La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2025/26

[cande86]

In the end, when we are seeing Real play like this, that becomes even bigger issue, like yeah they won and they should be happy, but they are also confusing because if they can play this good, then why the hell they lost so many points at the league then?

the real madrid game i don't know what it represents, the most total chaos, they don't have a logical thread, these are certainly results due to the poor preparation they had in general, now they have to try to maintain this line, which seems to give excellent results, we are seeing a return.

[Futurexxx]

In the end, when we are seeing Real play like this, that becomes even bigger issue, like yeah they won and they should be happy, but they are also confusing because if they can play this good, then why the hell they lost so many points at the league then?

The main reason why they perform so well against Manchester City was very clear and visible for all to see, because Manchester City is team that always want to be in possession of the ball, and because the strength of this real madrid team relies mostly on counter attacks, led by vinicius junior, so it was very easy to counter attack this Manchester City side, unlike most teams in the Spanish laliga that will seat back and wait for real madrid to do most of the attacking, so that they can serve them their own medicine.
And we all can confirm that real madrid always struggles to break down defense that seat back and defend very deep, so that is the main reason they have dropped so many points in the Spanish laliga this season.

[BlackBoss_]

In the end, when we are seeing Real play like this, that becomes even bigger issue, like yeah they won and they should be happy, but they are also confusing because if they can play this good, then why the hell they lost so many points at the league then?

They have their quality and strong mentality so during times when they were considered as weaker than usual or weaker than their opponents, they are still able to make big surprise. This season in Champions League is still far to the final match but the big win against strong Manchester City yesterday reminds me a season when Real Madrid beat Bayern Munich in like semi final, then win the title eventually with some amazing matches from Nicolas Anelka.

It's 1999 - 2000 season and Anelka scored in both matches with Bayern Munich and see how he did that. Real Madrid don't lack of quality players and drama but they know how to win big titles like Champions League.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Anelka

However, in March, he was suspended by club president Lorenzo Sanz after refusing to train, because of a disagreement with head coach Vicente del Bosque.[43] After returning to the team,[44] Anelka scored in both legs of the Champions League semi-final to give Los Blancos a 3–2 aggregate victory over Bayern Munich and advance to the competition final.[45][46][47][48] He started in the final, held at the Stade de France in his home city of Paris, as Real Madrid ran out 3–0 winners over Valencia to win an eighth European Cup

[Velvet78]

Real Madrid reminded everyone who they are in the Champions League this week. But they’ll probably go back to being terrible in the league again. Then, they’ll turn into monsters in the Champions League once more. Am I wrong?

It is the truth that they have been struggling with their game in the La Liga. The way they lost to Getafe and winning barely against Celta is more than enough proof for that...

However I really liked them against Manchester City despite their missing important names. Maybe this was a sign for them to get better in the La Liga too.

Still not easy to be consistent with this injury list but I think they will beat Elche home tomorrow.

[giorgione]

But according to the current situation, Manchester City is performing poorly, and it is never possible to reduce the gap between Real Madrid and them with this performance. As a result, Real Madrid will reign stronger and more influential.

in my opinion they are committed precisely because they have a lot to prove, this is a very important thing, in my opinion they have a pact that they sign with the club, because the commitment is much more than what seems crazy in the league, perhaps they are concentrating more in Europe, because they see that they have more possibilities

[Princess Leah]

In the end, when we are seeing Real play like this, that becomes even bigger issue, like yeah they won and they should be happy, but they are also confusing because if they can play this good, then why the hell they lost so many points at the league then?

The main reason why they perform so well against Manchester City was very clear and visible for all to see, because Manchester City is team that always want to be in possession of the ball, and because the strength of this real madrid team relies mostly on counter attacks, led by vinicius junior, so it was very easy to counter attack this Manchester City side, unlike most teams in the Spanish laliga that will seat back and wait for real madrid to do most of the attacking, so that they can serve them their own medicine.
And we all can confirm that real madrid always struggles to break down defense that seat back and defend very deep, so that is the main reason they have dropped so many points in the Spanish laliga this season.

