Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 1423. (Read 555225 times)

Girona has been doing really well in the soccer season, surprising everyone with their great performance. Even though Girona even Girona is playing perfectly, I expected Girona to win when they faced Mallorca because they are not in a total good shape, especially since the match was a Copa del Rey game. The most surprising part for me was that Mallorca actually won with a little goal margin even after giving enough goal gaps from the beginning.

 But in my opinion it still won't be that easy because to become a leader in La Liga you have to have deeper experience. even competing with popular teams in La Liga is not an easy task because popular teams have more experience with various strategies to be able to regain their position first. but I really hope there is something different this season Girona must become the leader in La Liga to see new history without the boredom of seeing every season led by a team that always dominates La Liga. Madrid for sure won't make it so easy for them and so let's anticipate how the remaining weeks of the season would turn out.

Well it looks like Girona don't really suit opponents who apply defensive schemes and they are better at facing clubs with direct attacks so they can find gaps there but when they face more defensive opponents they always struggle because they only play passive attacking but the opponent is better in defense and takes advantage of the momentum to counterattack and that's a pretty effective way to fight Girona to date because this incident is not just once but previously when facing Almeria in La Liga it was also like that.

For Barcelona they must also be equally eliminated now in the Copa Del Rey quarter-finals To be honest I am a Madrid fan and seeing them lose before and Barcelona qualify I feel a little upset but in yesterday's match Barcelona failed I don't want to be happy over Barcelona's defeat it's just that it feels even for me lol

Now it only remains to see Atletico's last match in the Copa del Rey whether they will surprisingly also lose in the match later or instead they will bulldoze Sevilla easily. I expect an interesting match here although the possibility is a little difficult to happen if you look at Sevilla's current situation which is chaotic.

Maybe if we talk about the role of a goalkeeper, Ter Stegen is the best that Barcelona has, but we also have to remember that Barcelona's defense has recently often caused problems which have resulted in opponents freely shooting towards the goal. I think here the goalkeeper is not the only cause of Barcelona's defense crisis and initially it was caused by their defenders not being strong enough in defending the defense.

Indeed, the result was unexpected and initially I quite favored Barcelona, Girona, Real Madrid and Atletico who would be in the semifinals but unfortunately now Atletico is the only team that has a big chance of winning the Copa Del Rey this season. The Wanda Metropolitano squad is the strongest of the several teams that have qualified and of course they have to prove this by beating Sevilla in today's match.

but what is happening to Xavi Barcelona? I havent been following La Liga for a while due to lack of time
I come back and find a totally new and unexpected situation
I am afraid that if this trend continues, after all the money spent, Xavi might be fired because no result isnt good (in this season)

As you said, football is full of surprises. As a result, two teams were favorites and they were both eliminated, two surprising results. I think many people were wrong in their predictions in these matches. Mallarca has worn out Girona with the goals scored consecutively. Maybe there has not been another team that has been able to do this this season.

Girona seems to be a bit shaky, but I think they will recover, it seems difficult for them to experience a complete decline. At least now they can focus better on the league and use the opportunity to cover their shortcomings and see.

We are putting more expectations on Girona, and that is why many people see it as shock when Mallorca defeated Girona yesterday. I also expected Girona to win the game, but I did not have high expectations for them to win the game because it was another competition, assuming it was a La Liga competition. Now I will say I was much disappointed because the effort they are putting in may not be worth losing to a weak team. In fact, football is full of surprises. We have many times when weak teams have always defeated the strong team at the moment, so I was not that surprised yesterday.sofar Girona is still performing well laliga I see nothing bad in giving up in Copa del Rey and to focus more on laliga competition.

Too much pressure on Xavi Hernandez and he knows he has to win to remain at the top of the league top four clubs shooting for the Champions League football next season.
They've done well though if not for the lose against Real Madrid and also yesterday night. The La Liga fixtures are important and they have taken em seriously.

Xavi Hernandez already knows he'll have to leave or to be sacked if him and his staffs cannot work hard and smart to finish in a competitive position at the end of the season.
Barcelona anyways needs a new defensive midfielder and it's been a position affecting them game after game.

When we really blame Barcelona for the defeat in the 120 minute drama, then we automatically ignore how well Bilbao anticipated Barcelona's game. Bilbao played defensively using counter attacks, this is what made it very difficult for Barcelona to win the match, which also caused Barcelona to concede 2 goals in normal time.

