Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 272. (Read 545201 times)

The season haven’t even been halved and as such, there is still every tendency that, just any team would drop points before the end of the season and that includes Real Madrid and Barcelona. The teams we expect either of these giants to beat easily are the teams they end up loosing to.
Look at how Real Sociedad did beat Barcelona. The same Real Sociedad that couldn’t get a goal against Osasuna while playing at home. It’s always like that, you get to lose when you least expected and it doesn’t depend on what’s the most difficult fixtures you’ve got for now.

Do you think Madrid won't drop points again? Even if Madrid and Barca are on the same points now with Madrid having a game in hand, I don't think Barcelona should panic because Madrid will drop a lot of points. As it stands, Madrid is closer to being overtaken by Atletico Madrid than they are to catching up with Barcelona. Madrid has not won against a formidable opponent this season. They drew with Atletico Madrid, lost to Lille, lost to Barcelona and Ac Milan. So I don't think Madrid is in the right form to take the league from Barcelona this season. Before the end of the year, I bet Madrid will still drop points in at least 2 league matches, and things are getting worse for them because more of their players keep getting injured. It's not looking good for Madrid tbh.
I know the kind of team they are and they can turn their season around but the words coming out from Carlo Ancellotti are not reassuring.

Also, anybody who has been following La liga knows that a loss at Anoeta is not a surprise loss. Then when you look at the fact that Barcelona had issues with Yamal and Olmo's fitness.
Like I've always said, the only thing that can stop Barcelona from winning the la liga this season are injuries.

It happens with VAR a lot and when a goal is denied by VAR team then a referee, there are people who feel happy and others feel disappointed. It's reality they must face with in football, with or without VAR, there will be hard decisions to make by a referee and it won't never satisfy all two teams in a match.

Barcelona have to accept it, move on but they have to analyze this defeat in order to prepare better for future matches. Losing a match is bad but it is not nightmare that only comes if you lose a battle. Losing a battle means losing La Liga trophy and in fact Barcelona are leading in La Liga and their chance to win La Liga title is good now.

Real Madrid can be able to reduce the gap to only 3 points, which is good but with many injured players, Real Madrid potentially will lose more points in future too. Assume they can reduce their point difference after this match, they will need to play carefully and avoid losing more points in future before their injured players return to their squad.

Always interesting conditions. There are events that are difficult to predict in football. Barcelona's defeat is difficult to predict. Although the referee declared offside, many media said that Lewandowski was not offside. The analysis of semi-automatic VAR teams in La Liga has been questioned. Even if that happens, it seems that the final result cannot be changed. Barcelona still lost, luckily they still have a large point difference.

The 6-point gap and Barcelona's defeat slightly favored Madrid. Madrid is certainly easier to chase. These 2 weeks are international breaks, maybe the players will defend their country. This condition is good for rest but bad maybe because it can result in injury. It is also possible that their fitness will decrease.

Zero shot on target for Barcelona against Real Sociedad , is this the Barcelona that we are expecting to win the La Liga league this season? I was not surprised by the defeat because I know that Lamin Yamal is Barcelona's key player and in any game that Yamal does not play Barcelona always struggles in the match, many Barcelona fans are complaining that the goal Lewandowski scored was not offside and the goal should be awarded, the VAR said it was an offside and nothing to do about it, Barcelona scores the goal that was disallowed in 14 minutes of the game and that will not affect them from scoring another goal from the remaining minute, Barcelona has been scoring many goals this season in a single match but against Real Sociedad they become a team that can't play a single shot on target.

Football is the best and most entertaining sport in the world, last week Barcelona fans were laughing at Real Madrid fans and this week Real Madrid fans are the ones Laughing at Barcelona fans, this shows that football is an unpredicted event no matter how good a team is there will be a team that will play well against the team, Barcelona is ahead of Real Madrid with 6 points and Real Madrid have one match to play against Valencia, from my observation I think La Liga have come back to a normal League again, Barcelona should learn how to play without Yamal or else they will struggle and even find it difficult to win the League trophy.

The defeat suffered by Barcelona at Real Sociedad's home has at least given space for rival teams to reduce their points gap with Barcelona, ​​especially for Real Madrid who have not played their 13th match of the season so Real Madrid must be able to take advantage of that in order to reduce their points gap with Barcelona who are still solid at the top of the standings at this time. But for this week all teams can make important evaluations because there are no matches in La Liga except for one match in the Copa Del Rey.

