La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2025/26

[BlackBoss_]

Last season, Real Madrid also experienced the same problem, so the factor of injured key players greatly affected the balance of the team's performance. Barcelona has also recently experienced the importance of having a key player in their squad, but problems like this are unavoidable. It must be admitted that Real Madrid strength has increased significantly since Alonso took over, but they must not be careless. The defeat to Atletico must always be a lesson because the same incident could happen again if they are too lulled by the current euphoria and ignore the surprises from their opponents.

The season is very long and big clubs like Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid have to participate in many competitions with many matches that potentially can make players very tired, even exhausted with big risk of getting injuries including severe ones. These big clubs all have to prepare for such injury crisis and have to avoid or reduce its severity by rotating players properly enough.

It's not acceptable if any big club say they fail in domestic league or Champions League because of any injury crisis because such crisis if happens, actually comes from internal management problems at their clubs.

Xabi Alonso actually have managed well in Real Madrid and he has made their team more united, work well together for a common target than the last season. Mbappe seems to connect better with his teammates in this season than the last season and he also contributes more to their proactive defense efforts at the front line.

[verdinio]

Yes injuries are also a part of football. But rather than an excuse it can be a reason behind a bad run naturally... Just think about a situation in which you have so many important players missing.

And they are temporarily replaced by ones who have near zero match fitness. This can easily affect you in a bad way for some weeks at least. 

By the way Barcelona didn't "always" dominate Real Madrid. Look at the last 4 La Liga champions. They both got 2 titles.

Injuries are part of football. They always have been there and always will be. Clearly, this creates problems, but fans shouldn't be discouraged by these injuries. In the case of Ral Madrid, they had no problem playing with other players and managed to do well anyway.

[$weetne$$]

As long as the points gap is still quite far then Barcelona will continue to chase but if Real Madrid suffers 1 defeat it will make it easier for Barcelona to catch up because it is only a small difference, currently the points difference cannot be said to be far but it is also enough to make Real Madrid stay in first place for quite a long time as long as they do not experience defeat, so if Real Madrid does not want to be overtaken by Barcelona they need to maintain their consistency while Barcelona is still experiencing a storm of injuries so their performance is not completely convincing while Real Madrid is still in good form at this time.

Recently I do say that with the happenings in the league, it will only be best to wait till the e nd of the season because it is not over until it is, all tea.s still have like equal chances of which is independent of their current positions, they have more games ahead of them which will like stannd in as a way of buying them time, Madrid is not even too consistent with not been defeated so Barcelona can catch up if they are able to maintain the close gap and not allow it further broaden through the season.

[Adbitco]

Injuries are mainly because these teams are playing a lot of games. On one side, if players wants ot make 10+ million a year like this, which not many back in the day did, then they need to play this many games for owners and clubs to make that kind of money, if they play like 30 games a year then how could teams make enough money to pay for these players.

But on the other hand, if you make each player get 60 games a season, the body has a limit and they just end up with injuries one way or another. This is why it's quite clear that we are not going to see everyone stay healthy. So if players do commonly get injured for being this tired, then we are going to see some of them happen to be at the same time, like Barcelona has right now.

But these competitions has been in place for a long time now, it's just that they added new ones like the Conference league and the UEFA Nations league for the national side of which it was to eliminate friendlies. The other competition like the Champions League, new format was added which increased the total number of games from 13 to 17. It's understandable that with time changes will be made to the sports and it's normal. I really do understand what you're saying and with the amount they earn, it's only natural that they play lots of games because that's where the money is generated from..

[IceLincoln]

So in the recent happenings concerning the el Classico and the Lamine Yamal drama, I read on Socials (Facebook precisely) that Barcelona and Jorge Mendes are working together to protect Lamine Yamal’s privacy and stop leaks about his personal life. They want him to focus exclusively on football.
I think this is a good move, it’s imperative that they take control of the young man does before it gets worse.

