Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 1549. (Read 552367 times)

But I expect Atletico Madrid to start the poker game now and to get him for a rather cheap price. Why should they commit to a long term contract with a player that ones wanted to leave them and now asks for a long term contract with a high salary? His age isn't the best anymore to ask for royal contracts. I believe that this will backfire during the next negotiations for him.

Competing in several tournaments can be detrimental when players are injured, but it can also be profitable because they will have the opportunity to win a title, If they fail in other competitions there are still other competitions, but it is also very possible to fail in all of them.
Barcelona's first match after the holiday is against Las Palmas, a promoted team that has performed quite well so far by being able to occupy 9th position in the standings, and Barcelona is still the favorite in this match although they may get bad results which are not they expected, and in a few days compete in the Copa del Rey and then compete in the Spanish Super Cup and in LaLiga they will face Real Betis team who managed to hold their tough opponents to a draw when competing at the Benito Villamarín Stadium so Barcelona need to be wary of a draw which will make it even more difficult for them to remain competitors for champion title.

That's bad news and barcelona needs to use alternative player to replace him. I think that barcelona's performance will still far from good. I meant that if the fact that barcelona will be trying so hard to win the game in the spanish super cup. This is the momentum for the club to get at least 1 trophy this season. The winter transfer season is just giving barcelona another pressure caused by there will be a lot of offers to come. It will make some players to leave from the club which will be affecting the performance from barcelona.

I guess that if xavi may be taking available player or even force someone to play in pedri's position. Pedri will be out from the club too but barcelona is not having good replacement for him at this moment.
No doubt that if barcelona is trying so hard in getting the new players to come soon. Barcelona is going to face another crisis if the club was not willing to get a backup for pedri. Another problem is coming for barcelona once some leave from the club as free agent.

The team that is a bit troublesome at the moment is Girona, this club is able to put quite a lot of pressure on the standings when compared to its arch rival Barcelona but still Barcelona and Atletico Madrid remain strong rivals of Real Madrid from season to season and this season Real Madrid must add Girona is on the list of clubs that are Real Madrid's strong rivals in the race for the La Liga title. Real Madrid's experience in La Liga cannot be underestimated, it remains a tough competitor for other clubs.

Even though many Real Madrid players have suffered injuries, in reality Real Madrid is still able to stabilize its performance and remain at the top of the standings, unlike Barcelona which is very influential in losing several players due to injury so that Barcelona cannot stabilize its performance like Real Madrid. The strongest competition for the title there are Real Madrid and Girona clubs, but if you look at the experience and depth of the squad, Real Madrid is superior, but if Girona is able to perform more consistently than Real Madrid, I think Girona has a chance of getting the title.

several teams below Real Madrid have not been able to compete with the strength of Ancelotti troops, it's just that some of these teams have become challengers or made it difficult for Madrid to maintain the top of the standings. even though several players are injured, we all know that Ancelotti has no shortage of players, even reserve players who have the same performance as the main players, such as Joselu, who has replaced Vinicius several times, can perform well, making a very strong contribution and even being able to score in several matches and match times against Alaves at that time, they only competed with the available players after Nacho was forced to leave the field because he received a red card but was still able to win.
this means that no matter how bad the situation is, this team is still able to continue to be at the top of the standings using reserve players.

If Vinicius is not injured and Real Madrid succeeds in bringing in a reliable striker, Girona will definitely be eliminated quickly because in fact, Girona is not a strong team, they just have luck because they take advantage of the situation when the top teams are focusing on the UCL and we'll see later, I'm sure the UCL will be there. get by Madrid and also the La Liga title.

Barcelona have more fixtures scheduled. They competed in La Liga, UCL, Copa del Rey, and Super copa de espana. This means that Barcelona players are prone to injury and fatigue. Xavi has a vital role in players, indeed player injuries are not wanted by every coach and player. But Xavi actually needs to be able to manage. Manage playing minutes, so that they are not tired and easily injured. This is what Xavi did not do in some piriodes. Xavi continues to play his best players, even he does not reduce their minutes.

Antoine Griezmann offered Atletico Madrid a new contract extension because he had learned from the experience of moving to Barcelona. He is aware that it is very difficult to adapt to another club and there is no guarantee that he will be able to enter the first team if he moves from Atletico. He is currently 32 years old, at that age it is very difficult for him to find a club like Atletico. He is trying to save his career and wants to continue playing in the highest caste at an older age. There he can also play more comfortably because he often has the trust of the coach, this may not be possible at other clubs, especially since he will soon be 33 years old.

Barcelona did lose a club-friendly recently. But I don't care about that, probably some people do though. But friendlies are not competitive so I personally don't care. But the current position of Barcelona is definitely very concerning. Because I don't think that they are doing well enough to successfully retain the title. I don't think they will be actually able to defend the title properly, to be honest. Already 7 point difference with the 1st placed team. It is going to be very hard to close that gap. And considering the fact that they are not performing well right now I think it will make their time harder.

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He made his best in Atletico Madrid and lost it after moving to Barcelona. It takes him some months to reclaim his best after returning to Atletico Madrid. He is still lucky enough because he is able do it before he is old enough and his career falls to its down side.

His career actually is revived since World Cup 2022 where he played very well for his national team. It is a booster for Griezman to come back stronger in this season and become a most important player in Atletico Madrid again as he was years ago.

