Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 195. (Read 555419 times)

What Barcelona is experiencing right now proves that anything can happen in the second half of the season, Barcelona has been performing well since the beginning of the season, they have also managed to keep a distance from their competitors with a significant points difference, but now what happens?
What Barcelona experienced could happen to Real Madrid and Atletico in the second half of the season, player injury problems are something that cannot be avoided, especially since they have a busy schedule this season. It is very interesting competition at the top of the standings at the moment, all three teams are still fighting to be the best at the end of the season.

Real Madrid had the best squad at the beginning of the year and were shown as favorites before the league started, but this year Barcelona started like a storm. They played terrifically and made a good start. I thought they would not lose right away this year, but they had a bad streak by losing to easy teams one after another. If there is no such surprise, Carlo Ancelotti's stable team can finish the year as leaders.

Atlético Madrid are currently at the top position in La Liga and they have a one point difference with Real Madrid so it is believed that Real Madrid can overtake Atlético Madrid anytime. I think Atlético Madrid will have a consistent performance this season but when Atlético Madrid take the field against Real Madrid but Real Madrid will have more chances to win this match. 

In a separate match, Atletico Madrid may have gained full points but when they lose points against Real Madrid, they will fall behind Real Madrid in terms of points. This season at least it can be said that the competition will be evenly matched with all three teams. As Barcelona will compete, Real Madrid will compete equally and Atlético Madrid will take the opportunity to improve.

Ferran Torres failed to find a solid position in Manchester City and its says about his quality. His position was worse than Julian Alvarez who used to be his teammate but already left Manchester City and joined Atletico Madrid. In Barcelona, Ferran Torres seems to fail again, even without injuries, his position in Barcelona was not solid.

You can use Messi or even Robben for examples that young players who are sensitive with injuries can change themselves, from training to have more muscles, stronger fitness as well as their playing styles to be more cleverly during playing time and proactively avoid tackles as most as possible from opponents. Messi and Robben succeeded and if you use searching for photos of Robben when he was in Chelsea, Real Madrid and later in Bayern Munich, you can see his big change in physical muscle body.

The point is Ferran Torres is no longer a young player, he is already at middle of his career and time for him to change is not too abundantly available. He must change dramatically in next one or two seasons, and if he won't succeed, his career will start its downside.

To predict Real Madrid's match against Valencia, of course, in my opinion, it cannot be considered easy because Valencia being the host will certainly make Valencia play more enthusiastically and optimally because they certainly don't want to be embarrassed by Real Madrid. and also if we look at Real Madrid's head to head record against Valencia in the last 5 matches, of course we can see that Valencia has won 1 and drawn 1 and in the last match we saw Valencia against Real Madrid, the result was a 2-2 draw. So in my opinion there will definitely be tight competition in this match and of course for those who want to gamble it certainly cannot be considered easy even though the big potential who will have the potential to win in this match is Real Madrid.

but yes, it is true that if you look at Real Madrid's strength, of course they have now recovered and are good and of course at this time Real Madrid certainly has a squad that is definitely better than Valencia, but in this match there will definitely be many who are favoring Real Madrid to win, so we'll see. Later in January on the 4th and to be honest, I personally also wanted to bet on Real Madrid's victory in that match. but your opinion is correct because if for example Valencia played with their best performance then of course the match would end in a draw and even if Real Madrid played in the match with a draw then that would definitely be a good achievement for Valencia. Yes, in January, I also think that Atletico Madrid will lead the standings and Real Madrid will be in 2nd position. Yes, of course, if Real Madrid wins against Valencia, Real Madrid will definitely feel like they are at the top of the standings because Real Madrid has a more beginning match schedule compared to Atletico Madrid against Osasuna.

It is about resilience because see how small Messi was at his youngest age and he was tackled incredibly hard his whole career. I think physical resilience could become a problem for Lamine Yamal as he might not be as physically strong as other, pretty thin and small players. Would be too bad though as he can be genius with the ball, but what is the value of being genius when most of the time you are lying on the couch curing your injuries from tackles...

Did you just say most effective ,
Well he's getting better after his recent comeback from injury, he got subbed into the game  around 60~70 mins I think , how come he got injured ... he had just played 3~4 games and now returning back to injury , I donknow how true is the news . Same goes to Lamine, he just returned from an injury but it seem the tackles on that kid is getting to much and dirty these days ( at least this is confirmed and he didn't play against Athletico)...hence ferran impact is minimal  compared to Lamines' though losing against Athletico wasn't because of their performance.

