Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 442. (Read 542476 times)

Atletico Madrid needs to be more serious with their games and stop losing to small teams which they ought to have won easily. If they continue to play like this, they’ll reduce their chances of making it to fhe top tier where teams will compete for the league title, I mean the La Liga title. I will say Atletico Madrid did poorly in this game because their ball possession and pass accuracy was below that of Rayo Vallecano. Three win and three draws for Atletico Madrid this season and currently in the fourth position on the table, I hope they can improve from this point and not lose too many points before the league goes far, it might be hard for them to recover if they don’t keep up with wins now.

Atletico Madrid dropped 2 points in a tough Vallecano away. Atletico, who were down at half time, scored the equalizer at the start of the second half but couldn't find the winning goal. Considering that their opponent also failed to capitalize on many opportunities, they can at least not be too upset with the draw they got here. At the end of 6 weeks, there are 3 undefeated teams left. Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid.

Flick seems to have found a trick that will get Barcelona back on their feet. We shouldn’t take the defeat they suffered in the Champions League too seriously because the team played poorly there. Of course, the player who received a red card needs to be punished because the team lost three points because of him. Losing three points in such a match will probably prevent them from advancing. Because most teams were counting on Barcelona to get three points against Monaco. In La Liga, they are in their place for now. They had a great evening and enjoyed a five-goal victory.

Looking at Atletico Madrid's performance in yesterday's match, it doesn't look like they are ready to compete for the title this season. But if we look at how Atletico Madrid played in previous matches. So actually this team is still quite good as usual. It's just that it seems like Atletico Madrid sometimes aren't able to win in matches they should be able to win. this is the same as when they played against Espanyol. At that time, Atletico Madrid could only get a draw. Even though we know that Atletico Madrid is much better in terms of squad depth and performance. But the execution of attacks that are built is sometimes one of Atletico Madrid's obstacles. But that only happens when they play against certain teams.

Regarding J.Alvarez, I think this young player still needs to adapt to the playing style at Atletico Madrid which is very clearly different from the playing style at Manchester City. I hope this player can quickly integrate into Atletico Madrid's playing style and show that he is indeed a very quality player on the pitch.

Although it was only 20 minutes into the match, both teams managed to score. In fact, the goals came one after the other. We watched two goals in the seventh and eighth minutes. Right now, Real Betis and Mallorca are showing us a very enjoyable match as of the 20th minute. I hope they show us this for the entire 90 minutes. The joy of La Liga is here, even the middle-table teams can show us enjoyable matches.

Lamine Yamal played a great game again, a wonderful assist and I think it's clear that Barcelona is playing very differently in the league this season, they were just otherworldly. This is the team that lost to Monaco just a few days ago, doesn't even look like the same team and I think it's clear that we are going to see them do not that great, and we could probably see them have different approach eventually.

We can't really see this go any differently for Barcelona at the league, I am pretty sure that they will have a dominant season, still not sure if they will win or not, but they will not have a bad season at least that much is known. Real Madrid is also doing great recently, and I am pretty sure that it will go down the wire and both teams will try their very best. The best thing about this season is that we can have good teams playing very well and getting us these type of dominant performances so watching it is quite fun and entertaining at the same time.

This year, Robert Lewandowski is also the leader in the top scorers. Last year was not very good for the Polish striker, but he started this year very well. He is one of the players who gives everything for Barcelona and has already reached six goals. The other name following him in the top scorers list is Raphinha, also from Barcelona. If he maintains his top scorer position until the end of the season, he will have overshadowed Mbappé, whose arrival in Spain was a sensation. I think we are seeing a performance from Lewandowski that makes us forget last year so far. La Liga is going great for Barcelona.

Robert Lewandowski has had a great performance at the beginning of this season in La Liga, he is the top scorer for a while with 6 goals. Unfortunately Lewandowski failed to convert a penalty in the match against Villarreal, if he had succeeded at least he could have recorded a hat-trick in that match. Robert Lewandowski's good performance so far has been supported by the good performance of other Barcelona players, including Lamine Yamal, Raphinha and others.

So far Lewandowski has recorded 6 goals and 2 assists in 6 appearances in La Liga, so the goal-per-game ratio is quite impressive. If he can maintain and improve this performance, then he will continue to lead the top scorers in La Liga until the end of the season. Kylian Mbappe is the only competitor who is most likely to score more goals this season, that is if he can improve his finishing.

Lewandowski goals were the ones that made me the happiest, because it looked like he wasn't doing that great anymore for a while, and it felt like Barcelona was looking for alternative striker options but they do not have money so it would be very hard for them, but they are trying their very best and I think it's clear that they are going to end up with a great result if Lewandowski plays like this because when you have a striker this good then it's always a threat and defense collapses and others could score easier as well.

It was perhaps just a period when he didn't feel fully healthy or something and this game looked great, I hope that he can continue like this and do fine, otherwise it won't be that much fun if he goes back to being bad.

The way they play is very good for now but there are still some gaps that do need to be fixed especially for communication problems and individual player errors.
We take for example when they lost to Monaco in the first week of the Champions League, they started with high confidence but the lack of communication made them make quite fatal mistakes which in the end had Eric Garcia getting a red card and they could not do much when they had to lose the match.

Things like this although quite rare but still must be minimized from the start if they want something good this season because after all, a good attacking scheme and the quality of their attacks that are difficult to block will be destroyed when communication and individual errors occur again in other matches.

