La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2025/26

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Real Madrid seemed to have lost their spirit and confidence after two consecutive matches without scoring a goal. I found Xabi's tactics to be too pragmatic in this match, as if he was asking the players to give Mbappe every chance. Rayo Vallecano players were able to read Madrid game well, they managed to keep Mbappé at bay, resulting in very few chances for Real Madrid. Mbappe only made 1 shot throughout the match and strangely Xabi seemed to not dare to take him off, if the condition continues like this, Real Madrid will have a hard time if Mbappe and Vinicius are absent at the same time.

Xabi Alonso as lost there dreams, I didn't expect Madrid will lose there last match against Rayo Vallecano. The club usually stress real madrid and that is what happens last season,  real madrid didn't always get the opportunity against Rayo Vallecano and I think even Barcelona didn't get the chance against them they are very tough when they face big club in the competition. Real Madrid are in a tough condition because if they mistakenly lose any point Barcelona will definitely tip the league and that will be another challenge for them to top the league for the second term again because Hansi Flick will not like to lose any point now since he as get the chance of topping the league table in any chance they get now. Xabi Alonso need to organise the team well because losing a point in this condition not a good thing.

[Derekfunds]

Whenever good and strong clubs perform poorly, it should be understood that the team's past good reputation is being ruined due to player injuries. Here is bad news for the Real Madrid team but good news for the Barcelona team, although the point gap between the Real Madrid team and the Barcelona team in the point table is very large, but due to this bad news, Real Madrid will continue to suffer a point deficit and other teams will continue to improve.
Real Madrid will have to fight hard to perform with the strong teams, and may even lose points at the end of the fight.

Real Madrid topping Barcelona with just three solid points, let's see the forwarding strength and if they can keep fighting till the end. What are you saying man? Despite the fierce competition between both clubs, none of them would wish for their colleagues or rival to face crucial injuries because this is football. Injuries have made both sides becomes vulnerable this season. Thibault Courtois have play an essential role in goal keeping for Real Madrid since arriving at the club, won major trophies with Madrid and becoming one of the leading members for the club.

The end is still very much far so there is a long fight if they want to fight and I will say 3 points difference with where the season is now, is really nothing because they can over take them anytime and remember Barcelona has more goals than real Madrid so if Real Madrid should lose any match now and Barcelona win theirs,  Barcelona will automatically top them with goal difference and real Madrid and Barcelona are not really consistent and even if Barcelona top Real Madrid now I'm pretty sure Real Madrid will still top them back again because it seems they have not settled.

[Different patterns]

Barcelona are playing very well and are having an excellent season. If they keep going like this, they can do some interesting things and even think about overtaking Real Madrid, who at the moment seem to me to be the team in the best form of all.

Barcelona major winning against Celta de Vigo is one crucial test for Hansi Flick and his club this season. Barcelona now have all the motivation to move further and getting to equal points with Real Madrid who are topping them with 3 points. This is the time for Xabi Alonso to hold his ground because he wouldn't afford to lose this particicular La Liga title. He's in competitive eacwitj Hansi Flick and let the best team wins. Real Madrid have been coping smoothly especially since beating Barcelona in the El Classico, that victory alone boosted the club's performance and mindset changed for them to come out in good numbers and win games.

It was an impressive win for Barcelona, even though celta did kept on trying to outplay Barcelona in the first half they were not able to defeat them, this tells you how formidable they are, I don't think Madrid has what it takes to keep up their position on the board, sooner or later Barcelona is going to take over...it seems they are back to their previous form, Flick must have been working tirelessly.

Hansi flick doing his job perfectly, he build up from his mistake which were obvious in the first half and with that the second was much better than the first half, a strong leadership from de Jong telling the defenders to move back than staying half the picth, a good excellent performance from Lewandowski which shows is more a complete striker than ferran torress, Barcelona need to keeps the winning streak going, Madrid are not in good form at moment which gives Barcelona a better chance to take advantage of that and stay at the top.

