La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2025/26

[Iranus]

But we have seen countless times when smaller teams in the Laliga do win the likes of  Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid. When you say tougher, are you referring to physicality or the number of teams competing to win the league? That aside, we have also seen countless times when the premier League teams struggle to beat Spanish teams. Spanish teams has always had the upper hand when teams from both leagues meet. Each leagues has their peculiarities, I don't see the need for this comparisons.

There are many clubs in La Liga who have a great overall gameplay despite not having star players in their squads. We often see Real madrid and Barcelona losing to feeble  teams. They have even dropped points against teams at the bottom of the table. This proves the ability of La Liga clubs. And I agree with you that it becomes quite difficult for Premier league teams to perform well when they face La liga clubs. Star players may be comparatively less in La liga if we compare it with premier league. Nevertheless, the match tactics and game tactis of the clubs here are quite different. That is why Premier League teams fail to perform well against La Liga clubs.

[Sandra_hakeem]

This was just a club friendlies with vissel kobe, but Barcelona thought it'd be a good idea to trash the living hell out of them regardless. Doesn't count, but I'm sure it would have been more "fire and fury" if it was a real competition.

The Barcelona team will only get more tough in their selections and anyone that performs below the teams expectations will be made to rest on the bench. It's their normal way of saying "you're not giving in your best, we want to retain you but we must see what you have to offer". Marcus Rashford of course is a close target -- he still needs a lot of playtime to determine his fate, but he needs to push through this heat. I think the pre-seasons are going well for them Btw.

[Adams0001]

Yes, we know that Rashford performances have dropped since, but that does not mean he won’t quickly regain form, especially now that he is currently in Barcelona where their is great squad. He was not performing well later at Manchester United but his form improved little when they loaned him to Aston Villa. His performances improve at Aston Villa, so I just feel that Rashford was not performing at Manchester United because the squad was weak.

Now that Rashford is in the mix with great players, I am expecting him to bounce back quickly. But let's see how he is going to perform this season.in fact, I don't think Barcelona is going to leave Rashford behind. They will surely give him space to prove himself, but with a short timeframe. If he does not pick up form, they will likely stop using him consistently just to prove a pointbecause if they continue giving him space while he's performing poorly, it could affect the whole team’s performance.

I don't know why some Manchester united fans thinking Rashford won't perform well in Barcelona, they need to know that sometimes, if a player change team that is when you will see is improvement and start wining goals for the team. The season needs to start to know if the player will do well or not before judging him in Barcelona. But I believe that since he perform very well in Aston Villa he will surely improve more better, because Epl is more harder then Laliga competition. Since Is only real madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid that usually dominate the competition every season, and if madrid didn't win definitely Barcelona will achieve the title, that is how he rotate. in Epl you can't predict who will achieve the league competition because they are many strong club that fight to win the title every season. Hansi Flick no why he brought Rashford for loan, he need to test is performance in the team to see if he will perform well in the team. Let wait for the season to start before we talk any negative talk about Rashford.

One of the biggest challenges that Real Madrid are facing now is that defense line, which, if they have a solution for, the next thing they will focus on is a better formation. I still have hope that Xavi Alonso will be able to take care of all this, but still, he needs some time to apply the best strategy that will go a long way in order to make Real Madrid strong as before. Even though this coming season will have more pressure than the previous ones, I have hope that Xavi Alonso will take them to the next level. But let’s not lose hope on them now and give them more time.

You are right, that is the main problem real madrid are facing currently but at time the team will be back stronger then before. Madrid have key defenders but they are not doing well as before so I will probably like xabi Alonso to look for Rudiger replacement that is young because is getting old and is not performing well. Raul Asencio is a good defender but he need more training because he usually make mistakes in the pitch, because if you can see is performance in CWC competition you will notice that is weak. Rudiger and Asencio that make Madrid do lose the competition since from the first half against PSG. Madrid will do better next season because i see they have get steady defenders that will do well Alexander-Arnold, Dean Huijsen will make the defence strong better. Because I don't think Madrid are looking for any defender currently now. They will wait for konate for next season to achieve him for free, since he don't want to renew is contract with the club.

