Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 199. (Read 555309 times)

After a great start, Barcelona has fallen behind a lot. The loss to Atletico Madrid and the big change in their position after the loss was almost predictable for many and their prediction was correct. They lost the match at the wrong time and the match against Atletico looks like a nightmare. Despite raising the possibility of winning, they had to lose the match due to lack of finishing.

We may be getting a bigger gap between Barcelona and Real Madrid. The gap with Real Madrid, who are currently in 2nd position, is 1 and the gap with Atletico Madrid, who are in 1st position, is 2. Since Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid have played 1 match less than Barcelona, ​​in this case we may see a gap of 5 and 6 points in the same number of matches, which makes it difficult for Barcelona to regain the top spot. However, Barcelona still has several matches to turn around. Barcelona's consistency could be their main weapon.

Because Barcelona has a better squad than Atletico Madrid, right? Even if Barcelona has decreased, it is still the team favored by the bookies, but see after the end of the season maybe Barcelona can overtake Atletico Madrid again then the betting odds will change between Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Actually, is taking this opportunity worth the long wait?
I'm not really interested in taking the winning odds until the end of the season.

So, Barcelona have been dropped to third place and it's time to check title odds:

Real Madrid - 1.91

Barcelona Fc - 3.00

Atlético Madrid - 4.50

A bit paradoxical, right? Granted, I can understand why Real is higher than Atletico, but why is Barcelona higher than Atletico? After all, the facts show that Barcelona is more susceptible to a decline in results (despite any quality of play).

Real Madrid ended this year with a win and it is expected that they will start with a win in the first match of the year. In the last two matches we have seen many changes in the points table in La Liga. Barcelona was at the top position of the points table from where they moved to the third position of the points table while Atlético Madrid occupied the top position of the points table. Real Madrid is second in the points table with 1 fewer matches played than Atlético Madrid. As Atletico Madrid are competing well this season, the La Liga competition is expected to be great this season. But the minus point for Barcelona is that they have played one match more and their points are less than Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid. Now let's see if Barcelona can come back in the next match or they fall further behind.

Barcelona lost at the wrong time and missed the opportunity to go to the holidays holding on to first place, now they have moved to third place and most likely Atletico and Real will be able to increase their gap with Barcelona even more. For Flick, nothing is over yet, yes, it is difficult to realize that Barcelona had such an impressive advantage, and now can be behind Real by 5 points, in such a short time, but no one said that it would be easy to play against Real.

The victory over Barcelona is a clear proof of Atletico toughness and determination this season, where the victory has led them to temporarily control the top of the La Liga standings, so far Barcelona always continued to dominate the victory over Atletico, so I think the victory is a great achievement that will definitely boost their morale for the next match, previously we saw that Atletico always struggled to maintain their consistency in the league, so I think Simeone needs to fix this in order to remain a candidate and also a challenger to the title this season and no longer repeat their mistakes of the previous seasons.

I also don't feel there is anything different with Real Madrid's strategy. They are still playing with their usual strategy, but what's different now is that they seem to have improved their performance. Mbappe also seems to be getting used to it, which is why he has been scoring more goals lately. Real Madrid really have to be able to take advantage of every opportunity they have because this season looks like it's going to be very tough.

You can say about it with Real Madrid or Atletico Madrid but with Barcelona, it is impossible mission. They have tradition of attacking for many decades and they are not too flexible with tactics like Real Madrid or Atletico Madrid. Being strong or weak, Barcelona are always playing attacking seriously and I agree that it's their weakness by lack of tactical flexibility.

It makes they are more predictable with opponents and it is their self-made disadvantage. Hansi Flick is a good coach and is flexible tactically with Bayern Munich and German national teams. I think he can do it with Barcelona but he must have a green light from Barcelona boss. It's complicated when a head coach wants to change a club's traditional tactics completely. It potentially causes massive critics from the club boss to fans and it can turn to be very negatively against Hansi Flick.

yes, it is certain that Barcelona, ​​after watching Real Madrid's match against Sevilla, will definitely learn from the experience and of course he will not waste any more chances and chances that will come because of course, if for example Barcelona suffers another defeat then it will definitely make it more difficult for Barcelona to rise. their ranking could even drop. In fact, Barcelona has strong and good players, but it's a real shame in this case that Flick still can't make his men perform better and his players' performance always fluctuates, so this is what makes Barcelona always lose because their performance is always inconsistent and of course I'm sure that for example, if Flick can improve and create a better strategy, of course it is not impossible that Barcelona will be able to shift the position of Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid.

Yes, now Real Madrid definitely wants Barcelona to lose again, as well as Atletico Madrid who definitely want Barcelona to lose again and what is certain is that Real Madrid also definitely wants to see Atletico Madrid lose when they compete because they want to become champions this season.

However, in my opinion, we'll see how time answers at the end of the season because what is certain is that these 3 strong clubs are no strangers to competing fiercely until the end of the season and we'll see which club will win the title. Of course, now Diego Simone, Ancelotti and Flick will definitely be more serious in making strategies because of course from now on you definitely can't play games because of course it will be approaching the middle of the season.

