Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 1963. (Read 525528 times)

Many people think that these friendly matches are not important. But as a result of these matches, the confidence of the young players increases. Young players are able to perform better when they are confident.
Like you, I think Barcelona doesn't need to sign a new striker. However, if the performance of Ansu Fati and Raphinha does not improve, Barcelona will be under a lot of pressure. Raphinha and Fati are excellent strikers. Dembele is also in the Barcelona squad. But the problem is that apart from Lewandowski, no other Barcelona striker has been able to perform well on a regular basis. If Raphinha and Fati's performances had been consistent, Barcelona's attack would have been the best in La Liga.

Based on what Barcelona displayed in this pre-season match, show that they can still maintain a good position in this la Liga league season because their strikers was able to organized themselves very well to achieve victory. This match show that Barcelona coach is working seriously to take the team higher to another level, because he didn't allowed what happened in their last pre-season match that made Arsenal to defeated them 5-3 not to happen in this match. I think, AC Milan need a potential strikers in this summer because their strikers really missed their opportunity to score many goals from this match but they misused it, because they didn't organized well. I don't think, Barcelona manager need to sign another new strikers in this summer because their strikers showcase some tactics that made many people believed that they are in a good position to make things happen in this season.

AC Milan - Barcelona

Enjoyed Barcelona's friendly match against AC Milan. Barcelona's performance was steady. Day by day the performance of this team is stable and organized.
The team lost 5-3 against Arsenal. We saw the weakness of Barcelona's defense. But in their next two matches, they played against the mighty Real Madrid and AC Milan. Barcelona's team did not concede any goals in these two matches. Barcelona beat Madrid 3-0.

Barcelona's overall gameplay against AC Milan was excellent. Barcelona's defense was solid. But I like the performance of Barcelona's young players. Raphinha in particular played well. Ansu Fati scored the goal. If the performance of these two players improves, the Barcelona team's attack can continue to perform well.

That's a good start from barcelona. The club was able dominating the friendly match against acmilan but the attacking line seems not bringing proper finishing. Ansu fati has become the one who has been helping the club to scoring 1 goal against acmilan.
This is a good result for barcelona. Acmilan is also very strong. I saw that if acmilan was using its best line up at this moment. I saw that there are so many great players like leao, giroud or even pulisic.

barcelona is consistently defending when there was a counter attack that gonna come from acmilan. Fati tries even harder in proving himself as a worthy player to be included in xavi's plan for upcoming season.
I hope there will be more goals to come before the match gonna end. Acmilan's performance is very disappointed with its main squad. It seems like that barcelona is far stronger than before. Barcelona has learned a lot from its past experience.

So many people expected that Arda Guler would be the next Mesut Ozil at Real Madrid, but after this injury some people assumed he would be the next Eden Hazard. I think it's a bit risky with an injury that must keep him out for so long and he could be left behind by other Real Madrid players who have already started the competition later. But in conditions like this all it takes is mentality and also the belief to get through all of this and I hope he has it all. Support from fellow colleagues is also needed so that Arda Guler can recover more quickly.

Barcelona is still in the market, ready to make a move on a prospective talent they discovered this summer. The blaugrana manager, Xavi Hernandez, would really like his audacious ambition to come fulfilled; he has already completed signing his top priorities; all that remains is to mold these players to fit the club's pattern. Barcelona is considering bringing Joo Félix to Camp Nou. He is quick and skilled, and he knows how to handle any duty that is assigned to him. He is also a flexible player, however he's on the wrong track with Diego Simeone so he has to leaves if he wants regular game time.

Diego Simeone has always failed to bring Atletico Madrid to won the La Liga title in the past few seasons, Real Madrid and Barcelona have always been challengers that Diego Simeone has been unable to beat. Even though talking about the players he has is also not too bad and Atletico Madrid always has young talents who are very good. After the last time Atletico Madrid won the title in the 2020/2021 season, Diego Simeone was classified as unable to bring Atletico Madrid to compete with Real Madrid and Barcelona.

It's too early to judge who will win La Liga because after all the competition hasn't started yet and I don't think Barcelona will be one of the title contenders because Real Madrid and several other clubs have also prepared the best team next season to present the La Liga title for their respective clubs and it is possible that Atletico Madrid will also be in the title race next season.

