La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2025/26

[BITCOIN4X]

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I'd have to agree with you. It seems Real Sociedad know that they could be easily beaten of they relax that's why they've gone to tighten the defense and so far Barcelona is being so frustrated that if they aren't careful can leave room for mistakes.
Hans Flick have gone several games with victories, let's see if they can be able to turn the game around.

I really saw that the Barcelona players were tired in this match and their performance did not improve throughout the match. Barcelona may be on the receiving end of their second La Liga defeat of the season after losing to Osasuna earlier, this was not the performance I expected from them, of course.

Pedri, Raphinha, Lewandowski and all the players looked so sluggish and failed to build a good attack. They kept failing in defense and all the players were very frustrated about that, but this was something I never expected at all. Real Sociedad surprisingly played so bravely with a defensive and counter-attacking scheme, it was quite troublesome for Barcelona. But let's see what will happen in a few minutes.

[Weawant]

I'm very surprised at the result of Barcelona game today, I at some point couldn't accept the result almost immediately because I almost couldn't believe it because I have seen this same team won against tough and bigger team that they got landslide victory and now they are playing against a small team that they should have won very clearly but they couldn't, well this is football and almost anything can always happen. This should be one of their few losses they have suffered this season.

[promise444c5]

Tonight game was somehow though, so Barcelona can't win a single match without lamine it was until olmo and Fati came in that the game started getting serious and i5 was too late... Real Sociedad were doing more of the defence at 70+.
They could have played a serious game right from first half but I don't know what the players were thinking they were just walking and doing stupid backpasses,putting pressure on players like pedri,cubasi & balde( balde had to cover up for the defence all the time )all thanks to Inaki (the goal keeper) the game could have been 3 goals... imo I only saw a seriousness in their game early halftime and 85+ so they deserve the defeat probably that will make them serious more as they know they could drop from the table anytime If they fvck things up one more time..
So much wasted Bets 

[stompix]

And as usual, when everyone is dead sure that a team can't lose because they are unbeaten and they play so well, it turns out to not be the case, last week we had Napoli breaking their winning streak now it was time for Barcelona to flop and I'm genuinely surprised why this seemed too impossible, they are not unbeatable they have lost games and it's not like you can go relentlessly without losing even once, no matter what team you are.

The only true surprise I see in the result is the score, 1-0 is probably destroying more bets than just the loss as I don't think many would have taken an under 1.5 option with Barcelona, who has an average of 4 goals per match (both scored and conceded). With Madrid for sure to take advantage of the extra game with Valencia, it means they are down only 3 points, and suddenly Barcelona is no longer uncatchable.

[Zaguru12]

I really saw that the Barcelona players were tired in this match and their performance did not improve throughout the match. Barcelona may be on the receiving end of their second La Liga defeat of the season after losing to Osasuna earlier, this was not the performance I expected from them, of course.

I will be lying if I say I expected such result in this match, I was actually expecting a Barcelona win not because I don’t rate Real Sociedad, they have easily been the top 6 clubs in the league for like past few seasons now but they don’t usually turn up big against the other big clubs in the league or even the European competitions. Of recently they have been having a mixed season by losing some matches which they are not actually supposed to lose and with the current Barcelona form I didn’t expect an upset most especially with Real Madrid already having won their match as I know Barcelona will like to keep the point gap huge.

Pedri, Raphinha, Lewandowski and all the players looked so sluggish and failed to build a good attack. They kept failing in defense and all the players were very frustrated about that, but this was something I never expected at all. Real Sociedad surprisingly played so bravely with a defensive and counter-attacking scheme, it was quite troublesome for Barcelona. But let's see what will happen in a few minutes.

Should we say they are not getting rotated enough to help them not run out before season end, today I didn’t see Lamine Yamal in the lineup and squad I was a bit ok that I was actually a well deserved rest for him. The other players too also need more rest but games keep coming up too much and the manager once gambled on that against Osasuna and they lost which is maybe reason why hasn’t been rotating much again

[legendbtc]

I'm very surprised at the result of Barcelona game today, I at some point couldn't accept the result almost immediately because I almost couldn't believe it because I have seen this same team won against tough and bigger team that they got landslide victory and now they are playing against a small team that they should have won very clearly but they couldn't, well this is football and almost anything can always happen. This should be one of their few losses they have suffered this season.

