Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 423. (Read 439567 times)

Yes, he just needs to focus on his performance at Real Madrid for now, becoming more contributive and solid with the team. Being able to control his mentality and attitude on the field is also one of the things that makes a player respected. Even though it's quite surprising that at such a young age, he said that on the field. I started to think, what trigger made him like that, because so far, he doesn't seem arrogant on the field. But hopefully this is just a lesson for him so that in the future he can be more careful so that it doesn't disrupt his career too.

Anyway, it is  about Copa del Rey.
It doesn't feel like it's almost at the end. Unexpectedly, it was Mallorca who entered the final round, it was really surprising when they were able to beat Real Sociedad in a penalty shootout shootout. Even though the goal difference was very small, Mallorca were still the ones who won and had the right to advance to the final round. This is truly unexpected. In fact, if you look at the statistics, Real Sociedad really dominates various areas. And they also carried out a very significant attack on Mallorca. This will be quite a hassle for Mallorca. However, it turned out that they were really strong enough to withstand various attacks from Real Sociedad.

The lineup for the penalty shootout between Real Sociedad vs Mallorca which ended in victory for Mallorca. Sergi Darder was the winner for Mallorca and brings them to  the final.

Source: Copa del rey

I would say either we will see Athletic Club win this match or it will be a draw. Athletic Club is unlikely to lose. Athletic Club won 1-0 away match against Atletico Madrid in the first leg match. Also Atletico Madrid are not in good form right now. Atletico Madrid have won only two of their last five La Liga matches.

Atlético Madrid can't win against a weak opponent like ALmeria in the last match of La Liga. The performance of this team is now very erratic. Moreover, since Athletic Club is already ahead after winning the first leg. So in the next home match, Athletic Club will try to draw the match by playing defensive strategy. Atletico Madrid's attacking players are not in good form right now. That's why I don't think Atlético Madrid can beat Atlético Madrid.

The Barcelona match against Getafe was surprising to me because I didn’t think Barcelona's attacking position was working like that. They did well in that match, although you were right when you said they were unable to maintain their performance and make their performance stable like other clubs that are at the top today. Barcelona's performance is unpredictable to me this season because they do what I don’t expect from them, so I hope they make their performance stable so they can be able to get more wins in matches and rank higher because I’m still expecting Barcelona to be in the high position of the standings.

For the Real Madrid case, I think they still have a lot to do due to the number of matches they still have to play, and we don’t know if they are going to all the matches or ten of the matches they are going to play, even though they are fighting for the title, so I think we should wait and see. Maybe Girona is going to bounce back to their normal form they were doing before, so let’s see if Girona is going to make it. 

La Liga still has 12 matches remaining, until the 2023-2024 season. Currently, Madrid is 6 points ahead of the team below them, namely Girona, and 8 points ahead of Barcelona. I agree with what you said, winning 6 points does not make Real Madrid safe in the 12 remaining matches until the end of this season. In the match against Sevilla, Madrid had quite a difficult time breaking through the opposing team even though the match was held at the Santiago Bernabeu. Luckily, Luca Modric was able to break his team's deadlock and at the same time brought Real Madrid to full points in the match against Sevilla.
as you said, the Madrid players struggled to score a goal against Sevilla. there were many opportunities they had from 6 shots on target. in total, Madrid had 16 shots. 1 Valverde shot hit the post, and they only had 1 big chance. well, the absence of several core players has had quite an impact on Don Carlo's squad in terms of scoring goals. what is certain is that Don Carlo had to prepare a different strategy and system when Bellingham was injured. In fact, so far there is no certainty when Bellingham will return to play with the regular Real Madrid squad. Likewise with other mainstays, Joselu is also absent due to injury.

Apart from that, several Real Madrid players are also still suffering from injuries, including Courtois as the main goalkeeper. To move safely and continue on the right track, Don Carlo must adapt the system and strategy so that his team can be consistent. Apart from that, Madrid has matches in another competition, namely the Champions League. Without several core players, Madrid cannot be careless when playing against Leipzig in the second leg. Moreover, Madrid only won with an aggregate of 1 goal. Apart from that, I also agree that the absence of several players can drain other players which can reduce the performance of the Don Carlo squad. Therefore, as a very experienced coach, Ancelotti must prepare his team's squad when playing match after match that his team will play.

The first Leg was held in Atletico Madrid home, Athletic Club can win the match at that time. When the Leg2 will be held in Athletic Club home, I think Athletic Club will have bigger chance to win the next match. Moreover, Griezmann seems to absent in the Leg 2 because he got an injury and don't know when he will return to the team. We know that Griezmann is the key player of the attacking of Atletico Madrid. When he can't play, there should be a big decrease in the performance of Atletico Madrid attacking. With this condition, I'm very doubtful that Atletico Madrid will have better chance to win the match and qualify for the final.

