Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 823. (Read 530043 times)

Right he isn't a striker, but it's a bit confusing that he was able to score so many girls in the first half of the season and hardly scored anymore. First 19 games he had 13 goals and afterwards he scored 4 goals in 3 games only. He has still contributed a lot to this season's performance, but I at first he thought he could become the top scorer if he kept going like he did in the beginning of the season.

It was the same in the Champions League by the way. He scored in the first 3 games of the group stage and another goal in game 5, but no more goals afterwards.

Nevertheless, I think it is unprecedented how he is playing his position. I mean it's kind of funny to see the number 5 of a team play in the center forward position and then find him everywhere on the pitch. But he it's good for him that he is not egoistic striker, he really tries to choose the best option for his team in any game.

Yes, Girona was truly extraordinary, able to surprise us all with its achievements and being at the top of the standings for a long time at that time. But in the end they failed to maintain it, dropping to second place and are now in third place.

However, when compared with Leverkusen, it is quite different. Leverkusne has Xabi who is an extraordinary football manager. However, it is quite different from Girona. Moreover, to be honest, in my opinion, Girona's opponent clubs in La Liga are much stronger than in the Bundesliga, so Girona might have difficulty defending them in various matches against the top La Liga clubs.

However, it cannot be denied that Leverkusen really beat expectations and they have been successful in maintaining it until now. Yes, apparently Girona has done better and is still in the UCL.

There are players that are aiming for big winning but it's never consider easy but the best comes with ease and standing results. Bellingham have done a good job to put up a competitive race with other players in his first season in Real Madrid. Jude Bellingham is not a striker but he remains a significant attacking midfielder for Real Madrid. He did great to match up with the likes of Artem Dovbyk and Alexander Sørloth, he doesn't give up but maintain his incredible form and having deliver Real Madrid from tough times.

It has been a great first half for them this season, as they made the La Liga Competition interesting and at the same time,competitive, they was the only one club during the first half of the season to challenge Real Madrid for the top as we all saw them as potential winners of the La Liga Competition this season.
Everything changed whenever they come against Real Madrid during the both fixtures, they have had.
Hopefully they won't just be selling, as I expect them to add depth because they would be also going hard in the Champions League Competition next season.

With much game time they will be facing next season, I double doubt they will be able to make it back Into the first four top clubs in La Liga next season.

Looks like that will be the case, there are only 5 remaining matches left. And the difference in points with Girona is actually not that far, only 2. However, it is possible that Barcelona's opponents will also be able to handle them well in the final match. In fact, it's no different from being runner up or number 3. Because they are both in the qualifying round for the Champions League next season. But of course this is also related to prestige. How is that possible, Barcelona, not only behind Real Madrid, but also other clubs. That's why Xavi definitely wants them to be at least runners up.

I agree with you. With the current number of points, Cadiz has a 5 point difference from Celta Vigo and Granada also has a 5 point difference from Cadiz. If you look at the current strength of the teams in the lower rankings, I think that the teams currently in the relegation zone will not change. Cadiz, Granada and Almeria must prepare to play in La Liga 2 next season.

If you look at the current statistics I think Cadiz is better than Granada. They have both achieved 4 wins to date but Cadiz have only lost 15 times and Granada has suffered 20 defeats. But I think both of them will return to play in Laliga. But I'm not sure about Almeria. It looks like they will have difficulty getting back into the league.

Girona has motivation for finish on 2nd or 3rd standings position behind compensation depend on the higher finish position, if Girona can reach 2nd or 3rd place actually will earn large amount of compensation from La Liga. Its good capital for Girona to earn money as their capital for first time appearance in UEFA Champion League competition behind the club history.
I think Girona will not sell their main players have been target by many bigger teams, they want impressive well for the first time in Champion League and keep reach the Champion League spot standings place for next season. Reach to second or third standings position is very important to get increasing bigger compensation for Girona, regarding with matches left they have to face Barcelona and defeat them make Girona will secure the 2nd place.

In the last few matches Granada was able to get points from their opponents, but in my opinion for now it is too late for Granada to rise after they wasted a lot of points at the beginning and also mid-season, with the remaining matches against 5 teams stronger than them of course it is difficult for Granada to be able to achieve all the victories, currently Granada is below Cadiz with a difference of 5 points,  Granada still have a chance to end the season above Cadiz who also have a tough opponent in the rest of their games, but I don't think it will save them from the relegation zone this season because it is a safe zone that is certainly difficult for them to achieve.