Yes, it was shocking that Barcelona lost at Sociedad. Barcelona were without the injured Lamine Yamal and never looked settled. Usually, reliable stars Robert Lewandowski and Raphinha could not overcome Sociedad. Even their best moment, Robert Lewandowski's goal was ruled out by VAR for offside, They cannot appeal the VAR decision and will have to move on and focus on their next game against Celta Vigo after the international break as they will look to keep as much distance between themselves and second-placed Real Madrid as possible.

The defeat means Barcelona's lead has been cut to six points with chasing Real Madrid having a game in hand.

[Hyphen(-)]

Tonight game was somehow though, so Barcelona can't win a single match without lamine it was until olmo and Fati came in that the game started getting serious and i5 was too late... Real Sociedad were doing more of the defence at 70+.
They could have played a serious game right from first half but I don't know what the players were thinking they were just walking and doing stupid backpasses,putting pressure on players like pedri,cubasi & balde( balde had to cover up for the defence all the time )all thanks to Inaki (the goal keeper) the game could have been 3 goals... imo I only saw a seriousness in their game early halftime and 85+ so they deserve the defeat probably that will make them serious more as they know they could drop from the table anytime If they fvck things up one more time..
So much wasted Bets 

That’s football, it’s a game, it’s either you win or you lose.
Barcelona has been winning several games in the back, but they were unlucky today to be defeated by a team no one expected because in their last five matches against Barcelona, they just won one and Barcelona take advantage of the remaining games.

I don’t know why so many coaches are always looking for drama? They will intentionally bench their Key players in the name of given others chance instead of bringing them after they could secured the three points.

Lamin Yamal is an important player in the squad, and keeping him in the bench has made Barcelona lose two match’s; I hope Flick will be able take correction to avoid such defeats.

[GbitG]

I'm very surprised at the result of Barcelona game today, I at some point couldn't accept the result almost immediately because I almost couldn't believe it because I have seen this same team won against tough and bigger team that they got landslide victory and now they are playing against a small team that they should have won very clearly but they couldn't, well this is football and almost anything can always happen. This should be one of their few losses they have suffered this season.

Hmmm, that's sucks buddy!
To be honest it was too surprising results. I never expected such a low level performance from the Catalan giant. It's making me feel so bad. I didn't understand what was wrong with Barcelona they didn't even create a single open scoring chance. Only a few chances were created but who's disallowed by VAR? All of the front was just a bit hazy for the first 45 minutes. All the time Real Sociedad strikes came so innovatively and made a space between the defense to get the chance.
 
I think Barcelona players are just tired because recently they played so many matches with too much energy. So I think Hansi flick needs to take rest for them, like make a smooth tactic where the player doesn't use his full of stamina. But anyway Barcelona are still at the top of the league with 33 points. Let's see what happens next.

[TelolettOm]

It's a real nightmare for Real Madrid, they have to lose some of their players again due to injury. And Militao is the saddest, having to be absent again for 9 months, last season he also had an old injury.

Rodrygo and Vazquez will come back in coming weeks but Militao, a key defender in Real Madrid will be out in rest of season with his severe ACL injury. The absence of Militao is terrible for Real Madrid defense system and last season they lost Alaba, this season it's Militao.

Yes, this is very unfortunate, even though he just came back after being injured, and now he is injured again. They are quite prone to injuries. Now Real Madrid really has to be able to get a new defender who is on par with Militao and Alaba, because the competition is getting tighter, and they can't just rely on reserve players. Could this make Ancelotti change his mind to sign a new defender again? because he once said that he would not sign any new players until the end of this season.

