Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

The reason why Real Madrid lose against Juventus is Real Madrid use a strategy where it depend on Bellingham as an attacking midfielder. They're more comfortable when the midfielder backing up other midfielder and working together.

But it's clear there are so many chances in Real Madrid, but their strikers weren't able to maximize it.

This is a new debut for Jude Bellingham in Madrid, because it is still in a friendly match coach Carlo Ancelotti trying to find the right position for him, Ancelotti has made several game options throughout pre-season to find the maximum performance from all players. However, this defeat will see Ancelotti return to make more correcting in his first team before LaLiga starts

Ancelotti has tended to play Jude Bellingham as an attacking midfielder in his last 4 pre-season games. Bellingham plays well in that position where he can help Real Madrid build up attacks. Real Madrid won 2 of their 4 pre-season matches against Milan and Manchester United, but Real Madrid lost their last 2 matches against Barcelona and Juventus.

Of course Ancelotti really has to evaluate his team's performance after 4 pre-season games, obviously he still has time to do so before the league starts on the 13th of August. On the other hand Real Madrid really need a great striker to help them win games, that is one of the most important things that Ancelotti has to focus on for his team.

Whenever I see the recent matches from Real Madrid I can see and feel the empty place of Benzema in this team because after he left the team they couldn't hire a good striker to fill his place and Real Madrid could have had much better performance in the recent games we saw if they had a striker like Mbappe in their team.
That's why Ancelotti had to put some players to helping the forwards ad attacking like setting Jude Bellingham is a good example of it.

Karim Benzema's goal numbers for Real Madrid since Cristiano Ronaldo left the Spanish club speaks volume of how important he's been for the club for the past five seasons and would greatly be missed if Madrid fails to find a good replacement for the Frenchman before the end of the summer transfer window.
Kylian Mbappe who's been in the news for over two months about his reported interest to play for Madrid doesn't look like a player who would join Madrid this summer considering the conflicting decisions he's having with PSG. That being said, Madrid must find his replacement if they truly want to do well next season

I think Real Madrid would have less problems to find a new striker if they already had the answer to the back and forth with Mbappe. Any other striker knows about the risk to go to Real Madrid when it is still possible that Mbappe will come as well because it is obvious what that means for any other striker. It means sitting on the bench.

But it can still take four more weeks until the final answer will be given to the whole story around Mbappe. He would fit very well into the team with Vinicius Junior as that would be the highest speed attacking duo in soccer I guess. Though there is a risk that Real Madrid starts into the new season with a new top striker. I think that is what Ancelotti is also afraid of.