[Slow death]

Statistically, Hansi Flick has a much better chance of retaining the title than Xabi Alonso because the players have generally adapted to him. On the other hand, Xabi Alonso may still need to adapt and find a suitable strategy to implement. However, no one knows for sure the final result because in the previous season, many predicted Real Madrid would win La Liga, but it turned out otherwise. Real Madrid and Barcelona will once again be competing for the title, and it remains difficult to determine who has the better chance.

even though real madrid is currently making squad adjustments, it would be a mistake to underestimate their ability to compete fiercely with barcelona. in fact, it's very plausible that they could come out with an even better performance, because with new players and xabi alonso's strategy, which is expected to bring a fresh tactical approach and renewed energy. and this will be a new spirit for real madrid to be able to win the la liga title this season. and because of that, i see that between barcelona and real madrid, it is quite difficult to determine who can be the winner this season, because both clubs each have very strong strengths, ambitions, and motivation to win the title.

Well, I don't know about Barcelona, but I'm very worried about Real Madrid and their new coach. As a Real Madrid fan after that defeat against PSG, I see that Xabi still has no idea what to do with the squad. I'm afraid Real Madrid will become like Manchester United or Barcelona when they were in crisis. I don't see Real Madrid playing friendlies to see how the coach will deploy his players and what performance we can expect from the team.


Barcelona's coach is very committed to knowing how all the players behave during the game. In this game, he included almost all the players in the squad, but only 5 players didn't play. This is very good.



Now, Real Madrid's coach is letting the players get lazy.

[bitgolden]

it will really do him more good to go else where to try too since the manager xabi is not looking his way, despite that vicious is a good that we have seen, Mbappe two is a good too but his last season wasn't impressing as much as we expected it to be, I will just say that the manager has to improve in his decision making, Personally i have not seen any improvement in Realmdrid team, we can actually attest to the fact that there performance during the just concluded club world cup was disasterous, I know that the league has not started but will soon start, I think xabi got some work to do,  the club got many world star players but the result coming from the US very poor.

Chelsea and Rodrygo would be awesome combination for them, it would help Chelsea a ton and could take that team to a greater level, whereas if we are dealing with Rodrygo staying at Real Madrid, he would not get the playing time he wants and he will be sad. So him going to Chelsea would help him as well and he would be happy.

Sure he will not be in a team as dominant as Real Madrid, so he will need to get used to worse results on games, still not a relegation team though, it's the team that won the CWC which means that he would be going to a decent team. At this point I bet that official discussions are at "is he on sale?" "if you offer the right amount then yeah" levels and nothing official is going on on making this deal happen.

[Republikcoin.com]

It has always been so for long. Real Madrid or Barcelona will definitely win the league next season, but we can't tell for sure which of them is the favorite. Barcelona only added one or two players to their squad and the team bond is already there. Unlike, Madrid that has a new coach and needs to understand every player potential so that, he can use them at the appropriate time for the right wings and positions.

As for Barcelona, I think they will remain strong because their tactics and players are the same as last season, even though they have added one or two to their squad for next season. Meanwhile, Real Madrid still needs to make more changes to address their weaknesses. If they can't be strong in La Liga and the Champions League next season, their signings will be wasted. Although I'm confident that Alonso can improve Real Madrid as long as the current Real Madrid players feel comfortable with his tactics.

[Adbitco]

I would say that La Liga is very easy to predict because there are always two teams competing and one of them will eventually win the title. If you look at the last few seasons, you will see that either Real Madrid or Barcelona have won the La Liga title. The last season that ended, Real Madrid also did well in the seasons before this season, while Barcelona also performed well, but no other team could take the place of Real Madrid and Barcelona. In the coming seasons, we will see that either Real Madrid or Barcelona will win the La Liga title. Currently, Real Madrid's performance is not very good, on the contrary, Barcelona is performing quite well and they have added some new players to their club, so it is assumed that Barcelona will have a slightly higher chance of winning the league title next season.

