La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2025/26

[GbitG]

Barcelona has different problems compared to Manchester City and Barcelona is certainly worse from a financial perspective. The bad financial impact should mean they are not as competitive this season, but the good performance of Hansi Flick's team means they have hope of winning the title. But I won't be disappointed if Barcelona fail, they are not fully ready to win more titles with the squad depth like now.

You mentioned an important point. Barcelona is in a very weak financial position now. Barcelona is not able to buy players at high prices now. None of us expected Barcelona to be able to fight for the title this season. Even then, due to Hansi Flick's excellent match strategy, Barcelona was able to hold the top spot of the La Liga table for a long time. But now the team is not in good form. If Barcelona cannot solve the internal problems of the squad quickly, then Barcelona will have no chance of occupying the top spot of the table anymore. Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid are in good form now.

Barcelona seems to be a team that is greatly affected by injured players. They started to go bad in La Liga. They are doing so badly in Spain, they are not bad in UCL. We can say the opposite for Real, they are bad in UCL but successful in La Liga. While the excitement is in full swing in Spain, Barcelona is at a huge disadvantage.

Well, the reason for Barcelona's poor performance is not only injuries, while the bad performance is being concluded due to the weakness and carelessness of the player. If we look at this season, Barcelona is the club that has created the most chances, but unfortunately, the club that misses the most chances is also Barcelona. It can be inferred that Barcelona's poor performance is not due to injured players; it's because of the attacking sector. If we look at the stats of the players in the last recent 7 matches, the player who misses the most chances is Robert Lewandowski, and the second number is Raphinha. Against Atlatico Madrid Robert Lewandowski has missed 2 open chances, and because of that the team was defeated.
 
So this means that the injury department is not responsible for Barcelona's poor performance despite all the blame going to the attackers. Because if the attacker doesn't finish the goals, then of course the team can't get anything other than defeat.

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[AYOBA]

Barcelona seems to be a team that is greatly affected by injured players. They started to go bad in La Liga. They are doing so badly in Spain, they are not bad in UCL. We can say the opposite for Real, they are bad in UCL but successful in La Liga. While the excitement is in full swing in Spain, Barcelona is at a huge disadvantage.

The way Barcelona started this season with great performances nobody expected that they will face even single challenges this season, but indeed their where unable to make their performances to be standard this days they refused to maintain their consistency that is what is affecting there performance; i don’t think the problem is from some of there players that in injuries since they still have more squad that can able to maintain there missing positions.

[Weawant]

Since Mbappe joined Real Madrid he even had better performance than we could expect to see from this player.
Simply if you compare Ronaldo with Mbappe when they joined Real Madrid you can understand the performance of Mbappe as even better than Ronaldo.
When Ronaldo joined Real Madrid he could only score 13 goals for this team while Mbapep scored 14 goals which meant he scored one more goal.

This comparison isn't soothing enough as the only fact in this comparison is one that i don't see complete, all the while Ronaldo was at Madrid i believe he did more than 13 goal and Mbappe achieving that mark already isn't enough to have seen him to be better than Ronaldo who won some trophies at Madrid and now Mbappe who is just new at Madrid and is yet to have won any trophy or made any spectacular record at Madrid to someone who years back has been able to set wonderful records and achieved so much at Madrid and even in other clubs, one which Mbappe had not.

[TelolettOm]

Well, the reason for Barcelona's poor performance is not only injuries, while the bad performance is being concluded due to the weakness and carelessness of the player. If we look at this season, Barcelona is the club that has created the most chances, but unfortunately, the club that misses the most chances is also Barcelona.

Indeed, it is more than only injury players, there are more problems to be solved.
It is undeniable that Barcelona's performance lately has not been as good as the beginning of the season. Based on the latest reports, Hansi Flick stated several key problems why they experienced drops.

Hansi Flick did not think too long about their defeat to Atletico Madrid, but he focused more on the losses to Las Palmas and Leganes that should not have happened. And this, again to the problem of player mentality. This affects the inconsistency of motivation when playing against unprestigious teams or strong clubs, so that it actually has fatal consequences for them.

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Source: Hansi Flick identifies the critical issue behind Barcelona’s recent poor streak
Hansi Flick identifies the critical issue behind Barcelona’s recent poor streak – report

[Gallar]

Since Mbappe joined Real Madrid he even had better performance than we could expect to see from this player.
Simply if you compare Ronaldo with Mbappe when they joined Real Madrid you can understand the performance of Mbappe as even better than Ronaldo.
When Ronaldo joined Real Madrid he could only score 13 goals for this team while Mbapep scored 14 goals which meant he scored one more goal.

