Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 191. (Read 555404 times)

Real Madrid are considering Theo Hernandez for left-back. Judging by the last games, they were expected to make a left-back transfer. In that area, Mendy and Garcia didn't do the job. Ancelotti tried different names. Camavinga wasn't a solution either.
The first choice for left back was Alphonso Davies, but since he will stay at Bayern, Theo Hernandez seems to be the first choice now. Hernandez, who played for Real Madrid for one season before, could be a good signing but I'm not sure how much AC Milan would be willing to ask for him. I think he can easily play in Real Madrid's starting 11 in the current squad.

My own issue with Atletico Madrid is that they are never consistent though they sit one point ahead of Real Madrid on the table is never a yardstick to be among the title contenders going by their history they once at the point in time use to lead the table unfortunately later drop points and down the table to eventually lose the title thus I see the same issue repeating itself again, though Barcelona is also facing some drop in form and injury to Lamine Yamal had really affected their performance in the league, but I think when they regain their form and starting winning their matches then I see them with Real Madrid as the two real Laliga title contenders apart from Atletico Madrid.

Carlos Corberan is Valencia's new manager. The contract is signed until the end of the 2027 season. Honestly, I'm not sure how good a choice this is, but he will do everything to ensure that an established club like Valencia will continue in La Liga. Corberan last coached West Bromwich Albion in the Championship League. Valencia will also pay them compensation. He previously coached Olympiacos and Huddersfield. This will be his first time as a manager in his home country. I hope he will be successful. I want to see Valencia in Top 6 again, not in the relegation zone.

It is very much possible that they won't even win the trophy because things are looking a little different now and there is no way that it will be that easy with how Atletico Madrid is climbing and things keep changing after all the acknowledgment that have been given to Barcelona all this while we did think that with the kind of momentum they have been building it was as if they have concluded the season not until this latest development and they were complaining about Madrid of there bad performance and no Madrid chances have also increased so the thing is looking more complicated to know who exactly among the three who is going to win, the three of them are seriously in the best position to win but who among them will win and another thing now is that Madrid will want to win a trophy so we just have to keep assuming because knowing who is going to win, is now harder than what we think, and I don't know were the confidence of Madrid making it back is coming from but for sure they will try but the line is getting tinny.

The intensity of competition in the second half of the season, precisely after the January transfer market will increase much more, all teams will try to add strength in order to realize the ambitions they have set at the beginning of the season. Barcelona will most likely not be too active in the transfer market, because they are hampered by budget constraints. Maybe Hansi Flick will still try to bring in new players on loan, as Barcelona has often done in previous seasons.

Real Madrid can freely recruit new players, although currently the depth of the squad they have is very ideal as a team. Ancelotti seems to need additional strength in the defense sector, to overcome the absence of several of their pillars due to long injuries. Both in the Champions League and in La Liga, Barcelona looks capable of competing for success, their priority scale is clearly in the two competitions.

It will be difficult but it’s not impossible for them to reclaim their top spo, they really messed up big time and the fact that it’s Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid that they will be challenging will make it more difficult for them to reclaim the top position. It is very possible for them if they can keep a more consistent performance till the end of the season because surely either of Real Madrid or Atletico or even both of them will surely drop points along the way.

They can try to be more consistent but with the high line defensive strategy they adopt they will easily concede goals increasing the probability of losing a game. I know Barcelona will improve their games and bounce back to winning ways soon but Winning the league will not be easy.

There is enough time and games for every team in the top to recover and win the league. The problem is consistency. Barcelona started very well while Real Madrid was doing a lot of mistakes. Later, things went totally the opposite with Barcelona falling and Atletico Madrid stepping up while they were failing in the beginning along with Real Madrid which improved too.
All these teams are quite close to each others and it is hard to guess the winner in the end.

It's okay to think Barcelona may not be able to make it back to the top of the table considering that they have that struggle going back to the top of they ever have a reason to fall back but in this case they have still got a good number of time on their side considering they have over twenty games ahead, it's enough to make up for the fall back and moreover the point difference isn't life enough they have got just some few points away and they have good numbers of goals in case the need be for goal difference if they get equal points which isn't helping them enough. Barcelona can still get back to the top hopefully.