I don't know if Pep would continue to manage Manchester City after this season but I think he needs to come up with a new strategy cause he's been exposed and always get messed up by teams that rely on counter attacks, similar thing happened when they met Manchester United during the early stage when Carrick came in.

 Now it's happened again against Real Madrid, which means other managers could switch to counter attacks and beat them, they should've learnt from past experience on how to handle teams that mostly rely on counter attacks.

[m4r1o]

Real madrid performed incredibly well against real madrid yesterday. Honestly, I did not expect Madrid to play so well without Mbappe. But Valverde changed the whole scenario of the match. Valverde's hat-trick in  the first half gave Madrid a 3-0 lead. All three goals were impressive. Madrid would have won 4-0  if Vinicius hadn't missed the penalty.

yes these teams are incredible and everyone knows it, what Real Madrid are doing is incredible, i must say that they have performed very well, now even without mbappe they are playing perfectly and this is very important, this ensures that there is more and more awareness on the part of the team to do well.

[Tmoonz]

Real Madrid reminded everyone who they are in the Champions League this week. But they’ll probably go back to being terrible in the league again. Then, they’ll turn into monsters in the Champions League once more. Am I wrong?

It is the truth that they have been struggling with their game in the La Liga. The way they lost to Getafe and winning barely against Celta is more than enough proof for that...

However I really liked them against Manchester City despite their missing important names. Maybe this was a sign for them to get better in the La Liga too.

Still not easy to be consistent with this injury list but I think they will beat Elche home tomorrow.

Yes definitely they will beat Elche comes tomorrow match because i strongly believe this win against Manchester city will somehow boost their confidence from now, i think they wont feel the absence of the injured players that much this time because they will go into any match with same confidence and same mentality because beating Manchester city three goals to nothing is not really an easy task so they will definitely go into any match with such mindset till the expected key players are back from injury then they will pick up from there and go toe to toe with Barcelona in the league.

[Cryptmuster]

Yes definitely they will beat Elche comes tomorrow match because i strongly believe this win against Manchester city will somehow boost their confidence from now, i think they wont feel the absence of the injured players that much this time because they will go into any match with same confidence and same mentality because beating Manchester city three goals to nothing is not really an easy task so they will definitely go into any match with such mindset till the expected key players are back from injury then they will pick up from there and go toe to toe with Barcelona in the league.

The match against City showed that Real’s defense is getting better, this isn’t surprising, because many players who were injured have returned to the squad. The fact that they managed to score three goals is also a very good sign, showing that the absence of several key players, including Mbappe and Rodrygo, doesn’t greatly affect their attacking potential. Besides that, they still have Vinícius and Garcia, and these guys also know how to score well. I also think that even players from the midfield are quite involved in the attack, so I believe they should beat Elche. Especially since they need to win to keep their distance from Barcelona.

[Nheer]

Real madrid performed incredibly well against real madrid yesterday. Honestly, I did not expect Madrid to play so well without Mbappe. But Valverde changed the whole scenario of the match. Valverde's hat-trick in  the first half gave Madrid a 3-0 lead. All three goals were impressive. Madrid would have won 4-0  if Vinicius hadn't missed the penalty.

yes these teams are incredible and everyone knows it, what Real Madrid are doing is incredible, i must say that they have performed very well, now even without mbappe they are playing perfectly and this is very important, this ensures that there is more and more awareness on the part of the team to do well.

No one expected Real Madrid to perform that good against Manchester City so everyone including their fans was surprised, we don't know how they did it but they did well and won with a huge margin so it's all that matters. They've been struggling in games and without Mbappe we didn't expect them to be able score as many goals but they got lucky that someone was able to stand up and take things in his hands. Valverde was the star of the match, he single handedly destroyed Manchester City.

Now that they have won the first leg I think this is even when it's gets difficult because Manchester City will want to equalize when Madrid visits their home so this the time Madrid need to work the hardest so they don't let City turn things around.

Win this mentality now I think it should be enough for Madrid to take on their next opponent in La Liga and continue their title challenge.

