Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 322. (Read 544446 times)

Luck was really not on Real Madrid side yesterday, because they had many opportunities of scoring as many goals as Barcelona, but none of their shots on target was able to pass through Barcelona goalkeeper Inaki Pena who denied Mbappe most of his chances of finding the back of the net. Carvajal absence was felt in Madrid defense in that match, and the departure of Kroos added to the weakness of Real Madrid. However, Barcelona is in their best form, kudos to Pena for a great job well done.

I had the same thought during the first half when Real Madrid looked better, controlling possession and even scoring though it was called offside. It felt like they were sure to take over the game. But Barcelona take advantage of the gaps in Madrid defense, and they were so good with their offside traps, keeping all Madrid attackers constantly falling offside. 

It was surprising to see Mbappe in particular struggle with positioning and leading to a lot of missed opportunities, without any switch from Ancelotti. Real Madrids advanced attack line played right into Barcelonas counterattacking style, and the constant offsides definitely broke the chances of Madrid. By the end, Barcelona’s adjustments and good strategy handed them a dominant win, and Madrid’s early control just didn’t hold up.
It’s a deserved win for Barcelona, even that I had a bet from Real Madrid to win, I really enjoyed the young players of Barcelona showing us clean football and strict discipline.

It’s hypocritical how you all are already calling Mbappe a flop and saying he was only scoring in the Farmer league only because it was cheap, same farmers league Messi had a hard time scoring in. Let’s cut the slack down a bit the lad has been poor in his first season playing a wrong position, something even the players greater than him have found difficult in their first year, let’s not forget this is same player that has took France to two World Cup finals.

Bringing the stats of his first year and that of Halaand is baffling moreover halaand is a center forward and should be better at keeping offside traps than Mbappe who is not and is even quicker. Yesterday Mbappe final decisions were poor but not to call him flop already, Madrid themselves also know that he is not a striker and are simply gambling on him. Let the lad relax and at least this is his first poor season in a senior football career, go back and check how the likes of Lewandowski and Raphinah who are scoring for free now faired last season

I quite disagree with you because, judging by how the Barcelona team has performed this season under Hansi Flick, I don't think Ancelotti and Real Madrid were overconfident about winning El Classico match. A team can only be overconfident of winning their match when they are up against a weaker team. Barcelona can't be addressed as such "a weaker team" that a team can be sure of winning before the match begins. A team that is up against them(Barcelona) should know what they are to expect, it's either they win or lose.

That being said, it was a shocking defeat for Real Madrid, nobody had anticipated this kind of disgraceful defeat. Everyone's mind was Real Madrid or Barcelona would win against each other but it will be a score not more than two goals

What an themendous match Barcelona played against Real Madrid! This is still seem incredible. Although before the start of the match between Real Madrid vs Barcelona, i predicted Barcelona will win with 0-2 scored. And after first half gone, situation turned into complex But who thought, Barcelona could scored 0-4 against their opponent!! Robert Lewandowski scored two goals within three second in 2nd half at 54th & 56th minutes which boost Barcelona confidance and fuel them to fly more higher and this is why, Lamine Yamal and Raphinha added more tiwst in the match, by score two goals at 77th & 84th minutes respectively. After that, Barcelona totally broke real madrid confidance and this is cause them not to score a singal goal against Barcelona. Barcelona head coach Hansi Flick strategy and technic helped Barcelona to fly higher and become standing at the top at the qualifying table with having 30 pints. Well congrats Barcelona for the incredible achievement

This season will belong to Lewandowski, and it seems no one can stop him from scoring goals in every game. He is truly matched with Hansi Flick because Lewandowski didn't shine too much in the previous season, but after Hansi Flick came, Lewandowski seems to have found his sharpness again.

Barcelona really deserved that victory because they were more effective than Real Madrid and they also had good composure so their players could make clinical finishes, and that's what differentiated them from Real Madrid in that match.

I am quite curious with this quite embarrassing defeat, whether Ancelotti still sticks to his decision, and will absolutely not sign any new players in the upcoming transfer window.