Here’s the details of the resolution:

➲ Barcelona want Lamine Yamal to fully recover his match sharpness and start talking on the pitch, not outside of it. The club believes Lamine Yamal has been in the media spotlight too much lately. ⏏️🔍

➲ When Hansi Flick spoke about “egos” in the dressing room, he was also referring to Lamine — Flick admires his talent but wants him focused only on football. 👀

➲ Barcelona confirm that Lamine Yamal is still suffering from pubic discomfort. During El Clásico, he had to stop and stretch multiple times due to pain — he’s not yet fully recovered from pubalgia, which continues to affect his form. 🫣

➲ Barcelona did not like Lamine Yamal’s pre-Clásico comments. They believe it gave Real Madrid players extra motivation — some even asked to play on his side just to foul him repeatedly. 🗣👎🏼

➲ Barcelona and Jorge Mendes will now closely monitor and advise Lamine Yamal on social media. They were unhappy with his recent actions and want to prevent similar situations from happening again. 📵

➲ Barcelona want Lamine Yamal to ignore the media noise, recover from pubalgia, and return to his best on the pitch. People inside the club believe Madrid media have orchestrated a campaign against him — fearing he could torment them like Messi once did. 🤷🏼‍♂️

ℹ️ @mundodeportivo @diariosport

[Luzin]

Given how Barcelona has been doing lately, i think they will be chasing all season.
I don't know what's wrong with him, let's say he's not performing as he should or as he would be capable of performing.
This is a shame because it would have been very interesting to see how he played at full strength against Real Madrid.

Before El Clasico, I was somewhat doubtful about Madrid because in the past two seasons, Madrid always struggled to win against Barcelona due to Barcelona's excellent ball control. But indeed, it seems Barcelona is currently not in their best team condition. Many young players are playing. Besides that, I also read a lot of news about Yamal that made Barcelona uncomfortable. Then Barcelona started restricting Yamal from using social media. Even Yamal's Instagram account changed its profile picture to black. I think Yamal has now made Barcelona feel uneasy and they do not want Yamal to fail to develop, so they started limiting the social media that Yamal uses.

[DanWalker]

Xabi Alonso actually have managed well in Real Madrid and he has made their team more united, work well together for a common target than the last season. Mbappe seems to connect better with his teammates in this season than the last season and he also contributes more to their proactive defense efforts at the front line.

perhaps Xabi Alonso is a little less experienced in comparison. But he is a great coach. He turned a mediocre squad like Leverkusen into Bundesliga champions. Leverkusen won the title after going undefeated the entire season. Madrid have been playing very well this season with the help of Alonso. The squad is very stable and the bonding between the players is very strong now. Madrid's biggest achievement so far is winning the El Clasico. Real Madrid team managed to defeat Barcelona after a long time. Xabi Alonso won his first El Clasico.

[m4r1o]

TAA and Antonio Rudiger cannot be use to compare Barcelona players that are ruled out of injuries.  Real Madrid had their first 11 team played in the El Clasico but it still gave them tough times to defeat Barcelona. Real Madrid victory is justified as an opportunity for the moment because by the time they both meet again, Robert levandowski,Dani Olmo and Raphinha must have recovered fully from injuries and the game Real Madrid was advantage of wouldn't be the same as previously. This time they would be facing the full squad of Barcelona and Madrid will be dealt with returned of this Barcelona players from injuries.

Injuries are part of the process, we can't do anything about it, but this is something that hasn't made us lose the spectacle and charm of such an important match as the Classic, which is by definition one of the best matches to watch in the world.

[Mame89]

As long as the points gap is still quite far then Barcelona will continue to chase but if Real Madrid suffers 1 defeat it will make it easier for Barcelona to catch up because it is only a small difference, currently the points difference cannot be said to be far but it is also enough to make Real Madrid stay in first place for quite a long time as long as they do not experience defeat, so if Real Madrid does not want to be overtaken by Barcelona they need to maintain their consistency while Barcelona is still experiencing a storm of injuries so their performance is not completely convincing while Real Madrid is still in good form at this time.

