Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 580. (Read 542260 times)

Lol! They can just tamper with the odds just because of a single game , the season is still very new for any decision.... I know they will perform better, just wondering why Athletico odds was that high

They have no choice and once a club has no too many options , they will begin to make some irrational decisions. Though, I don't think Flick really want him on his team as a priority and since he's not part of Flicks plan the club have to just let him go because of his pay, I mean it can cover a lot (I guess that's what they're probably thinking).

We must admit that getting a draw in their opening match was not an encouraging result even though we understand that they will bounce back better. Winning their first match against a smaller team would have been a big motivation to the players and a thing of joy to their fans. Besides, they made people lose money in gambling because not only did people play them straight win, they also play them to produce at least three goals which still failed. I know some friends that also played Mbappe to score which never happened. So, that match was a big disappointment to a lot of people.

I don't think lack of chances was the issue with Lewandoski last season, because at the end of the La liga season if you look at the stats you'll see that Barcelona is the team that created the most chances and Lewandoski is the player in the league that missed the most chances. I think it was just due to the system of play and him not realising that he's not as young, fast and sharp as he used to be, so instead of mostly poaching in the box or around the box he still wants to be involved in the build-up play.



With Olmo, he would play on the left wing which is not his normal position but he can do that well. I don't think Olmo is a player I would be excited about because as much as he's good, he's inconsistent and he's injury prone. I doubt he's going to be top-class in every game of the season if he doesn't get injured. Barcelona already have injury-prone players like Pedri and Frenkie in midfield, adding Olmo and selling Gundugan is not ideal.

Regarding Gunduga, there is news coming out that he will not be in the coaches' plans. That's understandable because he doesn't press, and he is not defensively conscious, but although Gundugan is a player I would like to remain at Barcelona, I think the team will be fine without him.


Araujo is one the best defenders in Barcelona and one of the most important players in the team. His mistake against PSG last season got the fans very angry but I believe they're overreacting. Selling Araujo is not a very good idea.

I think the only thing that seems to be lacking from Ancelotti current squad is an assist provider, like Kroos in the past. Having a number of players in one front line with a more dominant attacking style, must be balanced with a reliable playmaker, Modric is too old to be relied on in every match. While the other players, are still learning a lot to reach the level of Modric and Kroos, I assume that is Madrid current concern. However, thanks to the individual skills of the players who are above average, such things can be covered, but in the long term it must be overcome.

Meanwhile, Ancelotti is very experienced in facing every challenge, and overcoming every deficiency in the team very well, it seems quite easy for him to unite the egos of the players. We know that last season many people were worried about Madrid front line without Benzema, but Ancelotti managed to maximize the potential of Vinicius and Rodrygo supported by Bellingham. I think it's too early to predict what will happen to Madrid in the future, what is clear is that with a squad full of stars, Ancelotti will find it easier to experiment to implement various strategies and approaches.

Of course, most people were curious with Real Madrid first match in La Liga. People want to see how Mbappe can bring significant impact for Real Madrid. Unfortunately, Real Madrid showed an unexpected game, they couldn't play well in that match. Real Madrid didn't play as a solid team, they missed many shot opportunities and Real Madrid defense seems worse. Anyway, it has nothing to do with the match against Atalanta. I think Real Madrid played better in UEFA Super Cup.

According to the media, I heard that Mbappe expected to score 50 goals in this season. If he played like in the match against Mallorca, I'm sure it is impossible to score 50 goals, he even may not score 30 goals in the whole season. But I think it is too early to judge him, he will try to adapt with Real Madrid game style gradually. Also, Mallorca often surprised us, this team isn't a very weak team, too. So, we still can understand if Mbappe still couldn't score in the first match in La Liga. However, he needs to play better in the next match. Let's see how Mbappe will perform in matchday 2. Real Madrid will play at home, against a small team (Valladolid). It should be an easy match.

Gundogan will return back to Manchester City most likely as a free agent. His experience with Barcelona was great and he helped a lot the team, even Barcelona are aware of that but when we talk about Barcelona, we talk about fair play and chronic money crisis, so they have to get ride from a good player to register Olmo and the others eventually..
This without counting that they still want to find a buyer for Frenkie de Jong and Ronald Araujo.