I'm very surprised at the result of Barcelona game today, I at some point couldn't accept the result almost immediately because I almost couldn't believe it because I have seen this same team won against tough and bigger team that they got landslide victory and now they are playing against a small team that they should have won very clearly but they couldn't, well this is football and almost anything can always happen. This should be one of their few losses they have suffered this season.

Yes, it is quite surprising considering their performance lately has been really good and solid. But now, they have to swallow defeat from Real Sociedad, so that the points gap from Real Madrid is quite reduced. I really can't understand why out of more than 70% ball possession and out of so many shots, there was not a single shot on target in Barcelona in this match.

could it be because of this problem?

Source: https://x.com/BarcaWorldwide/status/1855744168825340263

[fuguebtc]

I think Barcelona players are just tired because recently they played so many matches with too much energy. So I think Hansi flick needs to take rest for them, like make a smooth tactic where the player doesn't use his full of stamina. But anyway Barcelona are still at the top of the league with 33 points. Let's see what happens next.

You are right. Barcelona has a very busy schedule. And Barcelona's players are now quite tired after consistently performing against big clubs. So Barcelona players need rest now.

Barcelona's defeat against Real Sociedad was completely unexpected. First Barcelona are in their best form at the moment. Real Sociedad, on the other hand, were not in good form. Barcelona were naturally considered favourites. But Barcelona lost the match 1-0.

I would say it was an accident. Because we saw Barcelona perform well in the whole match. However, I saw some very strong attacks from Real Sociedad players in this match. Barcelona would have conceded a few more goals if the Barcelona goalkeeper had not performed well today. However, despite the defeat in this match, Barcelona is 3 points ahead of Real Madrid.

[Akbarkoe]

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It's only if Barcelona can score a dying minute goal is what will safe their ass from defeat tonight away from home because they find it difficult to breakthrough the defense of their host. Real Sociedad is playing the ball in a composed pattern and was able to outsmart Barcelona game pattern making it very difficult fof Barcelona to break the deadlock yet. If Barcelona loses this match, it means that the points gap between them and Real Madrid would be close. I think Barcelona needs to win or draw this game.

This is the second time Barcelona has lost in La Liga, after previously losing to Osasuna with a score of 4-2, Barcelona also had to lose narrowly to Real Sociedad with a score of 1-0, and this also ended Barcelona's winning record.

Last night I only watched until the end of the first half, and did not expect the score to end the same 1-0 until the end of the match. In this match Barcelona failed to take advantage of their dominance and attacks to be able to create goals, and even in this match not a single Barcelona shot was on target towards the goal of Real Sociedad. A total of 16 violations committed by Real Sociedad showed how hard the Real Sociedad players defended their lead until the end of the match. And it cannot be denied that Real Sociedad's defense in this match was quite solid, so that it only gave Barcelona a little space to be able to kick.

[cryptoWODL]

I can't believe my eyes that Barcelona lost like that against Real Sociedad. In fact, Barcelona have won those matches with great performances in the last few matches against some strong teams, so everyone thought that Barcelona would beat Real Sociedad and take full-points in La Liga. I wouldn't say that Barcelona came with a weak squad in yesterday's match, they came with a full strength squad but they still couldn't win against Real Sociedad. Barcelona dominated in shots, shots on target, ball position and ball passing but their attack was not strong which resulted in them not scoring any goals.

[Solokan]

Source: https://www.cnnindonesia.com/olahraga/20241111044556-142-1165095/hasil-liga-spanyol-1-gol-dianulir-barcelona-dihajar-real-sociedad/amp

This time, Lewandowski and his friends failed to win against Real Sociedad, of course now Barcelona must accept their defeat and admit that Real Sociedad is superior. in Barcelona's match which has finished against Real Sociedad, many people definitely thought that Barcelona, ​​who had great potential, would win that match, but now Barcelona has lost and I am sure that many people have lost in betting because many people definitely thought that Barcelona would win. and Barcelona who will score many goals against Real Socieadad.

but Barcelona controlled a lot of the ball in this match, but it was a shame that Barcelona couldn't use it well, and it was a shame that the goal scored by Lewandowski was invalid because it was offside. If, for example, at that time he had not been caught in the offside trap then of course the match would not have ended. defeat for Barcelona.

