Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 194. (Read 555425 times)

This standings in the Laliga table will make the competition tougher than expected because many of us never expected Atletico Madrid to come this far, we were expecting the title challenge to be between Barcelona and Real Madrid, but now we have Atletico Madrid above them all which is very exciting.

Furthermore, I think this will have to change anytime soon because as it stands now, Real Madrid have the high chance of winning the Laliga now because to me, they have more quality and superstar players than Atletico Madrid; nevertheless, Semione can do wonders this season because he is one of the oldest coaches in Laliga and he have good experience in the competition which is why he tried to make it to the top at this moment.

Three teams competing fiercely for the championship title will certainly make the competition even more fierce and exciting.
A difference of only 1 or 2 points I think is not a big problem because there are still many remaining matches this season, the most important thing is how Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid and Barcelona can maintain their consistency.
In terms of percentage, the three teams are now quite equal to win the title, but it must be admitted that Atletico Madrid has had quite good consistency lately compared to Barcelona and Real Madrid, so if these two teams cannot rise and maintain consistency, it is not impossible that the situation will be utilized well by Atletico Madrid.

Currently, Atletico Madrid is topping the LaLiga League table while Real Madrid and Barcelona fall below. Atletico Madrid is ahead of Real Madrid by one point, with three points ahead of Barcelona.

The position for the top table will be a competitive one to think of. As the three tops will keep battling it up for which team remains at the top, to the end of the season. But one thing is sure, the trophy winner of this season will be between Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid, and Barcelona.

Injury aside, Ferran Torres is not a good player. He's not technical enough to be a winger and not intelligent and clinical enough to play as a striker. The opportunities he has gotten this season were due to injuries or the unavailability of other first-team players. When everybody is fit, Ferran Torres starts on the bench.
I believe Barcelona should move on from him and find a way to get a better winger for the left wing and let Raphina and Yamal handle the right winger while Raphinha and Olmo can also play as attacking midfielders. They need a player that can score and create a lot of chances from the left wing.

We can easily guess that Real Madrid will win easily with Valencia despite Madrid's away match, this victory can top the table because it could be Atletico Madrid will play with Villareal not sure to win easily.

Well there is no hope for Valencia to stay in LaLiga, but not sure the former West Bromwich coach will bring better, but like him he does not have long experience.

Looking at the new odds market, the bookies are offering odds of 1.46 for Madrid which is not too low.

Ferran Torres is a player who is above average? He has been around for quite some time before Yamal and has performed a little better under Hansi Flick. So I don't agree that Ferran Torres is compared to Yamal. In fact, Pedri and Gavi are much better than Ferran Torres in terms of game quality. Apart from that, Barcelona proved themselves in several matches that they could not do more to score goals after Yamal's absence. You should know that no matter how ideal Barcelona's ball possession is, they always find a dead end to finish.

Barcelona financial strength is very weak and that has being the problem they are facing since last season. However, Flick came into the club and made everything look cool, and we all forgot about this. Currently, that has started playing out when key players like Yamal, Raphina or Lewandowski is not present in the match due to injury, it will affect the team performance. How will Barcelona get fundd to bring in new players by January.

Madrid will have it easy because Valencia are bottom, tied with Valladolid. Valencia have also just sacked coach Rubén Barajara to sign Carlos Corberán, who was coaching West Bromwich Albion in the English second division. Some people ironically say that they have signed a coach with a view to the division Valencia will be playing in next year, the second division.

So I'm sure that the bookies are going to pay very little for Madrid to win because that is by far the most likely outcome.

Squad depth is a major problem for Barcelona at the moment, although they actually have a lot of talented young players but still their mentality and also their ability to replace the role of the main players is still not good enough at the moment, if you remember, actually earlier this season Hansi Flick had tried to rotate players by playing their young and reserve squad against osasuna previously, But what we saw was that they experienced the first lose in the league so that it encouraged Hansi Flick to  continoue play the main squad in each of their matches, the poor performance and mentality of the Barcelona reserve squad did not allow for Hansi Flick to rotate players, so we can see how their squad is lame at the moment due to injuries and fatigue, with poor financial conditions, it seems difficult for them to move in the January transfer market later, especially now that they need to focus on the problems that befall Dani Olmo.

Now they are not playing so well due to which Barcelona are losing matches. The teams that Barcelona beat are now beating Barcelona, which clearly shows that Barcelona has become very weak. Along with this, their record has been damaged by drawing and losing many matches. It had to be because now they have lost so many matches they are going down. If they don't pay attention to it, they won't get what they worked hard for before and Barcelona was the strongest team in this league but now we hear that they are among the weakest teams.If Barcelona improves itself in January and becomes stronger and becomes the championship, I will be very happy because it is my favorite team and I am very sad when it loses a match.

Valencia is very bad this season and they do not show the ability as one of the teams that have the ability to occupy the middle ranking of their standings and positions are currently on the list of relegated teams and this is not a difficult match for Real Madrid to take full points. Before the break, Real Madrid will definitely try to do their best so that they can rank first in the standings and this is a great opportunity for Ancelotti because they do not face such a tough opponent. Barcelona is back in an unfavorable position after experiencing some unsatisfactory results and now we see two Madrids that might compete with each other.

Barcelona only has a few players whose quality is above average like other players such as Lamine Yamal and Ferran Torres, now the problem is when some of these players cannot appear in important matches or do not get a good enough supply of passes in important matches, it will clearly affect their match results so that currently Barcelona has experienced this which has caused a decline in its position in the La Liga standings. So I hope Barcelona can find a special key to get out of its difficult conditions in January so that it can still be a candidate for the champion in La Liga this season.

