Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 412. (Read 542933 times)

Hansi Flick cannot be blamed for his decision to rotate players in his starting XI, he have chosen to minimize risk by prioritizing more important needs in the Champions League. However, the plan did not go as expected, where Osasuna played better, the surprising defeat also reflected that the second-string players owned by Barcelona were not yet reliable, even against mediocre clubs.
The draw in the derby match, Atletico Madrid versus Real Madrid, gave Barcelona an indirect advantage. They are still leading the standings with a difference of 3 points, indeed it cannot be said to be safe. In my opinion, with a squad depth that is not as ideal as Real Madrid, the achievement of 21 points in 8 matches, is something that Barcelona fans should be grateful for at this time, instead of they continue to have high expectations by being undefeated.
On the other hand, Girona who finished in the top four of the standings last season, also failed to get full points in week 8 after being held to a draw by Celta Vigo, their position in the standings is even more dire. Overall, the four La Liga representatives will go into the second leg of the Champions League with less enthusiasm, having failed to win at domestic level.

Mbappe's absence from Real Madrid's squad resulted in a draw for the match, as Vinicius Jr., and Rodrigo and Lukamodric were present in the squad, but the attacking department did not have enough attacking power. Because the weak point is the absence of Mbappe at the finish line, that is why the gamblers faced the biggest loss in this match. Because Atletico Madrid attacked relatively less and turned the game into a draw in the last stages.  The two teams put up a massive fight in the end and gave the audience a match full of competition.

After the game was stopped Real Madrid did change their formation a bit and Courtois vigilance coupled with pulling out Vini, Modric, and Rodrygo made Madrid defend more. At that time Atletico Madrid had many chances that were very dangerous. This draw certainly doe s not make Madrid drop from standings 2, at least a little thinner than Barcelona who actually lost 3 points. No wonder every Madrid derbi meets the results will always be difficult to guess.

For a Madrid fan, that draw feels unfair.  It is clear that Madrid's performance in yesterday's match was much better, even though ATM used a defensive formation. However, there is no doubt that Madrid's players have high quality to take advantage of good situations. But, all of that changed for the worse when ATM supporters did something very foolish, causing Madrid's mentality to shift to a state of caution.
I'm just wondering why a class team like ATM, which is an elite team in Europe, has such poor supporters.  And that impact will have negative effects on the team.

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Today there is a match between Villarreal and Las Palmas.
My prediction is that both teams will still score, even though Las Palmas will ultimately lose the match.
In terms of H2H, Las Palmas is favored as they have managed to defeat Villarreal three times in their last five encounters. However, bookmakers believe that Villarreal's current performance is better and they have a great chance of stealing three points from Las Palmas.
Therefore, my prediction is that both teams will score over 3.5 with odds of @2.19.

I watched this match only in the first half, the course of the match was normal to take turns putting pressure on each other. in the first half, the match was almost a draw even though Madrid was slightly superior in ball possession. as I was told in yesterday's post, this match will present a hot atmosphere. in the second half, the tension of the match increased sharply especially after Madrid scored first, especially Simeone's team played a rough game and the referee gave a red card to one of the ATM players. for some reason, the 4-4-2 pattern is now often applied by big teams in certain matches. so too with this match, both coaches applied the same pattern. IMO, the disturbances that occurred should not be associated with the draw in this derby match. after all, after falling behind 0-1, Diego Simeone's team played more aggressively and was slightly superior in ball possession. towards the end of the match, unfortunately for Madrid failed to get full points, because Angel Correa was able to reply and ended with a score of 1-1. As a result, Barcelona remains in a safe position at the top of the standings.

Both deservedly shared 1 point although the match was stopped but resumed peacefully. If the Atletico Madrid supporters had continued their despicable behaviour, the match might have been stopped. In the first half I saw Real Madrid play better, measured and controlled. But in the second half Atletico Madrid were much more dominant because being a goal down meant they had to play more aggressively even if it meant playing hard. Yellow cards were inevitable for both teams, and for one thing, Endrick in the dying minutes should have been more composed with the ball on a counter-attack, but he was forced to shoot from distance. Bellingham was in an ideal position to receive the pass. I think Ancelotti should have warned him that Endrick should play for the team, not for himself.