[bastisisca]

I'm not surprised that Real Madrid performed well in the Champions League, as they have the strongest Champions League tradition. I hope their performance against Manchester City can be maintained in La Liga, especially since Real Madrid is in a title race with Barcelona. But honestly, I think Real Madrid's performance against Manchester City in the Champions League was their best match of the season, especially since the change of manager.

It was a match i wasn't expecting, i was predicting Manchester City would win, i don't know what happened in that match, a sort of mad fervor, something clicked in the Real Madrid players who practically dominated the match, and then Valverde, unleashed!

[Adiljutt156]

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Honestly,, I didn't expect Madrid to win so decisively in this match. Because initially in the first leg, I thought Real Madrid would only be able to win by a narrow margin or even a draw. But it turns out Real Madrid was able to prove that in this match they are capable of playing well. Besides,, I was also quite impressed with Valverde because he was the one who scored three goals in this match for Real Madrid. So I think it was a truly excellent match from Real Madrid.

So with this,, Real Madrid has very high hopes of being able to advance to the next round. However,, Real Madrid should not be satisfied yet, because in the second leg, Manchester City could turn things around if Real Madrid performs poorly. Therefore, Real Madrid must continue to perform well in the upcoming second leg. Because even though Real Madrid is currently quite far ahead, but in the UCL sometimes nothing is impossible. Therefore,, I think now is not the time to be happy for Real Madrid, because their struggle is not over.

Real Madrid football team performance was great against Manchester City football team because they did back to back 3 goals in this match and opponent team did no goal in this match. That match was organized in the Estadio Bernabeu, Madrid and one player was top performer in this match because he did back to back 3 goals in this match. Valverde did first goal of the match and he did this goal at 20 minutes of the match which gave confidence to their team members to do back to back goals in this match. Valverde did second goal at 27 minutes of the match And did third goal at 42 minutes of the match when that was near to end of the match. Manchester City football team should try risk but they didn't try that and they could not do any goal in this match.

[Sarah Azhari]

Real Madrid reminded everyone who they are in the Champions League this week. But they’ll probably go back to being terrible in the league again. Then, they’ll turn into monsters in the Champions League once more. Am I wrong?

It is the truth that they have been struggling with their game in the La Liga. The way they lost to Getafe and winning barely against Celta is more than enough proof for that...

However I really liked them against Manchester City despite their missing important names. Maybe this was a sign for them to get better in the La Liga too.

Still not easy to be consistent with this injury list but I think they will beat Elche home tomorrow.

Yes definitely they will beat Elche comes tomorrow match because i strongly believe this win against Manchester city will somehow boost their confidence from now, i think they wont feel the absence of the injured players that much this time because they will go into any match with same confidence and same mentality because beating Manchester city three goals to nothing is not really an easy task so they will definitely go into any match with such mindset till the expected key players are back from injury then they will pick up from there and go toe to toe with Barcelona in the league.

Real Madrid will easily win against Elche, especially since they're playing at home and the Real Madrid players are in good form. I expect Arbeloa to employ the same tactics against Elche. There's no need to rotate players, as Real Madrid desperately needs the three points to stay close to Barcelona in the La Liga title race. If Real Madrid plays like they did against Manchester City against Elche, they could potentially win by another big scoreline against Elche.

[changaa]

Real Madrid definitely has positive points here because they won the first match by a large margin, so if they can hold on to the second match and perform properly, they will definitely be able to defeat Manchester City. Because in the current situation, Manchester City is under a lot of pressure, so they will have to be the most aggressive to exert their influence.
But according to the current situation, Manchester City is performing poorly, and it is never possible to reduce the gap between Real Madrid and them with this performance. As a result, Real Madrid will reign stronger and more influential.

the match certainly has some negative sides on the part of manchester city who didn't manage to do much, i agree with you, they will have to be much more aggressive than that, but they didn't do much, in fact when they were under pressure they didn't manage to do very well and they got 3 good goals, this shouldn't happen.

[HustleZ]

Manchester City football team should try risk but they didn't try that and they could not do any goal in this match.