Their situations are similar but in my opinion Barcelona will recover after the season break Hansi Flick will bring the team back into line. Lamine Yamal's injury also showed its effect last week and he felt his absence greatly Hansi Flick could not find the right winning system without him.

I think this is something that will be solved. Lamine Yamal's return date is also close and has been confirmed. Considering that he will start playing in 2025, Barcelona can hold on to the championship if he contributes to goals and assists as before the injury.

Robben was a great player, but he wasn't as good in avoiding injuries as you described. Have a look at this link and there Robben is listed as the third most injured player ever. It says Arjen Robben was 1507 days injured during his career and this is what I thought it should be at in terms of days injured. Messi is nowhere near that and if he was, he wouldn't have been the world's best. Vice vera, I bet that Robben would have become the world's best at least once if he had half the number of days missed due to injuries. Robben was a full professional in regards to training, nutrition and overall body care. Messi did a lot like slowing down during the game and only go full speed when he notices it makes sense.

Yes Eden Hazard was the same. His career slowly died only because of injuries. Talent is not enough, health is above all else.

More precisely in January when the transfer market reopens, many teams will experience changes between becoming stronger or even declining. I really appreciate that Barcelona will still be Madrid's strongest challenger. However, if Madrid has better options in the transfer market, Madrid will definitely get a big increase. Because Madrid has no financial problems and Barcelona has financial problems that will be a problem when bringing in quality players when Barcelona also has to focus on the UCL. Unless Barcelona remains focused on La Liga and not too focused on the UCL. I am sure Barcelona's chances will be greater.

I think it is too early to conclude Barcelona out of the title race. I know Real Madrid is a strong team and never give up until the end of the season. However, Barcelona also have the same way, they won't give up and should always try to return to the first place. We can't conclude the chance of winning the title from the stats of "conceded goals". This is possible to change, no one can guarantee how strong Real Madrid and Barcelona defense in the next few matches.

Barcelona actually still has a good squad, they have some top players and many young talents. It depends on the coach to optimize the potential of the whole players. Personally, I think the current Barcelona squad is quite competitive and possible to challenge Real Madrid in La Liga. It is only about the quality of Hansi Flick, he must show his capacity to handle Barcelona squad.

Because they still think that Flick is the right coach for Barcelona regardless of the results they will continue to believe that Flick is the key to Barcelona's future success
So that no matter how bad Barcelona has been in the last few matches including 5 defeats that happened quickly for them, it still won't make Flick threatened from his position even though they will still consider other things to be a problem not from Flick's mistakes which are often wrong in doing the formation.

The comparison is very obvious especially if we compare it with what happened to their rivals Madrid where Ancelotti at the beginning of the season always experienced poor results even though it was a draw and Mbappe who had previously been very bad in terms of performance (because he could not score goals). If a defeat like this happens for Madrid then this will be a crowd but when this happens for Barcelona this will be considered a normal thing where the increase and decrease in performance becomes commonplace in a season lol

Because fans still give time for Hansi Flick and also the current series of defeats is not bad enough because there is still a better chance to be able to bounce back because there are still many matches left. Good tactics are triggered by the revival of the quality of the player's game but if the tactics are good but the player's performance decreases then the final result is very zero.

I still believe that Hansi Flick can revive Barcelona's performance, he only needs to hope for Yamal because Barcelona's performance this season is very dependent on Yamal's performance. When Yamal was absent a series of bad results hit them, even though it was a real thing but the team had to act better by not relying on just one player to boost their performance.

Having this type of run is a great benefit to future of Atletico Madrid as well, they do spend a quite chunk of money compared to what they earn, and they need to do fine time to time, to keep this going. I am not saying they need to win the league every year, but it would be cool for them if they can do that like once every five years, that would be ideal. If they can do that, they would have much better financials, and in between, they need to go to UCL every season when they are not the winners as well.

When you do all of that, the rest is easier and can be done better as well, I know it takes time and its a difficult task, but it has to be done that way in order to keep these situations going for everyone involved at the club.

