Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 409. (Read 542952 times)

Barcelona had an epic performance so far in this season and they got good results in the games we saw from this team so far. They are still paying younger players and they didn't spend money like Real Madrid for hiring expensive players for their teams.
We can't forget that Barcelona is getting these results while there are many injured players in this team and soon they will be able to use some of these injured players. Frenkie de Jong is going to be back in the good form again after being out for 5 months and Gavi will return on the 20th of October, Fermín López and Olmo in three or four weeks.
This can make Barcelona much stronger than what they are right now.

Since the beginning, Flick has said that they have players from the La Masia academy who can be brought into the first team, and some of them have performed quite well so far. That's why Barca did not borrow Cancelo again and Joao Felix, and most importantly to save the budget they spend. For now, Barcelona is still safe at the top of the standings even though it is only a small difference in points, but they can be said to be able to compete with their rivals. Unfortunately, the main goalkeeper is injured which makes Barca vulnerable to conceding goals. However, if Barca's main players have recovered from their injuries, Flick can make this team much more competitive. Talking about Real Madrid, it is very unfortunate that they were unable to get full points in the match. Next, the El Clasico match will be a highly anticipated fight. Early in the morning in my country's time, Barcelona will host Young Boys. This match should have been easily won by the home team.

In football, I wasn't expecting this kind of thing to happen in today's world, I thought it was back when fans used to throw things at their opponent's goalkeepers. However, derbie's matches always turn out to be something else, especially between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid, there is always hatred between the two teams, and Atletico Madrid fans always start causing trouble because they haven't won as many trophies as Real Madrid. Diego Simeone and the fans will never forget Cristiano Ronaldo, no Real Madrid player has destroyed them like him. Those fans who were throwing stuff at Courtois had to face a big punishment because if that was a Real Madrid fan throwing things at their goalkeeper, they would not be happy.

On the other hand, Atletico Madrid seemed to be strong in the derby match. I hadn't watched a live of their game since the beginning of the season, but after seeing their performance against Real Madrid, I believe they are also strong. Maybe it was a derby match, which is why they appeared so strong. Both teams had the same number of shots, and the same shots on target.

The team managed by Luis Carrion still doesn't deserve to be in La Liga, from the 8 matches they played, they could only get 3 points from 3 draws. There is still time to get out of this downturn zone, even if Luis Carrion is able to take advantage of it. The gap between them and Espanyol who are in 17th place is only 4 points, meaning that if Las Palmas can be more consistent in winning in the next few matches, they can get out of the relegation zone.

The derby rivalry is indeed much more tense because the game often happens beyond predictions.
Courtois is considered one of the players who betrayed Atletico Madrid so that the anger is increasingly unstoppable from the fans, but this should not happen because every player will definitely leave and come.
The rivalry between the two has been going on for a long time because talking about rivalry even though if you look further Real Madrid is more successful.
El Clasico beats the Derby rivalry because both are more competitive in every way, but Atletico Madrid still managed to hold Real Madrid to a draw in the match.

Villarreal is becoming a strong candidate on this Spanish La Liga and if not for even Barcelona who won them before they would have been unbeaten because that's the only match they have loss since they started, however about there match yesterday they were ready for Las Palmas because after meeting with the kind of bigger clubs they did playing against Las Palmas gave them a lesser struggles to achieve there three points.

Luis Carrion is not doing much for the club because out of there eight matches he has not been able to develop any good strategy to win any of those matches for Las Palmas, so does it mean that his two years contract he will not be able to achieve any better thing for the club?, I think Las Palmas needs someone more better than that.

It's a common thing in a derby match, especially as we know that the Madrid Derby is always fierce and with high tension so that provocation from the audience cannot be avoided.
And the problem with the Real Madrid goalkeeper is a form of Atletico Madrid fans' disappointment towards Courtois who is considered a traitor who moved to Real Madrid so that the fans acted excessively.
The rivalry between the two Madrid teams is quite hot and in fact this has happened since long ago so in my opinion there are some things that are excessive that are considered as normal things.

The incident began when Courtois was seen celebrating his team's lead in front of Atletico supporters after Eder Militao scored, but shortly after, Courtois was pelted with objects by Atletico supporters which caused the match to be temporarily suspended. The Madrid derby always brings high tension and the match was heated, at a different time, Vinicius was also involved in a verbal altercation with Koke which then had to be calmed down by his teammates. Atletico also had to play with 10 men after Marcos Llorente received a red card, a truly tense match, fortunately there were no controversial refereeing decisions in this Derby.