In my opinion, Granada, Cadiz and Almeria will definitely be relegated this season, although the three teams may have a change of position in the relegation zone at the end of the season, for now the performance of Granada and Cadiz is far from good, between Cadiz and Granada, to be honest it seems that Granada will have the opportunity to regain promotion later because indeed they will be stronger in La Liga 2 like last season when promoted to La Liga this season.

I guess I can agree with you that Valencia's red card was indeed a huge disadvantage to them and more like a turning point in the game, but saying that the red card was the only reason why Barcelona won the game is what I'll disagree with you.
Cmon, Barcelona's superior skill, tactics as well as their teamwork were the actual reason that led to their victory against Valencia.
Without the Red Card, Barcelona would have still secured an amazing win, maybe it wouldn't be as easy as it went, with Lewandowski even securing a hat trick on the game.
They would've still secured a win even without the Red card.

Valencia is one of the most inconsistent team in this league with mostly in early halves they lead and then give up with mostly they are having red cards which creates problems for them and same happen in this game even we have some blunders from the Barcelona, but they were able to recover this and at the end handed them thumbing defeat with the score of 4–2 which is good for them while now they are going to visit Girona which is also coming back into good touch after some bad weeks and lost of many points.

Robert Lewandowski which is having not good time with the hat trick in this game now having tally of 16 goals which is not bad at all but still Barcelona needs to have some good new generation players which bring better results for them and having challenging situation for the leaders Real Madrid in coming season in last few games they are doing impressive job even they are still had too many on and off the field issues.

Sevilla with their last boss weren't able to stay up in performance this season. So unlike the Spanish side, this season they're found below the 10th spot. They've managed to fight up until December where there was a switch in the managerial position and thankfully they were able to experience a good level of improvement in games performances and results.

 Their boss between December 2023 and now have helped them out of the relegation zone and now they've got to strive to stay or move up above their current stand and this can only work if their able to win their final few games left in the league. As it is for every other team, any loss incurred now will affect their stand on the table and it's one thing that Sevilla will strive to avoid in these last games left.

 They weren't able to get the 3points last weekend but they're scheduled to face Granada this weekend. Their opponent is a team that are in between performances and can't be predicted and so don't underestimate them. Sevilla seems ready and fit to hold up pressure and Granada seems agile to fight back pressure and keep the game in their favor. We'll have to see the end result of this encounter this weekend.

I am having no doubt about this with any team can create problems for these four which are at the top with Athletic Bilbao was good, but suddenly we are having problems for them in last four games, and they lost 10 points which are enough for them to lost their chance for the Champions League spot there next game is also not easy while they are going to visit inform Getafe which is doing good job and beats Girona few weeks back even we are still have five games left in this season which are enough for having any change but most chances now we are going to have these four teams for the Champions League spots Real Madrid, Barcelona, Girona and Atlético Madrid because they are having enough points and space from their opponents for the qualification.

Even though recently Granada has been able to show their best game because in the last 5 matches they were able to achieve 2 wins and one draw. In my opinion their hopes of staying in La Liga are quite slim because they are already far behind Celta, which is the safest place to stay in Laliga. Granada is 10 points behind Celta and only 5 matches remain in this season which I think will be quite difficult for Granada so I am sure Granada will be relegated this season.

Cadiz still has a chance to get out of the relegation zone, but I still believe that their steps will also be difficult because the opponents they face are quite difficult, like Real Madrid. But every effort will continue to be made because while there is still a chance they can focus well on finding victory and successfully getting out of the relegation zone.

valentia experiencing one man down was what led to their defeat when G. Mamardashvili was given a red card the game changed and they lost confidence if not for that they had better chances of winning against Barcelona, R. Lewandowski scored a hat-trick a result of a man down, everyone knew that valencia is good, watching from the first half they you know exactly what am talking about, we know that the first goal was an easy one they the penalty given so there was no much struggle when they were winning, so if we were to rate both there play they have tried, and they were both lucky, but Barcelona was the luckiest.

Barcelona used their opportunity well they noticed Valencia was down by one man and there was no way they could cover everywhere and that is how the goals were dropping, and all the leagues were getting more interesting i could remember that Barcelona was struggling some weeks back and now they have picked up again.