Not if get stop losing, there few weeks match's back, it was terrible and very poor, that was November precisely. They had the worst moments in their season but Atletico Madrid hasn't fly higher than them. Right now, the difference is just 3 points, nobody knows they are going to lose to Atletico that is in the same place where they left, it would have been a better but luck wasn't on their side. There is still time to make amends in the areas they didn't do well.

Atletico Madrid are not alpha as well, they have draw alot of matches they should have won and it doesn't mean they wouldn't repeat more. Barcelona through out their games before this happens to them, they only made 1 loss but the repeating loss made it worse but they can make it stop and come back to their game than for Atletico to win this Trophy, as long as Real Madrid and Barcelona remain in this journey, there is more to expect in the league till June.

What is strange in this case is that no one has criticized Flick's tactics after the series of defeats he has had at Barcelona in this half of the season even though if you look at what happened before where the winning streak was carried out there was a lot of praise for this coach only it was inversely proportional to the current minor results.

Barcelona have tasted their 5 defeats this season for La Liga which is the same result Xavi got in 1 season last season. But in the end the treatment is a little different now even though Barcelona lost Flick seems to remain comfortable with his position because many consider this not his fault when losing but the fault of several things such as the players who are lacking and the tight schedule.

Even though if we look further this result could have been worse for Barcelona if at the end Flick did not do his job well from now on especially from their minus results in the last 5 matches it is seen that even though they are strong in terms of dominance but they are still very easy to concede the ball in a match.

Barcelona has been losing and drawing games since yamal was hurt. And when he returns, Barcelona will progressively improve, win games, and most likely draw them. Flick needs to employ a new technique on the pitch because I'm sure many clubs understand the offside trap, and it's quite difficult to see Barcelona catch offside like before. And, as you can see, Athletico Madrid did not enter the pitch offside, as Real Madrid does. Flick still has a chance to win the league this season because they are only a few points apart in the league standings. So any club that fckup will undoubtedly go down, the laliga competition will be more difficult after the Christmas break since Athletico Madrid, Barcelona and  Real Madrid no one will like to lose any point that will make them drop in the position they are currently.

Let's see how the competition will continue to be and I'm thinking Athletico Madrid or Madrid are the club that I see they can win the laliga this season again because Barcelona was leading with clear 8 to 9 points if I'm not mistaken in the league before they started performing poorly and making Athletico Madrid and Real Madrid near them in the league table and even overtake them in the tables and Athletico and Madrid have upstanding games to play so I see Barcelona won't see space again, expect they didn't perform very well anymore.

Despite failing to win a trophy, Barcelona still deserves appreciation, because they were able to maintain their existence in the midst of the financial crisis that hit. The La Masia Academy has saved Barcelona from the slump, without having to spend a large budget, Barcelona has a pretty good squad depth. For now and in the future, Barcelona must prioritize academy players to be promoted, it is a very wise step to save the budget. Hansi Flick can promote other young players, without having to be actively involved in the transfer window.

With a limited budget, Hansi Flick seems able to manage Barcelona to compete at the top of the La Liga standings, although he is actually also interested in recruiting new players if possible. The opportunity to achieve success remains open for Barcelona, ​​not only in La Liga, they also have the opportunity to win trophies in all competitions they participate in. It takes patience and extra work to get out of the financial crisis. So far, even though in the last few matches Barcelona have often lost points, Hansi Flick performance has been quite satisfactory.

Barcelona lost many points in vain which made their pace increasingly inconsistent lately and it was very beneficial for their rivals especially Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid in taking over Barcelona's position in the standings. Barcelona's poor performance was very surprising because the defeat from Real Sociedad had a bad impact on the mentality of the players where they failed to win the next matches and also suffered defeat when facing Las Palmas.

Now for Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid they have only played 18 matches and Barcelona has played 19 matches. So the two teams above Barcelona still have one match that has not been played and if they both win then the distance between Barcelona and Atletico Madrid will be 6 points. Barcelona must find a way in the second half of the season to perform better in order to reclaim the top position in the standing.