season. Even then, the discussion about this group is very less. I would say this Atletico Madrid squad has the potential to dominate La Liga.

Atlético Madrid forwards have talented players like Griezmann, Alvarez and Correa. All three are excellent players. And they have the ability to change the scenario of the match at any moment. There are also talented players in the midfield like De Paul, Lino and Barrios. Moreover, Atletico Madrid also have a goalkeeper like Oblak. This team is very strong this season. However, if they want to win the title, Atlético Madrid must perform consistently well. I am not sure if Atletico Madrid will be able to play consistently well.

[Jossque]

Real Betis drew with Alaves.Real Betis dominated the away game compared to their opponents.Real Betis, who had 3 times the number of shots but were not very effective in front of goal, were disappointed to lose points here.
Atletico Madrid, on the other hand, got their first win in the league by defeating Girona, who fought fiercely with Real Madrid in the championship race last season, with 3 goals at home.Atletico led 1-0 with Griezmann's goal in the first half and won the match with 3 goals in the second half with Llorente's goal and assist.

[BALIK]

Villarreal  0-1  Celta VigoAfter 25 minutes

In the first two matches against Atletico Madrid and Sevilla we saw good performances from Villarreal players. The match against Atletico Madrid was a 2-2 draw. And Villarreal team won against Sevilla. Can Villarreal win today's home match against Celta Vigo? Celta Vigo is not a weak team. It was difficult for me to pick a favorite team in the match. Both have a 50-50% chance of winning. So I refrained from betting on this match.

Celta Vigo scored in just 12 minutes to take a 1-0 lead with Celta Vigo striker Borja Lglesias scoring the first goal. However, Villarreal's players are also performing well. Villarreal's players are attacking a lot. Villarreal is playing attacking from the beginning of the match. Looks like they want to get 3 points in this match by any means. Villarreal players have already made 9 shots in just 25 minutes.

Edit: WooooooWW, Villarreal equalized the match in the 26th minute. Cardona scored a nice goal from Moreno's assist. Now the match is tied at 1-1. Hopefully we will see more goals in the first half.

[SmartCharpa]

Real Madrid performance wasn't good in the first half they were only in control of the ball as they dominated in possession but they only made one attempt which is not too good for a team with so many star players in it. We must accept that this is not the Real Madrid team we watched last season because they were better in performance during the beginning of the last season but they managed to win from the early second half and later scored 3 goals to win the match with a clean sheet.

Real Madrid needs to work on their performance because they will find it difficult to win matches when they play against a very good team like Barcelona and ATM if they continue to play like they did today.

Real Madrid players are not playing as a strong team, their performance in La Liga has been poor since they began the league, we never expected Real Madrid to perform this way with the players they put together, everyone expected Real Madrid to score at least three goals against Mallorca in their last two games, Madrid drew 1-1 against Mallorca, a team that lost their last game against Osasuna, and Real Madrid failed to win them. I don't believe playing Mbappe as a striker would produce the results we anticipate from this team since Mbappe cannot stand at the position, he is likely to move to winger because he doesn't seem to be comfortable playing as a striker. However, many people blamed Bellingham in their first game that he was selfish with the ball and wanted to score by himself and look at their performance in the first half against Valladolid. To be honest, Ancelotti needs to work on this team, the results aren't good, at this point, Real Madrid is expected to score 5 to 6 goals against any opponent they face.

[Ryu_Ar1]

I also hope Ancelotti must be firm with Mbappe with his current position, he does not need to be in Vini's area so that Real Madrid's game flows more. It can be seen in this match that Madrid's front line often looks stacked and tight with the opponent, Mbappe's face looks confused and disappointed with the lack of ball supply which makes him not confident.

Actually, there is no problem if we continue to use Mbappe at the center striker at this time even though he still cannot score in the first 2 matches this time but he in attack is still quite good at finding space and providing some shock therapy for the opposing defenders.
In the match against Valladolid, we saw at least 3 chances that he could get where 2 chances were saved by Hein and one chance off target but in my opinion it was a good thing shown by Mbappe.
Indeed, ideally he is placed in the starting position where he is a runner type and is still very suitable for the winger position but when there is Vini there, Mbappe can adapt well as a center forward.