[Stormisover]

After the return of Lewandowski, Barcelona strengthened again, it was enough to provide the fact that Lewandowski was very influential and became the spearhead that could be relied on in Barcelona's attack line, a score of 4-2 last night with a perfect victory, it's just that in this match for the first goal was immediately escorted by Celta Vigo, an interesting match here.

While on the other hand Barcelona rivals can only draw with Rayo.

It is clear how Lewandowski's role is crucial because his presence can make a difference on the front lines so we can see how Barcelona's strength is getting better.
Three goals from Lewandowski showed the character of a reliable striker and confirmed that his age, which is no longer young, does not matter as long as the team can work together well and I was quite impressed to see him in that match. Meanwhile, Real Madrid were forced to draw against Rayo Vallecano, so this was quite a disadvantage because they should have been able to maintain a slightly greater distance.

A hat trick is a great achievement in one game, of course, especially since he only came on after a recovery period, it's a great thing, it's rare nowadays to get a hat trick on the pitch, so you could say they're great and having Lewa ndowski as the executioner was the right choice.

So in retrospect I think that Real Madrid did not have a good midfielder to provide a pass that was difficult to guess the enemy, the role of the midfielder is very important to provide the attacking line with many great opportunities to create goals, but on day ii with the available midfielders less effective it seems.

Normally Lewandowski is that one player any team across the world will be so delighted to have he's a good finisher so he's absent was indeed a big threat to the Barcelona team so he's return is in no doubt a massive one for the team, so at this point in time I will urge Real Madrid to step up their game if they are to win the Spanish LA Liga title because this time around Barcelona will go edge to edge with any team that comes their way and it's really gonna be a tough one for Real Madrid, so Xabi Alonso and his boys should be more serious in their doings else the league title will still slide them this season again.

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Xabi Alonso as lost there dreams, I didn't expect Madrid will lose there last match against Rayo Vallecano. The club usually stress real madrid and that is what happens last season,  real madrid didn't always get the opportunity against Rayo Vallecano and I think even Barcelona didn't get the chance against them they are very tough when they face big club in the competition. Real Madrid are in a tough condition because if they mistakenly lose any point Barcelona will definitely tip the league and that will be another challenge for them to top the league for the second term again because Hansi Flick will not like to lose any point now since he as get the chance of topping the league table in any chance they get now. Xabi Alonso need to organise the team well because losing a point in this condition not a good thing.

Maybe it was a mistake or maybe a typo error from you, the match of yesterday ended in a draw and not a loss for Real Madrid. I don't totally blame them yesterday though because Rayo Vallecano played well and also defended well, again it's been some years know that the have been giving Real Madrid headaches at their home stadium. This is the 4th consecutive time they have denied Real Madrid maximum points at home. I thought they were going to change what happened yesterday and win to get all 3 points at least they would have got maximum points into the international break.

[AGogi2003]

Barcelona did very well in that match, people where saying that Lewandowski is old and can't perform very well again even if he comes back from injury but he shocked everyone by his performance yesterday and again it looks like Yamal breaking up with his girlfriend was good for his career because right now his focusing more in playing better and scoring goals.
Real Madrid draw there match yesterday meaning they have dropped point, I really don't know what is wrong with real Madrid this few weeks if they continue like this they will lose the la Liga title and even the champions League title, Liverpool won them in champions League match that everyone was expecting Real Madrid to win them, right now Real Madrid is not inform as they should be and dey really need to work on there self.

Lewandowski is an excellent striker and those who say that his performance is attributable to his age don't understand much about football, but we could say everything about Yamal, obviously this player must improve from a human point of view otherwise he won't go very far.

Lewandowski is a good striker and no one can stop him from scoring anytime is in the pitch. This season i think he lost is prime is not like last season but I notice that is already getting older and they need to let him move and get new striker in the club because have already see some messages that he won't renew is contract when he expired and that will definitely make him leave the team and Barcelona will get new players to replace him better, i notice that Barcelona defence is not that strong like before anymore they need to get new defences in the team so that they will be stronger this time, because all the matches Barcelona are playing currently in the league competition and champions league they usually concede goals in the matches and that will make them lose when facing big club in the Champions League let see if Barcelona will get back to there best form because since some of there players get injured they are just strongly to win matches in the competition.

