Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 2774. (Read 542139 times)

They have not just won but also keep a clean game with allowing opponents scoring and tearing up the defense tonight, one must admit that Barcelona are gradually regaining themselves from the problems and setbacks they found themselves with Koeman as coach of Barcelona.
The win last night wasn't enough but that's a good game still making preparations for the big meet up again Manchester United.
That game will be on Le of the best test for Xavi to test how good tactics he has in Europe.

I agree with you, and sometimes i feel that the elimination from the champoins league is a helpful think because this way the team will be forced to focus on La liga, getting the title this year will be the best cure for them to forget what happened to them in the previous seasons

We all know that Barcelona is still trying to recover from past misfortune and in doing that, their performance may not be up to the expectation, but even with one goal it still makes a big difference for Barcelona who is fixing its team to meet up with other stronger clubs squad this season.
Most of the clubs in the same zone as Barcelona are not performing up to what Barcelona is doing presently and also I am not disputing the fact that alot more need to be done in their next match to sustain a good temple for consistent performance for Barcelona ahead of this season final stage of the premier league.

Sure, the most important is the win, not the number of goals. But with 1 goal only, it means a lot that Barcelona is not very effective at attacking. Although Real Sociedad only played with 10 players since minute 40', Barcelona only can make 1 goal. I feel something wrong with Barcelona attacking, their attackers look to have less of accuracy. Xavi must fix this problem, so they won't have a problem when they play in the next El Classico or the other big matches.

The match has ended with barcelona winning the game 1-0 against real sociedad. Real sociedad is a difficult opponent for barcelona. Barcelona has more than 75% of ball possessions but it was making only a few shots on target. Only 1 shot being able to be converted into the score for barcelona. that being said that if barcelona goes to the next round. Xavi may be feeling so good with the result of barcelona even though if barcelona was winning the game with small score.

In my opinion, Barcelona is much better and stronger than in the previous season. Xavi has brought Barcelona to get better condition. We also know how their struggle to be in the top standing of La Liga right now. Although sometimes, their consistency is lost,, Xavi can still able to manage their team very well. They have some strong players in the squad with Xavi as the coach. Although their strength may not be as strong as the Messi era at that time, we can see how the progress of this team so far. So, it is not really surprising if Barcelona can win the trophy. For La Liga itself, we are still unpredictable about who will win the match and bring the trophy this season, between Barcelona and Real Madrid. We still have the time.

I am from Real Madrid, but I also have to admit that the Spanish Super Cup was won very well by Barcelona and I liked it, I hope they continue like this, this makes all of Ancelotti's players and even Ancelotti himself react much more, they have to to be more confident, Benzema scored a goal almost out of pure rage, that rage should have been channeled into making better dribbles and more goals, I saw Vini Jr as very lost, he would run like he was crazy, and he couldn't stop, I also saw many inconsistencies in the passes of Real Madrid, I did not see that the forwards understood each other, it is curious, Man City lost for the PL and Real Madrid in the super cup, it is something that I had to assimilate on that day.


Well, as for the Copa del Rey, I think that this time Real Madrid will not miss the opportunity, because they have it saved for Barcelona for having lost in the Super Cup of Spain, however, they cannot claim victory yet, it is obvious that now Barcelona is playing with everything it has to continue in first place in the League, that is something that is very obvious and that is obvious, however Ancelotti with all his experience must change the strategy he is carrying out and it is that leaving everything to play the final of the games is not working for him, I think that now the strategy must go in which the whole team manages its energies in an adequate way so as not to suffer wear and tear.

Xavi plays it:

Xavi makes public transfer plea after Arsenal fail with £53million move




Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/xavi-barcelona-arsenal-martin-zubimendi-29042143

Indeed, there is a possibility that with 11 players Real Sociedad will be able to make this match a draw, because their defense is very solid. Even with 10 players this team is hard to beat, Barcelona can only score one goal and yeah I agree Barcelona probably won't be satisfied with this result, there are many missed good opportunities.
Another match in the Copa del Rey Osasuna vs Sevilla, although Sevilla dominated the match but Osasuna was lead, the score now is 1-0.

Red cards come in every games when it's necessary; there's nothing to feel biased about... Just think of these: if it were Barcelona that got carded, what would you describe that?(assuming they are winning already and they got carded?)?....
The game was tough, -- at some point, I wasn't actually seeing a winner -- but that was to my own discretions anyways. They've narrowly qualified for the next round which would need a better performance than the one from earlier today. They'll be playing against Girona, then betis... But let's see who has the win.