You are right, Barcelona's performance in 6 La Liga matches is very impressive. However, in fact, the atmosphere of La Liga and Champions League matches is very different and that is what causes Barcelona to fail to maintain its good trend in winning matches. The defeat against Monaco can be considered normal because at that time Barcelona only played with 10 players since Eric Garcia received a red card.

Barcelona have not only won all their La Liga games so far, but they are the most productive team compared to 19 other teams including Real Madrid. The spirit and morale of this team is fine even though internally they have unresolved problems, especially financial problems. Meanwhile, Barcelona needs to improve its performance in the Champions League, where it has so far received 1 defeat.

Barcelona demolished Villareal yesterday in a 5-1 entertaining display of class, at some point it looked like there was hope for Villareal when they got a goal back to make it 2-1 but Barcelona took out their hopes by extending the goal numbers to 5 extending their one hundred percent winning form this season and securing first position in the league table. Real Madrid will have to sit up to compete against Barcelona this season the way I see things.

He can't find the chances he found in Manchester City because he's in Atletico Madrid. Alvarez was getting into very good positions in Manchester City and he was making good use of these positions. Atletico Madrid is a team that can create fewer chances. Manchester City's players work like a machine, but Atletico Madrid's players are a bit slower in this regard. Alvarez will score more goals as he gradually adapts to the team.

Today match between Rayo Vallecano vs Atlético Madrid team is a draw. Both teams scored equal goals and neither team could win today's match. However, Atlético Madrid team did not perform well after leading the points table due to which Atlético Madrid team did not win this match. Game  Rayo Vallecano started off with a good performance in the first half. Rayo Vallecano's I. Palazón scored the first goal in the 35th minute.

FC Barcelona football team was  favorite for that match and they won the heart of their fans by giving great performance. They won the match one sided. All players were looking in good form and they gave their all efforts. R. Lewandowski is one of my favorite player and he played according to my expectations and he did 2 goal for his, team and he was match changer in this team and he applied pressure on opponent team from the start of  match. Raphinha also did 2 goal in this match  he his performance was end performance and he bent the match to their sides.   FC Barcelona  team has good points in this match ans he is present at the top of table and Villarreal CF team has 11 points.

Actually when talking about the age vulnerability for the players of these two big clubs is not much different where Madrid is currently the majority of its players are still very young and Barcelona is also the same there are only a few players who are considered seniors in the club at this time and of course this regeneration is very good to make the rivalry continue to be maintained until the next years for these two clubs in La Liga.
Barcelona's progress at the start of the season was good but it cannot be denied that Madrid are also now starting to make good progress by continuing to get 3 points in every match they play.

It all comes down to performance and mentality because when it comes to the championship it's clear that it can't be determined just by the start of the season but by the start of the season, the middle of the season and the end of the season. When a club can consistently go through this phase then they will be the ones at the end of the season who will finish in first place but when consistency is slowly lost then it will be very difficult to get the trophy because after all their rivals are still there and will take advantage of that.

When Barcelona consistency is still maintained, Madrid will definitely be troubled to overtake their 4-point gap but when Barcelona starts to be troubled by the competition especially when their focus is divided between La Liga and the Champions League, it could be utilized by Madrid in order to gain momentum to overtake Barcelona's current position.

Barcelona journey in La Liga so far has been very impressive, sweeping all 6 matches with a perfect point, and they are the only club that has been able to do so. Leading the standings with 18 points, with Real Madrid 4 points behind in second place, a performance that must be maintained if they want to be champions at the end of the season. However, the defeat against AS Monaco in the Champions League broke the positive trend that had been created, although I think they reasonable to lose as they only played with 10 men. However, the performance shown by Barcelona at this time deserves praise, because some of their players are still injured. Hansi Flick has managed to overcome most of the challenges, by utilizing the players available. When the players are fully available, they can most likely perform consistently in various competitions.

Real Betis vs Mallorca

Realistically, these two teams actually currently have equal results and in terms of performance, Betis and Mallorca have equal performance. But, on paper, Real Betis is much more favored because they only lost once and on the one hand, in terms of H2H, Mallorca has always failed to compete with Real Betis who is currently the host in today's match.
My prediction is that the final result is that Real Betis has a great chance of winning with a narrow score difference.

I expected better from Atletico Madrid yesterday but was surprised that they had to come from behind to get a draw against Rayo Vallecano. Diego Simeone's men are now 6 points behind league leaders Barcelona after just 6 Spanish La Liga games. That's not a good record for a club that's interested in contending for the league title this season. Julian Alvarez in my own assessment haven't been able to live up to expectations of Atletico Madrid fans and that I think is probably caused by the club's style of play because I know that on a normal day, the Argentina striker is one player that can get you goals. Maybe he'll work to improve himself in subsequent games

I personally did not watch the match live, so I do not know for sure how the injury incident occurred. But from several sources that I got, at least I got information about the incident of the injury such as jumping or stepping on his feet uncomfortably or not perfectly. Thus, ter Stegen was injured but even so, I think Barcelona's defense line will still be able to play well or remain strong. Because after all,  in the match, Villarreal who played at home were also only able to score one goal in the first half.

That means, when Barcelona played Inaki Pena, in reality Villarreal were also unable to score a goal  in the second half when Barcelona played Inaki Pena. But indeed, because Barcelona also played well, it was difficult for Villarreal to launch an attack in the match. Also, for the next few Barcelona matches, at least it can still be said Bercelona to get opponents who are not difficult, before playing against Bayern Munich in the Champions League. Thus, Inaki Pena  should be able to play with good results for several matches before Barcelona plays against Bayern Munich later.