Yes, although at first many people doubted Mbappe's performance, because as we know at the start of the season Mbappe had a very difficult time scoring goals. But now Mbappe has proven that he deserves to be at Real Madrid. Because with a record of scoring 14 goals in all the matches he played with Real Madrid, of course this is something that deserves appreciation. Apart from scoring 14 goals, Mbappe has also been able to make 4 assists so far, so this adds to the good and positive things for Mbappe. So with this, Real Madrid really wasn't wrong in bringing in Mbappe, even though it was at a very expensive price. Because all of this is comparable to Mbappe's very good performance.

Apart from that, I personally think Mbappe's current performance is good, but not yet at a stage that could be said to be extraordinary. Because currently what I see is that Mbappe is still in the adjustment phase to his current new position. So we can conclude, if for example Mbappe was able to adapt perfectly to Real Madrid, he would definitely be able to produce a much better performance than he is currently doing. Maybe according to my predictions, next season Mbappe will be able to produce his best performance which will definitely make Real Madrid even greater. So hopefully Mbappe's adaptation process can run smoothly at Real Madrid so he can really become a really great goal scoring machine.

[Mustang Shelby]

Barcelona seems to be a team that is greatly affected by injured players. They started to go bad in La Liga. They are doing so badly in Spain, they are not bad in UCL. We can say the opposite for Real, they are bad in UCL but successful in La Liga. While the excitement is in full swing in Spain, Barcelona is at a huge disadvantage.

The way Barcelona started this season with great performances nobody expected that they will face even single challenges this season, but indeed their where unable to make their performances to be standard this days they refused to maintain their consistency that is what is affecting there performance; i don’t think the problem is from some of there players that in injuries since they still have more squad that can able to maintain there missing positions.

Actually, their main problem is that they can't get much efficiency from the substitute players. Because while the main players are playing well, the substitute players can't show the same performance. According to him, they need to increase the quality of the players on the bench. Maybe in this case, injuries will affect them less. However, after the injured players returned to the team, they started to get unsuccessful results. This means that the team's momentum has fallen behind.

[shogun47]

That is one way to look at things, but I would instead look at how Barcelona was ahead and how they are now behind and that is what counts here. Yes they are still within distance to come back to the top, but the negative trend must be stopped. I can see comments coming here saying how easy it will be for Barcelona to beat Getafe, but I disagree. Getafe, which is unbelievable considering that they are at the bottom of the table, has the third best defense in La Liga. That is how they can counter a team like Barcelona because in some games they can't score goals regardless of the chances they have. Then Getafe scores a goal with some luck and Barcelona is screwed.

Barcelona certainly has a chance to start all over again. They are not out of the running to return to the top spot yet. They still have a chance to grab the top spot. However, they must return to their old form and maintain the winning streak. If Barcelona can learn from their old mistakes and start their journey anew in the new year, then maybe we can dream of winning the Spanish league title with them.

In the next match, they will take the field against Getafe. Even though Getafe is at the bottom of the points table, Barcelona will definitely make a mistake if they take them lightly. Barcelona's current weakness is their finishing. Getafe will definitely want to take this opportunity and will try to defeat Barcelona with their strong defense. Barcelona will definitely pay the price if they go to the field with fragile finishers against a strong defensive team. But I think Barcelona have enough time to improve their weak points and Hansi Flick will definitely work with his team to turn their weaknesses into strengths.

I don't know if it is about starting all over again or whether it has to do a lot with the list of injured players, but since this has become shorter recently, I thought they should be able to finally recover from these terrible performances. I don't know if ter Stegen is a problem here, but as far as I know the goalkeeper hasn't made a significant number of mistakes. I haven't been following all the games and therefore it is hard to judge for me, but since I didn't read about blatant mistakes, I guess there haven't been any that were noteworthy. Yamal is out, which is bad, but shouldn't be the reason for their recent demise. The trend they are undergoing is catastrophic.



Don't get confused because I only had my mouse pointing at Real Sociedad. This is the table for the last six games and this is more than a temporary blackout. It's bad and Barcelona is at the bottom as 15th with 0.83 PPG. Atletico Madrid got 13 more points in the same time, which was crucial for their rise to the top while Barcelona is in chaos.

[Hirose UK]

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The way Barcelona started this season with great performances nobody expected that they will face even single challenges this season, but indeed their where unable to make their performances to be standard this days they refused to maintain their consistency that is what is affecting there performance; i don’t think the problem is from some of there players that in injuries since they still have more squad that can able to maintain there missing positions.