Same as the English Premier League, in this case it's just one more team which still makes the league predictable also. Apart from Liverpool, Manchester City and Chelsea who else will win the EPL? The league title circles between these three clubs. After Chelsea won it last in 2027, EPL has been won between just Manchester City and Liverpool, so if you ask me, what's the much difference there between them and EPL I'm terms of winning the league?

[$weetne$$]

There are many clubs in La Liga who have a great overall gameplay despite not having star players in their squads. We often see Real madrid and Barcelona losing to feeble  teams. They have even dropped points against teams at the bottom of the table. This proves the ability of La Liga clubs. And I agree with you that it becomes quite difficult for Premier league teams to perform well when they face La liga clubs. Star players may be comparatively less in La liga if we compare it with premier league. Nevertheless, the match tactics and game tactis of the clubs here are quite different. That is why Premier League teams fail to perform well against La Liga clubs.

We have teams like Girona nad Atletico Madrid who were really doing so well last season and I believe they even have a chance of becoming strong competitors against Real Madrid and Barcelona in the la liga, two seasons ago ended even upto last season Girona was really outstanding only that they could not sustain the form long enough through the season. But then except for Real Madrid and Barcelona I do not see other la liga tea.s who poses much of a problem or threat to Premier League teams in other competitions such as the champions league and others.

[GiftedMAN]

It has always been so for long. Real Madrid or Barcelona will definitely win the league next season, but we can't tell for sure which of them is the favorite. Barcelona only added one or two players to their squad and the team bond is already there. Unlike, Madrid that has a new coach and needs to understand every player potential so that, he can use them at the appropriate time for the right wings and positions.

As for Barcelona, I think they will remain strong because their tactics and players are the same as last season, even though they have added one or two to their squad for next season. Meanwhile, Real Madrid still needs to make more changes to address their weaknesses. If they can't be strong in La Liga and the Champions League next season, their signings will be wasted. Although I'm confident that Alonso can improve Real Madrid as long as the current Real Madrid players feel comfortable with his tactics.

They season needs to begin we watch Barcelona first 5 games before we know if they will remain very strong like they were last season since they have same players with some added new players in the squad and Real Madrid is also another team to look after because they have a new manager and new players that arrived to tackle the errors of last season, Real Madrid doesn't need any more changes in the team they have a complete team now Xabi Alonso only needs to have a good formation and urge the players to do more of team work if they can do that then the team will be ready to win the champions League competition next season.

[PremiumcryptoHub]

Maybe Barcelona Football Club's strategy and players are the same as last season so they will be strong in the coming season as well because that can be easily understood by looking at their performance in the warm-up match today. At the moment it seems that the Barcelona club manager is very committed to testing all the players because today they were able to observe all their young players. However Rashford was given top priority in this match but it surprised me that Barcelona gave many young players a chance in that friendly match and they were able to score goals even everyone has observed that a young winger from La Masia was able to score a goal in this friendly match.

[Obari]

But we have seen countless times when smaller teams in the Laliga do win the likes of  Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid. When you say tougher, are you referring to physicality or the number of teams competing to win the league? That aside, we have also seen countless times when the premier League teams struggle to beat Spanish teams. Spanish teams has always had the upper hand when teams from both leagues meet. Each leagues has their peculiarities, I don't see the need for this comparisons.

Next season, it's going to be really lit with watching these oppositions having to impact themselves with full responsibility to win matches. Spanish giants are classified to be Barcelona and Real Madrid. They're the frontrunner with having to dive themselves with presentable tactics. Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid are the favorite clubs to win the league because they're the most consistent and eligible club, or you do have another one on the list? I've no business with other clubs other than watching few of them giving hard time to the main oppositions. Elite clubs often finds it really difficult to win some random average team but that doesn't portray out the statistics that winning becomes more effective.