So far, not many media have covered it, the media is still more focused on Ancelotti and especially Hansi Flick as Barcelona's new coach who can bring change to the club. And at the beginning of the season, news related to Hansi Flick was indeed far more dominant than other coaches. I personally have not paid attention to Simeone, and just realized that he really succeeded in bringing Atletico Madrid with significant progress.

The injury problem continues at this club and actually at all clubs. Torres has a small injury of muscle issue. However, based on the latest update news, he will likely be available at the next match on January 8, against Athletic Club.

Source: Ferran Torres suffers injury
FERRAN  TORRES  update

To be honest still there is a lot of matches remaining in the league table. Anything can happen; this is a competitive league, and anything can be expected from it. All three teams are in a very aggressive posture and are trying hard to defeat each other. The competition is competing with a very narrow margin, no one can say for sure that Atletico Madrid will win La Liga. Because we clearly mentioned that Barcelona was occupying the league top from the beginning of the season, but now if you look, Barcelona is in 3rd place. So it can be inferred that the three teams are tussling with each other in a very strong way to gain points. No one is ready to give up, everyone is trying hard to become the league leader. So I think we cannot predict the league champion in advance because there is a gap of a few points, anything can happen.

The sad news for Barcelona is about their player Ferran Torres, It seems Ferran Torres got injured badly and he won't be able to play for his team.
Barcelona recently lost the game against Atletico Madrid with a 2-1resuold and other than this result, they lost one of the most effective players they had Ferran Torres. Now since Barcelona is in a hard race with Real Madrid, not having players like Yamal and Ferran Torres will definitely affect this team.

Thats definitely true, Valencia definitely doesn't have a chance and will lose this game in any normal chances and I am sure in reality that will be the result as well. However, Real Madrid is probably better than all the teams in the league right now, lets say just Atletico Madrid and Barcelona could be better, lets assume that's the only teams they could have hard time against, then by logic they should beat everyone else. Since we know that they don't, its clear to say that when they will beat a smaller and worse team and when they won't and shock the world is unknown, anything could happen. We are seeing them sometimes lose points against the simplest of teams, so its always a bit of a dice roll.

I don't think Valencia has a chance against Real Madrid because I believe Madrid will do whatever to grab the three point and the potential to lead the league. And Mbappe's comeback is also real form since he did well and impressed the fans in the two league matches he played, and I am confident he will continue to do well in the league because I see he understands the team very well and has begun scoring goals for the club. Barcelona must improve their league form because if they continue to play as they are, I do not believe they can win the league. Due to their performance and they lake finisher because they will finish perfom well in the pitch later the opponent will get chance and score and finish the game.

Everyone knows that Barcelona dominated the game in the first and second halves, but Athletico Madrid defended effectively, created tiny opportunities to score, and finished with a clean three points, putting them at the top of the league standings.

Honestly Barcelona has waste so many of  their points that can lead them to over ahead Real Madrid and the Atletico Madrid, but their lack of inconsistency didn’t allowed them to able to claimed the top of the table Atletico are the one hold the table for now before Real Madrid will and chance them. Because since Real Madrid are failed to perform well in others league they want to try and get the La Liga title.

Currently now in the table, Atletico are only ahead of the Real Madrid with just 1 points which I’m having hope for them that in their next match if they can able to keep there consistency they will bring out a positive outcome against any of their opponents.

The dominance of Barcelona and Real Madrid in La Liga is now under a serious threat with Atletico Madrid topping the league. The win over Barca was a springboard to the top and I just hope they will hold on to the top spot till the end of the season because they have been the underdog for a long time. Unlike other European Leagues, the Spanish league games will continue in January. Meanwhile, there will be games in different European leagues including the EPL.  

Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid are the main contenders for the trophy currently because they have played one game less than Barcelona. I am always happy when a new club takes the first spot, and the same thing is also happening in Italy where Atalanta is topping the Seria A.  