On the other hand, in this match we can also see that Brahim and Endrick seem to be good super subs this season when the core players lose momentum and have difficulty scoring goals.

[Amphenomenon]

You make an important point. Real Madrid won this match and they won by a big margin of 3-0. We are happy that Madrid got 3 points. However, Madrid's Vini-Mbappe-Rodrygo trio did not perform well. And that's why we can't be satisfied with Madrid's overall performance.

Madrid is a very strong team. However, if Madrid's Vini-Mbappe-Rodrygo trio does not perform well, the Real Madrid team will not be able to play well in the long run. Can't even play well in the Champions League. Real Valladolid and Mallorca were weaker opponents. However, we did not see a satisfactory performance from Madrid's attack. This is certainly a concern.

While the match wasn't a good one for Vini, Rodrygo and Mbappe, I think they will try to improve and even during Champions league, if  in face with similar situation Real Madrid don't need to worry from the fact a team will be unlikely able to plan neutralizing every players or at least the attacks of Real Madrid including the substitute, this is why Real Madrid is fearsome there are ready to step up even in the game already or being sub in.
This is a similar issue here, Real Valladolid where able to find a way of neutralizing these trio and it somehow work for them until they were substituted and conceded more goals. While I don't see much reason to speak about the poor performance of Vini. Rodrygo and Mbappe, I think now their main concern is for them to work well and improve better in order for them to be able to overcome every neutralizing strategy against them. Also I hope Mbappe shouldn't pressure too much, we all know he will do well, no one is doubting his quality.

Ancelotti is trying to build a youth-oriented squad. This will benefit the Real Madrid team in the long run. Madrid can keep their squad unchanged for a long time. And Madrid's performance will be even stronger. But it is not an easy task. Even then, Ancelotti continued to try. Hope Ancelotti succeeds.

Ancelotti is already doing this and succeeding I believe he is going to succeed with this set of team also, I love his principle and strategy which is most effective to build a fearsome team just how Pep is doing at Man City

[Smack That Ace]

Villarreal  0-1  Celta VigoAfter 25 minutes

In the first two matches against Atletico Madrid and Sevilla we saw good performances from Villarreal players. The match against Atletico Madrid was a 2-2 draw. And Villarreal team won against Sevilla. Can Villarreal win today's home match against Celta Vigo? Celta Vigo is not a weak team. It was difficult for me to pick a favorite team in the match. Both have a 50-50% chance of winning. So I refrained from betting on this match.

Celta Vigo scored in just 12 minutes to take a 1-0 lead with Celta Vigo striker Borja Lglesias scoring the first goal. However, Villarreal's players are also performing well. Villarreal's players are attacking a lot. Villarreal is playing attacking from the beginning of the match. Looks like they want to get 3 points in this match by any means. Villarreal players have already made 9 shots in just 25 minutes.

Edit: WooooooWW, Villarreal equalized the match in the 26th minute. Cardona scored a nice goal from Moreno's assist. Now the match is tied at 1-1. Hopefully we will see more goals in the first half.

The players of both the teams are trying their best to win the match. Despite being Villarreal's home match, Villarreal is not able to dominate the match. However, Villarreal's players continued to push for goals. Celta Vigo's defense is not weak. This is why Villarreal is unable to take the lead despite attacking a lot.

Villarreal trailed 2-1 at the end of the first half. Villarreal had a total of 16 shots in the first half. On the other hand, Celta Vigo players made 9 shots. However, in the 60th minute of the second half, Barry's goal equalized Villarreal. But in the second half, Villarreal did not play attacking strategy. Villarreal have only had 2 shots in the second half so far. The match is likely to end 2-2. And both teams will be happy with this outcome.

[red4slash]

Ancelotti is trying to build a youth-oriented squad. This will benefit the Real Madrid team in the long run. Madrid can keep their squad unchanged for a long time. And Madrid's performance will be even stronger. But it is not an easy task. Even then, Ancelotti continued to try. Hope Ancelotti succeeds.