I believe he actually learned a big lesson and he is smart and experienced enough to avoid any similar adventure. He does know that he is no longer to take more risk for his career and it seems he will satisfy to continue his career in Atletico Madrid until a day he retires there or the club no longer need him and he has to find a new and smaller club to play.

I think such comparisons can be a bit tricky; they depend on various factors like the current squad of Real Madrid. How is their playing style, and which player's adaptation will be more suitable for the team? In theory, looking at statistics can give us a general idea, but in reality, when the player is on the field, integrating with the team is a whole different story. And, of course, the coach would know better than us; perhaps Ancelotti already has an answer. However, bringing either one of the two would also depend on negotiations by the leadership as well as the personal choice of the player.

They're both excellent coach but we have the top and the inferior when it comes to winning major trophies. Out of the picture if you compare Carlo Ancelotti with Pep Guardiola because Pep is a genius and a piece of workload for Manchester City. He's presence have saved and upgraded the performance of the club, the Manchester City we're hearing today is because of the setting of Pep Guardiola. The board didn't make any mistake by making Pep Guardiola the manager few years back and they're now seeing the evidence of the club.

Even though Xavi does his best, the opportunities he has are more limited than his rivals. That's why I can't be angry at Xavi. This will be a very difficult process for Barcelona. Injuries affect them more than other teams because they cannot replace important players.

I believe he has learned his lesson when he went to Barcelona. It didn't go very well for him there. Supposedly he realized that Atletico is the club he should stay at in order to play his best. When I saw that he is going to transfer to Barcelona, I was quite positive about it and thought he should get along there, but it wasn't that great. Now is playing well and scoring a decent number of goals. If I were him and soon turning 33 years old, I would as well try to get a new contract with a few years duration.

Antoine Griezmann the superstar player of Atletico Marid offered himself to sign a new contract with his team because he wanted to expect his contract for a longer time. It seems Antoine Griezmann is interested in staying in Atletico Madrid for a longer time, Antoine Griezmann has been playing for Atletico Madrid since 2014 and he just left Atletico Madrid for Barcelona for 2 years in 2019 when he came back he tried to do his beat for his team.

Soon Barcelona should play in the Spanish Super Cup tournament and that is a piece of bad news for this team before the game they are going to have against. Perdtri is injured in Barcelona and he can't play for his team against Osasuna in this tournament. He will probably get back in the good form and the end of January to at start of April and this can put Xavi and Barcelona under more pressure.

Ancellotti is actually a genius you can't judge him with experience else then I would like to ask you were is Rafael Benitez and some old folks who have had enough experience. Sorry Ancellotti is a genius and he is better than Jose Mourinho who I won't really classify among some others, He has always done excellently well in every team he coach while at the moment no coach is better than Pep he is the only coach to compete with him, Zidane work under him before he did became the official coach of Real Madrid and we saw the record he set. You just can't put him off because of the title I guess Pep will accept the fact that winning the champions league is actually more difficult than winning league titles

It will be easier if Barcelona has enough money to sign good defenders. I think the current defenders of Barcelona isn't as strong as the previous season. No, the defense problem won't be solved although Barcelona attackers score many goals or Lewandowski can perform in his best form again. They may score many goals but if they are conceded more goals, it will be useless. Barcelona current problem in defense is in the left back and goalkeeper. They need new players on this positions.

I think Barcelona players have no problem with mentality. Xavi has enough capability to improve the mentality of the players. For the squad quality, it can't be instantly solved by improving the mentality of the players only.

Real Betis has tried hard to keep getting points because they know that Girona is not an easy opponent to beat, and luckily, in the last minute, Germán Pezzella managed to score a goal and make the result end in a draw, so that in this match no one lost and both got points in the standings. Luckily, Girona didn't use their full strength to beat Real Betis, because I'm sure Girona considers small teams to still get extra points because they tried hard and showed appreciation by ending the match with a draw.

When a major club's star players are absent in matches because of injuries it might knock them from the top spot to a lower one, which can completely ruin a squad. Fortunately, Ancelotti has good player management skills, so it won't be obvious that the injured players are having an impact on the team's output. Real Madrid had several of its star players sidelined due to injury, but they shouldn't be too concerned because many of them will return to the field in January to play for the team together with the new players they will bring in during the January transfer window.

the point is that real madrid has 18 games and only one defeat despite having most of its good players injured while the other teams that are in their normal state are playing with their best players and have not been able to achieve good results, now Let's imagine if Real Madrid were playing with their best players? see that real madrid is not only doing well in the league, they are also doing well in the european champions league even though they are in these unfavorable conditions due to the many injured players they have. If it were other teams, they would have already dropped many positions in the table and would not have been able to progress to another stage in the European Champions League.

but thanks to the good coach of real madrid, he managed to bring good results even in these conditions of many injuries, but he only managed to have these good results because the real madrid squad has always been made up of good players including substitute players, like real madrid There is a squad that has been together for many seasons, it makes the coach's job a lot easier, the players already have great synchronization in their passes, even if a certain player in a certain position is injured, the player he replaces from that position already has a lot of affinity with others players, so not much changes on the field in terms of performance.

Barcelona had managed to do exactly that in the years 2005 to 2013, they had a squad that hardly changed much, but today Barcelona keeps removing players and adding new ones constantly, they don't have a base squad over the years that has already created a great synchronization between players, this is visible on the field. Atlético Madrid and another team with a very poor quality squad. I don't know the Girona squad because honestly I didn't pay attention to this team and I don't know how they are still at the top until now. but it is true to say that this season real madrid will be champions