In my opinion, now Flick has to improve Barcelona's performance and of course if it continues like this it will definitely be dangerous for Barcelona, ​​which will certainly be difficult for Barcelona to achieve in the fight for the title because of course there are still many matches to be played. but in my opinion Barcelona's strength is still good even though they lost to Real Sociedad because the score at the end of the match was not much different, what do you all think?

[blue Snow]

And as usual, when everyone is dead sure that a team can't lose because they are unbeaten and they play so well, it turns out to not be the case, last week we had Napoli breaking their winning streak now it was time for Barcelona to flop and I'm genuinely surprised why this seemed too impossible, they are not unbeatable they have lost games and it's not like you can go relentlessly without losing even once, no matter what team you are.

The only true surprise I see in the result is the score, 1-0 is probably destroying more bets than just the loss as I don't think many would have taken an under 1.5 option with Barcelona, who has an average of 4 goals per match (both scored and conceded). With Madrid for sure to take advantage of the extra game with Valencia, it means they are down only 3 points, and suddenly Barcelona is no longer uncatchable.

I wouldn't expected like that. As usual, if a big team has never lost in a row, we must be careful to not expect if they can win on the next match. Because a big team like Barcelona has a tight schedule which makes a main player experience fatigue. A big team like Barcelona who filled up the young players also still have egos that make them very confident so they will think fine, and play relax because they feel they can win, and could be careless.

Like other big clubs, they could be slip in next match, and it's occur happen on another big team who has favored to champions. For example Manchester City who have lost for the 1st time on premier league and continue it in the row.

[X-ray]

[Toni Juanmarti] The referee of Barca Sociedad game already knows that he was wrong in the goal disallowed for Lewandowski. When he left the locker room he repeated to Flick several times "What can I do?" referring to the fact that if the VAR tells him that he is offside, he cannot do anything.

Barcelona could at least secured one point from Sociedad, yet, they got ruined by the referee. The referee in this game is absolute trash. It should not be offside. Lewandowski was clearly onside. But, VAR ruled it offside and disallowed his goal.

It's weird to see how Lewandowski's disallowed goal really influenced Barcelona's gameplay. They were getting lost on the field after VAR ruled Lewandoski's goal.

VAR is shite and i don't like it. It's too often making errors

[tottong]

I think Barcelona players are just tired because recently they played so many matches with too much energy. So I think Hansi flick needs to take rest for them, like make a smooth tactic where the player doesn't use his full of stamina. But anyway Barcelona are still at the top of the league with 33 points. Let's see what happens next.

Barcelona surrendered at home to Real Sociedad and although many people said that the referee's leadership in the match was a bit problematic, but in reality Barcelona did not have many opportunities to create goals.
Ball ownership above 70% makes Real Sociedad try to implement a defensive strategy so as not to concede and they get a moment that makes Barcelona goals goals.
Fatigue factors may occur and this is what is feared when Barcelona is too forced by core players without rotation.

This is not only a problem still at the top of the standings but one defeat can cause another defeat and the coach must pay attention to the level of players' weaknesses in the match so they do not repeat defeat in other matches.

[OcTradism]

Barcelona could at least secured one point from Sociedad, yet, they got ruined by the referee. The referee in this game is absolute trash. It should not be offside. Lewandowski was clearly onside. But, VAR ruled it offside and disallowed his goal.

It's weird to see how Lewandowski's disallowed goal really influenced Barcelona's gameplay. They were getting lost on the field after VAR ruled Lewandoski's goal.

VAR is shite and i don't like it. It's too often making errors

Without VAR, it is more explainable for this mistake from a referee but with VAR, it's like a joke.

Anyway, this defeat is a warning that is necessary for Barcelona players to cool down their head and confidence. They are playing well but they are not reaching to unbeaten level and champion level. They must focus and improve more, not to be unbeaten in rest of season, but to end this season with La Liga title. It's biggest and most important recognition for their quality improvement with young players and set up their future too.

