Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 2714. (Read 541721 times)

Barcelona have incredible statistics at the moment - almost 90% of points scored, but the seasons when the team shows such indicators for the whole season are very rare. All clubs have recessions and if Barcelona lose points during their recession, Real Madrid will be able to catch up with it. If Barcelona win games during their recession (hard but win) like they have in recent difficult games, they will take the title.

A comfortable match awaits Real Madrid next week. It is against Elche in Santiago Bernabeu. Elche are like the most miserable team in the league now. They have newly got their first win by beating Villarreal. This was quite unexpected though but I don't expect this win to change anything for them soon. At least in the Real Madrid match, they would be desperate. Real Madrid have had difficult days recently. We have seen them losing points in very unexpected matches.

The loss versus Mallorca was a good example for this. Benzema was injured though but they were still a strong team. I expect the players to make up for this by beating Elche.

Barca gradually took control of the match after playing evenly for a while in the first half. However, Jordi Albara did not get a goal despite attacking one after another. After attacking in the first half, Barcelona continued to play under a lot of pressure in the second half after failing to score any goals. Then in the 58th minute of the game, Jordi Albara scored a great goal next to Busquets. Sevilla wasted the equalizer two minutes later. Xavi doubled the gap in the 70th minute of the game.  Rafinha passed a few players to Xavi inside the D-box before the Spanish midfielder slotted the ball into the Xavier net. After 9 minutes Jordi Albara's cross was put into the net by Rafinia Sevilla. After that, no other team could score, Barca won 3-0. Barcelona retained the top spot in La Liga with a fifth straight win.

Barcelona will focus on La Liga more than any other competition from now on, especially as their remaining matches are easier than the remaining matches of their closest competitor Real Madrid. However, Villareal isn't an easy opponent to defeat, whereas they have beaten Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid this season, but they don't show stable performance, so I agree that Barcelona will have a great advantage in this match.

Barcelona performance in the game was great which came out with 3 goals , their was no sign of struggling for Barcelona.  It feel so good to see Barcelona doing well and working hard to see that they win the league.  Xavi has done more than enough for Barcelona for transforming the team into this good form.

Next time Barcelona are playing against Villarreal in an away game. I don't know if this can be the game Barcelona finally lose points. Villarreal can't beat Barcelona in a home game for a long time. Besides Villarreal aren't having good days recently. They even lost to Elche which are the last-placed team in the league. This is Elche's only win in the season now.

While interesting things are happening about Villarreal I remember their home game against Real Madrid as well. This makes me think like if they can get another surprising result against a big team. But it feels like Barcelona will get another win.

Xavi take the barcelona job in really heavy heart ... he know that it won't be easy and could be a disaster for his managerial career as the possibility to fail at the worst condition of barcelona really high that time , and you know what ... he proven to win against the odds!

He successfully maintain the first position at the domestic league now!

This match was surely very interesting. Lots of goals in this match. And even a red card was there in the end as the cherry on top. I honestly did not think that Real Betis is actually going to lose this match. Because I thought they are performing better. At least they had better form compared to their opponent going into this match. But now things have drastically changed. Right now Real Betis has quite a bad form. And they have to upgrade and improve their performance. Otherwise, they are going to go further down the table.

And if we talk about this match, this match was full of fireworks and some very incredible goals we got to see in this match. Especially the first one that was scored to break the deadlock.

It is undeniable that Barcelona can continue to deliver impressive performances this season and that cannot be separated from the role of coach Xavi who continues to provide formations, tactics and motivation for Barcelona players. The duet of Pedri and Gavi also cannot be taken lightly in every game, they are both always one of the main pillars of attack and defense in the Barcelona midfield, the stamina and discipline of these two young players deserve appreciation.

Meanwhile, Real Madrid is still struggling with its players who are currently in bad condition and it is very difficult to be able to create opportunities in every game, but it is not uncommon for the finishing of Real Madrid players to be far from good in the last few matches. Ancelotti seems to have resigned himself to the current state of his team and it looks like in the summer transfer market they will have to buy new players to add game options so that they are more feasible and develop.

After the international break we saw Villarreal putting up a good fight with a nice start but suddenly they flopped, villareal has under performed lately, very inconsistent, they team is expected to get well soon if not they will slide down more in the league table so they really have to do team work both in the mildfield central back and attack in other to get it right and return to the winning table.

I don't remember what was among the risks of Xavi, I think he just did what he was supposed to do. The management of the club did not make a mistake with the choice, because unlike the usual coach, he played for this club, he had a great career and team composition in those days, he has something to look up to and strive for, of course he does not want Barcelona to be somewhere in the bottom of the standings

Being in Barcelona is indeed the right decision in this case, on the other hand this is an easy bet indeed because seeing in any case Barcelona is superior from all aspects in this match.
A big enough score happened and this is clearly very good for Barcelona. With this result their gap is much bigger than before and they are quite comfortable in the top position now.
But on the other hand now maybe their schedule will be more packed, Xavi has to make some adjustments now so that the players are not overly portioned because they still have several competitions to follow.