Atletico Madrid was always a hard competitor for Real Madrid and usually in the games we saw from Real Madrid they had problems even after buying many superstar players still Real Madrid got problems while they were playing against Atletico Madrid in the last week and the game ended with a 1-1 result while Real Madrid also had a good performance there. The other fard side of this match was about Courtois the goalkeeper of RealMarid. While Real Madrid was about to win Atletico Madrid scored a goal in 90+5' while Courtois always had good reactions he tried to save but he got injured in this match.

The Villarreal side were on the attack from the start, performing quite well in this match. Long time passed after the start of the match then Nocolas Pepe the young striker with his experience scored a goal. And from there the counter-attack started with Villarreal making 20 attacks in total, and the opposite side Las Palmas they made only 7 attacks in the whole match. 
This game was the biggest gap, but the Villarreal team missed a penalty, and some websites did not score. But in this game Villarreal always went to the team and placed huge gambles and got the win at the right time. Villarreal are third in the points table with three points, Villarreal has the potential to become a successful team this season.

Real Madrid had no chance of getting 1 point in this match against Atletico Madrid as Real Madrid scored a goal and became more aggressive against Atletico Madrid. When the match was over, the referee added more time as extra time, and because of this extra time, Real Madrid basically lost the match to Atlético Madrid. 

If Real Madrid could have scored 3 points against Atletico Madrid, their position in the points table would have been stronger. Now the point difference between Barcelona and Real Madrid is to normalize this point difference, Barcelona has to lose one match, on the contrary, Real Madrid has to win one match, but the points of these two teams will be equal.

Atletico Madrid fans are a disgrace and also the fans who don't know what they are doing and that will always stop them from winning the trophy no matter how they try, imagine throw things at a real Madrid goalkeeper after a real Madrid scores a goal is a total disgrace and that shows that they are not going to win the league title any time soon those who did that need to be punished, La Liga president need to even punish Atletico Madrid team by deducting their points and ask them to pay for their action and that will be an example for the rest team's that throw a sharp object to the opponent's team, those Atletico Madrid want the game to be suspended to weak Real Madrid player's so that Atletico Madrid can equalize and they achieve that but they should remember that they are also going to Santiago Bernabeu to play against Real Madrid and they will know that what they did is not good.


From my understanding, I think Hansi Flick said that just to make sure both goalkeepers are serious because intake Pena's performance has not been too good for seeing him as the first goalkeeper if you look at Barcelona's performance when Inaki Pena is the goalkeeper you will realize that he is not that good as the first goalkeeper and I think that is the reason why Barcelona sign another goalkeeper, I don't think it is about Inaki Pena performance about Osasuna because the coach should be blamed about that, Hansi flick want both goalkeepers should be serious and decide who is going to be his favorite goalkeeper before the recovery of Andre ter stegen.

The Real Madrid goalkeeper caused the match to be stopped for a while by showing the referee the foreign objects thrown at him. Of course, these objects thrown at him could have injured him. No matter how right he is about this, foreign objects should not have been thrown at the goalkeeper's head. However, if the goalkeeper also provoked the fans, the fans may not have been able to control themselves, after all, this is a Madrid derby. The fans are always more passionate in derbies. They may react without thinking about the consequences.

It is true that the match seemed very chaotic and had time to postpone the match, Atletico Madrid supporters seemed not to accept Real Madrid's superiority so they made the Real Madrid goalkeeper lose focus and finally made the goalkeeper off guard with that his club was able to equalize. If you see supporters being noisy it is normal but if it endangers the players it can no longer be tolerated. But I read an article about the match that Atletico Madrid coach Diego Someone did not blame the fans but instead he blamed the Real Madrid goalkeeper who seemed to be mocking them who knows who provoked them first but we also cannot justify if the fans have acted beyond the limit.

Villareal's match against Las Palmas ended and the result was won by Villareal with a landslide score of 3-1. Everyone must have predicted that the result of this match could definitely be won by Villareal, because as we know, Las Palmas' performance so far has been bad. But even so, in that match Las Palmas put up quite a good fight against Villareal. The reason is, when the first goal was scored by a Villareal player, Las Palmas only needed 2 minutes to equalize. Then after that the match went quite tough, because it was evident that the Villareal players experienced quite a difficult time afterwards. The reason is that after the first half ended, in the second half the Las Palmas players were occasionally able to dominate the game quite well, but unfortunately the Las Palmas players were unable to score another goal even though they played quite well in that match. However, at the end of the second half, Villareal was actually able to score 2 additional goals which made the Las Palmas players have to take a deep breath, because with a 2 goal difference they would definitely have difficulty catching up again.