Yes, the Atletico Madrid VS Real Madrid match could be said to be quite balanced. The reason is that in this match Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid both fired 12 shots and 4 of them went straight into the goal mouth. Apart from that, if you look at ball control, Real Madrid is slightly superior, but this is not very significant. So this match is really balanced, maybe if for example Mbappe played in this match, I think Real Madrid would definitely have a bigger chance of winning. Because I see that without Mbappe, Real Madrid's front line is a little boring in this match. This means that it is clear that Mbappe's role at Real Madrid has begun to be embedded in Real Madrid's front line. Because it has been proven that without Mbappe, Real Madrid's front line is a little less sharp.

And regarding the incident in this match, I also agree with your opinion, that supporters like that should be given sanctions or banned from watching football matches in Laliga. Because if supporters like that continue to be allowed to freely carry out these bad actions, of course it could endanger the players. Apart from that, this action does not symbolize sportsmanship for a supporter. Because this is a football match, not a street wrestling match. Maybe if, for example, in this match Courtois was injured, I don't think Madridista would remain silent. But fortunately Courtois was not injured in this match, so with this the Madridistas will definitely remain silent. And besides that, I'm sure the masked people who caused chaos in this match must have been arrested by the local police. Because as we saw after the incident the masked man was immediately taken out. Maybe the masked person will get the punishment commensurate with his actions.

Although it is fair because it still shares points, but this makes me upset because the balancing goal that was made was right at the end of the second half, and we were waiting for Real Madrid's victory with a 1-0 goal, the goal that Correa did will be inacle because Offside but Var showed that Correa did not do offside and the goal was valid, and that made me feel annoyed.
If only Real Madrid still won and get 3 points, it might be an addition to being close to Barcelona, ​​because Barcelona got a 4-2 defeat by Osasuna, and that was an opportunity for Real Madrid to pursue but unfortunately it ended with sharing points.

For supporters like that it is better for them to be banned from watching their favorite team again, and here will harm the ATM because of the stupid actions of their supporters.

Sorry, but as a Real Madrid fan, this is a pathetic result. It's because we missed a golden opportunity to be closer to our main rival, Barcelona. We led the game until extra time, and we conceded when there were only a few minutes left. We got a horrible ending, and we let go of an easy win.

ATM did dirty to us; they provoked us, then the game paused. It really affects our players' performance. We looked so different before the pause. Things worsened when our coach, Carlo, decided to use his garbage subs. He put a lot of defenders in when Atlético was no longer threatening us.

Also, the bad thing is that the game makes us lose our main goalkeeper, Courtois. That game cost us a lot.

No doubt, it will be the strongest team that would win the Laliga title, but this time, I don't think I see the possibility of Real Madrid doing the same thing with their current performance, as they did last season. The reason is that if we compare Real Madrid's performance this season and that of last season, we would find something is missing in the team even though one of the best players "Mbappe" in the world, was signed into the team. I would say that the retirement of Kross from football caused the winning nomenclatures of Real Madrid to decline terribly, and we can see them drawing to matches they would have won comfortably. However, let's see how Ancelotti will later turn around the performance of Real Madrid to be all good, but I still doubt Real Madrid's possibility of winning the Champions League and Laliga League title again. I am giving up the Laliga title to Barcelona based on how well they have performed. They performed better than Real Madrid from what I have seen so far

If you look at the squad owned by Barcelona this season, it is clearly not easy for Hansi Flick because Barcelona is also competing in the Champions League. Indeed, the first defeat suffered by Hansi Flick's squad may be painful but there is no other choice for Hansi Flick to rotate players because in addition to the Barcelona squad being strengthened by many young players, many of Barcelona's core players are also injured.

