Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2025/26

Quote from: Adbitco on Today at 06:05:12 PM

Quote from: Solokan on Today at 06:25:29 AM

Source: https://sport.detik.com/sepakbola/liga-spanyol/d-8089744/rayo-vallecano-vs-barcelona-selesai-1-1/amp
Last season's champions (Barcelona) were held to a draw by Rayo. This was certainly far from my prediction. I assumed Barcelona would win against Rayo, as their squads were clearly the best, boasting many star players. In today's bet, I bet on a Barcelona win because I saw Barcelona as the strongest. Unfortunately, my guess was wrong, and the match between Rayo and Barcelona ended in a draw.

As the home team, Rayo certainly played well, attacking Barcelona well. If I'm not mistaken, they scored numerous goals. Unfortunately, the referee only awarded one goal in this match. If all of Rayo's goals had been awarded, Rayo would have had the potential to win against Barcelona. If Yamal hadn't scored on penalties, it seemed certain Barcelona would have lost to Rayo. Fortunately, Yamal scored on a penalty kick.

Now, Hansi Flick must really improve Barcelona's game so that the Barcelona players can capitalize on the opportunities that arise.

They had to give Barcelona an undeserved penalty after VAR went to sleep. It's like it happened on purpose that the review didn't come from the VAR. After the game, i didn't see Pedri with the press to talk about how it wasn't a penalty but it was given to them anyways. Last week he was quick to point out a decision against his team and this week that a decision was in favour of his team, he didn't blab about it and called Real Madrid on it just as he did last week.

Rayo Vallencano was vindicated afterall cause even after Barcelona was helped by the VAR and officials they didn't still win the match, Rayo still made good attempts and had near miss, Barcelona is just lucky that the officials were on their side else they wouldn't have had any points in that match, nice display from Rayo players, that's a team defend their home ground.

I noticed that in various leagues across Europe the VAR made lots of wrong calls last week, it was introduced to aid the officials against errors not to destroy football entire, this is something FIFA should look into and try amend before it becomes normal. However Barcelona plays were not at their best and needs to improve in the next match.