The caption is absolute bollocks. If this was said by Erik ten Hag that he has won two trophies in the last two seasons, you'd see lots of people saying he brags too much and is egoistic. Carlo Ancelotti should just admit that he was more than poor tactically even during the first half. All these are just excuses brought up to silence the noise. And for those blasting Kylian Mbappe y'all should know that he is also not a natural striker. Who else recalls the FIFA world cup finals against Argentina? He was moved from CF to  free role. The absence of Toni Kross has also affected RM because he is the major source of organizing how Real Madrid goes forward and comes backwards.

The number of offsides Real Madrid's players missed last night and the number of easy goal chances they missed made it seem like it wasn't an El Clasico match at all, but a game of par or mohalla. Despite so many missed chances, Real Madrid managed to score two goals but both goals were disallowed as Mbappe crossed the offside line before an opponent player. In the first 45 minutes, a total of twelve offsides, the players of Real Madrid, eleven of them offside Mbappe. Such a performance is really unexpected from a player of such skill as Mbappe. 
I thought that Real Madrid will not be able to do much against this strong opponent and Barcelona will win against Barcelona but something opposite happened in this match. Real Madrid lost to Barcelona by a huge margin of 4-0 in this match.

In that match, Real Madrid was completely powerless against Barcelona, ​​​​because they lost by conceding 4 goals without reply. The reason for Real Madrid's crushing defeat in this match is clear, that Real Madrid was indeed less strategic than Barcelona and Real Madrid also lost in terms of compactness. That is why this El Clasico match can be said to be unbalanced, because we can see for ourselves, that Barcelona really controlled this match very freely. In my opinion, if you look at Barcelona's current performance, it is likely that this season the champion in Laliga will be Barcelona. Because Barcelona's toughest rival in Laliga (Real Madrid), apparently is not strong enough to beat it. Therefore, the strongest candidate to become champion in Laliga this season is clearly Barcelona. Because currently Barcelona is quite far ahead of Real Madrid, with a difference of 6 points. I think Real Madrid will have difficulty catching up with Barcelona's points, because in order to catch up with Barcelona's points, Real Madrid must continue to win and Barcelona must lose at least two matches. I think it is quite impossible to happen, considering that currently the injured players owned by Barcelona have now recovered again. So with that it can be said that Barcelona currently has 100% strength. That is why I am sure that in the upcoming matches Barcelona will definitely be able to continue to win with any team in Laliga.

And Ancelotti certainly would not have thought that his team could lose like this. I think this match will be a very valuable lesson for Ancelotti. Because so far Real Madrid has rarely lost, but currently Real Madrid seems to be continuously declining in performance. In fact, if seen from the player's perspective, Real Madrid should still be able to appear stunning, because Real Madrid is filled with many great players. But in reality, Real Madrid currently has a really unsatisfactory performance.

Lewandowski should have scored a hat trick last night, unfortunately the ball hit the goal post and I have to admit Barcelona's game was calmer, especially in the second half.
On the other hand, Real Madrid wasted a lot of moments, especially Mbappe who was always caught offside, if not like that, a rain of goals would have happened, at least Madrid would not be embarrassed like this even though they had to lose at least not by a big score.
Ancelotti really has to bring in some defenders in January if he doesn't want to see Barcelona win the La Liga title this season.

Personally I expected the match to end as a draw but unfortunately the whole game was against Real Madrid, ordinarily weighing both team performance in that match, if that game ended as a draw, it would have been a bad one for Barcelona because the over deserve the winning, they were very good in their performance as such that they needed to be ingratiated for such a wonderful winning with a good number of goals, sometimes I don't want talk about the absence of players much in a team that were unable to do the needful though it might also be a major problem for a club and may hinder them from taking good steps in a football match, the point am trying to make is that, there is no much excuse for Realmadrid in this match, the lapses is not good, how would a team like Real Madrid allow up to 4 goals without scoring any in a match many of us expected to be btts draw thats to say any team that understands how to handle the midfield with good finishing and plays against them will win them in this their current state, with this result barcelona may likely lift the trophy this season if they consistently maintain this level of performance.

