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

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The UCL match between Barcelona and Benfica will take place tomorrow. Of course I personally support the Barcelona team in this match and willing to bet on their behalf. But before placing a bet, we need to do some analysis, Barcelona is ahead there meaning their performance is going well. It may be true that Benfica in the UEFA Champions League would not be an easy opponent for Barcelona, we saw that they were number two on the points table in their domestic league.

In the UEFA Champions League match between these two teams, that is, the match between the Barcelona and Benfica football teams, I am the most eager to watch the game of Di Maria.

On paper, Barcelona is more favored than Benfica. There is no doubt for me to bet on Barcelona's victory because their condition is On Fire. Apart from Hansi Flick being able to field his best squad in the game, Barcelona started 2025 with a great performance. They were unbeaten in the first and second months of the year, and even at the start of the third month they managed to beat Sociedad by a landslide.
In the last meeting between the two teams, Barcelona managed to beat Benfica with a score of 4-5, this time the same incident might happen again, because Barcelona is still very consistent in maintaining its best performance.

If we talk about excellence on paper, it is undeniable that Barcelona is far superior to Benfica, but what we need to remember is if the match is played on the field where all possibilities can occur later, especially in this case we are talking about the champions league match where the atmosphere of the match is often very different and more intense than the domestic league, we must admit that Barcelona has performed quite well in the last two months, but benfica is not a team that should be underestimated, especially the last time barcelona just win 5-4 over benfica and doesn't this indicate that benfica is a team that's hard to beat?
Especially if you look at the head to head of the two teams which are not too significant at all, so I think although barcelona is current On fire but Benfica can give a surprise in the match.