What's the point of having all star players if they can't perform? PSG was having Messi, Neymar, Mbappe and any other popular players, but they have never able to win Champions League. Barcelona will become a champion this season, but Real Madrid still have a chance to fight in Champions League.

Barcelona is already improved a lot, they're no longer a team that can't perform without Messi.

Yes, this victory is very important to get and in the future Real Madrid must be able to get more win consistently to be able to continue to save full points to catch up with Barcelona who are in first place with 33 points and Real Madrid only have 27 points which means they are 2 win behind Barcelona.
Even Real Madrid is only 1 point away from Atletico Madrid and the only good chance that can make the position more comfortable is to win the 1 postponed match they have, but before that they must continue to improve the quality of their performance to be more stable.

I totally agree with you. Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti admits that he cannot use his players properly. In addition, Madrid's attacking players are fairly good, but the defense is very weak, which can have a negative effect on a team. Despite the abundance of star players there is a lack of coordination among them especially Mbappe who does not have a role to backup a star player as a result of which he does not see goals despite his efforts.
Barcelona's situation looks a lot like Madrid's after losing against Sociedad. As a team Barca are very strong but their 1-0 loss to Sociedad proved that they too have weaknesses and need to improve. Yes of course Madrid still have a chance and if they can win the next matches they can get equal points with Madrid.

Yes, it was indeed surprising that Barcelona lost against Real Sociedad, yes, because Barcelona before the match against Real Sociedad, Barcelona always appeared very impressive and indeed this was a big surprise for some people to see Barcelona defeated by Real Sociedad. I also predict the same as you because I also see that Imanol is using strategy and tactics so that he doesn't lose when playing against Barcelona, ​​or at least being able to draw is also a good thing considering that the opponent Real Sociedad is facing is a strong opponent, but yes, because of technique. What Imanol made was very good which ultimately made Real Sociedad win the match.

Barcelona's attacks are of course usually very good but of course in that match I also saw that there was something different from usual, but of course at that time Real Sociedad's defenders were indeed very strong and that is what caused Barcelona to have difficulty scoring goals and difficulty shooting the ball on target. .

Indeed, currently Barcelona is still safe because it still sits at the top of the standings and of course I also predict that Barcelona will certainly have the potential to rise quickly because of course in terms of mentality it will remain intact because Barcelona is still at the top of the standings. of course in the next match Celta will face Barcelona and of course in that match we will see whether Barcelona will succeed or not in beating Celta, ​​but I predict that Barcelona will win in that match and Barcelona should be able to score lots of goals in that match. but if for example in that match Barcelona loses or draws of course that is a sign that Barcelona's performance is declining of course Flick is not good at improving Barcelona and of course that will make it difficult for Barcelona to potentially become champions because of course Real Madrid will also try to shift Barcelona's position which is currently sitting at the top of the standings.

Barcelona have poor performance when defeating by Real Sociedad last match after difficult scoring goals and not create any one shots on target yet during 90 minutes, its first time for Barcelona can't scoring one goals yet after success winning above four or five goals every matches in domestic league and UEFA Champion League match. Lamine Yamal injury have crucial for Barcelona because without him difficult for scoring goals and Robert Lewandowski not get any assists yet and another side Raphinha have performed well every match get drop his perform when facing Sociedad.

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However, Barcelona still lead the first standings position with 6 points remaining from Real Madrid have one match left, if Madrid win their postponed match against Valencia make interested the top standings position with three points left and surely the La Liga race keep up after Barcelona losing three points from Real Sociedad last match.

I disagree with your opinion that Barcelona's squad is better than Real Madrid's just because Real Madrid's performance has declined a bit lately, if you look at it as a whole, Real Madrid actually has a better squad, it's just that Ancelotti hasn't found the right strategy to manage his star players so they don't seem to find chemistry with each other since the arrival of star player Mbappe, just look when Ancelotti has found the right tactics I'm sure Barcelona will have a hard time facing Real Madrid, even this season we can't fully speculate whether Barcelona will win the title this season because Real Madrid still has a chance to defend its title.

But how should a team score a goal if they haven't had a single shot on target? It's all good that you think Barcelona should have won the game because they are superior on paper, but there is no winning a game if the opponent's goalkeeper doesn't have to defend the ball a single time in the whole game?

