Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2024/25

I agree that Bilbao manager Valverde made mistake by not bringing in Nico Williams sooner to boost their attack. Getafe strong defense and midfield made it difficult for Bilbao to create scoring opportunities. Valverde late substitution was too little too late and Getafe well planned strategy deserved win. Despite not converting their chances Getafe showed impressive speed and pressure making them formidable opponent. I hope they maintain this level of performance to cause more upsets in future games.

Fatal mistake planned by valverde by not entering nico willliams at the beginning, I do not understand the coach's wishes, the fans want better results by getting 3 points, we see since nico entered in the second half their game (bilbao) is much better, it is useless to produce ball control if there is no attack produced, on the other hand getafe played well, solid defense was shown by them, fast attacks relying on long balls. much more effective, on paper bilbao won but in fact on the field getafe played well, in my opinion the achievement of 1 point for atletic bilbao is very unfortunate seeing them playing at home is a defeat.

The new season start and Bilbao already played the game against Getafe. But Nico Williams is still linked to other teams like Barcelona and PSG which is not good for this player. They recently didn't use Nico Williams in Germany and this made us think Nico Williams has problems with the team but recently Bilbao again asked Barcelona to stop talking about their player and they said Nico Williams is the player of Bilbao and they don't want to lose this player since he is under contract until 2027.

Bilbao not appear optimal in their first match when they faced Getafe who clearly had a squad quality below their, Statistically even before the match started, Bilbao on paper was superior to Getafe, but Bilbao who played at home were not able to do much in the match, In fact, Bilbao was win with first a goal scored by Sancet in the 27th minute, but instead they lost concentration and even their defense looked very careless when the second half started, Bilbao first match did not go well, so make they ended the first match in la liga with a score of 1-1.

I'm also quite surprised when Bilbao looked very weak in attack, but coach didn't play him (nico william) faster in that match, so that gave rise to speculation that he might still be in poor condition at the moment, talking about speculation about Nico Williams, in my opinion all speculation has ended when he returned to the Bilbao training camp some time ago, Apart from that, he has confirmed that he will stay in Bilbao for now, so this means that the opportunity for Barcelona and PSG to recruit him has been tightly closed this season.