Barcelona has choose controversial decision this summer because surprisingly they will terminate Gundogan contract and i know Gundogan salary is very high in Barcelona because he has 20 million per year and probably will release him Barcelona can cut salary costs for the players but Gundogan is important player for them even last season Gundogan match statistics with Barcelona is very impressive

I have to says this is a risky move chosen by Barcelona because possibly lost Gundogan will have negative impact to their performance although currently Barcelona has Dani Olmo which probably can be played as the replacement of Gundogan but there is no guarantee Dani Olmo can performing well

It's funny that despite the fact that Real Madrid lost points in the first round and Barcelona didn't, the bookmakers' odds for the title haven't changed at all. They are now as follows:

Real Madrid - 1.45

Barcelona - 4.25

Atletico Madrid - 8.50

If I remember correctly, even the chances of Atletico, which unexpectedly lost 2 points, haven't changed either.
Apparently bookmakers, like everyone else, believe that the randomness of the first rounds doesn’t mean much.

Outstanding clubs comes with winning major titles and not settling for lesser scores. Real Madrid and Barcelona will remained the main clubs to focused on when we're talking about La Liga title. Real Madrid will contemplate on the big winnings and challenges, the exact thing will happen to Barcelona. Real Madrid won the super cup from Atalanta. They thrashed their opponents without stress and they a whole lot to accomplish in the new season. Carlo Ancelotti keeps close sight on this portrayed squad, ensuring he's in full control.

I told someone that Mbape will take small time to blend in with Real Madrid style of play before he fully understands his pattern here in Laliga but many are having confidence in him. He could t score a goal against Mallorca despite been a minor team. They are going to win battles but some will be difficult, even when Bellingham came, there were some matches he was doing well but at some point, he was shadowed among other players that some people were talking bad about him for not scoring goals when he is a midfielder.


When Ronaldo went to Juventus after making name in Real Madrid, he was having more appearance in matches that goals in his early matches but things changes with time and he won then their Seria A title 2 good times. Even Mbape will do that, beside this is just the beginning and he has lifted a trophy just a match before this one. There are some teams that are going to pay for this and it's the team that we don't expect that will lose to them.

This is football man and the worst things happen when you least expect it so I believe that is what happened in the Mallorca vs Real Madrid team, a lot of expectations were centered on Real Madrid winning the game because of the quality players they have when compared to the home team but watching the game you could see the way the home team were able to keep with the defense after conceding and early goal but they were very lucky to finally get the equalizer before the final whistle. The attacking force of Real Madrid had no issues but they were unlucky not to score many goals but thqt doesn't mean they are not going to do very well in their next games .

There is some news about Barcelona and it seems the fans of Barcelona are not happy because they expect to see Barcelona hiring more players while the bad financial situation in Barcelona won't let this team to hire more players and they don't still have a good situation. They are about to hire Nico from Bilbao but they can't do that and when they asked Deco about hiring this player he said they want to hire him but he won't come to play for this team but they will hire about player instead.
  

I won't rate Real Madrid's performance against Mallorca as poor because considering the fact the just played Atalanta during the midweek in the super cup must have made their players become so weak and they didn't show much energy and they can't really be blamed afterall they played very well and instead of them losing the match a draw was much better for them. Am just being sorry for Real Madrid's next opponent because they will suffer the consequences of Madrid not winning Mallorca and they should be prepared in their returning match because Real Madrid will devour them totally.


I agree with you because it will surely take the new players some time to adapt to the nature of the team perhaps that was the reason why the old players played better than the new players but it shouldn't take the new players much time to blend with the team so that they all can make good improvements through a combined efforts.

The results were unexpected but still didn’t deny the fact that Real Madrid are still the best team for the league title and also one of the major contenders for the champion league trophy too. Mallorca may have got to draw the match in the opening game but not guaranteed to escape Real Madrid’s wrath in their net meeting in the La Liga. Football is unpredictable and so it’s important expectations are lower but for this match, it’s shocking to everyone. I know Real Madrid will do better in their next match, we’ll wait and see how it will be.


