Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 534. (Read 540888 times)

That win over Rayo Vallecano is very important, but I think this win is greatly overshadowed by Bernal's injury. This guy is only 17 years old, and he has already got a serious injury and will miss almost the whole season, but Barcelona believed in him a lot and even let Gundogan go, who played in his position and also decided not to extend the contract with Sergio Roberto and now in fact the position in the supporting zone of Barcelona without the main players.
Of course De Jong can recover by September, but he is so often injured that I think no one seriously considers him as a player for the whole season, besides Barcelona have financial difficulties and new players will not be easy to get.
That's why I think Barcelona will not be a serious competitor to Real this season.

Mbappe really needs to blend in more with the team, his ball distribution to other team mates at the right time to open more chances for him has been quite awful and also his solo play is not what Madrid is known for. Madrid do more of short and long distribution of passes instead of running with the ball and that will affect the team productivity including his outputs, good time for him to understand that his now in a more different league with highly contenders.

Starting him from the bench is understandable and the best of option, just for this season then next he can possibly be among the starting line up but it may look too unruly keeping such a figure on the bench but I think that is what best for the team until he relates with his fellow team mates on the pitch than just his own potentials.

yes in his first match with Barcelona Dani Olmo has scored a goal and finally made Barcelona's score superior to Rayo and Dani Olmo's first match with Barcelona was a very impressive match for him and his friends in Barcelona and indeed Barcelona until now is still running smoothly and well in every match and of course this is a good thing for Barcelona.

yes with Barcelona's condition which is not good in terms of finances of course many people think Barcelona will not perform well like this, but yes now Barcelona has proven that he can perform well in Laliga and of course if you look at Barcelona's current situation which has good players plus their new player Dani Olmo of course will make Barcelona fans proud and confident that they will be able to compete with Real Madrid for the championship title.

yes of course now the Elclasico match will definitely be exciting because the strength of Real Madrid and Barcelona is now getting better and of course with the presence of Olmo makes Barcelona appear more confident and I am also amazed by Olmo he is very good because he can adapt quickly to Barcelona players.

honestly our fate is the same friend, disappointed by the match played by atletico madrid against espanyol and it seems that many bettors were unlucky in the match, I see atletico madrid is still unstable in the 3 matches it has played. that will trigger our doubts in the future, the same as what real sociedad did, but fortunately I did not bet on real sociedad's victory.
in the third week there are still two matches left between girona vs osasuna and real madrid vs las palmas, but I am more inclined to real madrid to try my luck because if I try my luck in the girona vs osasuna match I doubt if I have to bet on these two teams.

I agree with you here, on if Mbappe is coming from the bench he will more relaxed and having more tendency to score since he will see the game better outside and then knows what to do in order to get to the scoresheet.

Though I doubt Ancelotti will opt for Mbappe coming from the bench since he is trying to build a partnership of Mbappe, Vinicius and Rodrygo as the forefront. Anyway I think Ancelotti will be able to speak to Mbappe about not being pressurised either if he is coming from the bench or starting this match. After all we know he is going to get back on  track even Messi and Ronaldo didn't get to the scoresheet easily when they left Barcelona and Real Madrid respectively.

The top 4 seems to be a difficult target for Girona, let's give them a chance to improve because it's still early in the season so hopefully the Girona players still have high fighting spirit, today Girona will face Osasuna and this should be a match that they shouldn't waste because 2 matches that have been played without getting 3 points  very annoying.

Dani Olmo proved that his presence was very important for Barcelona to score the first goal without difficulty indicating that he really understands what Hansi Flick wants. Honestly, Olmo has the opportunity to become a top scorer if given full trust to play regularly, Olmo is not only accurate in scoring goals but he also has the ability to create more chances for his teammates.

Barcelona isn't as bad a the media are portraying them to be, they may be going through some financial stress at the moment which may have denied them access to participating in the transfer market but somehow the situation has turned out to be a positive situation for the club as a whole because they have gone back to paying more attention to la masia (the club's academy) where most of the greatest players were made to source for young talents in the like of lamine yamal, pedri, cubarsi, balde, etc, and now they do not have to spend ridiculous amount of money on players who can't even defend their wages on the pitch, more also this is also good for the la liga because it goes a long way to giving more value and prestige to the world's fiercest club derby ( the el classico).

