Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 3186. (Read 550872 times)

Barcelona's defenders are playing well in La Liga. Barcelona conceded only 1 goal in 8 matches. But their performance in the Champions League is very poor. They conceded 2 goals against Bayern Munich. Barcelona conceded 4 goals in 2 matches against Inter Milan. If the defenders do not play well, Barcelona will not be able to win their next match against Madrid. The defenders will definitely need to play well if they want to win against Madrid, Villarreal, Athletic Club and Bayern Munich.

To be honest, I don't know where you saw a good performance from Barcelona in the Champions League. The fact that they had chances to score a goal against Bayern and against Inter also does not mean some good achievement - every team has missed chances. Yes, Barcelona did not lose all the games with a crushing score, but all the games were lost by game - in general, it is clear that Bayern and Inter are simply stronger than Barcelona.
And yes, the bookmakers give about 16% for the fact that Barcelona will still be able to reach the playoffs. For me personally, it's amazing - Inter should beat Victoria, Inter can beat even unmotivated Bayern. While even an unmotivated Bayern can beat their favorite principle rival - Barcelona.

Barcelona are really lacking defensively at the moment, something we talked about yesterday before the game and saw Barcelona concede 3 goals in the game against Inter Milan. Their defense is in disarray and easy to concede goals which Inter Milan were smart enough to capitalize on and get three goals and until the first team players return from injuries they will have to struggle for a little more time.

After last night’s disgrace, Barcelona has to fight whatever they have left with towards winning the league. It’s obvious that unless some miracle happens, they are not going to be in the UCL for too long, they will probably go to Europa, and even if they win it, which I doubt they will with the way they are playing, it’s not going to be enough, they need to with the league title along with Europa in order to say that it was a good season.

If they win just the league title they can chalk it up for rebuilding season and not care about continental, but if they lose europa AND the league together, that’s the same as last year after spending 100+ million on a season they were in so much debt.

Ancelotti is more experienced than Xavi. I think Ancelotti will make some changes to his match strategy against Barcelona. Because we don't see a better performance from Benzema. If Benzema is able to play well against Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid have a chance to win. Moreover, Barcelona's defense is weak, Ancelotti has to make good use of this opportunity. But Barcelona's defense is very strong. So in this match Madrid will probably keep their defense tight and then manage their attack.

In my humble opinion i do not feel there is any favorite for this match, though i usually analyse the el classico in this way, i feel it is two giant teams and anybody can win. The two teams have not been too sharp in the last couple of weeks, either in the champions league, La Liga or both, they have not played to their best, so neither of them is really hot in form. Barcelona have more problems by the way as they are very close to joining the europa league teams over there, they may have to face the La Liga more now because barcelona did a lot of things to buy many players, so they have to win something.

Now Barcelona's weakness is starting to show against Inter Milan in the Champions League. It is undeniable, losing some of the main names in the team is very important for stability on the field. It gives me the impression that the depth of the Barcelona squad is not evenly distributed and there will still be gaps if they don't play with the full squad. Real Madrid is a balanced opponent, you can even say they are better than them for now, especially with the absence of several players it is certain that this will be a tough match for Barcelona. Xavi had to rack his brain so as not to be wrong in applying the strategy in the El Clasico match later.

I think Real Madrid will continue to perform as usual and there will be no special strategy from Carlo Ancelotti, because indeed their coach on this one is not much and has never issued a surprising strategy. But of course there are special instructions for guarding some players who are dangerous for Real Madrid. Likewise with Barcelona, Xavi also must have anticipated several players who were dangerous to their defense. But Real Madrid have the advantage because on the pitch their attack creators have a lot of experience. Toni Kroos in the Champions League match he was very visionary when he passed the ball to Rudiger which led to a goal.

Even though Lewandowski on the front line is extraordinary, Barca's back line is still very weak. pique is old and his combat in the air is very weak. the absence of kounde and araujo really had a big impact on Barca's performance, I really doubt that Barca's result can win in the El Clasico later, Barca's chances are very small to win. Xavi has done his best but indeed the quality of the players is very influential, especially in the back line of Barca who is experiencing a crisis.

A good game is expected, it will be very entertaining but, you can't always win even if you play well. Other teams score and defend, they want to secure points, the goal is to win. In essence, Barcelona failed not because they played badly, but failed because their strategy was easily broken by a team that defended and counter-attacked well.

