Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 1675. (Read 532224 times)

Carlo Ancelotti's new formation since the start of the season that allows Real Madrid to play with four midfielders and two attackers has really worked for the club but I know that as the season continues, it might not gonna be helpful in some matches especially when they're playing against strong opponents just like we saw against Sevilla during their weekend's game in the Spanish La Liga.
Jude Bellingham who's been playing the false 9 role isn't a striker and that's why Madrid as a matter of urgency must try and sign a world class striker in the January transfer window in other to be able to score goals.

I agree, Because even if we consider Athletic Bilbao a weak team, still Barcelona needed to win this game harder because they are currently racing with Real Madrid in La Liga while Real Madrid is much stronger than last season because of the players they bought. Now we are waiting for the next game in La Liga between Barcelona and Real Madrid.

Barcelona's young players are indeed quite good, it's just that they haven't had much time to prove it, if Xavi continues this, I'm sure the future of the Barcelona team will be very bright in the future.
And winning this is quite important for Barcelona before facing Real Madrid, but I hope that some of Barcelona's core players can return to strengthen Barcelona as reported to be able to increase the strength of the Barcelona team because if not, I really doubt that their young players will be able to play optimally in the El Clasico match.

Maybe this is the beginning of the revival of the Sevilla team, materially the team's players are actually quite good, it's just that their performance has not improved since the start of the season until they are now slumped in 13th position in the La Liga standings, I hope so.

Yes they are having problems in their attacking line, in previous matches it can be closed because other players can create goals, like Jude Bellingham can do.
It will be very worrying if this continues. Maybe one way to try is to put another player in the attacking line, yes experiment. Of course, now is not the time to do that, but with the obstacles they currently face, something risky must be tried. Who knows, maybe that's how they'll find a solution to their attacking deficiencies. They can't keep playing like this because it won't be good.

Props to the yougin that helped sealed the game believe me he has earned his place in the first team as he'll get more minutes than before scoring in such a tight game saw the whole crowd giving him a standing ovation.
He read the intentions of Felix and made the best decisions to move into the directions of the ball. The first touch made the ball balanced for him to score that goal.

Girona would win against Celta Vigo that's a fact you can bank on it. They've made the league more interesting and also challenging from underdogs to top for make me reminiscing Leicester City winning the Premier League.

Jude Bellingham can not save Real Madrid all the time. Fingers crossed, Madrid wins or Barcelona, let's just enjoy good football.

There are many talented young players at the La Masia academy, some of whom have managed to break into the main squad first, such as Balde, Gavi and Lamine Yamal. In that match, Xavi actually brought many very young players, including: Ander Astralaga, Unai Hernández, Héctor Fort, and also Marc Guiu. The opportunity came for Marc Guiu after Barcelona always failed to penetrate Bilbao's defense, but Marc Guiu didn't take long to score his first goal, he only needed 23 seconds to put Barcelona ahead of Bilbao.

The player whose full name is Marc Guiu Paz has the ideal body posture as a center forward for Barcelona. He has good mentality and speed, but Guiu needs practice and hard work to get more places in the main squad. Barcelona has always had surprises from its young players in the last two seasons, they are the future they hope for.

If there are other strikers on Barcelona's team and Xabi prohibits Felix from playing in that role, it would be worth checking the official line up of Barcelona. The club has no other striker than lewandowski.
That means if barcelona can have only felix to be a secondary striker once lewandowski was injury. Barcelona was lucky enough caused by it was recruiting felix to be an urgent striker for the club. His performance far from good and that's pretty much the same like when felix played in chelsea as a striker. Nothing surprise about that. Felix can play in two positions as a winger or striker. Xavi needs urgent striker on its club.

This is also the main reason why xavi was picking felix to be a new striker at this moment. The club really needs someone who has the capability to play as a striker, and it doesn't even matter how young he was.
I must admit felix doesn't have a lot of experience as a striker but barcelona can at least fill that position for temporary.

Xavi gamble when facing Bilbao ended sweetly, Barcelona managed to finish the game with a win after their debut player Marc Guiu managed to score a goal before the end of the match. Marc Guiu became the hero of Barcelona victory when the team was lacking core players due to injury. Xavi decision to bring on Guiu proved to be the right one, after a minute on the field he immediately hit the Bilbao goal net. The additional three points made Barcelona successful in reducing the gap with Girona and Real Madrid, now Barcelona is only one point behind Real Madrid who is at the top of the standings.

I also thought Real Madrid would score more goals against Sevilla, but they didn't. Maybe it was because Sevilla had prepared well and were confident to face Real Madrid. Real Madrid is famous for its front line with its young players who have been the talk of the town lately, but it's true what you said in the match against Sevilla that the goalscorers in Real Madrid's team were not the front line players but their defenders, I myself also saw Real Madrid's front line in this match was not optimal, maybe they were having problems?

I was surprised by the final result of this match because Real Madrid could not win the match, and I salute Sevilla for being able to play optimally, so far in my opinion Sevilla's current appearance is their best performance which is able to keep up with the big teams at the top of the table. Maybe this is called luck, in my opinion Sevilla got their luck yesterday against Real Madrid even though the final score was a draw but this is good for Sevilla.

I did watch the incident between rudiger and ramos. The situation was no that good during the match. I was also seeing how the atmosphere of this match was fully with emotion. Real madrid lost its patience after the referee was anulling its goals for two times in a row which is really bad for el real. I was also getting surprised to see how real madrid was having zero score again. I thought that if there was a rollingback due to the sometime.
Refeeree was seeing it as non legitimate goal for real madrid. Sevilla played differently under a new coach. It seems like that changing the coach has become the main answer to solve the poor performance owned by sevilla.
Im watching some players were full with emotions during the match but madrid must let two points go away as sevilla was able getting draw against real madrid. Barcelona is also become even closer to the el real this time.