Barcelona failed to find more shooting space than Bilbao, but Barcelona was quite effective in building attacks. Lamine Yamal and Lewandowski scored 1 goal each, but I really regret that Lamine Yamal really wasted a goal opportunity to win the match. I don't blame Xavi for this defeat, but maybe you are right that Ferran Torres should be replaced by Joao Felix instead of Lewandowski. Raphinha, Joao Cancelo and Ter Steigen's injuries meant Barcelona failed to qualify for the semi-finals, but Barcelona tried and I respect that.



You are right, Xavi is really having trouble finding replacement players for his best squad. The storm of injuries his squad has endured has seen them suffer so far, while several other players appear to be lacking in consistent performance. I admit Lamine Yamal has improved, but he needs to be able to improve his finishing especially when he has good chances one vs one with the goalkeeper.

In essence, this season there is no chance for Barcelona to win titles in all competitions even though indeed, at this moment Barcelona is still in third place in the La Liga standings . But yes,still, the fact is that Barcelona is a team that cannot be consistent this season even though yes, basically Barcelona also still has good players in its main squad. But indeed, it seems that this season the Barcelona squad has also experienced a decline in performance and thus, it is difficult for them to get stable results in each of these matches and it is a difficult problem to overcome quickly for Barcelona this season.

Here I am not agreed about this argument that Barcelona will face problems for staying into top four because most chances they will be stayed at the third spot because things are not bad as few are thinking about this all they are capable of having better results in this season even they are facing some problems due to their finances but on ground they are still having good players which can bring them to the good spot with their quality and consistency.

Xavi is also currently the right man for this job because he understands how to manage things and have better results from these limited sources and few players are having problems, but things can take positive change, and they can do good at coming matches.

I wouldn't say "greatly", I think they are worse that's true, but I think they are also trying something new. The amount of games they had with players under 20 years old is greater this season compared to last season as well. Meaning, they are trying to get their own talent instead of looking for it outside, and spending much less money this way.

And I agree, this came with a lot of trouble, but these kids need to grow up and learn, they can't just start being awesome on the first day, not everyone is like Messi. So, given enough time, I think Barcelona will not only spend less, but they will be a better team as well. They just need some time, and they do not have that at the moment but they are trying their very best to do it.

Barcelona haven't been successful after Messi and it doesn't look like they will be. Barcelona need to find a revolutionary coach like Guardiola and put him in charge of the team. Barca can't be the space team they used to be for a long time because they can't produce players from the youth system and because they make ridiculous transfers.
Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Puyol, Pique. Barcelona have almost no players similar to these names in the team. Yes, even Lewandowski is not a player like those names in this team, unfortunately. Watching today's Barcelona team after watching space football with Messi is like having a tasteless dinner. I also enjoyed following Barcelona before Messi. Before Messi, we watched players like El Fenomeno, Ronaldinho, Henry, Eto'o, Deco, Figo, Rivaldo, Koeman, Glves, Suarez. Messi time was already the peak years. After Messi, the team is officially suffering.

To this point, Barcelona have shown alot of consistency in their matches and just like the last season their will definitely break records in this season, because with the current standings and games recorded it shows that the next couple of gamesay be a good walk through for the club and if everything being Equal, we are going to see more winngs for club in the next couple of matches, this can easily be traced and tracked with the kind of teams that are lining up against the club.

When it comes to consistency, Barcelona have become more consistent lately and this is going to lead to them breaking the record that they failed to break innlast season laliga.

I just laughed a little remembering someone very confidently saying that Girona or Barcelona would win the Copa Del Rey title after Real Madrid were eliminated but in fact all of that was ruined by the surprise that happened.

It was unexpected to see these two popular teams lose in yesterday's match, even though the opponents they faced could actually have been defeated, but who knows what the goals of these two teams were, there must have been something that pushed them not to compete optimally.
we can see Girona performance against Mallorca in the 60+ minute. Raillo Arenas got a red card and he is Mallorca defender and this means that in the 60+ minute is Girona opportunity to score more to beat Mallorca and move on to the next round. but the fact is that after the Mallorca player received a red card, Girona was unable to break into Mallorca goal and was only able to score 2 scores.
and Barcelona, I understand the situation because it was the lack of players that caused Barcelona to not be able to survive for long because in extra time Barcelona conceded 2 scores while Barcelona reserve players were not able to compete strongly and I saw that Barcelona looked very tired.
but I really like seeing Lamine Yamal performance as a young player who has tried to give a really great performance.