[Stablexcoin]

This was just a club friendlies with vissel kobe, but Barcelona thought it'd be a good idea to trash the living hell out of them regardless. Doesn't count, but I'm sure it would have been more "fire and fury" if it was a real competition.

The trashing was just 3-1, i expected more goals from Barcelona, on the average performance this is the scoreline for this fixture, seeing them try their new signings also contributed to only scoring 3 goals in the match. I'm more concerned about Rashford if he can make a good impact in the team, after going through the market as loaned and finally sealing the deal at Barcelona, he needs certain level of impact to avoid going back on the bench especially during tough matches.

[promise444c5]

At the moment it seems that the Barcelona club manager is very committed to testing all the players because today they were able to observe all their young players. However Rashford was given top priority in this match but it surprised me that Barcelona gave many young players a chance in that friendly match and they were able to score goals even everyone has observed that a young winger from La Masia was able to score a goal in this friendly match.

Flick seem to be testing players but in different way, if you noticed he brought in different  set of players in the early second half : wingers, mieldfield and defenders.. probably  trying to pick a perfect set  combinations  from the way they perform.. I'm  expecting  more mixture in their upcoming  games before laliga finally kicks off.
 As for rashford,  I don't  think he was.. all he had was 33 mins because of his fitness.

[DanWalker]

They season needs to begin we watch Barcelona first 5 games before we know if they will remain very strong like they were last season since they have same players with some added new players in the squad and Real Madrid is also another team to look after because they have a new manager and new players that arrived to tackle the errors of last season, Real Madrid doesn't need any more changes in the team they have a complete team now Xabi Alonso only needs to have a good formation and urge the players to do more of team work if they can do that then the team will be ready to win the champions League competition next season.

It is expected that barcelona is  remain strong. Because Hansi Flick has not made any changes to his squad. Barcelona's starting XI will abide  unchanged. Now I am waiting to see if the players' performance will be consistent like last season. My expectations will definitely be high from Raphinha and Yamal. Both played well last season. And there is a possibility of getting better performance from them this season. I believe if Raphinha and Yamal work hard, they will be able to score more goals this season. Also, we know that boss Hansi Flick's match strategy is also excellent.

[Hyphen(-)]

This was just a club friendlies with vissel kobe, but Barcelona thought it'd be a good idea to trash the living hell out of them regardless. Doesn't count, but I'm sure it would have been more "fire and fury" if it was a real competition.

Club-friendly matches are mainly to introduce the team and the players to another fresh season; they are usually not tough because that is the main time coaches are testing their tactics and newly implemented ideas about the whole team, and the new players will also get used to the club’s pattern of play and tactics against next season. And Barcelona were just trying to play almost all their players in the game so that they can all recover and be fit against next season.

The Barcelona team will only get more tough in their selections and anyone that performs below the teams expectations will be made to rest on the bench. It's their normal way of saying "you're not giving in your best, we want to retain you but we must see what you have to offer". Marcus Rashford of course is a close target -- he still needs a lot of playtime to determine his fate, but he needs to push through this heat. I think the pre-seasons are going well for them Btw.

Having enough of quality players in a team is very important, it will give the coach a very tough time to make the best selection for his team and that will be the best test for the coach because only big and experienced coaches can handle such teams.

Rashford will put extra effort to get some playing time and Rafinha is also there to prove himself in order to maintain his position as a starter because coaches will only use who will do the job better for them.

[GbitG]

Barcelona's coach is very committed to knowing how all the players behave during the game. In this game, he included almost all the players in the squad, but only 5 players didn't play. This is very good.