They were only few addition to the club so the old players are more than the new ones and it shouldn’t take a lon time for the new players to understand the pattern and adapt to the style of play of their new teammates. The new players can’t be dependent on to lead the team to victory always, it has to be a collective effort, so they lost the match and it’s no big deal because it can happen to any team.

Obviously many people had high expectation of Real Madrid in the opening match of the La Liga. I was not actually moved and I didn't also predict that Real Madrid will go home without a point. But I was however skeptical about the match, reason being that the inability of Real Madrid to beat Atlanta with higher margin of goal got me skeptical.

We all have thought that with the arrival of kylian mbappé, read Madrid will be scoring an average of three goals every match. But in reality football is not like that. If Real Madrid is unable to beat Mallorca, it's there for me that they are not ready to beat any other club in the La Liga if you measure it verbatim. However, football is just dynamic and sometimes unpredictable. Our expectations are always defeated because we attach much emotion to it. If we can approach prediction with reality and without being sentimental we could at least have good percentage of prediction.

Real Madrid really shocked people that weekend. Anyone was thinking that Real Madrid will destroy Mallorca, but unfortunately, they didn't get the chance to defeat them. Ancelotti needs to change the information because they are losing midfielders, only Bellingham is doing great in that position. Real Madrid are really missing Kross because if Kross is still in the club, I am sure Mbappe will really enjoy Real Madrid because he will feed him well like he used to feed Vini. Let's watch how Real Madrid plays their next game in the league next week, but I'm confident they'll really want to win it, and they're playing at home, so I don't see anything that will stop them. Mallorca is really good in defense line and they will be hard to break there defense they will perform good this season if they will be performing like how they do against Real Madrid.

This is just the first match of Real Madrid, I think making a draw right for the starting of the season is not bad but the reason why some people are talking that against Madrid is due to the high expectations that they have for them which they was expected them to win their first match and the game later end of draw.

The Real Madrid next match will be more differences from their first match, but I know why a lot of people are putting much expectation for Real Madrid because the team is now full with the better squad, and don’t know that the new players need to calm for them to understand the old players playing  Pattern.

I see some Madrid fans complaining about it online, but I don't see any reason why they should get worried Mbappé just got into the team and not all players easliy adapt when they get into a new club, my thought is that it would only be temporary and I trust Ancelloti to tackle that situation immediately, I watched their match Vs Atalanta and it wasn't like the opening league match they all performed well and delivered good result, maybe Mbappé forgot that's he's no longer in PSG, hahaha and that's why his heat wave showed that he was mostly at the flank instead of central forward but it's just the opening game and like I said, i trust Ancelotti to tackle the situation before their next match, he'll call Mbappé to order and remind him that he has to play the Madrid way like they did against Atlanta instead of being too selfish with his passes, I feel he's trying to make a name in the league or win the golden boot but it's still very early and if he listens to the coaches instructions and connect well with Rodrygo and Vinicius Jr then winning the golden boot would be much easier for him.

Almost everyone probably didn't expect that a team as strong as Real Madrid would share points at the start of the season. Moreover, their opponents are not a team that is considered strong. Not only that, Real Madrid was even disadvantaged by Ferland Mendy's red card at the end of the match.  Mendy is one of the most important players in Real Madrid's defense. So even though Real Madrid got 1 point from the match, Real Madrid actually lost because they lost one player due to a red card. And it is certain that Mendy will not play in the next match due to the red card he received. But maybe in next week's match I will trust Real Madrid again because playing at home should bring a greater possibility of victory than the match played at home to the opponent.

The main problem for Madrid now is that Mbappe and Vini have played in the same positions in previous seasons. And that's why these two players are having some trouble adjusting to new positions and tactics this season. However, Madrid coach Ancelotti is experienced. He will surely solve this problem very quickly.

In the match against Mallorca, we saw that Mbappe played a bit selfishly. Mbappe's reluctance to pass the ball to Vini was noted. Ancelotti never bases his match strategy on any particular player. Madrid is strong as a team. They will not rely on Mbappe alone this season. Mbappe should adapt to the players in the squad without playing selfishly. This will make Madrid's overall gameplay stronger.