It's a very natural thing, if you say something like that.  Even if we refer to H2H meetings between these two teams in the Copa del Rey competition, Barcelona has suffered two defeats at the hands of Bilbao. in fact, if I refer to match statistics, Barcelona played quite well.  despite the fact that Hector Fort, as Balde's replacement due to a suspected injury, played underperformed. Likewise with Pau Cubarsi, who replaced Christensen in the 70th minute. he didn't play bad, but he didn't play well either. apart from that, in this match Ferran Torres could barely move like when Barcelona played Betis in the previous match in La Liga. for other Barcelona players, their performance was less than optimal although not too bad, only De Jong and Lewandowski played quite consistently in 90 minutes of normal time. as for Lamine Yamal, his talent and potential are starting to really develop. Raphina's absence gave him playing minutes and showed the skills he had. Maybe if Xavi had withdrawn Ferran Torres, instead of Lewandiwski being replaced by Joao Felix, the situation and results could have been different. but what is certain is that it will be up to Xavi to decide because he is in charge of Barcelona.

Talking about Bilbao, Barcelona dominates ball possession with 61%. But in terms of opportunities, Bilbao has more opportunities. Previously, I said that Barcelona's defense was really problematic. Moreover, several injured players such as Cancelo, Alonso and other experienced substitutes. so, Xavi doesn't have many options to play with several young players. as a result, Barcelona's defense was not very good. IMO, based on my point of view, if the goalkeeper was Ter Stegen, the situation that Inaki Pena faced when conceding the goal, could probably have been blocked if the main goalkeeper had not been injured. well, what can I say, the fact is that Barcelona was eliminated even though they had worked hard in that match. I can only hope that in La Liga Barcelona will perform better than usual. and hopefully, Ter Stegen will make progress in recovering from his injury.

If you remove the statistics on ball possession, it turns out that Athletic dominated. In the Super Cup, Real beat Barcelona by a similar advantage, Girona beat Barcelona at the Camp Nou - in fact, Barcelona this season is an ordinary average club. They cannot win even where there is an opportunity and it is extremely necessary to do this, because having missed both cups, Barcelona finds itself in a situation where they will have a season without a single title. It seems the only intrigue regarding Barcelona this season is who will be appointed instead of Xavi.

I see it too, on the one hand, Xavi is required to always be able to provide victory for his fleet, but on the other hand, Xavi is not supported by the depth of the squad that he expected. Apart from that, the defeat against Bilbao was indeed a disaster for Barcelona, because that is the competition where Barcelona has a better chance, so as not to end the season without a title. Now everything seems difficult, their chances of retaining the La Liga trophy are also very low, as are their chances of winning the UCL trophy.

I think if Barcelona continues to experience downturns then Xavi will choose to resign, because I'm sure Barcelona management will not fire him on the side, they still respect their own legend. Xavi still has to improve his defensive line, don't concede four goals in one match, that is the main job that must be found a solution. I also didn't expect Bilbao to be able to appear so pressing, they managed to exploit the opportunities and weaknesses of Barcelona defense well, especially by playing long balls.

Now as we have league table difference between Real Madrid and Barcelona is seven points which is surely not easy and between Girona & Real Madrid difference is one point with one match in hand of Real Madrid but in coming four weeks we will have can they stay at the top, or we will have changes because next game against Las Palmas away and then Getafe away which are crucial and against Atlético Madrid and Girona at home will give us all view about this season.

Even I have feeling most chances they will hold these all teams and stay at the top but still we can expect any change which could be surely brought tough challenges at the top of the league table for the title race which is now between Girona and Real Madrid.

Poor performance was recorded, and if they want to win matches, they should enhance their stands. The performance of an elite team is determined by its players; if a player is not in good shape, the team's performance declines. Xavi Hernandez is confronting paramount challenges; he should handle them with good intentions because there is no time on their end. Barcelona is not in the same form as the previous season; a lot has changed, and they are suffering as a result of the new top challengers which the board have failed to noticed and solved.

One by one their hopes of winning a trophy this season fell, now they have to be eliminated from the Copa del Rey after losing to Atletico Bilbao. Barcelona is not as good as last season, this season they seem to be declining again after last season they managed to become champions in La Liga.
This is homework for Xavi Hernandez because his team is slowly fading and he must be able to quickly overcome this so that it doesn't decline even worse. I understand that he was hampered by several problems during his time as coach at Barcelona, not to mention when management urged Xavi to give his best, on the other hand they did not support and did not fulfill what Xavi needed to be able to make Barcelona what they wanted. This seemed like a backfire for Xavi because he was between two big pressures.