Hmmm, exactly. From today's friendly match we conclude that Hansi Flick is really looking for a better version of the Barcelona team and that's why he gives a chance to youngsters like to see which one has a better capacity to play at the X11 sheet.... Barcelona current situation in financial perspective is quite awful, and they didn't even register their own player, and therefore Hansi Flick is trying to rotate the Academic player to see whether they have potential or not. Anyway today friendly was the first match of the season, and in the first match, Hansi Flick spotted a beautiful display with 3 goals margin.

Now, Real Madrid's coach is letting the players get lazy.

Hahah, you hit the right spot. But anyway, this is the real difference between Barca strategy and Real Madrid strategy....

[Jegileman]

It's been reported that Flick has handed Barcelona players more stricter rules, now there will be no more partying for Barcelona players so long as the season is still on, personally, I believe this might come in after the saga of Yamal's birthday party few weeks ago. It's a new internal code of conduct for his players, no more much distractions from the players, only focus on the goal which is to play for team.

I won’t see this as not a good move as it’ll be a very good thing for the whole club, it was done for the interest of the club. Asides Lamine Yamal, I don’t see too many players that love to party too much as he does, so maybe he might have influenced others much which could affect their overall performance in the season. This is a very bravo one from the head coach.

For Barcelona to keep consistent and have the confidence of going for the La Liga trophy next season, they need to be at their best and limiting them from partying is one of them which he needs to enact from now.  Their opponents are also preparing well for the upcoming season, so they also need to be in their best of form in order to stand a worthy challenger to them next season.

[logfiles]

Well, I don't know about Barcelona, but I'm very worried about Real Madrid and their new coach. As a Real Madrid fan after that defeat against PSG, I see that Xabi still has no idea what to do with the squad. I'm afraid Real Madrid will become like Manchester United or Barcelona when they were in crisis. I don't see Real Madrid playing friendlies to see how the coach will deploy his players and what performance we can expect from the team.

It seems you have forgotten so quickly, Real Madrid played the FIFA Club World Cup, Barcelona did not. All that time they have been resting so it's quite understandable that they have started their friendlier earlier than Real Madrid who are also probably resting for some time. So no, as of now, he is not clueless or making players lazy.

I think Xabi needs time, I don't think it should be fair to criticize him based on that bad performance vs PSG

[Akbarkoe]

Well, I don't know about Barcelona, but I'm very worried about Real Madrid and their new coach. As a Real Madrid fan after that defeat against PSG, I see that Xabi still has no idea what to do with the squad. I'm afraid Real Madrid will become like Manchester United or Barcelona when they were in crisis. I don't see Real Madrid playing friendlies to see how the coach will deploy his players and what performance we can expect from the team.

It seems you have forgotten so quickly, Real Madrid played the FIFA Club World Cup, Barcelona did not. All that time they have been resting so it's quite understandable that they have started their friendlier earlier than Real Madrid who are also probably resting for some time. So no, as of now, he is not clueless or making players lazy.

I think Xabi needs time, I don't think it should be fair to criticize him based on that bad performance vs PSG

Here are some of the risks XA must accept when deciding to coach a big club with star players. This is because people no longer trust the process, as they expect results. And since Real Madrid's performance at the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup failed to meet expectations, the coach is sure to face harsh criticism.

Of course, every coach needs time to build a better squad, but people are impatient for results. Xabi Alonso is the coach expected to bring Real Madrid's squad back to its best form and achieve more success. This season should be an opportunity to prove that Alonso is truly worthy of the Real Madrid coaching position.

As for Real Madrid's loss to PSG, let's just forget about it and look forward to the next competition. Can Alonso and his squad secure the Champions League title from PSG?

[LGD2Business]

Don't worry, Real Madrid is so far behind that you won't win any trophies this season either. Barcelona will once again be the favorite in La Liga and while Real Madrid struggles with a new coach and new system, they will lose another season. Barcelona has strengthened their championship squad even further with their transfer moves. They are much better this season. Real Madrid fans dreaming of a championship may be very disappointed this season as well, so I advise you not to raise your expectations too high.