[Stablexcoin]

That's right, Xabi Alonso seems to want to make Mbappe the main focal point in scoring goals, assigning Vinicius, Bellingham, Rodrygo, Arda Guler, and others to focus on providing assists for him. If that is indeed Xabi Alonso plan, then Real Madrid will clearly face difficulties whenever Mbappe is absent.
The hardest part of being Real Madrid manager is managing the egos of star players. If Xabi Alonso struggles to create an environment where every player feels important, sooner or later Real Madrid will experience a decline in performance and find it difficult to secure victories.

If that should be Xabi Alonso plan of making one player ahead of the rest then he is killing the team spirit, Vinicius is not a player that will be submissive to such a treatment, any player handling an attacking position is relevant to score goals, there is no reason of placing a particular player ahead except from a standard number 9 which i don't see at Real Madrid.  

A team performance usually slows down when managers are selective in putting a player to be more important over the rest, we saw the reactions between Xabi and Vinicius when he was subbed off, nothing may seem to be the case because he already apologized, but slowly the relationship might not be strong on both ends, which will affect team progress.

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Who still remembers this man, he was once a formal Manchester City coach and even won the EPL with them . Currently his Real Betis coach and his come up with an idea that he thinks can bring and make the game more interesting, Pellegrini has proposed that teams should not be allowed to pass the ball backwards once the team has crossed the midfield, just as they do in basketball. It's just funny to me because, I don't see this ever being considered let alone implementing it. This is football and not basketball were a team will score more than a 100+ goals in just one match and besides they use hands to play with the ball in that sports and not their feet like in football. Seriously, to me it makes no sense.

[Ryu_Ar1]

That's right, Xabi Alonso seems to want to make Mbappe the main focal point in scoring goals, assigning Vinicius, Bellingham, Rodrygo, Arda Guler, and others to focus on providing assists for him. If that is indeed Xabi Alonso plan, then Real Madrid will clearly face difficulties whenever Mbappe is absent.
The hardest part of being Real Madrid manager is managing the egos of star players. If Xabi Alonso struggles to create an environment where every player feels important, sooner or later Real Madrid will experience a decline in performance and find it difficult to secure victories.

If that should be Xabi Alonso plan of making one player ahead of the rest then he is killing the team spirit, Vinicius is not a player that will be submissive to such a treatment, any player handling an attacking position is relevant to score goals, there is no reason of placing a particular player ahead except from a standard number 9 which i don't see at Real Madrid.  

A team performance usually slows down when managers are selective in putting a player to be more important over the rest, we saw the reactions between Xabi and Vinicius when he was subbed off, nothing may seem to be the case because he already apologized, but slowly the relationship might not be strong on both ends, which will affect team progress.

But in the end this condition must be done because after all there must be one player who needs to be used as a targetman or goal machine for them, it does not mean that in this case other players should not score goals because it clearly must be done when there is an opportunity, it's just that when there is a targetman the conditions change slightly because there are other players who must be a supplier for this.

We saw the BBC trio a few years ago where Bale and Benzema sometimes supplied Cristiano and it's a scheme Xabi would like to see implemented in the current situation.
Vini is very good but on the one hand he sometimes pushes himself too much.
Actually, this season when Xabi has used a target man or three strikers in his formation I think Vini has also been more in control although in some moments the ego to push himself still remains but we can see the change this season and last season for Vini is quite pronounced.

[GbitG]

Real Madrid seemed to have lost their spirit and confidence after two consecutive matches without scoring a goal. I found Xabi's tactics to be too pragmatic in this match, as if he was asking the players to give Mbappe every chance. Rayo Vallecano players were able to read Madrid game well, they managed to keep Mbappé at bay, resulting in very few chances for Real Madrid. Mbappe only made 1 shot throughout the match and strangely Xabi seemed to not dare to take him off, if the condition continues like this, Real Madrid will have a hard time if Mbappe and Vinicius are absent at the same time.

