Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 1787. (Read 530814 times)

It is true that Real Madrid have never played against a good club in their last five matches. If we look at the previous schedule of Real Madrid, they have never faced a strong club since their last five matches. They face Real Sociedad, Getafe, Celtaga, Celta Vigo, etc., but if we compare them, all these clubs are at the bottom of the league table, despite the fact that Real Madrid has not kept up such a good display against these clubs. They have won 1-0 against someone and managed to win 2-1 against someone, but when it turns to Atlatico Madrid's, they lose badly, which means that Real Madrid has not experienced strong teams this season. So my point is that it is difficult for Real Madrid to win La Liga this time if their status is that

Yes, of course Atletico Madrid's victory in the match against Real Madrid yesterday was not just luck. Even though in ball possession they lost to Real Madrid, they were able to really optimize their attacks into goals. Of the 4 shots on target, 3 of them became goals. On the other hand, Real Madrid, from 5 shots on target, only scored 1 goal. From here it can be seen that Atletico Madrid's front line is really able to optimize the accuracy and effectiveness of their attacks which they can get from smaller odds. Meanwhile, on the other hand, Real Madird really needs a top striker so that their players or front line can be really sharp again.

Yes, this defeat does not mean that Real Madrid is a bad club. However, from this defeat, Real Madrid, including Ancelotti, really learned a lot, the tactics they used and the strength of their current squad which lacks a sharp front line. They should be fully aware that with their current strength, it is possible that they will not be able to compete more strongly in the Champions League later.

But on the other hand Ancelotti gave a statement that he was responsible for this defeat, so he admitted his own mistakes. https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1706076328053584004
We have always assumed that losing Vinicus to injury affected Real Madrid's attack, never mind that this was a failed strategy from Ancelotti, basically Vinicius has always affected Real Madrid's performance.

Atletico Madrid played quite well yesterday, while Real Madrid was frantic because they kept trying to attack but failed continuously, ATM's defense was also solid maybe they have found confidence in the team, if ATM's performance is like this then they can rival other teams.

The first 5 matches was unbeaten because Real Madrid didn't play against tough opponents. But when they played against a tough opponent like Atletico Madrid, they suddenly got a defeat. That's because Real Madrid squad is only ready to handle small teams, they are not ready to compete with top teams. Atletico performance may be not stable, but they have strong players and they played at home in this match. So, Atletico Madrid is very eager to win against Real Madrid. Since Real Madrid is no longer having strong attackers and defenders, Atletico can defeat them with 3 goals. It is actually a shame for Real Madrid.

Real Madrid could make 20 shot attempts, but it couldn't be goals because Real Madrid has no top striker as a machine goal. Rodrygo played underperformance, while Bellingham may be unlucky at this match. Unfortunately, Real Madrid has no striker (CF) that can be a mainstay player for scoring goals. So, when Rodrygo and Bellingham can't play optimally, it is easy for Atletico to stop Real Madrid players for scoring goals.

Tomorrow there will be 2 matches.Sevilla-Almeria and Mallorca-Barcelona.Sevilla have had a bad start to the season in the league and it's up to them to bounce back.Their opponent is not a difficult opponent and I will be expecting them to win at home so that they can bounce back.
Barcelona's opponent is not a difficult opponent when we look at him and we see that he has won all the matches in the last meetings with his opponent.I think the odds are too high for me because when Barcelona was in such form, less odds should have been given.

Atletico Madrid lived up to their ego with Morata outshining Bellingham with the goals that secured the win.
I don't think Diego Simone really bothers much especially having remained the manager at Atletico Madrid for sometime now and with a very consistent defense line.

Madrid has dropped points to sit behind Barca on the third spot and hopefully, both Barca and Girona either losses or draws in two consecutive matches so as Real Madrid climbs up.

I believe that Ancelotti will see his weakness from yesterday night that the club needs a striker for them to be successful. Real Madrid was lucky that they were winning weak clubs without a striker but they saw it yesterday that when it comes to playing big games, they need a striker to score goals.

I don't know what the fate of Real Madrid from will be now till the transfer window is open, because it obvious that they will not be able to go far without strikers. Assuming they had strikers, maybe Athletco wouldn't have won them that easily or who knows maybe they would have won the game. Mbappe presence is much needed in the club to help Madrid out of their present state.