We cannot assume that Barcelona will win the league title this season. To be honest, if Barcelona wins the league this season, I'll be surprised since I never expected them to win the league with the academy players that fill up their squad, I was only seeing new faces against Rayo Vallecano, and the young players aren't very good at defense. However, Olmo had an outstanding performance in his debut for Barcelona, once he was substituted, the entire game changed because Rayo Vallecano dominated the first half of the game. Olmo had an impact on their performance in the second half and scored his first goal for the team, after his outstanding performance on his debut, I believe he will be selected among the team's starting players.


Did you think Barcelona could win the game without Olmo? Barcelona's performance was so poor in the first half that someone asked me whether they were the team wearing the white jersey because the pressure was too much for them in the first half, so, unlike other big teams in the league, Real Madrid can win games without Bellingham, Vinicius, and Rodrygo because they have solid players to cover their positions. I doubt that Barcelona will compete with any of the big teams this season.

The two teams you mentioned are already in such good condition this season and that is indeed very much desired by La Liga lovers, especially Barcelona and Real Madrid fans, so that we can all watch the fierce El Classico matches again this season. However, before the two meet again in La Liga this season, both also need to apply their consistency in winning matches with other teams and also apply unique strategies so that their opponents can find it quite difficult to beat them this season.

This will be the 3rd game for Madrid and we haven't seen the ball at the back of the net for their new signing Mbappe. The last game they played, as soon as he (Mbappe) was removed the young star Endrick who replaced him got a goal and is like Mbappe hasn't gotten his scoring shoes back. Mbappe's performance hasn't been bad in any way but that chance of getting his first la Liga goal is what many are waiting to see, is it that he needs to start from the bench before he could get a goal? To me I think that can help because Mbappe would be more relaxed while coming from the bench than starting and he'll be desperate to do something to impress the fans if he's on the starting 11. His foot work is intact and he can get something tonight if he's calm against Las Palmas, after all he has got all the love and support from the other players to get him going.

Atletico tried very well, they should have scored twice already at the beginning of the match, but first of all I want to note the excellent game of Garcia, if you watch you will see that he has the highest rating in this match and it is clear why. Atletico still managed to score but the goal was disallowed due to offside, such matches are surprising, how many chances Atletico created and only a draw. Now they have two draws, too many points lost at the beginning of the season, Real will play Las Palmas today, they only need a win, because Barcelona won their match.

I was not actually expecting a goalless draw at home against the newly promoted club. Simeone has contributed immensely to the development of this team making it one of the biggest in Europe but I think it's time for him to leave the club, they need a new couch with a different system. I expected them to be competing for major trophies with the signings they've made and not maintaining their regular defense game.

 Just imagine, they were playing goalless and he took off and a striker to bring in a defender in last substitution. I have realized that whatever players he has, Simeone will always play the same football. He already took the club to a level it's not capable of going any further, he should handover the baton to someone else.

Today's match of Atlético Madrid vs Espanyol team is a draw. In today's match, the players of both teams tried hard, why the team could not score, the players of both teams performed equally. The players of Atlético Madrid team did not perform well, because of which Atlético did not win today's match.  Madrid team. I thought Atlético Madrid team can score in this match but Atlético Madrid team could not score due to good performance of Espanyol team players.

Unexpectedly, Atletico Madrid failed to get full points in that match because I also think that Espanyol should not be a strong opponent that could hold Atletico Madrid to a draw in that match. But I also didn't expect a draw to occur in that match. But I paid attention to Alvarez in that match. and it seems like this player hasn't been able to score a goal.
After Atletico Madrid succeeded in recruiting Julian Alvarez, I thought this team would start to have a goal scoring machine. But it looks like Alvarez is still not used to being on this team. And it looks like he still needs adjustments until he can really build good chemistry with other players at Atletico Madrid. But I'm sure Alvarez will start to find his edge as time goes by. He must be able to make a big contribution to Atletico Madrid because he is the biggest transfer made by Atletico Madrid in the current transfer market.

Valencia again got a bad result and made them now at the bottom of the La Liga standings with 0 points, the defeat to Bilbao was their third defeat in a row this season so I think Valencia must be able to bounce back immediately if they don't want to continue to slump at the bottom of the table until the end of the season, the match against Bilbao actually Valencia played a little better than their previous match and it can be seen from the possession of the ball quite a bit Balanced in my opinion, but indeed the quality of the players owned by Bilbao was the difference in the match where Bilbao was able to create more chances in pressing the Valencia defense.