If VAR was correct, Barcelona would secure one point from Sociedad but even so, it's still a bad result for Barcelona.

In my opinion, now Flick has to improve Barcelona's performance and of course if it continues like this it will definitely be dangerous for Barcelona, ​​which will certainly be difficult for Barcelona to achieve in the fight for the title because of course there are still many matches to be played. but in my opinion Barcelona's strength is still good even though they lost to Real Sociedad because the score at the end of the match was not much different, what do you all think?

Flick already improved Barcelona as before this season beginning, it was hard to imagine a very strong Barcelona like this, and it was difficult to think Barcelona can lead in La Liga and have very great opportunity to win this league trophy.

A defeat like this, is good for Barcelon in a long term, to help them realizing their weakness, imperfection and improve themselves to be stronger.

[Ahli38]

I'm very surprised at the result of Barcelona game today, I at some point couldn't accept the result almost immediately because I almost couldn't believe it because I have seen this same team won against tough and bigger team that they got landslide victory and now they are playing against a small team that they should have won very clearly but they couldn't, well this is football and almost anything can always happen. This should be one of their few losses they have suffered this season.

Actually, Barcelona played quite well from the start. And Lewandowski even scored 1 goal in the first half. Unfortunately it was deemed offside so the goal didn't count. Even though I saw it was really the thinnest offside I've seen so far. And I thought that Barcelona would score again but yeah the result was quite disappointing. Because Barcelona was unable to score a goal until the end and had to concede 1 goal. In fact, since the middle of the first half, or more precisely, after Lewandowski's goal was deemed offside, I started to see that Barcelona's performance was actually decreasing. Meanwhile, Real Sociedad continued to press very well and created several opportunities which almost resulted in more goals against Barcelona in the first half. I think this is related to the mentality of the players. But in the second half Barcelona improved again but well they failed to equalize and had to accept defeat.

[Farma]

[Toni Juanmarti] The referee of Barca Sociedad game already knows that he was wrong in the goal disallowed for Lewandowski. When he left the locker room he repeated to Flick several times "What can I do?" referring to the fact that if the VAR tells him that he is offside, he cannot do anything.

Barcelona could at least secured one point from Sociedad, yet, they got ruined by the referee. The referee in this game is absolute trash. It should not be offside. Lewandowski was clearly onside. But, VAR ruled it offside and disallowed his goal.

It's weird to see how Lewandowski's disallowed goal really influenced Barcelona's gameplay. They were getting lost on the field after VAR ruled Lewandoski's goal.

VAR is shite and i don't like it. It's too often making errors

I am also very disappointed with the referee's decision in the Sociedad vs Barcelona match which was clearly not offside the Real Sociedad player's foot was behind and it was clearly a robbery for Barcelona, ​​​​I am quite disappointed with the decision and this match became Barcelona's first match without scoring even though Barcelona has been quite strong until now but after the unfair first half decision they seemed to lose the tempo of the game, in my opinion the referee on duty in the match should be sanctioned for his annoying decision.

What is very unfortunate is that my bet failed again in this match but I am not that sad I am quite sad with Barcelona who were deceived in this match.

[mamesso]

I'm very surprised at the result of Barcelona game today, I at some point couldn't accept the result almost immediately because I almost couldn't believe it because I have seen this same team won against tough and bigger team that they got landslide victory and now they are playing against a small team that they should have won very clearly but they couldn't, well this is football and almost anything can always happen. This should be one of their few losses they have suffered this season.

This is Barcelona second defeat of the season, Hansi Flick did not make many changes to the line up, but his attacking creativity was very minimal. Real Sociedad proved that they are a strong team in defense, they played very disciplined, Barcelona had difficulty finding opportunities that could be used to score goals, none of the 11 shots were on target. The tight pressing applied by Sociedad was able to prevent Barcelona's planned scenario from working, Hansi Flick must realize that his second defeat in La Liga this season could increase if he is unable to control the game, especially in the midfield area which is the creator of their attacks.