The supporters came prepared as they hide their faces with masks and they couldn't be identified. Masks should be banned in stadium so that people that want to cause disturbance can't hide their faces to do that. All offenders that will be caught have to be punished by fine and bans. The bans should be for many games so that they can't come back to the stadium easily. Vinicius jnr has always been the receiver of racist chants but the type of racist activities that happened in the game between Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid was too much and the Atletico fans could have hurt the players leading to a long injuries that might have cost them their career.

It was such a balanced derby game right?    Both teams found many goal opportunities. Atletico Madrid scored the equalizer quite late. But in a game like this I think none of the sides are very sad about getting one point.

When it comes to those incidents after Real Madrid's goal... It was a huge disgrace.    What are those supporters thinking? Don't they even care about they can injure Courtois with the things they throw at him? Those people deserve a big punishment. They shouldn't be allowed to enter the stadium for a long time. It is really sad to see this kind of incidents in sports in even the 21st century...

The distraction that caused an interruption in the game probably added to the reason the game ended in a draw because Madrid became a bit careful there after but I don't know if I'm not observing correctly but it feels ancelotti's strategy is experiencing some gradual decline looking at the results he's been getting recently or maybe the injuries had an impact on his team and they are yet to fully recover, but before the season kicked off, Madrid had their squad so intact that for once we taught even in the case of injuries they will still hav good substitute and move on as if nothing happened nevertheless getting a point from every game is the most important thing and Madrid has been able to maintain that consistency.

Real Madrid are real lucky in that game since they should have lost the match if the penalty call towards the very end of the game was awarded to Atletico Madrid. Now the visitors have been able to extend their unbeaten run to 40 games and would be looking to further expand it if their next three Laliga games against Villarreal, CELTA and Barcelona go well in their favor.

Indeed, whatever the reason, they are truly provocateurs and commit anarchic acts during the match. If this cannot be regulated and given appropriate sanctions, then it is feared that unwanted things will happen with retaliation in various other matches in the future.


Source: Nasty scenes in the Madrid Derby

Despite the bad incidents and chaos that caused the match to be suspended, the draw result was actually quite detrimental to Real Madrid, especially since they had already taken the lead. In fact, this was the perfect moment when Barcelona lost, to further narrow the points gap. But well, there's probably and hopefully still other chances again later.

They resisted very well but they made a deficit in the last position. In fact, the goal was cancelled because it was offside, but when the VAR system was checked, it was understood that it was a goal and Rudiger overturned the offside position. As a result, Atletico Madrid managed to get a point. I think this was something very pleasing for them because they were in a losing position until the last minutes and they were able to get at least a point in the last minutes. Real Madrid, on the other hand, could not close the gap with Barcelona by not getting three points this week, where Barcelona made a mistake. Barcelona is still the leader of the Spanish league

I got a bit sad when the match had gone very far without any goals because I actually stake the match using over 1.5 since Real Madrid has a good players who knows the strategies of scoring, so I thought they would score more than 2 goals but I became surprised when they could not even score any one on the first half and even on the second half they stayed very long before they were able to get one goal.

By that time I started removing my  mind from the bet because with the way the match was going there is no much hope for another goal but unexpectedly Atletico Madrid equalise during the extra time and that got Real Madrid fans very upset on the club because there defenders should have been active to stop the goal, on the other hand I won the bet.

The results are quite disappointing. Madrid could have grabbed 3 important points and reduced the gap at the top but the changes were not on point.
Madrid has fast players, so sometimes they need to move the ball faster. The team should have focused on getting more goals than on defending.
But one point is better than losing outrightly, It could be a good point for the future.
Keep working on the improvements, Better luck in the next match.

To reach the top the lower-ranked team must maintain their performance. If Real Madrid had capitalized on the chances during the period Barcelona lost, the points difference would have narrowed but they didn't. Rivalry between Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid is natural because one is very close to the other but I would say that Real Madrid made a big mistake in that match. At the last minute of the match, Atletico Madrid scored goal. After playing a good match, if you can't hold it at the end, then the whole match is worthless. If Real Madrid had been more serious in the last few minutes and won there, then added 3 points would have made them even closer rivals to Barcelona.