It seems like you are not that Familiar with football are you?? How could Manchester City have risked and Scored goals?? Do you mean they should have left the defense and all the team should've went and sat beside the goal?? It isn't like that my friend. Real Madrid was not expected to win but Valverde suddenly came out like Prime Benzema and Scored A hattrick. The game started very aggressively but real Madrid got The upper Hand and got the hold of the Game, they would've Scored 5 goals if Vini didn't miss the penalty and a chance in front of the goal. At the start of the second half Mancity had a few chances but pressure got to them and they couldn't score. Overall Madrid were better and no risk could've made Man City score goals.

[Pandu Geddon]

the match certainly has some negative sides on the part of manchester city who didn't manage to do much, i agree with you, they will have to be much more aggressive than that, but they didn't do much, in fact when they were under pressure they didn't manage to do very well and they got 3 good goals, this shouldn't happen.

Playing aggressively at the beginning of the match to create many opportunities is indeed a choice that Man City must make. But it is not without risk. When they press aggressively, their defensive line will open up. That gap could be exploited by Madrid players, which would certainly trouble Man City's defenders. Besides, it will not be easy to force Madrid to play defensively. They are a strong team that also has advantages in the midfield and attack.

[Razmirraz]

In the end, when we are seeing Real play like this, that becomes even bigger issue, like yeah they won and they should be happy, but they are also confusing because if they can play this good, then why the hell they lost so many points at the league then?

the real madrid game i don't know what it represents, the most total chaos, they don't have a logical thread, these are certainly results due to the poor preparation they had in general, now they have to try to maintain this line, which seems to give excellent results, we are seeing a return.

It's been hard to predict Real Madrid recent form, as they've often struggled against weaker teams in La Liga, but they outperformed expectations when they beat Man City in the Champions League. The defeat to Getafe left them four points behind Barcelona, ​​and there's no reason for them to drop points against Elche. The winning spirit in the Champions League must be maintained in La Liga to continue to put pressure on Barcelona. In addition, after this game, Madrid will again face Man City in the second leg of the UCL and in the next game Arbeloa must prepare his best squad to face Atletico Madrid.
Real Madrid's revival is faced with a busy schedule and injury problems for several key players. They must always perform optimally to maintain their chances of winning La Liga and the Champions League.

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it looks like la liga is one of the top five leagues where the champion is about to be decided. real madrid had some advantages in previous instances when they were trailing and held out hope for a comeback, but i think right now the team cares more about the champions league than la liga. after winning the first leg 3-0 against manchester city, we can say real madrid has secured a spot in the quarterfinals; it now looks likely they’ll face bayern munich, and advancing from there would, in my opinion, be easier than winning la liga. they’ve done this before. my favorite for the league title was barcelona at the start of the season, and it still is.

[cande86]

Madrid met a weak opposition in Manchester City, because from the start of the game it was clear that, Manchester City were going to lose the game. The truth is that Manchester City is managing to finish the season on a good so they can't play any competitive game like madrid.There were several opportunities that city should have scored but  City was sluggish and unenspired to play the from my own point of view.But Madrid should also double effort and try and get good results in the domestic league if they are to win the laliga this season because, the competition between Madrid and Barcelona is quite tough this season.

real madrid pushed themselves to tell the truth at a very high level, this is what great teams do when they face another great team, they didn't give up on themselves, on the contrary they played a great match right from the start, and i must say that it went very well too, so they can continue like this

[cxtreenal]

Real Madrid will easily win against Elche, especially since they're playing at home and the Real Madrid players are in good form. I expect Arbeloa to employ the same tactics against Elche. There's no need to rotate players, as Real Madrid desperately needs the three points to stay close to Barcelona in the La Liga title race. If Real Madrid plays like they did against Manchester City against Elche, they could potentially win by another big scoreline against Elche.

Real Madrid won against Man City it is true but they did not play well in the match. Real Madrid match against Elche looks like a tough match but you cannot say for sure which team will win before the result. Especially in the case of Real Madrid you have to think differently because just as there is no guarantee that they will win, there is also no guarantee that they will lose. Arbeloa is using tactics and the hero of the match against Man City was midfielder Valverde. It is wrong to expect him to play well in every match. It will be very challenging for Real Madrid to win until Mbappé recovers from injury and joins the team. Real Madrid will have an advantage in that aspect against a weak opponent like Elche.