Their mentality has been maintained for a long time even when talking about La Liga apart from Madrid and Barcelona, Atletico is one of the clubs that has never been out of the Champions League zone, it's just that their performance in the last few seasons has actually not been very good and this season their momentum is different because indeed with good results in the last few matches this reminds me of Atletico in the last 4 seasons which of course this should be used as a warning to Madrid and Barcelona that now Atletico are starting to return in the competition for trophies that previously they were always competing.

This season the momentum is good but sometimes Simeone's problems occur when changes come suddenly where they can always play well and surprisingly the performance is suddenly destroyed which makes them lose momentum again.

Simeone must try to minimize this from now on and all he has to do is keep up the current form, although I don't really like it because they are one of Madrid's rivals but with them being able to compete for the trophy it certainly adds to the good tension in La Liga.

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btw for now it seems that there is still no dark horse club that really attracts attention like last season where for now some dark horse clubs like Girona or Sociedad are currently still not showing their fangs but now there is a good momentum for Bilbao.

They got the best players but they don't have the best performance right now. Let's forget that Barcelona we're unfortunate to lose some games recently, Barcelona has played and ball better than what Real Madrid has done this season but they somehow know how to crawl out of bad situations even when people thinks they are given up already, some days ago Mbape was not having a good time here almost a month but now he is back to his place again with goals.

I don't know what to even rank Atletico Madrid, they are good IMO but when a team had good time when you top teams are having bad time are mostly temporary, if the top teams get back into their place, they will be demoted in the table and everyone will laugh at them. It's even funny that they are only chance to win the Laliga twice, that was in 2021 and 2014, the Laliga trophy has always been between two teams, that's Barcelona and Real Madrid.

Many have high expectations of Flick after a very good start to the season and not a few fans even consider that the Flick Era is the best era compared to the last few Barcelona seasons just because their start to the season went more than expected but in the end a good start to the season is not a guarantee for him to continue to survive and succeed in continuing the season and now is a test that actually inevitably must be overcome immediately.
Their last 10 matches in all competitions ended with 3 wins 2 draws and 5 defeats obviously this is not a good statistic even with these results they were thrown from the top of the comfortable standings which makes this should be a reference to be able to change conditions for the better because it is not impossible when the situation continues the wave of praise that previously existed will turn into unending criticism for Flick.

Now the problem in the middle of the season is finally much more serious for Barcelona, thrown into 3rd place with a gap of 2 points from Madrid and 3 points from Atletico who still have 1 match remaining, this will clearly disturb the mentality of the players if Flick cannot anticipate from now on.

With the slick performance shown by Atletico Madrid lately, it is certainly proof that La Liga is not only dominated by Real Madrid and Barcelona at the top of the standings but other teams also have the opportunity to lead the standings. The competition that occurred was not an easy matter for Atletico Madrid in taking over the leadership of the standings because they needed to beat Barcelona in the away match, but they managed to do it, that's the greatness of Atletico Madrid.

The closing of this year, Atletico Madrid players are certainly very happy because they managed to lead the standings at the end of 2024. But Atletico Madrid's position is not safe because Real Madrid is so strong this season, so Real Madrid's chances of leading the standings are much greater in the upcoming matches. Simeone, who has been coaching Atletico Madrid for a long time, really hopes that his players can improve their performance in the upcoming matches because competing for the championship title is certainly very difficult this season.

Atletico Madrid this season has a good chance of winning the La Liga title because their current squad is very good and does not have many problems with player injuries. This is certainly very advantageous compared to Real Madrid and Barcelona who have problems with injured players.

Moreover, currently Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid have one match that has not been played, if that one match is won, the points difference with Barcelona will be 6 points and Real Madrid with Barcelona will be 5 points, of course this will burden Barcelona in the La Liga competition this season. It can be said that the La Liga competition this season will be presented by two Madrids, because of course Real Madrid after the last few matches have shown a solid game again, plus they have just won the trophy, of course this will increase their confidence in the following matches.

And those having the higher chances keep changing and you won't even know who is going to win again because a matter of time you see Madrid have more chances to winning and no matter how it keeps changing and how the change happens is something we all don't know, at some point it wss almost a conclusion that Barcelona is going to win and now they have even shifted to the Third position who would have imagined to see them at the third position because of the kind of energy they came in with this season, and there consistency seems to be dropping very high, if you want to say who have more chance it is both them and Real Madrid who people thought it was finished for and they are they one the second position and that is why don't judge a book by its cover and the more people think they are weak the more they are ready to do well.