Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 2130. (Read 412715 times)

When a player is a franchise , by the way, it is something that football does not take very seriously and has been demonstrated in the history of this sport with very good examples, coincidentally the Barcelona team is one of them...

In that sense, few players in the history of football have received such an honor,  but it's not that there are few such players who earn such a designation, no, especially in teams like Barcelona, ​​it's that they are managerial policies of some teams represented in their directors.

Anyway, the truth of the story here is that Gerard Piqué is undoubtedly the end of that glorious team that managed to form Barcelona with a group of players from its lower divisions, I'm not talking about a specific year, but about these last 20 years.

Yes, we have Héctor Bellerín, Iñaki Peña, Eric García, Sergi Roberto, Gavi and others who join in this new period that begins, but it is the one that is to come, and it will be very difficult to overcome.

IMO with the retirement of Gerard Piqué, of course Jordi and Buquets remain, also as players formed from those initial quarries, but Piqué is if you will from that cycle that includes Messi, without a doubt one of the main reasons for his retirement, not all that shit that is said about his relationship with Shakira, etc. that in a certain way it will have some weight to decision.

Not only does he finish a race also finishes a cycle for FCB, a successful relationship in the last 20 years.

Goodbye! Piqué.

^{P.S. I don't think that in the short term he meets to play with Messi again...but in the future both old for football maybe end up playing in another Galaxy...LA.}

He already had a  great career. and has every possible trophies in his cabinet. Played with legends Messi, Iniesta, Xavi, Alves, Puyol, Busquets, Villa, Suarez, Eto’o, Henry. Even last year playing through injuries to get us to the champions league. Yes this year was the year to much but he made the honorable choice to retire now and not ride out his contract till the end. Helping the club financially in the process.

Well, not sure about Barcelona's debt, because Barcelona have done it many times and even many other players have been kind to Barcelona for example with Miralem Pjanić too.
It looks like if Barcelona can publicize the debt they have then of course it will destroy Barcelona themselves, but so far they seem to be doing well and I don't know why. Debt problem is a big problem but somehow Barcelona are not quick to overcome this, but at the same time Barcelona can recruit and build a luxurious squad, it really surprises me.


Yes, Gerard Pique is a great player in my view too but indeed, I also admit that Gerard Pique can no longer play for much longer. Unlike Thiago Silva who still has super strong power and is still playing in a tough league like the Premier League, but for Gerard Pique he can't force himself to stay strong and move fast. Because after all, Barcelona should have a full regeneration in the squad because Barcelona can't continue to play the old way.


But unfortunately, Gerard Pique has decided to retire which means he will no longer be a professional footballer. Although indeed, if for example Gerard Pique offers himself to another team then surely there are still teams who will be willing to sign Gerard Pique for at least the next one to two seasons.

But I don't know whether it was purely because of his desire to retire or there were other factors that made him choose to retire suddenly like this. Because we know before that there was a case in Spain about Gerard Pique but I didn't follow the case, but maybe because the case triggered Gerard Pique to choose to retire. Maybe, because I also don't know if the case experienced by Gerard Pique was really bad or not.

We are entering the new match week by a Girona - Athletic Bilbao match tonight. The odds are pretty interesting for this match. There is still a big gap between their odds of course but Athletic Bilbao's is like 2.02. This is quite high for a team that have many more points than their opponent and much stronger at the same time.

I wonder if it is related to Athletic Bilbao's recent form. Because they won only once in their last five matches. They finally finished a bad series by a Villarreal win last week. Girona have some potential to be dangerous too though because they stole a point from Real Madrid in Santiago Bernabeu last week. As for the h2h matches, Girona defeated Athletic Bilbao only once. I'm just thinking of giving Athletic Bilbao a chance to win as their odd is quite favourable too.

Apparently the fact that Betis can not beat Sevilla on their field for 4 years and gives that odds, no other coherent arguments.
Betis is much stronger now, won 3 games in a row, unlike Sevilla, who lost their last 2 matches. Moreover, Sevilla lost to a young Manchester City squad.
Although usually bookmakers don't just put odds, so maybe this time Sevilla won't let Betis win for 5 years in a row. 