If there are any luck factors, it would be better you name them so that others will understand the sentiments and how to counter the attack just like the way I'm doing right now, there is no factor than the good midfield that we have right now and that is what has helped Real Madrid over the past 5 matches they played and guess what Ancelotti said after the game, he said he was responsible for the failure for conceding 3 goals from Atletico Madrid which is a normal thing to me as a professional manager, he should have allowed Bellingham stay at the centre midfield instead of left-wing position, also Vinicius is also not fully recover.


I don't think winning is a roller coaster thing to celebrate too soon, it is Real Madrid's turn to lose after winning 5 matches, and a time will come when Barcelona will be casted and blame Xavi for being unfortunate, it's a natural thing for fans to get upset but if you are been reasonable, you will understand better how football works, you can't win every time but a team is supposed to bounce quickly after disappointing the fans, it will quickly make them forget the mistakes they have done in the previous matches. For Real Madrid, they still have lots of energy to prove that this season belongs to them.

Indeed, the shortcomings that were visible in their game when facing Atletico Madrid seemed that their front line was quite problematic. Because Joselu was unable to make a big contribution when they were aiming for victory. Vini's absence made the situation look chaotic because they couldn't balance a more accurate game in that match. It seems that Ancelotti must immediately think about this so that he can win in the next match.

For Atletico Madrid, they played aggressively in this match. What's more, they were able to make an extraordinary comeback because they were able to beat a big team like Real Madrid. Diego Simeone hopes that his team can maintain their playing pattern as they are currently displaying. I am sure that in the coming week several teams will start to show their best strength to be able to improve their ranking in the standings table.

Everybody talk about Real Madrid's loss but nobody talk about Atletico Madrid's win. Isn't that a little unfair? Atletico Madrid played better from start to finish and they deserved to win the game. It wasn't entirely Real Madrid's fault but Atletico Madrid's great tactic, perfect game plan and execution. It's a victory for home team by their own, not by opponents mistakes.
I think Morata's game should be talked about and praised, Lino was the star of the match. Griezmann was on point again, he scored another goal with a difficult header. Saul Niguez had two assists again. Saul did what the Real Madrid midfield can't do. We must praise the productivity of these players. Blaming Real Madrid for everything is unfair to the efforts of these players. Simeone won this tactical match-up.

Real Madrid's defeat was not entirely a loss because they did not have a top striker, this was purely Ancelotti's mistake in making the formation and lineup of players. That's why I think Real Madrid deserved to lose, apart from Cama's goal which was considered offside, but if you look at it, Alaba was in an onside position. I'm also confused by Ancelotti's tactics, Kross was installed so the DM was wrong. Kross is a build up attack, not a defensive midfielder. So why insist on using a 4-5-1 formation without a target man, Rodrygo is not the target man type. Modric and Bellingham played so AMF was not suitable at all.

In my opinion, if Bellingham is used as an AMF, it will be a little less effective because Bellingham when he was at Dortmund was box to box, just like Modric. Ancelotti should be able to return to his usual 4-3-3 formation with the midfielder trio of Valverde, Tchouameni, Bellingham and striker Rodrygo, Joselu. One more thing, the defense was completely destroyed because it just felt like there was no Militao who was good at aerial duels. Alaba and Rudiger are a little lacking in aerial duels. Then the RB position is a good idea to try Nacho or Mendy, because Vázquez can try to be a wing striker. Vazquez's natural position is a wing striker, not a defender. That's why the three goals from ATM came from the area occupied by Vazquez, namely the right side.

I completely understand the fans' disappointment at our first loss of the season. However, all Real Madrid players tried their best to win, but we really found it difficult to stop Atletico Madrid, especially our former player, Alvaro Morata.

But nevertheless, I admit that there were some weaknesses to the match that Ancelotti needed to immediately evaluate. Our defense is poor in anticipating overhead balls, we also lack a striker to break into the goal and threaten the opponent's defense, but this cannot be separated from the injury problems we have faced so far. So I hope Ancelotti will really improve it in the next match.

Definitely a quite interesting result without a doubt. It has to be said that ATM played well enough to deserve that win and it wasn't just some lucky game. It happens, Real is not unbeatable team, they will of course have some losses all season long, I bet they will have more than this too, but not like crazy amount, maybe 4-5 at most and that would be normal for a regular season.