I think Barcelona will feel regret soon after losing this player because finding another player at this level for Barcelona with the time they have is not easy at all and they should hire a player as fast as they can to fill his place. According to data from transfermarkt, João Félix from Atletico Madrid is one option for Xavi and his team for the next season.
However, there are other teams that want to hire João Félix and this play4er is under contract with Atletico Madrid until 2027.

If Real Madrid uses a formation to play like that, then it has become commonplace because many other teams use formations like that too. By using Mbappe, Ancelotti must know very well the skills that Mbappe has, so he gets a formation that is really suitable for Mbappe, but Real Madrid is currently still unsure whether or not to buy Mbappe because there is no further information about Mbappe's purchase at Real Madrid.

this is the more reason why many coaches like being tactical in featuring most of their key players in pre-season matches, to avoid situations like this from occurring, he's a young and talented rising star with good skills and good attacking abilities though his presence wouldn't really be felt because they have other quality and well experienced players that could feature in that position until he recovers from his injuries, but the Realmadrid coach would need such a player like him to feature in other competitions, though 2months might seems like a long time and he'll be so sad to be missing out on the early stages of the tournament where he'll be looking to impress so as to  contend for a spot in the starting 11, but I believe the medical team would work very hard to try and help him recover ever faster than expected, he's a young lad with good talent and his presence could create an impact with the team, Ancelotti would be so sad at this current incident having one of the rising star in his team suffer from a long injury before the season stars and would be looking forwards to having him back to the training ground again

I double doubt Dembele leaving would affect the team negatively, he'll sure be missed no arguments on that but he wasn't part of many games last season as he was Injured for a long period of time.
During big games when creative players like Dembele is required he would be absent. Also, Dembele moving forward would be enough chance for them to sign Joao Felix from Athletico Madrid even though he's brought in on a short term loan deal.

Enrique is a coach that keeps possession and plays faster and tick taka kind of plays. I can remember all he did with Barcelona winning the treble that year with special players like  Lionel Messi, Andreas Inesta, Neymar Junior and also Luis Suarez.

He is still very young, it is not a big problem for him to focus on recovery for 2 months. I'm sure Real Madrid has enough facility to make the recovery goes smoothly. Real Madrid is one of the top clubs in the world, we shouldn't doubt how they will treat Arda. They should try their best to recover Arda's injuried as soon as possible.

Many fans expects to watch Arda Guler to play against Barcelona. Unfortunately, he was absent due to injury problem. People have a big hope that Arda Guler can give something differently in Real Madrid attacking. Arda Guler is a typical offensive midfielder who has an impressive dribbling ability. This may add more power in the attacking field. Well, let's hope that he can join the next El Classio. And he can help Real Madrid to win against Barcelona.

They are the main attackers of Real Madrid now. Don't forget Rodrygo, too.
If they still can't show their best, they are probably adapting each others. Joselu and Bellingham are new players, it should take time for adaptation. Considering they played quite well during the pre season match, I think they can play more solidly later. Defeated by Barcelona in a pre season match is not a good thing, but it doesn't mean Real Madrid has no chance to win against Barcelona in the next season. After that loss, Real Madrid players can take a big lesson and they must evaluate many things.

Well, this young player is even said to be a prodigy on the football field. But yeah, in a player's career, not everything will go smoothly without a hitch. Some obstacles will make him more mature and more careful in the future. He will become one of the important players in European football. (At least that's what I think of him). But waiting 2 months I think is not too long. Because that means he will start to return to the field after the season starts about 1.5 months into it. Yes, he is still young, so he should indeed be able to recover faster than senior players who are old, which means they always spend a longer recovery period than younger players. I hope this young player stays upbeat and doesn't get hit by the injury that befell him. Because after all being at Real Madrid was his dream for a long time. And when all that materialized he had to be tested with injury problems. Of course this will make him sad and also hit with this problem. But fortunately Real Madrid is not too concerned about this problem and has high hopes for this young player.

Since he is young, the healing process may be faster. Arda showed that he would give his all to Real Madrid by pushing too hard in training. Arda's talent is indisputable. I'm sure he'll find his place in the team when he comes back.

The player who will throw the key pass in Real Madrid's matches is Modric. When Modric wasn't doing well in the game, Real Madrid's Vini Jr. option remains. Arda was taken exactly to make up for this shortcoming. We'll see what I said on the field when he gets back. One move and one pass can change the course of the match. Arda is a player who can do just that.