Recently I do say that with the happenings in the league, it will only be best to wait till the e nd of the season because it is not over until it is, all tea.s still have like equal chances of which is independent of their current positions, they have more games ahead of them which will like stannd in as a way of buying them time, Madrid is not even too consistent with not been defeated so Barcelona can catch up if they are able to maintain the close gap and not allow it further broaden through the season.

The La Liga season is still very long, with only 10 matches underway, and there are still many matches to be played. So there's still a possibility of something happening in the upcoming matches especially with the packed schedule which forces coaches to think hard about rotating players to maintain player fitness.

Real Madrid currently holds a five point lead over Barcelona, ​​but honestly, this isn't a safe bet for Real Madrid. We've often seen in La Liga that a five point lead isn't guaranteed; a team could drop points later or midway through the season. Barcelona is certainly highly motivated to retain their title, but Real Madrid is also motivated to win their first title for Xabi Alonso. So the competition between these two teams will be fierce until the end of the season.

[Adams0001]

Given how Barcelona has been doing lately, i think they will be chasing all season.
I don't know what's wrong with him, let's say he's not performing as he should or as he would be capable of performing.
This is a shame because it would have been very interesting to see how he played at full strength against Real Madrid.

Before El Clasico, I was somewhat doubtful about Madrid because in the past two seasons, Madrid always struggled to win against Barcelona due to Barcelona's excellent ball control. But indeed, it seems Barcelona is currently not in their best team condition. Many young players are playing. Besides that, I also read a lot of news about Yamal that made Barcelona uncomfortable. Then Barcelona started restricting Yamal from using social media. Even Yamal's Instagram account changed its profile picture to black. I think Yamal has now made Barcelona feel uneasy and they do not want Yamal to fail to develop, so they started limiting the social media that Yamal uses.

That is what happens to Real Madrid last season they are not in good condition and that why Barcelona have more opportunities to defeat Real Madrid in all competitions they meet, because there defense is not good dew to injuring players and that is what is happening to Barcelona this season and I don't think they can pick form this time because with how the players are playing they are not in there good shap. Hansi Flick as started struggling in all competitions they have lose one game in the Champions League and lost two in the laliga competitions this season.

This time around this season will be very hard for them to improve with this players currently and there next game in the Champions League will be a tough match for them if there players are not yet back from injuring. This season El classico as prove that Real Madrid are in a better shap more then last season and wining all there matches in the league an the Champions League just lost one game against Athletico Madrid in the league.

[Stormisover]

Real Madrid, under coach Xabi Alonso, has successfully improved their game, and Mbappé is already performing at his best. With a capable squad, I'm confident Xabi Alonso will have no difficulty leading Real Madrid to the title. Meanwhile, in La Liga, only two teams are competing for the title, currently, only Barcelona and Real Madrid are neck and neck at the top of the standings.

Given how Barcelona has been doing lately, i think they will be chasing all season.
I don't know what's wrong with him, let's say he's not performing as he should or as he would be capable of performing.
This is a shame because it would have been very interesting to see how he played at full strength against Real Madrid.

I strongly believe Real Madrid will stop at nothing to win this season Spanish LA Liga title not even Barcelona can stop them from doing that, and their victory over Barcelona kind of boost their confidence some how, and as it stands now in the Spanish LA Liga I think Real Madrid has the best squad the combination of  Vini and Mbappe is actually something else like those two understand themselves like nothing else and I kind of love it seeing the joy on Vini's face each time Mbappe score and I'm very much certain that kind of corporations will definitely take them far both in the league and the champions League.

[moneystery]

Using injuries as an excuse why they lost to real madrid is pathetic because injuries is part of the game and it is what  no body can control, that is why you have a big squad so that another player can step in and cover for anyone that is absent, or is their no real madrid player injured?

What Barcelona should be doing now is to rewatch that game as a group and look at where their short comings came from and work on ways to correct them not by giving useless excuses of injuries, as if they are the only ones that has players that are out with injuries.

In the past few seasons, Barcelona have always dominated real madrid, but now that real madrid has finally stand up to them, they are pushing the blame on injuries, is that not pathetic?