Ancelotti is already doing this and succeeding I believe he is going to succeed with this set of team also, I love his principle and strategy which is most effective to build a fearsome team just how Pep is doing at Man City

It is undeniable that Ancelotti is one of the most genius coaches although many people criticise him as a coach who is ‘poor in tactics’ but with a game that is not too adventurous we can see that he is one of the successful coaches of this century.
In addition, with the power that Madrid has, he can do anything with Madrid's resources so he is more capable again despite his age.

Currently, even with the young Madrid squad that he has, Ancelotti is still very capable of making their performance more stable by minimising all forms of ego that young players have with the label of star players.
Now the new season begins again and we will definitely see how Ancelotti's work is quite simple in terms of formations and attacking schemes but very deadly to face.

[Odohu]

Villarreal  0-1  Celta VigoAfter 25 minutes

In the first two matches against Atletico Madrid and Sevilla we saw good performances from Villarreal players. The match against Atletico Madrid was a 2-2 draw. And Villarreal team won against Sevilla. Can Villarreal win today's home match against Celta Vigo? Celta Vigo is not a weak team. It was difficult for me to pick a favorite team in the match. Both have a 50-50% chance of winning. So I refrained from betting on this match.

Celta Vigo scored in just 12 minutes to take a 1-0 lead with Celta Vigo striker Borja Lglesias scoring the first goal. However, Villarreal's players are also performing well. Villarreal's players are attacking a lot. Villarreal is playing attacking from the beginning of the match. Looks like they want to get 3 points in this match by any means. Villarreal players have already made 9 shots in just 25 minutes.

Edit: WooooooWW, Villarreal equalized the match in the 26th minute. Cardona scored a nice goal from Moreno's assist. Now the match is tied at 1-1. Hopefully we will see more goals in the first half.

I was shocked to see Villarreal coming from a 1-2 trail at half time to win the match 4-3 at full time. This is indeed a wonderful match and worth the time spent watching it. At a point I felt that Celta Vigo was going to win the match until the own goal of Jailson entered at the 64th minute that killed the morale of Celta Vigo although they never gave up but still went ahead to score at the 80th minute to make it 3-3 at which point I concluded it was going to end in a draw. It was at 10 minutes into the extra time that Villarreal got a penalty which Dani Parejo missed before scoring to make the match a win for Villarreal. 

[Sexylizzy2813]

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I never thought I'd say this today, thank you Villarreal for this winning.
Celta Vigo came with all they have but I never thought it will be this difficult for the home team to manage to get a win after their previous game they won 1-2, the visitors (Celta Vigo) no the other hand are going to be a problem for the other teams this very campaign because the way they played last season is completely different and I wonder how they get to be in this form, despite the fact that they lost I still applaud them for the effort and energy they gave in this encounter. Celta Vigo's next game I believe is a must win for them because I don't see Osasuna giving them much problem like the way Villarreal did tonight.

[kawetsriyanto]

Real Madrid players are not playing as a strong team, their performance in La Liga has been poor since they began the league, we never expected Real Madrid to perform this way with the players they put together, everyone expected Real Madrid to score at least three goals against Mallorca in their last two games, Madrid drew 1-1 against Mallorca, a team that lost their last game against Osasuna, and Real Madrid failed to win them.

IMO, Real Madrid is surely strong team, but they played disorganized. If you checked their stats in each match, they always dominated the match and made many shot attempts. Unfortunately, they failed to play as expected. The match against Mallorca is a perfect example, Real Madrid played with full team but ended up the match with unsatisfying result. Real Madrid missed the midfielders who can give accurate assists and their attackers looked playing more individually. However, we must admit Real Madrid looks playing lack of teamwork. This is actually the problem facing by Ancelotti now.

I don't believe playing Mbappe as a striker would produce the results we anticipate from this team since Mbappe cannot stand at the position, he is likely to move to winger because he doesn't seem to be comfortable playing as a striker.

Mbappe may try to adapt with his new position as a striker. But he has a capability as a striker, there is no problem with his current position in Real Madrid. Something missing from Mbappe is his accuracy in shooting. He has many opportunities to score goals but he missed the opportunities. I think it is only about the time, he should be comfortable with his current position in the next few matches.

