Quote from: GiftedMAN on December 22, 2024, 07:13:49 PM

Quote from: Lida93 on December 22, 2024, 06:12:51 PM

To me, it seems that Barcelona has lost the fire and zeal that they started this season with. Even when they had so much injury worries they never played this badly and I wonder why they have missed it because they can't comfortably win a home game against struggling team thereby making themselves seem like the underdogs in matches where they ought to be favourites. I think it's high time the Barcelona coach starts motivating his players again so that they can start playing with purpose and precision else they might get to a very bad position on the table should Real Madrid get back to better form.

The current position of Barcelona is enough evidence to prove that the motivation is no longer in the team, the energy and winning confidence of Barcelona was very high from the beginning of the season I even predicted them to win the league since the performance of Real Madrid was not good at the beginning but seeing how the performance of Barcelona has gone from good to bad makes me wonder if they are confidence of coming back to winning ways again this season.

Barcelona losing last week was surprising because they played against a weak them and they had the home advantage and coming to this week they lost 1:2 at home again against Atletico Madrid and they are currently occupying the 3rd place while Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid occupy the first and second position respectively with both teams having a game in hand. Barcelona manager needs to do anything possible to get the team's energy back otherwise they will end up dropping more points.

I think the team lacks motivation and if they can be motivated then they might get back to their former state where they once had their way against every other team in the league. Right now they can't even beat a weak team in the league, they do not make use of their home advantage and that's why no team is scared of them and this is one area the coach has to work on so as to restore the team's confidence and get them back to winning ways and also back to fighting for the top position where they were before they started loosing some important games that led to their sudden decline.

Quote from: Docnaster on December 22, 2024, 06:20:34 PM

This is how the top four of the Spanish La Liga looks like at the moment. I don't think any of us would have predicted anything similar to this after Barcelona defeated Real Madrid 4:0 in October but this is actually the reality at the moment. Barcelona started the season on a very good note and were even tipped by many to reclaim the league title at the end of the season but the Catalonian club have had very poor results in recent times and are now trailing league leaders by three points and second player Real Madrid by two points. If both Madrid clubs wins their outstanding games, Barcelona will be 6 and 5 points behind respectively.

Right now the standings do not really scare me because the points difference between the top four isn't much and at such you can't really tell who is going to clinch the title considering the inconsistent run of all the top four teams. Further more, the standings goes to show how bad Real Madrid and Barcelona have been performing which was what gave room for Athletico Madrid to overtake both of them to the top.