No drama, Real Madrid are the favorites at home.

Barcelona does control the field, because the style of play they apply will increase the percentage of possession. But in the champions league it is not ball possession that is desired in the field. Because some clubs that are included in the champions league will not serve that kind of style of play. They will continue to make breakthroughs with Shots for sure.

Back to the topic of LaLiga.
Barcelona have yet to meet Real Madrid as eternal rivals, and we will see El-Clasico drama. So we will see that as a determination of the performance that comes out as the winner this year.

To be honest, Barcelona's performance in the Champions League was great, but somehow they struggled to win 3 match in a row so far. They may have been unlucky with the group draw this season, but that's not a good reason to justify assumptions about why they failed.

Bayern Munich and Inter are apparently still very strong for Barcelona, ​​so it would be better to expect them to come home sooner than fall short in the last 16 against the likely title favorites this season. Barcelona have very little chance of qualifying, it's probably around 20%, and the rest they will probably head for the Europa League.

By the way, it seems that last week the Barcelona manager presented the team's budget and it was taken into account that Barcelona would reach at least the quarter-finals of the Champions League  At the same time, the budget was still in deficit even if Barcelona won both the Champions League and La Liga. Now Barcelona is in an even more difficult situation and I don't know what leverage Laporta has yet to use.

Barcelona is very good this season in their performance in laliga.  Barcelona against Real Madrid it won't be easy for Barcelona but I think Barcelona is fit to play a draw or winning Real Madrid.  The match will tell so much about Barcelona,  the level how tough they are.

It is just because you already know what Real Madrid is capable to do even be for now. Trophies Real Madrid won in last season makes people feel it is very possible for Real Madrid to achieve it again this season.

  Barcelona is highly sloppy, Xavi frequently makes mistakes with his lineups, and the defense has a big impact on the team's performance and outcomes. They must bring in fresh defenders. if they will finish in the league's top four.
El Classico is this weekend; Barcelona shouldn't anticipate anything else than losing. They now cannot compete with Madrid because they are not on Madrid's level. They will be eclipsed by Madrid.
Madrid will win the El Classico since Barcelona's team is inexperienced compared to Madrid.

Agreed, i don't know why those are still underestimating real madrid. We can see what's gonna be the result from classico. Real madrid has been locking a spot to the last 16 while barcelone will still face dead or alive matches against plzen and bayern.
Barcelona may lose against bayern and win against plzen. There's no reason for me to think barcelona is better than real caused by it has so many pressures now.

agree with you I think Barcelona's defense is very weak at the moment. Real Madrid's attack is very advanced, they have fast players. With Araujo and Kounde not in the squad, so I doubt Barcelona will lose. And I don't think Xavi has a plan B at this point.

Both coaches already understand the strengths of each team and they already know who is the main key to the game of Barcelona and Real Madrid because of the evaluation that the coach often watches when the game is over so he records all the weaknesses of the player and creates a good strategy to penetrate enemy defense, If the match ends in a draw then it will be a shame for these two teams. So at least one of them gets the win.

Im sure about real madrid's defensive but it's not for barcelona. I just learn from what already happened against intermilan. Look at how bad defensive from barcelona. it was playing at camp nou. It's not even getting full points from intermilan. I prefer to pick real madrid in this case although barcelona was still at the top position but for me real madrid has more capability to win the game rather than barcelona after comparing the defensive performance from both.
We will see in the next days what will be the result from el classico. A match that must not be missed by us.

Xavi has learned a lesson from conceding three goals from Inter, he must quickly find a formula to close the big hole left by several core players. Barcelona defense has been in the spotlight the most after the departures of Kounde and Araujo, the two centre-backs have kept Barcelona defenses excellent, but after their injury in the international break Xavi has yet to find a suitable replacement to cover the hole they left.

Although Barcelona still have Pique, Christensen and Eric Garcia, their quality is still inferior to Kounde and Araujo. When facing Real Madrid at the Bernabeu, Xavi must have a plan B so as not to concede too many goals from Real Madrid.

The crowd believes in Barcelona, the bookmakers are forced to adapt to this opinion, because if they give honest quotes for the game, and because of the dispersion of the results, the crowd is right, then the bookmakers will be at a loss. In general, I was once again convinced that Barcelona is very much overestimated (only one point was scored out of three serious games) and I look forward to Clasico with pleasure.