LaLiga is and will always be a strong competition that has nothing to prove in my opinion as every year Spanish teams are fighting for European Titles and almost every year ,one of it wins something.

I'm thinking to place a bet on Girona 1st goal against BIlbao or both teams to score in either half ? I don't see Bilbao taking 3 points today and consolidate their 6th position in LaLiga because Girona has a great squad overall , that had some bad games and some bad luck when they played against top 4 in LaLiga so tonight might be that game when they score first and then continue by winning the game. Anyway, I still have some time to reflect on this bet and take a decision but this game specifically caught my attention today.

In fact, as strong as we think Real Madrid is, it is based on the performance of the entire La Liga. But we have to see that they only do well against weaker teams. How strong Real Madrid is will be understood when they can defeat teams like Chelsea, Manchester City, Liverpool.

Definitely he has done at good time with his current form which is not helping him and his team so most are feeling a good decision from his side for his team and himself because as he was doing most chances this can end in negative way he announces which is surely acceptable, and now he is going to play his last game on 5th November at Camp Nou against Almeria it's also good for Barcelona in another way as now they could be able to save good amount as he was also one of the highest paid player in this club and now with this money they can do better things.

His performance and achievements could be remembered for long time in Barcelona even many are feeling there were issues with him and many other stars but now all going to end, and surely he is going to start his new life which is going to be completely change as now he can't join here.

Yes I know that, but I emphasize their midfield here. Indeed now they have young players for the midfield position, but they are still dependent on the 2 senior players, on the front lines they are still very dependent on Karim Benzema. I realize this is a process, and it's not going to be fast enough. I hope they are braver again to rotate in every game, maybe they can do when facing a weak team. It's not meant to be trivial, but it's to minimize risk.

Pique has a very long history with barcelona. That's good to see that the time for him to leave from there is coming. His missions already completed in barcelona and he may need to find another club that may need his service. I guess if he can go to the another domestic league other than la liga. He has a very good track record with barcelona and im sure if another club may try to consider him. It seems like this is his decision was coming after he aware if barcelona doesn't need him anymore.
He has only become a backup for the main squad in barcelona. I can't deny the regeneration is a must for the club to be able to get the new seed that will become a talented player like him in the future.

Even this is shocking news about Barcelona is another season exit from Champions League with poor result but as right now they are under development and doing good things for having long time better future their main focus was La Liga where right now they are second with just one point behind leaders Real Madrid things looking not easy for them as their performance is also not at his best with too many quality players in their squad Xavi is doing his best for having positive development hopefully things could be good in next few weeks or after the World Cup break because mostly teams started at their best from January which give better impression how it will be they going to be ended in this season here they are still capable for having top rank, but they have to improve performance as well.

Barcelona will miss one of their good player this weekend. Gerrard pique have done his best for the team and he's also one of the old players in the club. He's a good defender with lengthy height but hes getting old and he can't cheat nature with punishau mistakes he causes in defendlines. The team will miss him and this weekend game happens to be his last game for barça before he exits the team. His teammates will give him his regards as senior player, and he would gladly impressed the fans with incredible performance.

On the one hand, an expected decision, on the other, he chose an unexpected time for this - not at the end of the season, but at the end of the calendar before the World Cup. I don't know why he needs it, but now it will be the most discussed news until the very beginning of the World Cup. Plus, there is another big news that he has forgiven the debts that Barcelona owes him. Maybe in total this will lead to some third big news?

Regarding Barcelona's failure to qualify for the last 16 of the Champions League due to being eliminated from the competition in the group stage, it is okay if Xavi Hernandez is used as the object to be blamed this season and next season if a similar incident occurs again because Barcelona's playing time is still very lacking in this season. european competition. But later when the age of the players I mentioned is over 22, then we will see how Xavi has contributed in building a new generation of Barcelona.