That's a challenge experienced by Real Madrid because they haven't found the right player for their center forward for next season. In fact, if Real Madrid did it in this transfer window, surely they could sign Mbappe, but they didn't.

Thus only the form of formation that they can adjust to find a match for their game for next season. The pre-season match is indeed an experiment for ancelotti to find a strategy for the formation they will apply next season.  So if Real Madrid manages to bring in Mbappe in this transfer window I think they will prefer to use a 4-3-3.

It's a shame that a young player who was expected to bring positive things to this club now has to suffer an injury and keeps him out of action for about 2 months. And even that could be more if the recovery process does not go smoothly. Well I wish the best for this young player and also for the Real Madrid club. I feel that things have not gone smoothly this season for Real Madrid. Even in the pre-season match yesterday, Real Madrid were humiliated by a score of 3-0 by Barcelona. And of course even now Barcelona will be even more comfortable to be able to become the favorite club in Laliga again. But I have high hopes for Joselu, Bellingham and Vinicius Jr. who will be included in the seeded players at the Real Madrid club. And their performance is quite good. I still don't think Real Madrid will be bothered by just this problem. But it would really be great if this problem didn't happen.

I agree with this because seeing from some media, they only fry the news so that their traffic soars especially when the news about Arda Guller is definitely related to Barcelona and Madrid so this will get a lot of attention so it is very natural that they exaggerate this issue.

Now he has to make his condition better. A knee injury is obviously not something that is easy to heal and it takes a bit longer to recover and re-adapt. So in this case he definitely needs time, but when given playing minutes of course he will be given time because he still has to prove himself especially this could also be very good if in the end he becomes one of the figures who can bring Madrid better.
Madrid is a pretty cruel club when it comes to players and competition but when he can prove himself then in this case it is not difficult for him to be in the main squad especially since there are already examples such as Vini and Rodrygo who are now coveted players at a very young age.

The pre-season games are friendly matches, but I think it's also useful to do some experimenting with strategy and formations. For the last 3 matches, Ancelotti did use 2 different formations between 4-1-2-1-2 and 4-3-1-2. Bellingham played as an attacking midfielder in 3 of those matches, but Ancelotti rotated while giving Joselu a chance.

Of the two formations that have been tried, I think 4-3-1-2 is the best to adopt next season, that means Real Madrid doesn't have a number 9 player next season. But I hope it won't be a problem.

Then, the question is whether Ancelotti is not targeting the title in the 2023/2024 season. because to be able to achieve the target they are after, Madrid must bring in a striker who can score at least 20 goals in one season. whether Joselu meets these criteria, this will be a big question for Los Blancos supporters. considering that this season is Ancelotti's last season, he should have spoken out to bring in a more suitable striker for succesor Karim Benzema, even though Joselu is actually a player who graduated from the Madrid academy.

In the previous post, I spoke from Joselu's side. now, I speak from another point of view.
Ideally, Madrid should have a striker like Kane. thus, Vini, Kane, Rodrygo, will be three very sharp strikers. unfortunately, Kane's price is too high for them to bring him to the Santiago Bernabeu. but with Kane around, Madrid have an ideal replacement. so there are a lot of big question marks for Madrid fans, even though the Liga hasn't actually started yet. However, seeing the current conditions, Madrid really need a deadly striker. Joselu hasn't proved it with Madrid, that's why there are many who doubt him. moreover, reportedly this season is Ancelotti's last season because he will coach the Brazilian national team.

IMO, Madrid prioritizes midfielders, even though they need an ideal striker than Joselu. to wait for Mbappe next season, that means Madrid sacrificed this season not to target any trophies. ideally, Madrid fans want Mbappe to leave in this summer's transfer window. some of the rumors that I read, it looks like PSG will offer their star player to Madrid. The thing is, Perez has said that he will not sign another striker. this is interesting, I want to see further developments. my guess is that Madrid and PSG will have a meeting with a more ideal agreement to let Mbappe go. we'll see if it will materialize.

It seems Barcelona is going to have a problem for the next season because they can't have Ousmane Dembélé for the next season and Enrique wanted to have this player on his team that's why PSG spent 50m and activated a private clause which made Dembélé to move PSG.
Surely Xavi was counting on this player for the next season and Dembélé leaving Barcelona damaged this team. There is not much time left for Xavi to find players to fill his place.



https://barcauniversal.com/psg-will-sign-dembele-for-e50-million-by-activating-a-private-clause-romano/