However, Barcelona had no other excuse, so they claimed that their defeat was due to injuries, even though defeat is defeat, and there is no other reason. If they lost, it means their ability is limited to that extent, their inability to rotate players to cover that position, and that led to their defeat. They must accept that fact, even though it is a bitter outcome for them.
But, Real Madrid had previously experienced a similar situation, even losing consecutively, and they did not act like cry babies like the Barcelona players did. So Barcelona players should be able to move on and accept what has happened.

[giorgione]

There is no guarantee that both teams will have a full squad to face each other in the second leg, no one knows that, but that makes us curious about how Real Madrid will face Barcelona with their full squad because yesterday it could be said that Barcelona did not have a full squad, as I said before this reason will be used by them and made as a probability thesis in the next match.

but we cannot base the beauty of the match or whether a team will win only on who takes the field, I remember some historical teams that were not able to play at full strength and still won, so this is a subjective thing and cannot be considered predictable.

[Dailyscript]

So in the recent happenings concerning the el Classico and the Lamine Yamal drama, I read on Socials (Facebook precisely) that Barcelona and Jorge Mendes are working together to protect Lamine Yamal’s privacy and stop leaks about his personal life. They want him to focus exclusively on football.
I think this is a good move, it’s imperative that they take control of the young man does before it gets worse.

They are taking this action a little bit late. This is what should have been done since. I know he is still a child, but he should start to not see himself as one. Messi at his age knows how to talk to the press and answer some certain cunny questions from the press to date, but Lamine Yamal is very poor at doing that. He has a loud mouth and might kill his career if he doesn't learn to control it.

IMO, the fastest way to kill your career is by exposing everything about you to the media. This is not just about football only. As a public figure, you need to be very careful about the media. All the media wants to do is to jeopardize your career.

[reagansimms]

There is no guarantee that both teams will have a full squad to face each other in the second leg, no one knows that, but that makes us curious about how Real Madrid will face Barcelona with their full squad because yesterday it could be said that Barcelona did not have a full squad, as I said before this reason will be used by them and made as a probability thesis in the next match.

but we cannot base the beauty of the match or whether a team will win only on who takes the field, I remember some historical teams that were not able to play at full strength and still won, so this is a subjective thing and cannot be considered predictable.

The lack of key players can also be a measure of a team's quality in a match. Real Madrid managed to exploit Barcelona weaknesses and that is also an undeniable fact. You also have to look at who the opponent is, if the opponent is a weak team, maybe a team like Real Madrid or Barcelona who are not able to play at full strength will win the match easily. Match results are indeed difficult to predict, and you also need to clearly observe the direction of the game. If Real Madrid lost in El Clasico yesterday, it means they played very poorly. Of course, this is highly subjective, as the outcome of a match must be viewed from several different angles.

[Pandu Geddon]

but we cannot base the beauty of the match or whether a team will win only on who takes the field, I remember some historical teams that were not able to play at full strength and still won, so this is a subjective thing and cannot be considered predictable.

But the match would be more interesting if both teams playing could field their best players in the squad. No one can judge or guarantee a win with the best squad a team has. However, we can see that a team's play can change when some key players do not play. It will clearly affect the game and could be a disadvantage for the team, but perhaps an advantage for the opponent.

[martinom]

There is no guarantee that both teams will have a full squad to face each other in the second leg, no one knows that, but that makes us curious about how Real Madrid will face Barcelona with their full squad because yesterday it could be said that Barcelona did not have a full squad, as I said before this reason will be used by them and made as a probability thesis in the next match.

In fact, this thing where teams always have to have top-notch squads must end. No one is sure of what will happen. No one can make predictions about who will get injured and who will take part in the next adventure. It is clear that the show will always be at a high level.

[JeffBrad12]

So in the recent happenings concerning the el Classico and the Lamine Yamal drama, I read on Socials (Facebook precisely) that Barcelona and Jorge Mendes are working together to protect Lamine Yamal’s privacy and stop leaks about his personal life. They want him to focus exclusively on football.
I think this is a good move, it’s imperative that they take control of the young man does before it gets worse.