Valencia and Cadiz both have four defeats so far and also, the truth is that Cadiz is not too bad at all when Cadiz play against Valencia. Because anyway, from the head to head results I got also that last season Cadiz managed to beat Valencia. Therefore, I think Valencia and Cadiz have qualities that don't seem to be much different either. So, even though Valencia will play at home and also, in this match Valencia is the favorite team base odds available. But yes, it still seems that it will not be easy for Valencia to win in this match and who knows, Cadiz will win and maybe also draw because Cadiz is not a weak team for Valencia.

Against Madrid Sevilla played really well. Sevilla players were quite physical; they treated the game like an El Clásico. In this match, the Real Madrid team looked rather ordinary. They had trouble winning because Bellingham couldn't score as he does in big La Liga matches. Considering it was a game after the international break, the performance was good. Alaba scored an own goal, but his overall performance was solid; it was just an unfortunate moment.

In fact, I didn't expect that Girona would be able to progress consistently this far, even though they lost to Real Madrid in the 8th week. but they were able to bounce back to beat Cadiz and Almeria, two matches after playing against Real Madrid. even though Cadiz and Almeria are not strong teams, they are still able to stay in the top 4 of the La Liga standings. Currently, Girona has scored the same 25 points as Real Madrid. The difference is, Girona conceded 13 goals. Below them is Barcelona with 24 points, one point adrift of first and second place. Even then, it could be said that Barcelona was luckier in winning their match against Athletico with a narrow score.

Now, the competition from first to third, there is only a very small difference. Speaking of Girona, last season they finished in 10th place. This season, even though it has only been 10 matches, Girona is in 2nd place. Girona even occupied first place, albeit temporarily. The only question is, will they be able to survive and consistently play their matches throughout this season. Remember, in the following matches the competition will get tougher. in fact, Girona has not yet met Barcelona or ATM.
But by the way, we will be presented with a crucial match between the two giants of the Spanish League. The El Clasico match later will be decisive for these two teams. Honestly, I can't wait and hope Lewansdowski recovers quickly from his injury.

that's because Madrid faced Sevilla, many people thought it would be easy to get a win. I also thought like that at first, but looking at Madrid's game yesterday, they looked confused in the final solution. They created opportunities but seemed to have difficulty breaking down Sevilla's defense.
It wasn't even the striker who scored the goal for Madrid, it seemed that Madrid's attack line was experiencing problems. Even Madrid's defense also came under pressure from Sevilla which resulted in an own goal.

Yes, when he can't score, Real Madrid can't win either. This is why I have repeatedly said that Real Madrid need a striker who can break the deadlock. They cannot always expect Jude Bellingham to be the difference in every match.
If Real Madrid continue like this, then I will not be surprised to see them get unsatisfactory results in the upcoming matches. The dreaded thing did happen in their match and it's a lesson for them as a whole. Slowly, opponents are realizing their weaknesses and it's a note for Ancelotti to rack his brains for this kind of thing.

Talking about Girona, I was really surprised by their performance this season. They were able to collect points with victory after victory they achieved. Girona has only lost once and drawn once since the season started, the defeat suffered by Girona when they met Real Madrid and the draw achieved in the first match against Real Sociedad. Even though Girona's attack line is very sharp and their final finishing is very good, defeats and draws against Real Madrid and Real Sociedad indicate that Girona is not ready to compete with strong teams.

I feel Girona will start to lose momentum towards the first half of the season when they meet other strong teams. Even though Girona is currently able to do well, my assumption is that they are not ready to compete with Real Madrid and Barcelona for the title.

The problem with the young players at Barcelona is that they are sometimes cut down before they have even developed.
We know some time ago there was Ansu who performed very well and there is still Ferran Torres who can actually still be maximized. It's just that when so many young players gather and Xavi wants something more in terms of exploration so that these young players don't get many opportunities to play which actually makes their performance disappear slowly.
Ansu played very well in the winger position but he was very rarely given the opportunity and instead gave a new position to Gavi which he was suitable for in the attacking midfielder. This apart from making their attack line weakened indirectly this also cuts the flow of what Ansu should get which is precisely with this now he must be willing to go to Brighton even though we in the previous few seasons hoped more for this player.

Valencia and Cadiz can be called a match of two outsiders. Both teams cannot play well in recent matches and are in the middle of the standings. I think that in this game there will not be many attacks. It is hard to say who can win. Maybe it will be Valencia, because they will play at home. Although Cadiz is playing not worse.

This season we have seen Barcelona sign a number of new players who are too young to catch on. Basically, seeing the talent, Barcelona made a contract with them. If Barcelona work with these young players then these young players will become very skilled players at some point. Barcelona have been in financial losses for several seasons so they have invested money behind the player to cover their losses. If they can develop these young players into skilled players, Barcelona will have a chance to benefit financially from them in the future. Apart from the young players, Barcelona has several experienced players who are currently performing well for Barcelona. Barcelona is now a fairly balanced team with youth and experience.

Athletic Bilbao was difficult mostly because of the playing style this team has. Athletic Bilbao is a team that knows how to defend in the game and usually, that's hard for any team to score a goal against Athletic Bilbao.
On the other hand, Barcelona had some injured players and also had to get themselves ready for the game they are going to have against Real Madrid soon.