I already told here that this season the only player who are carrying the team by lonely is Killyan Mbappe. Without him definitely the team is nothing because whenever he didn't made any good contribution their team failed to win those match. Xabi Alonso is new here and still there is a lot of efforts that have remained for him to be put in on his team and players....

Besides that their upcoming schedule is going to be more tougher than this one and if Xabi Alonso didn't make any good stance, then definitely there is a higher possibility for him to lose the point. On the other side Barcelona is also pushing hard to get the top spot at league standings and that's why they won't be hesitate to take ahead from Real Madrid.

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Here we go again, Barcelona just smashed the opponent with an impressively pretty numerous of goals. Today match was very important for Barcelona because Real Madrid has dropped the points despite Barcelona needing to make minimal the gap. All players played super dominant, but Robert Lewandowski was extra special he just capped such a classical display even he completed a beautiful hat trick.

Some people were arguing that Barcelona has lost its momentum and definitely they will lose the match but fortunately they get the victory with big margin. Now the gap between Real Madrid has drop to 3 points like only one match they decide thet topper.

Barcelona's players are back and fit, allowing them to close the gap on points with Real Madrid. Furthermore, Real Madrid only managed to share a point in their last match against Rayo Valencia, giving Barcelona a great opportunity to narrow the gap.

Oh, and bad news for Real Madrid: once again, the club has suffered injuries to several of their top players. Following the previous reports, Valverde suffered a ruptured semimembranosus muscle in his leg, and Thibaut Courtois, their mainstay goalkeeper, also suffered an adductor longus muscle injury in his leg. Therefore, he will be absent from the national team squad.

Source: 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: Thibaut Courtois suffer INJURY to the adductor longus muscle in his leg

I do not take this information seriously tonight. When players are exhausted and trying to avoid playing more international games with their national team, this is the particular excuse the media carries out for every one to believe. I do not think he was injured after that Liverpool game and Rayo Vallecano. This club have both held Real Madrid and Barcelona this season strongly. The point gap is now four, Real Madrid has to sit up or else they will lose it.

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Real Madrid seemed to have lost their spirit and confidence after two consecutive matches without scoring a goal. I found Xabi's tactics to be too pragmatic in this match, as if he was asking the players to give Mbappe every chance. Rayo Vallecano players were able to read Madrid game well, they managed to keep Mbappé at bay, resulting in very few chances for Real Madrid. Mbappe only made 1 shot throughout the match and strangely Xabi seemed to not dare to take him off, if the condition continues like this, Real Madrid will have a hard time if Mbappe and Vinicius are absent at the same time.

I already told here that this season the only player who are carrying the team by lonely is Killyan Mbappe. Without him definitely the team is nothing because whenever he didn't made any good contribution their team failed to win those match. Xabi Alonso is new here and still there is a lot of efforts that have remained for him to be put in on his team and players....

Besides that their upcoming schedule is going to be more tougher than this one and if Xabi Alonso didn't make any good stance, then definitely there is a higher possibility for him to lose the point. On the other side Barcelona is also pushing hard to get the top spot at league standings and that's why they won't be hesitate to take ahead from Real Madrid.

Funny enough, he alone, Mbappe has scored same number of league goals as the other players combined has scored. Real Madrid has a total of 26 goals one the league and Mbappe alone has scored 13 other, that's actually 50% of the teams goals. His the point man, I get it but when he doesn't show up what happens, a draw or a loss which is something that the team doesn't need. When a team is built round a particular player this is one of the major problems it has. I like a team that even though they have a target man, other players scores as well so that when that target man is having a bad game, someone else steps in and does the needful.

[Smartvirus]

Normally Lewandowski is that one player any team across the world will be so delighted to have he's a good finisher so he's absent was indeed a big threat to the Barcelona team so he's return is in no doubt a massive one for the team, so at this point in time I will urge Real Madrid to step up their game if they are to win the Spanish LA Liga title because this time around Barcelona will go edge to edge with any team that comes their way and it's really gonna be a tough one for Real Madrid, so Xabi Alonso and his boys should be more serious in their doings else the league title will still slide them this season again.