One thing I've always advised against in football has been certainty so as to avoid been disappointed because the game of football has got too many probabilities a d thwy happen when you least expect them to happen such that you will definitely be taken by surprise a s in cases like this every minute of the game is a potential time for anything to happen so you can't be certain at any point till the final whistle.

Real Madrid may be having the home advantage as the game will be played in their home back in Spain but then that isn't a guarantee that they are definitely going to win the game because they at this point still share this same chance with their opponent except for the home advantage they have got no further edge as i have carefully watched their performance yesterday and i can say for sure even in their home they are definitely going to get it tough against Bayern Munich, this is champions league and not just their regular domestic league where they can have that level of certainty.

Bayer Munich almost win Madrid in their home.if not for the last penalty thst got them an equalizer a d moreover Bayern Munich was even more creative with more chances in the second half than Real Madrid actually did which i see as an exhibition of strength which my equate Madrid so it's possible a draw may still happen in Spain because i know Madrid wouldn't want to loose this neither will Munich want to chicken out aswell.

After only drawing 1-1 against Real Betis, Sevilla failed to continue their winning trend since the beginning of last month. Even though Sevilla could be one step closer to the top 10 in the standings, it seems that all that will have to be postponed first. I think Sevilla has recently started to find their game again where they have been so consistent in achieving results to close the season by finishing without being at the bottom of the table.

Now they will be much optimistic of course, especially since there are only a few games remaining. However, from their schedule at the end of the season, it looks like they will have great difficulty facing Bilbao and Barcelona, so they will have to win the 3 matches before that match, such as against Granada, Villarreal and Cadiz, with full points. The reason is that if it's not like that, then they will finish at the bottom of the table again considering that the difference in points from other teams is not that far.

Girona will definitely end up above ATM without a doubt. The third place is theirs, and that means that they are going to make a lot of money from the league, on top of that they are going to make a lot of money from selling some of their players as well (like savio) and they are going to make a lot of money for being in the UCL group stages as well.

All these combined could lead to nearly 150 million euros for them. Now that is of course amazing, there is really nothing bad about that part of this deal, btu the real question is that will they be able to stay consistent? Even with all that much money, if they finish next season 9th or something then they will never be good, so they need to figure out how they could end up with a better result in the end. Third is not must, but worst case a 5th is needed.

The experiments carried out by Ancelotti when facing Bayern Munchen left many questions, but in the end we realized that his decision in formulating the starting XI proved effective, at least avoiding defeat. It is always not easy to beat Bayern Munchen at the Allianz Arena, their unstable performance in the Bundesliga does not make it easy for Madrid to win. Regardless of the course of the match, I think a draw is quite fair in the first leg, although I know that in the second leg Madrid will appear dominant because they act as hosts at the Santiago Bernabeu. Regarding Ancelotti decision, he has actually done a lot of experiments, but yesterday looked very different.

Meanwhile, for the next match, Madrid will face an easy opponent namely Cadiz, we can conclude that Madrid can secure full points easily. For Madird an additional 3 points will bring them closer to becoming champions, and for Cadiz a defeat will make them sink further into the relegation zone. Considering the season is approaching the end, Ancelotti will still field his best squad against Cadiz, to avoid losing points. Although on the other hand, Madrid is quite comfortable at the top of the standings, thanks to an 11 point difference with its closest competitor Barcelona.

I have feeling there is no confusion regarding Carlos Ancelotti strategy as things are going they are doing impressive job with La Liga is already into their pocket and now with this first leg result most chances we will have Champions League could be also under there control even things are still challenging but their performance and quality is impressive, and they are doing good Jude Bellingham is key player for them and coach is using him wisely with they want good end of the season without any injury or problem which have troubles for them in last season.

No doubt things are not going as they want but still they are doing good job and next season could be more attractive because now they are having better way of play which is giving them good success and their quality and consistency is also giving them good results.

Jude Bellingham is not a center forward, but he is likely to be expected to score goals for his team playing with a false nine. Jude Bellingham's main position is an attacking midfielder, but his role was increased by Ancelotti because of his positioning and playing strategy. The opposing defenders tended to focus on marking Vinicius and Rodryo who played on both wings, at the same time Bellingham's marking was not good and he took advantage of that to score a goal.

Jude Bellingham does not play as a center forward, but his role is almost exactly the same as a center forward. He is a striker who plays as an attacking midfielder, maybe that is my opinion of Bellingham's role in Ancelotti's game scheme this season.