Focusing on counterattacks is a good strategy for an attacking team like Barcelona. Usually, clubs who adopt this pattern lose balls easily since they are always in a haste to outsmart the other team. Atletico Madrid was able to maximize the small chances they created from well-planned counterattacks. The host had to pay for the many chances they lost. Some of the shots that Oblak saved were not clinical. The majority of them were shots that went directly to the goalkeeper. Barca lost their last game against Leganes which means they have lost six points on two games.

I don't see it that its really about adjustments in strategies that is getting ancelotti the results already, he's strategy didn't really change it's just some of his players gradually retaining back forma nd then the fact that they were playing against a probably average team and not a really tough contender that will pose so much issues to them so they hot it right at this and mbappes performance was one highlight that got almost every other team mate awake and it's a normal that when the key players in the team is optimal at that particular day, they others would definitely want to do their best to compliment that which is happening.

The last match before the holiday was almost 2 weeks more because of the new year.  Only on January 4 Real Madrid will face Valencia, the other will start on January 11. The result of Barcelona's loss against Atletico may have been predicted by many and the result was correct. This condition worsens Barcelona's condition in La Liga. Although the current condition is still quite a lot of matches to be played and there will still be many surprises to be made. Barcelona may be able to improve the situation with the transfer market. But I am also curious about their financial condition, if they don't have a lot of money, maybe it's useless they can only improve the internal condition of the team and wait for the rest of the injured players.

I don't see Atletico Madrid playing with a good strategy, in fact without Oblak, Atletico Madrid might have conceded a lot of goals. Atletico Madrid players can only rely on counterattacks because they often lose control of the ball, make wrong passes and the only option is to defend using counterattacks. In terms of game quality, I believe that Barcelona is superior in terms of aspects, but because they don't have a reliable executor, in the end what Barcelona does is in vain.

Barcelona played well in the first half and in the second half, just in the first half Barcelona was partly lucky, when they scored the first goal there were several bounces of the ball and eventually two Atletico players prevented each other from blocking Pedri, but in the second half Barcelona was catastrophically unlucky and the same Pedri should have scored at least one more goal, when he was a couple of meters from the goal, but could not hit the ball. Ferran as before stopped scoring. Lewandowski seemed to just disappear and at the end of the half Olmo had a 100% moment, but hit the bar from a couple of meters, and Atletico I think realized all their chances, because Atletico had 2 shots on goal and 2 goals.

Honestly not a deserved defeat for Barcelona and the first home defeat to Atletico in 17 years.

A very surprising thing really happened, Atletico Madrid who are in serious mode in their ambition to win the trophy, have managed to beat Barcelona who are currently the leaders of the standings with a score of 2-1, and with this Atletico Madrid officially shifted their position at the top, but the match is still ongoing, with this victory Atletico Madrid's confidence level will continue to increase.

Something seems wrong with the team at the moment because they have already lost two La Liga games in a row which is bad for a team that was sitting at 1st place not long ago, they are now sitting at 3rd place. Something must be definitely wrong with them because they started well and were scoring a lot of goals that made everyone to believe that they are going to win the title this season. I don’t think they can win the title again they have shown that they are not consistent enough to keep their good form and that is not what title winners do.

The title will be tight this time around and I think it will be between three clubs and not just between Real Madrid and Barcelona, Atletico Madrid are also in form and they are top of the league now after their victory against Barcelona so they are a strong contender in the title race.

The big win achieved by Real Madrid is quite important for the team and the players, this can make the mentality of Real Madrid players will increase and can immediately get out of their slump, I hope so to be able to defend the La Liga title this season.

Apart from the beautiful goal that was created, I highlight the game of the Real Madrid team which was very well organized in this match on all lines and this proves that Ancelotti has succeeded in making changes to the Real Madrid team and this is their real strength, a front line that is quite terrifying and very effective in taking advantage of opportunities, I hope this continues to happen and I am optimistic that Real Madrid can win the title, the problem of a 1 point difference from Atletico Madrid is not difficult as long as Real Madrid can continue to be consistent.

The defeat from Atletico Madrid has knocked them out of the first positions of the current La Liga standings, although they played quite impressively and also created many chances in the match but they failed to make good use of it, I think hansi flick needs to do an in-depth evaluation of their current performance and final finish when playing without yamal, the limping condition of Barcelona was successfully used well by Atletico in the match,  Atletico Madrid showed great effectiveness and performance in their game, so their managed to show a collective game and was able to take advantage of the opportunities that existed, and this shows their ability this season in the title race

Two goals from two great players that I like, make me want to keep playing it. Almost similar to Mbappe and Valverde's goals that made the Sevilla goalkeeper unable to do anything. So hard and fast from a long distance.
Maybe Valverde is jealous of the goal made by Mbappe so Valverde tries to do it.

If it's like this, of course Ancelotti can think of a new strategy. It's just that Real Madrid's weak point that Ancelotti must think about in formulating a strategy in my opinion lies in Lucas Vasquez's position.
The 1-point gap with Atletico Madrid must be well-conditioned so that Mbappe can lift the first trophy in his first season with Real Madrid.

It all depends on how often they continue to lose points, Real and Atletico have beaten them this round, and they still have a game in hand, and Athletic Bilbao are two points away, so even that's not the limit and they can go even lower. They look good in the game, even in the match against Atletico they controlled the whole game, but a few mistakes led to their defeat and this is not an isolated incident, the same thing happened against Leganes and Las Palmas, and this is too often.