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No matter what the score is, it doesn't matter. The goal was victory and their final result was qualifying. As usual, Barcelona's problem was not able to penetrate the Sociedad defense that piled up many players in the defensive area. This proved that Barcelona could only make a goal in the 52nd minute. Sociedad also played with 10 men as Mendez was red-carded. Perhaps if there hadn't been a red card the match would have been different, Barcelona might have been harder to win.
I think Pedri and Gavi in this match are players who deserve good grades. The role in the midfield makes Barcelona's game lively. As for Lewandoski, he's also good if I'm not mistaken he's capable of making about four shots.

The Copa Del Rey match organized by the Spanish federation is generally very different from La Liga, when Barcelona was able to compete with several clubs that contributed to the league, Barcelona was very good and finally Barcelona managed to win and advance to the semifinals. Barcelona's achievements are currently starting to recover and will be famous again.

Barcelona's match against Real Sociedad is over.
A good result for Barcelona even though they won narrowly in this match, but I like Sociedad's performance too even though they lost.
Losing 1 player left them in disarray and I personally feel that if there had not been a red card this game would have been a bit longer as it went into extra time.
But with this result Barcelona qualify for the next round.

Yep, missing Lewandowski made Barcelona difficult to score against Getafe. It indicates they rely on Lewandowski to score, it is not a good sign for Barcelona. Their opponents will focus on surrounding Lewandowski to prevent the goals. And Barcelona will always get difficulties in scoring whenever Lewandowski gets injured. Since the season is still quite far from the end, ideally Barcelona needs another strong CF to deal with the potential problems.

In the match against Real Sociedad, Barcelona made many shot attempts again. But unfortunately, they only can score 1 goal. However, we can see clearly Lewandowski factor in Barcelona game.

I may go all in for both clubs straight winning over the weekend and stake a good amount on the, I am sure that both Everton and Real Madrid will win in their various match slated for the weekend,  most especially now that their facing a lesser evil sociedad as a club doesn't have what it take to give it opponent a tough fight so the match will be seamlessly won. Judging also from the odds provided by bookmakers you will see that both clubs are given smaller odds and that is a pointer to what to expect in the match.

Brais Mendez's red card can be the difference in this match. If Sociedad were to play with 11 players I can still be sure they will maximize the draw but when they are now in a desperate condition and have lost 1 player it is clear that it becomes difficult and hopeless I feel.
The current score is 1-0 in favor of Barcelona even though this is enough to bring them to the semi-finals but I'm not sure they will be satisfied with just 1 goal.

I knew the game was not going to be an easy game, but Barcelona has really played some good football, created some chances but too sad they didn't get a win in the first half, with real Sociedad being one man down means Barcelona now has a bigger chance of coming out victorious. Real Sociedad are a very good side to play against, but Barcelona will capitalize on the advantage and start putting more pressure on them, Barcelona is already one goal up and I see them scoring more goals before the end of the game.

I know the first half didn't go in favor of Barcelona or Real Sociedad, but Barcelona really excelled with lots of chances and possession. In total there have been 11 shots so far that Barcelona have taken throughout the first half, but no goals have been scored by any of its players.

Hopefully the second half will be better and more effective for Barcelona, ​​especially after one of the Real Sociedad players "Brais Méndez" was sent off by the referee with red card. Barcelona will have to capitalize on their advantage in the second half to win the match, and I'm sure they can. Maybe it's true that it wasn't match that scored lot of goals, but at least 2 or 3 goals can come in the second half.

But this could be good even though for the first half it is likely to be a draw but of course if Gavi is eventually withdrawn this will change the scheme especially if Ansu is brought in and Dembele is replaced with Raphinha later this will make Barcelona's wings quicker in the end .
As far as the 40 minutes have gone, Gavi has also been quite good in his new position at the moment. One of the young talents that Barcelona really deserves to be honed because this player has pretty good vision.

Barcelona played very well in this match, they were able to create some pretty good chances until the match entered the 40rd minute. However, the opportunities they have have not been able to be executed into goals. I'm pretty sure Barcelona can win this match because in terms of their game they can relatively score goals in this match. but real sociedad defense was good enough they were able to break several attacks carried out by barcelona.

it looks like Xavi will continue to give directions to keep pressing Real Sociedad in this match, he hopes Lewandowski can contribute goals in this match.

Xavi seems to want to explore Gavi's potential further in this match because indeed they look quite different from before and even with this they are resting Ferran and Ansu but so far they are running smoothly with their current 4-3-3 formation even though this is not no doubt because surely they mastered the course of the game.

Doing multi can be quite good in this case but it's a bit risky because this match is still a little difficult to predict I feel.
So far, Barcelona's ball possession and opportunities are obviously very large, but Soicedad, with so many midfielders there, is clearly a bit of a problem especially when they apply a defensive scheme in this match.
There were some pretty good opportunities created but they still couldn't be goals.