Is he now? a striker just any team would want to have… Lewandowski as we have him today depends more on having the ball fed to him than going all the way to get the ball, run with the ball and find the net. Barcelona didn’t thrive so well when Yamal was absent from the squad and has only returned to some glory with the return of Yamal.

It was only expected that Barcelona would beat Celta no matter the odds, especially haven’t seen Real Madrid result in a draw with Rayo. Those where some good points to catch up on and it would have been mistaken should they have lost or shared points.

[mv1986]

Real Madrid seemed to have lost their spirit and confidence after two consecutive matches without scoring a goal. I found Xabi's tactics to be too pragmatic in this match, as if he was asking the players to give Mbappe every chance. Rayo Vallecano players were able to read Madrid game well, they managed to keep Mbappé at bay, resulting in very few chances for Real Madrid. Mbappe only made 1 shot throughout the match and strangely Xabi seemed to not dare to take him off, if the condition continues like this, Real Madrid will have a hard time if Mbappe and Vinicius are absent at the same time.

I already told here that this season the only player who are carrying the team by lonely is Killyan Mbappe. Without him definitely the team is nothing because whenever he didn't made any good contribution their team failed to win those match. Xabi Alonso is new here and still there is a lot of efforts that have remained for him to be put in on his team and players....

Besides that their upcoming schedule is going to be more tougher than this one and if Xabi Alonso didn't make any good stance, then definitely there is a higher possibility for him to lose the point. On the other side Barcelona is also pushing hard to get the top spot at league standings and that's why they won't be hesitate to take ahead from Real Madrid.

You have this situation with most of the great clubs. For Manchester City it is Haaland, for Bayern it is Kane, for Barcelona it is often times Yamal,  and several other teams have their key players.

Nevertheless, I would disagree that Real Madrid would be nothing without Mbappe. They wouldn't be the same of course and he is the player he is exactly because he can't be perfectly replaced, but they have several others who could take over if necessary. It won't be on the same level, but an injury of Mbappe wouldn't mean the end of the season for the whole team.

[reefsea]

Oh, and bad news for Real Madrid: once again, the club has suffered injuries to several of their top players. Following the previous reports, Valverde suffered a ruptured semimembranosus muscle in his leg, and Thibaut Courtois, their mainstay goalkeeper, also suffered an adductor longus muscle injury in his leg. Therefore, he will be absent from the national team squad.

A little surprised because Valverde who is like a robot has an injury this season and this is not the first time he has been injured after previously he was really like a robot who never felt any problems even 2 seasons in the Ancelotti era he was really irreplaceable because his endurance was really crazy. But I don't think this will be a big problem, we will have an international break first before starting the continuation of the season in the last week of November, hopefully this will not be too disturbing, especially according to some reports, there is a possibility that he will only rest for 2 weeks so this is clearly not too big a problem for Madrid and even though he is not too fit, TAA will now be able to play again and for Courtouis it seems like Lunin will get a blessing. It's just that Madrid must be more extra in this matter because the international break sometimes there are some conditions that cannot be prevented, especially injuries to players that make Madrid have to be prepared for all possibilities.

[promise444c5]

Barcelona did very well in that match, people where saying that Lewandowski is old and can't perform very well again even if he comes back from injury but he shocked everyone by his performance yesterday and again it looks like Yamal breaking up with his girlfriend was good for his career because right now his focusing more in playing better and scoring goals.

Lewandowski is an excellent striker and those who say that his performance is attributable to his age don't understand much about football, but we could say everything about Yamal, obviously this player must improve from a human point of view otherwise he won't go very far.

What don’t they understand? That he’s too young to retire or play like Halland… Everyone isn’t gifted the same way. You can’t compare him with someone else just because they’re playing better at an older age (don’t come at me, I know that’s what you meant to say).
There’s nothing bad either if we consider his age… he’s getting older. At 37, scoring goals means he still got it, but we all know we can’t expect to see the Lewandowski of 6 to 7 years ago…

[MorganaX]

Real Madrid seemed to have lost their spirit and confidence after two consecutive matches without scoring a goal. I found Xabi's tactics to be too pragmatic in this match, as if he was asking the players to give Mbappe every chance. Rayo Vallecano players were able to read Madrid game well, they managed to keep Mbappé at bay, resulting in very few chances for Real Madrid. Mbappe only made 1 shot throughout the match and strangely Xabi seemed to not dare to take him off, if the condition continues like this, Real Madrid will have a hard time if Mbappe and Vinicius are absent at the same time.