Just because they lost this, doesn't mean that they are doing badly, they are going to get better hopefully from here on out with Vini playing at 100% as well, that should be a good thing for them. Barcelona is the one that must be happiest about this, Real is their biggest rival so them losing a game benefits them the most.

There are many luck factors that play an important role in Real Madrid's winning streak in the previous 5 matches in La Liga. But they really proved to be failures when they met a team that was more solid in terms of play and quality of players.

Most people were worried about Real Madrid's defeat yesterday, but their fans' optimism about winning considering their positive results so far was apparently stopped by Atletico Madrid. Ancelotti doesn't need to blame himself for the defeat, but I hope he is brave enough to blame Perez for his selfishness in not bringing in a quality striker during the transfer window. I hope Barcelona can take advantage of any weaknesses Real Madrid has this season to gain points and lead the standings until the end of the season.

Real Madrid seems confused at the moment because they don't have a striker who can match Benzema and I think this is purely the fault of the club management and also the coach who didn't want to bring in an experienced striker in the transfer market last season. Maybe sometimes they are quite confident of winning, but sometimes against a balanced team it will be very difficult to maintain victory. Real Madrid had indeed been rumored to be with several of these players but in fact they never made an offer.

You are right, watching Real Madrid's games shows that Real Madrid lacks good strikers. Although Real Madrid started in a good position this season, now day by day Real Madrid's position is going down. A few days ago, it was seen that Real Madrid was in the number one position with the highest points in the La Liga points table. But Real Madrid has lost two consecutive matches and has now moved to the 3rd place in the La Liga points table. Now, if the coach of Real Madrid can't solve the striker problem quickly, maybe slowly, slowly, Real Madrid will take a position at the bottom of the La Liga points table.

Well, we can disagree alot about this, but Real Madrid made the right decision this summer; the top officials were not selfish or too confident; they simply understood business. Inn recent times madrid have gotten Jovic, Marianno and others CFs who have failed to perform and were just waste of transfer fees (i think only jovic was sold for some bucks).

The only striker Real Madrid wanted this summer was Mbappe  because Osinhmen was out of reach and there weren't many strikers available in the summer; Real Madrid decided not to spend 300m on Mbappe when they can sign him for free in y6 months; any business would do this definitely.

Against Atletico Madrid; the only weakness was Carlo Ancelotti who set up his team to fail; and they did fail as Real Madrid couldn't score or create many chances. The Atletico Madrid team is still a poor one; it was just a one off performance; they are not a strong team.

In the end, Real Madrid lost too. Quite sad actually Real Madrid lost 3-1 to Atletico. But looking at the game, Real Madrid did perform poorly. Especially their defense. 2 goals that occurred because their defenders were not quite ready to anticipate Atletico's cross. Real Madrid is actually very dominant in possession. But they couldn't make good use of this moment. Atletico were much more effective, they didn't have much of the ball but were effective in attack.

I think Real Madrid just lacks an ideal striker, not a shortage of front line players. Ancelotti still has a stock of players as rotation options, even though Bellingham, Joselu and Rodrygo are injured coincide. It must be admitted that Los Blancos were brave enough to take risks, when they did not recruit players other than their main target last summer. However, if this stigma is based on the defeat to Atletico Madrid, I think it is unfair because Madrid have only lost once this season. I think all clubs will experience something similar, it is difficult to find a club that has recorded a full winning season in the last decade.

Rodrygo is currently being linked with PSG and Liverpool, reportedly the Reds are trying to recruit him as a form of anticipation of losing their flagship winger M Salah. While PSG has the potential to lose Mbappe, what is clear is that Rodrygo will not stay at Madrid if he is used as a backup player.

I didn't see Real Madrid playing too badly at all, but it was Atletico who were really able to perform really well in that match. Ancelotti did everything to get out of the hosts' pressure but the Madrid players' efforts failed to produce results.

Indeed, if you look at the last two matches, Madrid's performance is starting to appear to be declining, even though they were able to win, the process has indeed slowed down a bit. I see that this time Real Madrid really needs a capable striker because if they only rely on Bellingham's role continuously then the tactics used by Ancelotti will be read easily, maybe that's what Simeone implemented to stop Bellingham's movements.