After I saw this match, Las Palmas actually has quite good potential, but unfortunately they may lack the funds to be able to recruit talented players. The reason is that currently Las Palmas has many gaps, especially in the midfield and also the front line. And with this defeat against Villareal, Las Palmas seems to have a big possibility of being relegated again from Laliga. But even so, we have to appreciate Las Palmas. because Las Palmas is able to play in Laliga two seasons in a row. So, if for example this season Las Palmas is relegated, I don't think this will disappoint the Las Palmas players, because they have fought their best until now. But even so, Las Palmas still has a small hope of getting out of the relegation zone, so we'll see whether Las Palmas will be relegated or not this season.

Previously I did not expect Barcelona to experience a change that I think is quite rapid with them being able to be consistent in their performance even though they lost in the previous match, This season I think they are ready to compete with their rivals with the players they have, because previously I thought they would have difficulty with the players they have this season, but Flick, who I think has succeeded in making Barcelona have a fairly good performance with the current conditions and this I think is a fairly good improvement.
With Real Madrid itself, I thought they would be able to beat Atletico Madrid easily, but it turns out that the opponent they face is a team that is indeed quite tough and difficult to beat, Barcelona who is still ahead in points, I think Real Madrid must work hard again if they want to shift their ranking, previously I thought that by being able to beat Atletico Madrid would make them superior but in reality they were only able to compete with a draw.

Life’s a rollercoaster...
One minute retiring and the next joining Barcelona

Wojciech Szczesny joining Barcelona could be a significant addition to the squad. If he passes his medical tests, he will compete with Iñaki Peña for the starting goalkeeper position.
It will be interesting to see how he performs with Barcelona in the next chapter of his career.
Good luck with your new adventure Szczesny!

La Liga is not an easy one this season, having more injured players pertaining these top clubs, seems concerning. Felt sympathy for these goal keepers that picked up an injury in previous games, I wished them quick recovery because their roles are essential for the progress of the club. The injury list this season for both Barcelona and Real Madrid, it's been a long run for both teams. These coaches, Hansi Flick and Carlo Ancelotti will have to restrategized because there's more to accomplish this season and settling for less is definitely not an option for such experienced managers.

Barcelona might be affected following their first choice been sidelined for months and for Real Madrid, they will also be affected. But when it comes to Real Madrid, they do not bother much because Andriy Lunin is present and available to continue from where Thibaut Courtois stopped this season. Remember it was Andriy Lunin that was main goal keeper previous season for Real Madrid, he made brilliant saves and we totally understand his full potential. He's listed among the best goal keeper in La Liga and having him in an elite club, it means progress.

The game was clearly the chance that Real Madrid lost. Since Barcelona was losing this match, they should have been a perfect time for Madrid to overcome the difference and get a spot at the top of the table. Still they have not converted the opportunity and though the margin is only at three points it should noted that this is a space apart from winning a game and that they should step up to take such chances more diligently.

It is an apt description of Barcelona as a gazelle running away from a pursuing lion – Real Madrid are the lion, and while this week has not provided Madrid with the opportunity to get sufficiently close to the quarry, there is still the opportunity to do so. However if Madrid can avoid wasting chances created and cutting out silly mistakes up until the rest of the season then Barcelona will surely feel the heat even more. Madrid are under pressure like a lion hunting its prey and theemmathe final may come down to which players can maintain is level of play until the final whistle.

Sometimes luck says otherwise, Real Madrid has won the match in normal time, but failed to maintain it in injury time. The points difference with Barcelona is quite thin, only one match away, it is quite easy to cut in the future. With the many matches ahead, Ancelotti has a great opportunity to lead his team to the top of the standings. The competition for a place at the top of the standings this season will be tight, Hansi Flick is considered successful in improving the performance of Barcelona players. It seems that the competition for the trophy this season will involve Atletico Madrid, not only Barcelona and Real Madrid. In my opinion, that is certainly better, because it will provide more interesting entertainment for everyone.