Likewise, Barcelona's defeat of Real Madrid in the El Clasico match. The average Barcelona players today do not understand how the history of El Clasico happened. We only see the figure of Xavi who is busy on the touchline shouting instructions to the players while the Barcelona players look relaxed. Regardless of the quality of Real Madrid players in controlling the game at that time.

We have to be sure that Xavi is working on a long-term project at Barcelona.

Bilbao will playing away against Girona today that actually Bilbao in the good shape after back to winning track because win from Villarreal last week but home team too cannot be underestimated because Girona has playing well and can able to stole point at Real Madrid home ground so it proven Girona can playing well while against strong teams and in this match too not impossible Girona will became the team who hard to defeated by Bilbao
Regarding bet option i noticed Girona is the team who almost always scoring goals from each matches although they cannot win from it even so with Bilbao as one of dark horses team Bilbao also quite productive this season so regardless who is the winner of this match but both of them possibly will be scoring goals each other and both teams to scores probably good for this match

I'm sure a lot of people are aware of the shocking news about Gerard Pique having announced his retirement in the near future, but I'm not really that surprised and maybe it's a good choice for Pique. Because if Pique continues to play with a declining performance then it will also not be good for Pique, so before Pique has something worse like an injury or something else it would be better to retire sooner and not have to wait any longer.

Because on several occasions Pique has only become a substitute, because even though Pique retires, in fact Pique will not be completely separated from the world of football. So yes, having a lot of skills then choosing to retire is also not a bad thing, but according to the news I got the first time that the match against Almeria was his last match for Pique.



But after I checked again, it turned out that Xavi confirmed the match against Osasuna was Pique's last match. But anyway this week or next week it is the end of Pique's career as a professional footballer, and I wish Pique success out there he is a great player and I idolized him for a long time.

Problem faced by Barcelona not depending with how many star player have but mentality winning against with bigger team still difficult found right now, comparison between la liga and champion league performance contrast how consistent perform with domestic league. There are have Bayern and Inter make Barcelona difficult to win actually bad result achievement against with Bayern, seems when Barcelona facing with bigger team they loss strategy games play but easy to win 10 of 12 games at domestic league facing with small team.

Not enough consistent only needed right now but also how mentality winning when Barcelona face with rival team like Real Madrid after loss at the first meeting, still have second meeting at Camp Nou if want to get La Liga tittle have to know how to beat Real Madrid.

Betis have a quite big odd in their Sevilla match like 2.20. Sevilla are doing really bad in the league this season and Betis are one of the contenders for top 4. I don't think that Sevilla have much chance in this match. Betis couldn't defeat Sevilla home in the league for 4 years. Maybe this is one of the factors why Betis' odd is this much high now.

However I still expect Betis to win this match. Sevilla still have a long way to go before winning this kind of tough matches.

True, in the Champions League Barcelona are not as vicious as in La Liga, defeats are so easy to come by which makes them have to be eliminated from the Champions League in the group stage. It seems that Barcelona has not been able to move on from last season's failure, Xavi, who is expected to be able to take Barcelona further in the Champions League, is unable to meet expectations.

While in La Liga Barcelona is still capable of being the toughest competitor of Real Madrid, in the standings Barcelona is only one point adrift of the leader of the standings. Barcelona still has a chance to win La Liga this season, what Xavi needs to do is to maintain the appearance and mentality of his players to always give the best performance. The quality of the squad that Barcelona has this season can still compete with Real Madrid, the defeat in El Clasico is the only defeat that Barcelona have just received in La Liga. Xavi must continue to maintain the opportunity to get his first trophy as Barcelona coach.

Well that's right, strategy is the key in every match. If we flash back when Barcelona didn't win against Inter or other top teams, Barcelona team's ball possession was higher rather than other teams. They can always control the match but they are unlucky to take their chances to score, midfielders are strong but their defense is often inconsistent, Xavi's strategy against top teams focus too much on attack.