Ferran Torres is injury prone and during his career with Barcelona he was often to gets the injury for every season and actually he has just recover and played when Barcelona lost from Atletico Madrid but unfortunately he got the injury again and Ferran Torres so far still struggle to earn trust by Hansi Flick so he want to gets one place on Barcelona starting lineup but in my opinion although Ferran Torres is a good player but his injury makes him unable to playing consistent so that's why the rumour appears that Barcelona want to sell Ferran Torres this January and some of clubs has been showing their interest to him

After getting the gap close, Barcelona finally dropped places, they were doing fine and lead the league for as many weeks as now, and that looked like a great deal to them but they have been doing very terrible for a very long time now and of course that eventually lead to them eventually losing the leadership. Now the real question is, will they just sob about it and lose the season, or will they see this as a problem they can fix and get back on the horse?

I believe they should be doing much better and they need to recover from this and do better as well. I can see that it's looking like they are not going to end up with an easy solution just yet, but they need to figure out the issue and fix that if they can, very important for their future.

With Torres' injury, this really makes Barcelona fans worried and yes, the result of Atletico Madrid's match against Barcelona was of course bitter fruit for Barcelona because they were defeated by Atletico Madrid plus Torres' injury. Yes, of course whatever the power at the moment, of course Hansi Flick really has to be able to make a good strategy, even though for example Yamal and Torres won't be able to recover in the near future. However, fortunately, with Torres' injury, Barcelona's match schedule is not busy so of course there is still time for Torres to recover and to be honest, I also hope that Torres can recover quickly and quickly play again for Barcelona. Yes, with Yamal's injury plus Torres being injured, of course this will definitely affect the quality of Barcelona's strength.

but I heard news that Torres could potentially return to play when Barcelona plays Bilbao in the semifinals of the Spanish Super Cup and yes, we'll see whether he will be able to play in that match or not. but to be honest, I was also surprised because I also heard the news that Torres was looking for an opportunity to join another club, but I don't know if that news is true or not because of course if Torres joins another club, it will definitely make it difficult for Barcelona to find a replacement like him. Have you also ever read or heard this news? and in my opinion, if, for example, Torres goes to another club, I think it will definitely be difficult for Barcelona to win the Laliga and UCL titles because after all, Torres is really needed in Barcelona and is one of the key players.

Barcelona must return to show their best ability after experiencing some bad results in previous matches and perhaps losing some players will have an impact on the results of the match. Luckily Ferran Torrest and Lamine Yamal did not suffer serious injuries so they can rejoin the team when facing a crucial match. For the Champions League Barcelona is already so safe because their current position is certain to qualify for the next round, but what needs to be focused on is how La Liga is currently behind Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid in the title race.

Real Madrid, who are second in the points table, should now be in high spirits and mentally ready to continue their best game against any formidable opponent. Coach Carlo Ancelotti has prepared well and is confident of better performances for the star-studded side in the upcoming matches. Madrid was mentally very confident after beating Sevilla last time. Mbappe performance was very good in the last match and he corrected his mistakes with self-realization. His two penalty misses and a couple of missed goal chances in the previous week were somewhat on the back foot. Mbappe has struggled to fit in with his team-mates since joining Madrid last summer but has come to his full potential over time.

Madrid came under heavy criticism as a team after a poor performance against Barca in October and a similarly wide loss against AC Milan in what many saw as a disaster for a star-studded side but Ancelotti admitted at the time that the situation was down to a lack of team effort and mental fortitude. Another reason was the injury and loss of key players in the team. Yes, in the next match, Valencia can be a strong opponent in front of Madrid. They have to work harder to continue to win and strive to get to the top.

Ferran Torrest suffered a muscle injury in his last game but it seems that the injury is not too serious, maybe he will only be off for Christmas and reportedly he might be able to return when Barcelona play against Bilbao in the Spanish Super Cup so there is nothing to worry about for now because we are facing the international break and Lamine Yamal is also expected to return on January 12 before playing in the Champions League and La Liga.

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This season, Real Madrid's performance has been unstable, but I think Ancelotti has now been able to improve his squad quite well. Because it is proven that from the last 10 matches played by Real Madrid, 9 matches were won and only 1 match ended in a draw. So if you look at this, I think now Real Madrid is starting to have stable performance again. Because now the Real Madrid players have definitely adapted well again, as has their new player, Mbappe, who currently looks quite convincing at Real Madrid. So I personally am quite sure that Real Madrid has a bigger chance of winning the match against Valencia. Although it is also true that in this match Valencia will definitely play optimally. Because as we know, Valencia is in danger of being relegated this season. But in my opinion this will not be strong enough to beat Real Madrid. Apart from that, if we look at the last 10 matches played by Valencia, the results are also quite bad. Because Valencia was only able to win 3 matches out of those 10 matches. So with Valencia's current performance, I think even with their high fighting spirit it might be difficult to beat Real Madrid. But even so, anything can happen in the world of football, so we'll see what the results of this match are.

Real Madrid will face Valencia few days later as postponed match games weeks 12, its opportunity for Real Madrid return back to first standings position behind one point left awhile from Atletico Madrid. Looking current standings, Valencia have inconsistent performance recently without winning any one match of five consecutives matches and drop to relegation standings position awhile. Last two consecutives matches, Valencia being draw by Espanyol and Alaves difference with Madrid have consistent performance after winning against Sevilla and won the FIFA Club World Cup match.

I don't think difficult for Madrid get three points and back to first standings awhile due Atletico Madrid will play two weeks later against Osasuna after Madrid's postponed match. Its great moment for Madrid back to first place before La Liga break around two weeks and enjoying first place behind the rival team Barcelona dropped to 3rd standings.