Quote from: pawel7777 on March 05, 2025, 10:59:53 PM

I expected Real Madrid could lose points to Betis, as Betis is doing fairly well this season and both of those teams tend to perform much better at home, but I thought the most they could hope for was a draw, but they bagged 3 points.
It seemed like Real Madrid might have become too confident or too relaxed after scoring an early lead and got punished for that. They now dropped to the 3rd place as they got overtaken by Atletico with 2 points gap between them.
It most likely was just a one-time flop, as yesterday Real proved their superiority over Atletico by beating them 2-1 in the Champions League.

It's really interesting to see all 3 teams in the race for the title with no clear leader and have the same 3 still competing in the Champions League.

It is undeniable that Betis' performance is currently very good. Because usually Betis always has difficulty winning when facing Real Madrid. But now Betis really has a slightly different style of play, especially after Antony joined. The proof is that in this match Betis was able to fire a lot of shots towards Real Madrid's goal. This is really unexpected, because with this it means that it can be concluded that Betis' performance this season is really very good. Because Real Madrid also fielded the majority of its main squad in this match, but in reality it is very difficult for Real Madrid to enter Betis' defense area. So with this, it is very natural that Real Madrid lost this match. And besides that, it is true that when playing against Atletico Madrid, Ancelotti's team managed to win with a narrow score of 2-1. But I am sure that in the second leg of the match between Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid, there will most likely be an unexpected surprise.

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In addition, last night Barcelona managed to beat Benfica with a very narrow score of 1-0. I think this difficult victory was indeed reasonable for Barcelona to get. Because how could it not be, only 22 minutes into the match one of Barcelona's players got a red card. This caused a bit of chaos at first because Barcelona did lose in the number of players. But fortunately Barcelona was able to fix this and defend with 10 players on the field. Then in the 61st minute Barcelona was finally able to score a goal through Raphael and the advantage lasted until the end of the match. I think this victory is really an important capital for Barcelona to be able to be more free in the second leg to come. Because in the second leg the match will be held at Barcelona's headquarters, so of course with this Barcelona will of course be more free.