Stability and consistency are two important things that are difficult for any team to maintain, many team out there appear stunning but only half season later experience decline, and what Barcelona experienced is actually normal condition but they have proven that so far they can perform well and have extraordinary strength even though now Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid have managed to surpass them.
You are wrong if the problem of injured players does not affect the Barcelona squad, indeed they have several substitute players but it does not really work well when used to fill the void, just look at Real Madrid who also previously had problems with absent players also had to go through many match with declining and poor performance.

[Catenaccio]

Since Mbappe joined Real Madrid he even had better performance than we could expect to see from this player.
Simply if you compare Ronaldo with Mbappe when they joined Real Madrid you can understand the performance of Mbappe as even better than Ronaldo.
When Ronaldo joined Real Madrid he could only score 13 goals for this team while Mbapep scored 14 goals which meant he scored one more goal.

Mbappe warmed up worse than Cristiano Ronaldo in Real Madrid, but assess their performances and achievements in Real Madrid will need more time, matches and seasons from Mbappe. Only look at several matches and say this player is better than another player, can be very inaccurate by lacking enough performances. Players can play very well or very bad in several matches but in long term, their success will be assessed by quality and consistency.

Apart from that, I personally think Mbappe's current performance is good, but not yet at a stage that could be said to be extraordinary. Because currently what I see is that Mbappe is still in the adjustment phase to his current new position. So we can conclude, if for example Mbappe was able to adapt perfectly to Real Madrid, he would definitely be able to produce a much better performance than he is currently doing.

His performances become better with time, and I thought about it two months ago too. Luckily Mbappe did not get serious injuries and this helps him to adapt well in Real Madrid with time. With a skillful and clever player like Mbappe, if he has good fitness, he will play well after having good adaptation in a new club.

Maybe according to my predictions, next season Mbappe will be able to produce his best performance which will definitely make Real Madrid even greater. So hopefully Mbappe's adaptation process can run smoothly at Real Madrid so he can really become a really great goal scoring machine.

I think about it too, as after first warm-up season, and build up good connections with his teammates, Mbappe will perform better in a next season. Real Madrid have a good squad to move in future with many young, talented, and also experienced players. Players like Mbappe, Vinicius, Rodrygo, Jude are young but they are very experienced.

[MarjorieZimmermanGinger]

Actually, their main problem is that they can't get much efficiency from the substitute players. Because while the main players are playing well, the substitute players can't show the same performance. According to him, they need to increase the quality of the players on the bench. Maybe in this case, injuries will affect them less. However, after the injured players returned to the team, they started to get unsuccessful results. This means that the team's momentum has fallen behind.

That's why substitutes are indeed needed so that the coach can rotate in certain conditions and now we can see how the depth of the Barcelona squad does not have substitutes that are comparable to the core players. If this cannot be evaluated properly, then I doubt Barcelona will be able to maintain their best performance and they will even lose the opportunity to compete for the title this season. Real Madrid also had problems at the beginning of the season, but the difference is that now they are showing much better changes.

[OcTradism]

That's why substitutes are indeed needed so that the coach can rotate in certain conditions and now we can see how the depth of the Barcelona squad does not have substitutes that are comparable to the core players. If this cannot be evaluated properly, then I doubt Barcelona will be able to maintain their best performance and they will even lose the opportunity to compete for the title this season. Real Madrid also had problems at the beginning of the season, but the difference is that now they are showing much better changes.

Since Covid-19, policies changed and there are more subsitutions from 3 players in the past to 5 players now, allowed in a match. It's helpful for big clubs with abundant star players, can rotate their players and it increases advantage of big clubs against small clubs with less star and quality players.

It reduces importance of player substitutions in football as in the past, with only 3 maximum substitutions, coaches had to think more carefully and one bad substitution can destroy a match as there was little chance to fix it with other substitutions. Nowadays with 5 substitutions, I feel less interesting with coach decisions for it because I know after 1, 2 or 3 first substitutions, there will be more.

Real Madrid have many injuries in this season but they're luckily by having many good players, who can replace each other even in an injury crisis.

[mamesso]

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The way Barcelona started this season with great performances nobody expected that they will face even single challenges this season, but indeed their where unable to make their performances to be standard this days they refused to maintain their consistency that is what is affecting there performance; i don’t think the problem is from some of there players that in injuries since they still have more squad that can able to maintain there missing positions.

I wasn't too surprised Barcelona lost to Atletico because Simeone's team are in top form, it's very difficult to face Atletico when they are on a winning run because they always play with high intensity. Hansi Flick must not allow this situation to continue, he must arouse the passion of his players to return to their best form as shown at the start of the season, they still have time to turn things around to revive the title race.