Atletico Bilbao who played at home and fielded the majority of their main squad in the match were able to create many chances, but precisely from the 13 shots they made throughout the match only 1 goal was created, so it is clear that actually bilbao still has a big problem in their attack, even though they have many players with good quality in the attacking line but the lack of effectiveness in taking advantage of opportunities makes Bilbao can only won with a score of 1-0 over Valencia.

I also bet on Atlético Madrid, I put them in my multibet bet, but when I saw the starting lineup that would play, I confess that I soon lost hope that they would win the game, when Atlético Madrid does not play with Antoine Griezmann, they end up with a very weak attack and I honestly cannot understand why Diego Simeone, even though he has been Atlético's coach for many years, continues to make the same mistake. For example, in the game against Villareal and against Girona, he put Antoine Griezmann and brought in some players and the attack was very good, but in yesterday's game he made many changes and did not put Antoine Griezmann in, it makes no sense for a coach to change a squad that produces good results knowing that they are playing a very important game, as a consequence of this draw.



They are in position 4 and have a greater chance of finishing in that position, at most they could finish in position 3.

 Atletico Bilbao vs Valencia. That game should have seen the hosts pouring goals because Valencia aren't a strong club. Imagine in a whole 90 minutes of action, the visitors never had one shot on target, only managing to register a shot? What a poor performance but yet Bilbao could not take advantage of this, I stead settling for a goal and felt it's okay?
 I believe if any club wants a shot at the title and upset Real Madrid's reign, you'd need to up your game in the areas of goals and points. I guess they are more satisfied with their performance as they were able to get their first three points since this season started but by their standards, this wasn't enough..

I've said before that Dani Olmo not yet made the Barcelona squad because have been constrained and can't be registered, and despite this, Barcelona under Hansi Flick have made a good start to the season. I said at the time too,  that Barcelona would be better off with Dani Olmo in the squad and sure enough, Dani Olmo was able to quickly get into the game and score a goal.

Playing in the second half didn't put Dani Olmo off, as he still managed to make a good contribution to Barcelona. With that said, I'm looking forward to seeing Barcelona against other top  teams in La Liga and the Champions League. Because if I consider the good results Barcelona have had so far in the early La Liga matches, it seems that I optimistic to look forward to Barcelona's success this season, hopefully they manage to get the trophy also this season.

Atletico's dominance was more than noticeable, but despite the fact that they made 25 shots at Espaniel's goal, they were unable to score. And Espaniel did not seem to try to do anything in attack, all their attention was focused on defense and their strategy worked, they were able to take points from Atletico. And for Atletico, despite the fact that they show a very meaningful game at the start of the season, they lost points in two of the first three matches, which looks bad, because in just three rounds they are already 4 points behind Barcelona. Real will try to beat Las Palmas today, so as not to repeat the fate of Atletico, but the odds for a Real victory are only 1.35, which is somehow not enough for an away game, considering that Las Palmas is also not easy at home.

Honestly, I am also a little disappointed because in that match Atletico Madrid failed to win because in that match I bet on Atletico Madrid's victory, but yes, Atletico Madrid played very well in that match and controlled a lot of the ball, but of course, no matter what, Atletico Madrid tried their best to win, but of course it is very unfortunate that their hard work did not produce results.

I agree with you, indeed, if you look at the head to head record and the squad owned by Atletico Madrid, it is certainly superior to Espanyol, but of course this proves that Espanyol has a strong defense line so that it is very difficult for Atletico Madrid players to score goals and of course now Simeone must be able to improve Atletico Madrid's attack line to be better.

Yes, as a new player at Atletico Madrid, of course Julian Alvarez must need time to adapt to his friends at Atletico Madrid. Yes, of course, it seems that Griezmann will be relied on at this time, but of course, one day Julian Alvarez will be able to show better performance to defend Atletico Madrid.

but yes it is true if for example Atletico Madrid always continues to play with a draw of course if it is for the long term it is very dangerous and of course from now on Atletico Madrid must not draw when competing because of course if the results continue when competing are always a draw then it will definitely be difficult to become champions and of course it could be difficult for Atletico Madrid to get a ticket to the UCL.

of course we just see the upcoming match Atletico Madrid against Bilbao of course this will definitely be very exciting.