I also didn't expect Real Madrid to lose aswell I even bet for them knowing that this is going to be an easy win for them, but sadly it wasn't, it turns out that Mallorca's goalkeeper Predrag Rajkovic was most likely good at what he does best, and guarding the net is his expertise, Sadly Real Madrid Nacho got a mistake when he accidentally gets an own goal that turns for the Mallorca efficiently all Mallorca did was focus on defense, and they have won the game,


And it was a good risk that he made, regarding Barcelena's performance now it is really worth the risk, they made an adjustment and even not making any mistakes and keeping their cool together, but 1 thing that I have noticed is they are not using Lewandowski in getting so many goals, I really think they are not used in making some plays with Lewandowski, or they just don't want to risk their all to Robert Lewandowski, which is if they can manage to incorporate Lewandowski in their offense, because right now Barcelona's defense was pretty much solid,

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Right now there is 1 game today that is starting and this is my pick,

Rayo Vallecano VS UD Almeria

The stake odds for this game are 1.89 for Vallecano, 3.55 for a draw, and 4.40 for Almeria, Right now both Óscar Valentín and Rubén de Tomás, are doubtful if they can play for Vallecano, while it doesn't matter because their Main players are just OK while Almeria doesn't have any injured, but surely Rayo Vallecano have proven time to time that they are on the top than Almeria so my pick is Rayo Vallecano,

Barcelona beat Sevilla yesterday in convincing style. Barcelona dominated the whole match and it was only a matter of time before they scored. I must praise the often criticized Franck Kessi, who replaced the injured Busquets in the opening minutes and played a very good match. The 3-0 score reflects the difference that was seen on the pitch. Thanks to this victory, Barcelona are already 8 points ahead of Real Madrid and it must be admitted that at this stage of the season it is a big advance.

The only strange thing is that Lewandowski has not scored a goal. His statistic is 14 goals in 17 games, so there are maybe 13-16 goals missing to be sure hes is the best top scorer in the season. Barcelona now won 10 games in a row and only one more game on Sunday against FC Villarreal and then it's Champions League. I see Barca's defence and extreme strength. Only 7 goals conceded in 20 games, that scares everyone else.

Betis - Celta Vigo game was amazing this week. Who could have thought that it would end by a goal duel like that. Moreover Celta Vigo even won the away game by 4-3.

Normally Betis were the absolute favourite side to win the game. But they were also terrible at defending in this game. Betis' second goal was a lovely one by the way as there was such a great organization before. In the same way, Celta Vigo's last goal was also incredible by a great header. Betis wasted two big chances while the score was 4-3 also. By the way I'm indecisive about whether the red card shown to Luiz Felipe was right. Because I didn't see any hit in the face. Of course he still hit a point on his body but it seemed like yellow card might have been better for that. I don't know maybe I'm wrong, it depends on what the rule book says.

The hope now is that Barcelona should achieve some underwhelming results in their remaining matches because indeed saying no way I think this is too much but when Madrid are now unable to put in a good game it will be even more difficult for them.
Now Barcelona's condition really has the upper hand but a storm could come at any time.

It is indeed time for Barcelona to win the La Liga title again, because Barcelona has gone through three seasons without winning the La Liga title. This season Barcelona has indeed had a very good performance in La Liga because Barcelona also has a goal machine, and at the same time Real Madrid has lost its best form this season.
Therefore, I personally believe that this season Barcelona will be able to win the La Liga title, and hopefully Xavi can bring this good trend to the Europa League as well.

Beyond the expectation Madrid could only go home with zero points. I think the worst result is a draw. Real Madrid is very difficult to make opportunities. Asensio made things worse with a failed penalty. If I were Anceloti I would immediately play Modric when the initial 30 minutes of the game have not changed. They had already guessed Benzema's absence and guarded Vinicius strictly. In fact they always stop Vini with fouls. Evidently Madrid got a penalty but failed. This makes Madrid's struggle even tougher, they are at odds of 8 points with Barcelona.

In my opinion apart from that, Real Madrid's current condition seems to be caused by a lack of competition between players, you can see that the reserve players also cannot compete with the core players. So there is continuous dependency from Real Madrid's management who don't want to add new players for competition between players.

Madrid's struggles this season are only runners up. To become a Laliga champion is no longer possible. A painful defeat for El Real plus eternal rival Barcelona successfully won in another match.