Well, it is interesting if the final Copa Del Rey will Athletic Club vs Mallorca. All these teams aren't the favorite teams to be in the final. I'm sure this is not the final that people expected for Copa Del Rey this season.  

This is just an internal problem between the two players and Greenwood doesn't want this problem to continue regardless of what Bellingham says. Another fact is that this is a bad league because it always deals with unimportant things on the field and when everything is fine it seems as if this league is looking for problems so that it can gain benefits from other parties. Of course, if Bellingham is involved in this case, they will benefit from Real Madrid and they know that Real Madrid is a successful club so it is very easy to get their attention.

Normally I can say Atletico Madrid can definitely has a great chance win winning this match against Athletic Club based on the last games we saw from these two teams and based on the last performances we saw from both teams in the past but the thing about Athletic Club is they are lucky is this game because Atletico Madrid can't use their superstar palyer, Griezmann. The coach of Atletico Madrid mentioned that in the conference before the game and he said Griezmann will be absent in this great match would be a good advantage for the Athletic Club.

Honestly this type of competition is very interesting, since every team are try to put much effort so that they can be move from their normal recently position to high top of the position, because both of the teams that are fighting for the high position now almost all of them are in the good form is only little defference between them. That's this kind of competition is very hard to predict when he comes that both the teams performance is very strong.
Girona will find the number one position very easy to reach, because everybody know Girona performance is very strong this season, since even before their able to beat every team that meet in every of their match. But due to how they perform so bad in some of the match they refuse to hold their consistent well that's they drop down and allowed the real Madrid over take them from the top standing, real Madrid is ahead of Girona with  6 point. But nevertheless I still have big hopes for Girona that they can collect the top back from the real Madrid.

So, that's the unstable performance that often disappoints Atletico Madrid. Indeed, in football, you don't always win. But at least you can always optimize your chances, especially when the opponent is a club which in fact is not a big problem. So, this won't be a waste of points. Because competition in the league is always tight. Luckily, Bilbao lost from with Real Betis so that the point position is not too significant a distance from Atletico Madrid.

Yes, we can say that we are quite happy with the results of their match this time. Although at that time it was quite worrying because Celta Vigo was apparently able to match Barcelona very well. However, when it was the last minute and they got a penalty kick, this really opened up opportunities for them. Xavi is very right in always choosing Lewandowski as his executor. He is very well established in his mental readiness and his kicks are definitely accurate in conditions like these. Yes, at least for now, Barcelona's position is very close to Girona and only if Girona loses 1 more time, Barcelona can immediately take over. So, competition will be even tougher here.

The remaining 12 matches in the season are still very long so the remaining matches will definitely have some surprises that could make a reversal that we did not expect before.
Currently, in terms of point its possible that Barcelona and Girona will continue to compete for placement in second place, but as I discussed earlier, the 12 matches can be unpredictable.
What must be done now is that they must focus on the competitions they are still running so as not to hamper the performance that causes them to fail in all competitions.

At the moment Madrid are still one of the most solid clubs and even their performance is difficult to match at the moment but they must also remain focused so that La Liga ends well because after all there are still several competitions run by Madrid this will keep the players on the sidelines and Ancelotti must continue to be alert so that the worst possibilities do not occur in the Madrid squad at this time.

From the info I got, it was probably about s*xu*l *b*se or something like that and yes, according to the expert lip watchers have also confirmed that Bellingham said that to Greenwood . But ya,as we know that Greenwood also asked to stop the investigation about Bellingham words or insults towards Greenwood. Obviously, Greenwood's statement is a very good and great gesture but ya,I also don't know more about the existing problems . But at least, considering Bellingham is still young and has great potential from time to time, it is appropriate for Bellingham to behave well and remain professional and not do such things which will certainly have a bad impact later.

Having a 6 point lead over Girona and 8 points over Barcelona has never made Real Madrid feel safe. If you really watched the last match against Sevilla, Real Madrid and all their players were really frustrated when Sevilla made them unable to score. Ancelotti and his players didn't want to lose points which would likely make the two rivals closer, but luckily Luka Modric with his quality was able to score the winning goal.

So far Ancelotti has had no other choice but to continue relying on the same players in many matches. He has difficulty rotating because many of his players are still injured, as a result this will drain a lot of the players' energy which will likely reduce their performance due to fatigue. A busy schedule is clearly a problem until the time bomb explodes.

Mallorca is now just waiting for the results of the match between Bilbao and Atletico which will be played tomorrow, Mallorca achievement in reaching the final round seems to be beyond our predictions because since the start of the Copa Del Rey this season, of course teams like Madrid, Atletico and Barcelona are predicted to reach the final, so It's quite surprising that Mallorca can make it to the final round when you see their performance in the league is so very bad and even up to the 26th week, Mallorca still in 16th place which still has the potential for them to relegated next season, the victory over Real Sociedad and being able to reach the final round will certainly be very enjoyable for Mallorca fans and players and hopefully their  can maintain the positive results obtained in the Copa De Rey when playing in La Liga.