Barcelona last 7 matches in La Liga: 4 losses, 2 draws and 1 win.

[Minecache]

You mentioned an important point. Barcelona is in a very weak financial position now. Barcelona is not able to buy players at high prices now. None of us expected Barcelona to be able to fight for the title this season. Even then, due to Hansi Flick's excellent match strategy, Barcelona was able to hold the top spot of the La Liga table for a long time. But now the team is not in good form. If Barcelona cannot solve the internal problems of the squad quickly, then Barcelona will have no chance of occupying the top spot of the table anymore. Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid are in good form now.

The issue of there finance was seriously disturbing them not until things have getting better with there coach at the beginning of the seasons and they were getting all the praises and the only thing that seems to be the issue at that particular time is finance and at some point I was already wondering if the finance issue is no longer there but it seems that the performance is actually covering the whole thing because now they are finding it hard to be able to maintain consistency, when they started this season people expected ot even believed that one way or the other they will be the defending champion because last season they were complaining about them but this season they were redeemed, and now Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid are the once's shining so the table turns unexpectedly amd that is what is currently happening to barcode is good because things like this actually humble people who are still unable to achieve anything yet.

At the beginning of this season, I thought that the top spot of the table would be occupied by Real Madrid. And in the second place of the table we will see Barcelona. Because Real Madrid has been able to form a very strong and stable squad this season. However, the good performance of Atletico Madrid has changed the whole scenario. The top spot of the table is occupied by Atletico Madrid. And due to the irregular performance, the Real Madrid team is a little behind. Barcelona has lost points continuously in the last few matches. So Barcelona is now in the third place of the table.

Since each team will still play about 20 matches, there is still a lot of time for the points table to change. The point gap between Real Madrid, Atletico and Barcelona is not very big. So Barcelona still has the possibility of going to the top of the table.

[Sebas.tian]

Barcelona seems to be a team that is greatly affected by injured players. They started to go bad in La Liga. They are doing so badly in Spain, they are not bad in UCL. We can say the opposite for Real, they are bad in UCL but successful in La Liga. While the excitement is in full swing in Spain, Barcelona is at a huge disadvantage.

The way Barcelona started this season with great performances nobody expected that they will face even single challenges this season, but indeed their where unable to make their performances to be standard this days they refused to maintain their consistency that is what is affecting there performance; i don’t think the problem is from some of there players that in injuries since they still have more squad that can able to maintain there missing positions.

But despite the challenges Barcelona players experience from some teams, they are still leading in the la Liga league competition which there is a hope for them to recover from the challenges and start displaying what they where displaying from the beginning of this season. I think, Barcelona head coach will definitely work on that to make the team to start performing well again to withstand their opponents to embrace points that will make their gap higher than any other teams in the la Liga league table. If not the injuries Barcelona players experience from some matches, what do you think would have made them to experience all those challenges, they where able to defeated Real Madrid and other strong teams to prove to people how serious they are to win the title before the injury started happening to their players which is the caused of the poor performance currently.

[Oluwa-btc]

Since Mbappe joined Real Madrid he even had better performance than we could expect to see from this player.
Simply if you compare Ronaldo with Mbappe when they joined Real Madrid you can understand the performance of Mbappe as even better than Ronaldo.
When Ronaldo joined Real Madrid he could only score 13 goals for this team while Mbapep scored 14 goals which meant he scored one more goal.

This is bollocks. How can you even compare them both? It's not even about how Kylian Mbappe starts but how he finishes. Do you think he can do better than what Cristiano Ronaldo did for Real Madrid? If you don't think so, why this unnecessary comparisons when we can just allow Kylian Mbappe be himself and play his best football for Real Madrid. This is actually funny on a second thought, I guess we'll all be here to see how far he'll go, ehh?

[Ayers]

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The way Barcelona started this season with great performances nobody expected that they will face even single challenges this season, but indeed their where unable to make their performances to be standard this days they refused to maintain their consistency that is what is affecting there performance; i don’t think the problem is from some of there players that in injuries since they still have more squad that can able to maintain there missing positions.

I wasn't too surprised Barcelona lost to Atletico because Simeone's team are in top form, it's very difficult to face Atletico when they are on a winning run because they always play with high intensity. Hansi Flick must not allow this situation to continue, he must arouse the passion of his players to return to their best form as shown at the start of the season, they still have time to turn things around to revive the title race.
Barcelona last 7 matches in La Liga: 4 losses, 2 draws and 1 win.