However, many people blamed Bellingham in their first game that he was selfish with the ball and wanted to score by himself and look at their performance in the first half against Valladolid.

We can't judge Bellingham based on 1 match only. In the previous matches, I saw no problem with Bellingham attitude. He even becomes one of the players who often give assists to Mbappe. He knows how to play in his new role, we don't blame him because he sometimes tries to score goals. Every player has the right to score goals if they have a good chance.

[promise444c5]

I think Atletico Madrid has a better squad than Barcelona. They have great players, especially in the attacking area. They have important players like Antonio Griezmann, Sorloth, Julian Alvarez. When De Paul, who caught his form last year, starts contributing to the attack in the middle of the league, we will see that they have an unstoppable attacking line. As for Barcelona, ​​no matter how good they seem, I think they will start to stagnate after a while. I think Atletico Madrid is in a better position in the race for second place right now.

Maybe  but Griezmann is not the old griezman though, he doesn't perform like he used to back in France with paul pogba  ( what an era they created ). I think he's still good to some extent,that's why the coach is probably keeping him, Julian Alvarez on the other hand, I can say he's good though he didn't have enough time to play in realmadrid he only played as subs which I don't like tbh, good he's here and I'm happy for him , I know he will have the time to showcase his talent as he always wanted to all along.
Now about them taking over Barca once again, as I've said earlier  maybe but might be hard to archieve imo... you guys only think Barca is weak because of their financial situation but I could say they might even  surprise everyone even with their squad, besides  Barca has a good squad btw, they need more though but the team is still fine  hopefully they don't mess things up

[Pandorak]

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[...] Now Celta Vigo is on fire right now. Aspas is riding the wave, acting as though he is possessed. Let's see though, whether they can maintain this all season. The secret in this league is consistency; its a long, hard season. We will be attentively observing to see how they manage the demands and the upcoming strain. Can they keep shocking us? Alternatively will they ground back to earth?

It's difficult to maintain consistency in a big league like La Liga considering there are many great challengers, don't forget we have Real Madrid, Barcelona & Atletico Madrid as top challengers. Now the standings are also not led by Celta because they lost to Villarreal today, Iago Aspas is no longer visible on the match scorers list, it's a shame because Celta couldn't get 1 point because in injury time Parejo surprised them with a late goal.

[BlackBoss_]

Neymar is in his recovery progress and he wants to return to Barcelona this summer at any cost but unfortunately, Barcelona with their financial crisis and temporary failure to satisfy ceiling of club salary from La Liga, refused to bring Neymar back to their club.

They forced some players to leave including Gundogan for reducing total salary in their club and meets La Liga requirements to be allowed for registering Dani Olmo for their squad this season.

Neymar must be realistic that even if Barcelona have better finance, they will not want to bring a star player with many serious injuries and no longer can play at highest level.

[klidex]

[...] Now Celta Vigo is on fire right now. Aspas is riding the wave, acting as though he is possessed. Let's see though, whether they can maintain this all season. The secret in this league is consistency; its a long, hard season. We will be attentively observing to see how they manage the demands and the upcoming strain. Can they keep shocking us? Alternatively will they ground back to earth?

It's difficult to maintain consistency in a big league like La Liga considering there are many great challengers, don't forget we have Real Madrid, Barcelona & Atletico Madrid as top challengers. Now the standings are also not led by Celta because they lost to Villarreal today, Iago Aspas is no longer visible on the match scorers list, it's a shame because Celta couldn't get 1 point because in injury time Parejo surprised them with a late goal.

Celta Vigo has just been praised in its last 2 matches for being able to win consecutive matches but they finally fell at Villareal's headquarters, in the midst of tight competition it is quite difficult for the Celta Vigo club to maintain its consistency because basically it is not a top club that has good performance throughout the season, they won 2 matches because they played at home so that it gave them the advantage to show their best abilities in front of the fans.

This weekend Celta will return to play away, they will play with Osasuna, will Celta be able to beat Osasuna? I think the match between these two clubs is quite difficult to predict.

Source : Osasuna vs Celta Vigo