Here’s the details of the resolution:

➲ Barcelona want Lamine Yamal to fully recover his match sharpness and start talking on the pitch, not outside of it. The club believes Lamine Yamal has been in the media spotlight too much lately. ⏏️🔍

➲ When Hansi Flick spoke about “egos” in the dressing room, he was also referring to Lamine — Flick admires his talent but wants him focused only on football. 👀

➲ Barcelona confirm that Lamine Yamal is still suffering from pubic discomfort. During El Clásico, he had to stop and stretch multiple times due to pain — he’s not yet fully recovered from pubalgia, which continues to affect his form. 🫣

➲ Barcelona did not like Lamine Yamal’s pre-Clásico comments. They believe it gave Real Madrid players extra motivation — some even asked to play on his side just to foul him repeatedly. 🗣👎🏼

➲ Barcelona and Jorge Mendes will now closely monitor and advise Lamine Yamal on social media. They were unhappy with his recent actions and want to prevent similar situations from happening again. 📵

➲ Barcelona want Lamine Yamal to ignore the media noise, recover from pubalgia, and return to his best on the pitch. People inside the club believe Madrid media have orchestrated a campaign against him — fearing he could torment them like Messi once did. 🤷🏼‍♂️

ℹ️ @mundodeportivo @diariosport

It's a good move by Barca considering Yamal needs some privacy as he still young. However, they forget to get someone who can properly guided him. They should have someone to stop him by running his mouth to trashtalk so much. He's poorly guided and his attitude really showed it.
When he do so much trash talk, he also must take the hate. It's not good for his mentality, which can get broken anytime.

[CryptoBuds]

The lack of key players can also be a measure of a team's quality in a match. Real Madrid managed to exploit Barcelona weaknesses and that is also an undeniable fact. You also have to look at who the opponent is, if the opponent is a weak team, maybe a team like Real Madrid or Barcelona who are not able to play at full strength will win the match easily. Match results are indeed difficult to predict, and you also need to clearly observe the direction of the game. If Real Madrid lost in El Clasico yesterday, it means they played very poorly. Of course, this is highly subjective, as the outcome of a match must be viewed from several different angles.

Barcelona played without the most important players in their squad in  this match. Lewandowski, Raphinha, Gavi , Olmo and garcia were out of the squad due to injuries. The most  important thing is that if Lewa and Raphinha were in the squad, Barcelona's performance would have been stronger. In this match, we saw that Barcelona's counterattacks  were very slow. If Raphinha had been in the squad, Barcelona would not have been defeated in this match. Their attacks  would have been stronger.

[Jaycoinz]

The lack of key players can also be a measure of a team's quality in a match. Real Madrid managed to exploit Barcelona weaknesses and that is also an undeniable fact. You also have to look at who the opponent is, if the opponent is a weak team, maybe a team like Real Madrid or Barcelona who are not able to play at full strength will win the match easily. Match results are indeed difficult to predict, and you also need to clearly observe the direction of the game. If Real Madrid lost in El Clasico yesterday, it means they played very poorly. Of course, this is highly subjective, as the outcome of a match must be viewed from several different angles.

Barcelona played without the most important players in their squad in  this match. Lewandowski, Raphinha, Gavi , Olmo and garcia were out of the squad due to injuries. The most  important thing is that if Lewa and Raphinha were in the squad, Barcelona's performance would have been stronger. In this match, we saw that Barcelona's counterattacks  were very slow. If Raphinha had been in the squad, Barcelona would not have been defeated in this match. Their attacks  would have been stronger.

Well enough of all the would've and could've because for me Real Madrid played very well in that game although Barcelona were short of their full squad but that wasn't the fault of Real Madrid because I believe Real Madrid also themselves have been in situations like this and they have gotten the consequences too. I believe the credit of Real Madrid winning that game should be given to them as they really really tried especially the likes of vinicius jnr who played and tormented the entire Barcelona backline.