I already told here that this season the only player who are carrying the team by lonely is Killyan Mbappe. Without him definitely the team is nothing because whenever he didn't made any good contribution their team failed to win those match. Xabi Alonso is new here and still there is a lot of efforts that have remained for him to be put in on his team and players....

Besides that their upcoming schedule is going to be more tougher than this one and if Xabi Alonso didn't make any good stance, then definitely there is a higher possibility for him to lose the point. On the other side Barcelona is also pushing hard to get the top spot at league standings and that's why they won't be hesitate to take ahead from Real Madrid.

You have this situation with most of the great clubs. For Manchester City it is Haaland, for Bayern it is Kane, for Barcelona it is often times Yamal,  and several other teams have their key players.

Nevertheless, I would disagree that Real Madrid would be nothing without Mbappe. They wouldn't be the same of course and he is the player he is exactly because he can't be perfectly replaced, but they have several others who could take over if necessary. It won't be on the same level, but an injury of Mbappe wouldn't mean the end of the season for the whole team.

We can say that in real Madrid, it is basically Kylian Mbappe. But let's look at it closely, can we have a little form of believe that in real Madrid, when ever Vini. Jr is silent in a particular match, it will be difficult for Mbappe to get a good game. Whenever vinicius tends to create Chances then we will see the king in Mbappe, that is how it is. Definitely all teams have one player they can not do without and that is just the basic truth, more especially that we see in Manchester City with Eirling Haaland, as he is a premier league striker with an excellent masterclass performance.

[Renampun]

It was an impressive win for Barcelona, even though celta did kept on trying to outplay Barcelona in the first half they were not able to defeat them, this tells you how formidable they are, I don't think Madrid has what it takes to keep up their position on the board, sooner or later Barcelona is going to take over...it seems they are back to their previous form, Flick must have been working tirelessly.

Barcelona is increasingly narrowing their gap with Real Madrid, who recently failed to secure an additional point, and this gives Barcelona a huge advantage in improving their position. Lewandowski, especially after recovering recently, is playing impressively, his return has really boosted Barcelona's attack and overall confidence, and with Lewandowski back in form, the team looks sharper and this will likely make Barcelona even more of a threat to Real Madrid, who are currently in first place.

[red4slash]

What don’t they understand? That he’s too young to retire or play like Halland… Everyone isn’t gifted the same way. You can’t compare him with someone else just because they’re playing better at an older age (don’t come at me, I know that’s what you meant to say).
There’s nothing bad either if we consider his age… he’s getting older. At 37, scoring goals means he still got it, but we all know we can’t expect to see the Lewandowski of 6 to 7 years ago…

Age will always be a major issue for athletes including Lewa. Although he's still capable of scoring goals including his hat-trick in yesterday's match we can't expect much more especially considering his prime a few seasons ago.

He's still very useful, which could be a good thing especially for Barcelona right now. But that doesn't mean he can always be relied upon as his age allows him to play an active role in the rotation.
Currently if we're talking about regeneration Barcelona clearly must still consider that. However if the financial situation isn't yet conducive keeping Lewa as an option when the club is in a deadlock is not a problem although this might not last long.

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Oh, and bad news for Real Madrid: once again, the club has suffered injuries to several of their top players. Following the previous reports, Valverde suffered a ruptured semimembranosus muscle in his leg, and Thibaut Courtois, their mainstay goalkeeper, also suffered an adductor longus muscle injury in his leg. Therefore, he will be absent from the national team squad.

Source: 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: Thibaut Courtois suffer INJURY to the adductor longus muscle in his leg

Another injury and this time to the goalkeeper, it's always the defensive line part and one of them is injured again. Well I hope it's not a serious injury and hope he comes back on time. At least the club will take a week break from this because they are on international break which means no action for him with his national team side.