This is the fourth final for Mallorca in the Copa De Rey and of course it is not an easy matter for Mallorca to reach the final round with the squad they have,  to come out as champions of course they will not be favorites considering Mallorca will face the la liga big four team  in final, so that's what makes me personally doubt that Mallorca will be able to become Copa De Rey champions despite all their struggle and hard work to reach the final round now.

Girona management should have thought in that direction, the most fundamental challenge is not building the club first, but maintaining a large number of their current players. Because when the transfer window opens, you can be sure that many offers will come in to recruit their players, just like Leicester City before, even though Girona is different because they are not champions, their players will be targeted by top European clubs. I am very sure of that, Girona main task is apart from building a squad to navigate the Champions League. Apart from that, Girona management must also try to make several loan players permanent.

An even bigger challenge is the departure of the coach, Michel is certainly not a top coach who has a big name like Ancelotti, Jergen Klopp or Pep Guardiola. However, his success in polishing Girona this season is very likely to get the attention of several clubs, Liverpool, Bayern Munich, Juventus, AC Milan, Barcelona will probably look at Michel. If that happens, the risk of a decline in performance may be greater, and it is even impossible for Girona to compete again in the top four of the La Liga standings. Their fate will be like Napoli in Serie A, who sooner or later will be like Leicester City where they have slumped and been relegated if the coach leaves.

I do not know what Jude said to Greenwood, but it is nice for Greenwood to be making a comeback. He was sent from his team because of allegations, all of which were dropped eventually and he is free to play again but still fired, and Jude is a very well known and loved player right now. Greenwood is showing his growth as a person that even though he was insulted by Jude, he is willing to let it go and just chulk it up to adrenaline while playing.

This is showing me that dude is deserving of another shot at a bigger club, of course if he shows any good signs football related as well this season, if he can make it work somehow then he is going to end up with a much better team eventually, he is really growing as a person.

Not a La Liga game but there's an interesting result in the Copa del rey knockout tournament. On the 2 legged semi final, Mallorca won over Real Sociedad in a penalty shootout at the home ground of Sociedad. The first leg was a 0-0 draw and second resulted on 1-1 forcing the two teams into tie breaker through penalty line shoot out.
It's a great achievement for Mallorca, who have had a lackluster leageu to reach the finals of Copa del rey where they'll play with the winner among Atletico Madrid and Athletic Club.

In the previous match, Girona managed to beat Atletico Madrid at home, but of course every match will not give the same result, especially since Girona will play at Atletico Madrid home  which is known to be quite haunted and filled with fanatic supporters who keep trying to bring down the opponent mentality, currently Girona no as strong before and in several matches it was seen that Girona experienced a significant decline in performance, so this might be put to good use by Atletico Madrid who are currently trying to secure a top 4 position from chasing bilbao.

Talking about El Classico, it seems too early for us to underestimate Barcelona, ​​indeed so far madrid looks superior to barcelona, ​​especially in their last two match Madrid was able to win the El Classico match very easily, but as I said if every match will definitely present a difference result  from the previous match is no exception to the third volume of El Classico later, currently Barcelona performance is starting to improve over time so it can be said that Madrid will probably be under greater pressure in the next match than in the previous 2 matches against Barcelona.

Top 5 goal scorers in La Liga in the last 6 years. Surprising that Messi is still on the list even though he hasn't been in the league for almost 3 years now. Iago Aspas deserves more recognition for his contribution and the same goes for Joselu, who was performing well even in relegation fodder teams.
The title suggests 5 years but I think its wrong. Since its impossible for Messi to play 100+ games in 2 seasons of La Liga.

Girona has been able to secure their spot in the champions league next season but I hope they don't fall back to their former position next season because it takes consistency to be able to remain very solid in top4 since so many teams will be putting their best to ensure they also climb to a better position which they have been dreaming to also have the opportunity to play in the champions League so I think Girona team will have a lot of work to do to be able to fight to remain as a team in the top4 position and will need getting more good players to keep the team from ending below the top 4 in the league each season.

That is why sometimes it very difficult to predict a game, Girona game against Rayo Vallecano, I still respect Rayo Vallecano the way they hold Girona throughout the first half which I wasn't surprised because of what they played against Real Madrid, Real Madrid find it difficult to win the game, having their early goal give them more confidence that they will win the game but  when the time goes they realised it not what they think, and to my greatest surprised they have poor performance and  before their game against Real Madrid they have lost three consecutive matches which gives me more confidence that Real Madrid are going to win the game.