You are right. Atletico Madrid were in their best form. So it is not surprising that Barcelona lost this match. But there is no denying that Barcelona played very well in this match. But Barcelona was unlucky. Barcelona had a total of 19 shots in this match, out of which 7 were on target. A lot of attacks were made by Barcelona players. On the other hand, Atletico Madrid was tactical. Atletico Madrid players did not make too many attacks. A total of 5 shots were made by Atletico Madrid players. Atletico Madrid scored their second goal after 90 minutes in extra time. Barcelona lost the match by conceding a last minute goal.

[Promocodeudo]

But despite the challenges Barcelona players experience from some teams, they are still leading in the la Liga league competition which there is a hope for them to recover from the challenges and start displaying what they where displaying from the beginning of this season. I think, Barcelona head coach will definitely work on that to make the team to start performing well again to withstand their opponents to embrace points that will make their gap higher than any other teams in the la Liga league table. If not the injuries Barcelona players experience from some matches, what do you think would have made them to experience all those challenges, they where able to defeated Real Madrid and other strong teams to prove to people how serious they are to win the title before the injury started happening to their players which is the caused of the poor performance currently.

Buddy I think you need to know this, Barcelona is presently sitting in the 3rd position in their league standings with 38points behind Real Madrid that's in the second position in the league table, you should also be aware that Barcelona has played 19 games so far and the major contenders which is Athletico Madrid and Realmadrid has just played 18 matches as it stands which means both teams have outstanding matches ahead, though having outstanding match does not mean to that the point has been counted in the team favour but outlining things the way they are maters a lot, as it stands unless Barcelona bounces back to their earlier performance this season, there's nothing they can do, if you've watched Atletico Madrid play recently you will conclude that no team can beat them as it stands, though the game of soccer most times ends with surprises which no one can predict, Barcelona really needs to work harder, they would've been on top of the league table conveniently but shit happens.

Though Barcelona performed beyond expectation this season, for a team that been on financial crisis with few players on ground and some from academy to fight that hard, I think if things were to be as it was with them, there wouldn't have been any problem at all for them, yea they defeated Real Madrid but the matter at hand is consistency which is now their recent problem, I hope they recover from this lapses soon.

[bering]

There was a news that Barcelona should be re-registering Dani Olmo to Laliga and they give the deadline if Barcelona unable to do that until December 31 then Dani Olmo can free to look for new clubs and i think Barcelona should be more concern to this issue because i am sure they don't want to losing Dani Olmo early and lately some media has been reported that they saw Dani Olmo agent went to England and watching the matches some of Premier League clubs so this thing makes those media has been speculate that his agent is look for new clubs for Dani Olmo in case Barcelona unable to solved this issue

[tusandii]

Although most people have considered Barcelona bankrupt this season, but for the next match in January, Barcelona must be able to win even though the match is at Getafe's home. Because from now on Barcelona has time to think about the revival of their own team because before returning to compete in La Liga Barcelona only has to think about how to win the match in the Super Cup and also in the Copa Del Rey. So Flick must have a way to make that revival from now so that Barcelona has better preparation in January.

Barcelona should have won against Leganes and even Atletico, but in these matches their attack played significantly worse than in previous matches, or their opponents' defense was better. Maybe now Barcelona will get some time to rest during these holidays and will come back with new strength to win again, but I will say that Barcelona did not play worse in these matches, they just were not so lucky in attack.

I can understand their defeat against Atletico Madrid because this club has become a competitor for Barcelona and Real Madrid at the top of the standings and if they face each other it will be difficult to determine who will win especially since Atletico Madrid's performance is also quite consistent, but when playing against Leganes, Barcelona should have won because this club has just returned to La Liga this season after being in the Segunda Division for the past 3 years and its performance still looks weak but instead Barcelona embarrassed itself as a top club.

[Velvet78]

There was a news that Barcelona should be re-registering Dani Olmo to Laliga and they give the deadline if Barcelona unable to do that until December 31 then Dani Olmo can free to look for new clubs and i think Barcelona should be more concern to this issue because i am sure they don't want to losing Dani Olmo early and lately some media has been reported that they saw Dani Olmo agent went to England and watching the matches some of Premier League clubs so this thing makes those media has been speculate that his agent is look for new clubs for Dani Olmo in case Barcelona unable to solved this issue

In case of losing Olmo, Barcelona should be ready to sign a good alternative. Because there is no other alternative other than Pablo Torre as a natural AM.    Their priority should be to keep Olmo somehow though. He has already made a significant goal contribution. He is enjoying his football at the team from where he has grown. It would be sad to lose him like that.

But I wonder what they can do to prevent his departure... Maybe unregistering some players? I don't even know what the exact reason behind their not being able to register Olmo again is.

Barcelona and still the same problems... I hope we see their golden financial age back again in the future.