Barcelona have excelled brilliantly under Hans Flick and I hope to see them making him proud by winning the league. For so long, it's as if Barcelona have being living under Madrid's shadows and chose to break out in a way that no one expected. Between the champions league and yesterday's game, Barcelona have produced 8 goals and sit comfortably in the first position with 30 points, passing Madrid with 6 points.
 With a good record of 10 wins in 11 games and 1 loss, it's safe to say Barcelona are on their way to being the club we used to know them as.

when all you do is to over hype players and play games like the match was fixed,  it's certain to show in games like this when your opponent meant business and put up a serious face from start to the end. Honestly, the performance of mbape has always been below average, the only reason why we've never made a big deal of it is because he's been given a lot of time to adapt into the real Madrid squad. His positioning as an attacker is below average, his finishing is getting worse by the day and from all indication, he seems to be losing confidence in front of the goal post. Several one on one chances against the Barca goal keeper and you can't see any form of clinical finishing from him.

Even before he actively played for real Madrid, his performance for France was on another level of disaster but the media will continue showering him with cooked up excuses to his poor performance. He was average at the El clasico, Jude Bellingham was nothing different, Edwardo camavingar was too slow and the goal keeping was another horrible thing with poor distribution of ball to the players. Barca did the same thing Liverpool did against man united. Outplayed by all stats and made it look like Madrid is a total bunch of over hyped team.

A draw is much better for both clubs but if you look at the game Barcelona is far superior to Real Madrid, even though they are playing as hosts but that is not enough for Real Madrid there are several players who did not appear even though they only rely on their forwards, unlike before where they still had midfielders who were able to make good passes that could help Real Madrid's spearhead play, so a draw is better for me if we talk about who will win the match.

We should consider one fact that Mbappe just joined Teal Madrid and with only just few matches played, he is expected to adapt to the style of play of Madrid. He is not washed up or out of form, but still trying to fit in to play along Vinicius and Bellingham who are some of the best fielded players for  Madrid.
Before this season is over and into the next, am expecting more from Mbappe in terms of performance and I know he would find his own rhythm with the team and deliver as much anticipated.

Passing judgment is easy, blaming players for one match is not good. Indeed, this match is a match of prestige but La Liga competition is 38 matches. Madrid's chance to win is still very open. But indeed the distance between Madrid and Barcelona points is getting farther.  It is difficult to guess every match, physical and mental conditions can always change quickly. Overall Madrid didn't play effectively, and Barcelona were better today. I'm honestly disappointed that they lost by such a big margin. Lamine Yamal, Pedri, Lewandowski and Martinez were excellent so Flick's strategy worked well. All the Barcelona players had very good scores.

Even though Real Madrid's first half performance against Dortmund worried me before the game, I said they were one step ahead in the El Clasico. It isn't a very big surprise that Barcelona won. But their winning by 4-0 at Santiago Bernabeu will be remembered for long years. The impact Hansi Flick has made on Barcelona in a short time is extraordinary.

This is so true. Real Madrid may lose to Barca several times and still get the trophies they deserve. What's more important is winning the title in whatever competition you are playing and not winning some prominent matches. I know it was a big pain for Ancelloti yesterday. If only he knew Barca was cooking something before the game.

Both teams are fast, but if I am to say I will choose Real Madrid to have faster players compared to Barca. Yet, what happened yesterday was iconic. Barcelona players were way faster to get hold of every ball and their finishing is brilliant.

In addition, Lewandowski missed another almost certain moment when the ball hit the post, but even without that the score was devastating.

What can I say, the absence of Carvajal and Courtois was the main problem in this match. And it should also be noted that Barcelona scored some seemingly incredible goals, a very difficult header by Lewandowski, and the rest of the shots were right in the corners of the goal, perhaps except for Rafinha's goal, who simply threw the ball over Lunin. Let Ancelotti assess how much the goalkeeper is to blame for these goals, but this does not change the fact that Barcelona is great now!

Ancelotti should have been more careful. He underestimated Barcelona. And finally the madrid players seemed helpless to hansi flick's tactics i yesterday. I have not seen such bad gameplay from Madrid this season.

Madrid played very well in the first half. Madrid's players were able to make several quick and powerful attacks. But they can't score any goals. Despite Lewandowski's two goals at the start of the second half, Madrid's players lost the truck. And then I don't see any sloppy gameplay from the Madrid players. Madrid had several tactical mistakes. Madrid's biggest weakness was that Ancelotti didn't understand Hansi Flick's tactics in this match.