Ball possession was ok, but Real Sociedad didn't give a damn about it. They didn't care because they noticed that Barcelona couldn't make it through their defense and they had their relatively early goal already secured. There was no need for them to open up and Barcelona consequently had high ball possession, but that was it.

I was actually thinking they will have a single goal in that game atleast at the beginning of secondhalf but I gave up after 10 mins of second half I mean shared point could have been good but losing 3 points will make them work harder if they don't want to mess things up.. Pedri tried, but his effort was made unknown by kunde and Raphinha, most of his passes were to kounde but kounde was just wasting it either he gets dispossessed or he plays to the hand of opponent.  The game was rough a little itsel, each time a foul is made refree disregard it most especially when it's Barcelona being fouled but Barcelona keep looking for favours despite knowing the refree won't (that was the most annoying part of Barcelona game yesterday).. whenever there's foul continue play, don't wait for the refree to give you the merit... instead they only kept complaining while the opponent continues with the ball to their post (so ridiculous  ).

Real Madrid football team performance is at the top and all players are doing good because they won last match one handed and opponent team could not do any goal in this match. Osasuna players have to focus on their game if they want to be successful in next matches. Real Madrid has second position in points table which is better than Osasuna but Osasuna has also not low position because they are at 5 position and has 21 points  and Real Madrid team has 27 points . Júnior was the top performer of this match and he did 3 goals in this match and that was extraordinary thing in this match and we saw that player has bright future and will di excellent in next matches.

If they can sustain such level up to the final matches and give attention to every match, they will be in a position to narrow down the ladder towards Barcelona. There are basic factors to note including consistency and sheer rigidity of working to secure success including noticing times that definite competitors are bound to lose point in specific games. The chances of starting successive winning will enhance our standings and that is always good for the team to work hard and make the best out of the chances they get.

Barcelona's performance in that match was very different and I think they deserved to drop points, but not for 3 points. I mean, Barcelona should have scored a goal in that match but they failed to develop their game throughout the match and almost lost all creativity.

Without Lamine Yamal, I think Barcelona's scheme in building attacks is very different. Raphinha continues to fail, as do many other players including Lewandowski, Pedri and Kounde. In fact, all these players were so good before when they secured a 2-5 win against Red Star in the Champions League. But perhaps, the players feel tired after many matches.

VAR have full control of what's going on in the system, they make the decision and finalized everything on the pitch. On the records, Hansi Flick is upset with the team's result this past weekend because this shocking defeats disrupts his plans of making excellent strategy towards winning next game this season. Barcelona should exempt from the positive impact of giving their pre-eminent rival, Real Madrid hope for the league title because any slight close angle, it means problem and hurdle for Barcelona. Real Sociedad nailed Barcelona yesterday with a narrow 1 nil victory at home and you consider that it to be comfortable win? Absolutely not because Barcelona was not in form or their performance was poor, it was hardlock that ruined everything.

Honestly, I think he just wants to avoid literally what just happened, injuries. He does put players in bench quite often when he thinks the opponent isn't as strong, and he believes even a few bench players in would be fine, after all he is not making full squad rotation, he keeps most of the main squad in there, just bench a few players and he hopes to avoid injuries due to getting fatigue from playing so many games.

This sort of didn't work out in the end for this one, because not only the players were injured, both Yamal and Lewandowski got injured, but also Barcelona lost the game as well. I am not really expecting the same to happen again though, this is a rare sight and I am pretty sure that we are not going to see this again neither. I believe the best way to move forward for them would be just ignore this loss, and focus on the future. They had so many great games so far, specially the most recent Real Madrid game, they need to remember who they are.

Barcelona unexpectedly lost points again when they were really favorites to win the match. Their performance in the away game against Real Sociedad was very unusual, of course I saw it very differently. They failed to build much of an attack and this was very unusual compared to many of their previous matches. Pedri and all the other players including Raphinha were not in their best form throughout the match and this is clearly because Sociedad has a good defense.

Losing 3 points in week 13 makes the points gap between Barcelona and Real Madrid increasingly narrow, meaning that Real Madrid has automatically reduced the points gap with Barcelona by 3 points now. Real Madrid has 1 match in hand and it could be used perfectly to reduce the points gap with Barcelona again. If in the end Real Madrid wins, then the gap between the two teams will only be 3 points, but I think Barcelona will improve in the next match, especially after the international break.