Let's See, in the tradition of the Spanish "Quiniela" (the soccer lotto): 1 - home team wins, X - tie , 2 - Away team wins. 35th Week: Atletico - Barcelona X Deportivo - Sevilla X Mallorca - Valencia 2 Recreativo - Real Madrid 2 1. RM 69 2. Barca 67 3. Sevilla 65 4. Valencia 65 36th Week: Real Madrid - Deportivo 1 Barcelona - Getafe 1 Sevilla - Zaragoza 1 Sevilla UEFA Champs Valencia - Villareal 1 1. RM 72 2. Barca 70 3. Sevilla 68 4. Valencia 68 37th Week: Barcelona - Espanol 1 Mallorca - Sevilla 2 Zaragoza - Real Madrid X Levante - Valencia 2 1. RM 73 2. Barca 73 3. Sevilla 71 4. Valencia 71 38th Week: Real Madrid - Mallorca 1 Gimnastic - Barcelona 1 Sevilla - Villarreal 1 Valencia - R Sociedad 1 1. RM 76 2. Sevilla 74 3. Valencia 74 4. Barca 73 I will add, however, that if Recreativo ties or beats Real Madrid next week Sevilla wins the liga (which is quite ok by me as well). I am just hoping that it won't.
Sorry Iberian, I think its impossible to predict anything at this stage of the season. I have said elsewhere that I believe we will still drop points and that we have to hope Sevilla and Barca do the same (I don't think we will drop enough to bring valencia into the equation). To take EPL as an example who would have believed that Wigan (no wins in 9) would go to Sheff Utd (only 2 defeats at home all season) and beat them with 10 men...relegating them and staying up themselves in the process. At this stage of the season all bets are off...though I would add that the chances of Nastic beating Barca are zero.
I have too much free time and ahead of the Zaragoza - Barca game wrote out a prediction for Barca's and Real Madrid's remaining fixtures. I'm 100% for Barca! For Real Madrid I got Racing and Valencia wrong (two draws). Anyway, for Barca's remaining fixtures I went with Atletico loss, Getafe draw and then two wins. If it works out, I'm thinking of hanging myself for not having an accumulator on it.
I think Barca will win 3 and tie 1 game, so we must do the same. next weak could be crucial. We must win because I doubt barca will lose..
C'mon dude, I want them both to go out with a bang...one to second division and the other one with the humiliation of barely making fourth position losing to the worst team in the Liga .... that would be a blast! (I can dream too, can't I)
Errr..... that means your prediction is not a prediction then. But that's OK, I'm hoping the same thing.
You can dream...and God I would love Nastic to beat barca, but I don't see a Catalan team beating Barca to hand the title to Madrid...(and no, I don't count Espanyol as a Catalan team )
Hmmm...how about Nastic lose to Barcelona intentionally, both get caught match-fixing, and they both get relegated!
Actually, Nastic has some tradition beating Barca here and there (particularly in their regional cup), and don't really take it easy against them. Also, Portillo would hope to have a chance to go back (as it is rumoured Soldado is getting), and I'd say that most of Nastic's players would (or should) play a decent game to increase their chances of getting a call from another 1st div. team...then again, I am completely sure that Laporta will not mind passing over a few suitcases full of cash (quite an unfortunately usual thing to happen at the end of every season)...so there is a little of everything for this game. Above it all, I'd say that Nastic (and most of its players), know that this has been a very special year for them being in first div., one that is very likely not be repeated anytime soon, therefore that last game would be a good one to win... I really do think that there really is a decent probabily for Nastic to take some points away from Barca...let's all hope that there is.
the remaining fixtures for us are very tricky. very tricky specially our two away games and the final game against mallorca. but as for farcelona they will lose against atletico, tie against getafe and espanyol and win against nastic. and i will be optimistic and say we will win all 4.
I think some posters here are very optimistic! I think we will have to match Barcas result against Atleti in our match against Zaragoza. Can we do that I think we will win the title.
I would like to hope that we'll win the last 4, but we've already won 7 out of the last 8! We all know it's just a matter of when, not if, this winning streak stops. Finishing a season by winning 11 out of the last 12 games just seems like a fairy tale, unbelievable. I ofcourse hope for that, but don't see it happening. That said, i still think we'll win the Liga though, but in my predictions on Marca (they have a nice little system that calculates the points and everything) i put us down for a loss against Zaragoza. Final outcome of my predictions was: Real Madrid 75 Sevilla 74 Barcelona 73 Valencia 72 Even though that might not be correct, i still think La Liga will be decided in the last round, no sooner.
That's why I think it is crucial for us to come out of this weekend with some distance between us and Barcelona and Sevilla.
Well, Graham Hunter and Guillem Balague don't think Real Madrid is going to win it. Just watched Revista de la Liga, and one thinks Barcelona is going to win it on points, and the other thinks Sevilla will win it on goal difference against us. (I don't remember who predicted what.)
I don't want to offer any predictions, but my hope like most is that Real win all four remaining games. Unlike most i also hope that Barca win all four of their games. That way they will know that the only reason they ain't champions is because we won at the Bernabeu and we scored three at Camp Nou.
LM89, that doesn't surprise me. I just read an editorial in Marca where they have a guy picking Sevilla. This weekend is huge.
^Doesn't suprise me either. Winning 11 out of the last 12 matches is extremely unlikely, but I'm hoping that we can still make it. It would hurt so much more if we were so close.
Guillem said Sevilla and Graham said Barca. Thing with those guys is Guillem surports Espanyol and Graham lives in Barcelona. So that why they say that. No one seems to surport Real on that programme
Hi Guti.h 14: Guillem isn't just a boyhood Espanyol fan, he supports Liverpool FC (his 2nd team) also, as he's lived in Liverpool for many years, now like me I'm a loyal Liverpool FC fan as my Auntie Julie was born near to Liverpool and I support Real Madrid (my 2nd team) as my fave player of all time was Zidane.
Balague has little worth in my opinion. He predicts the wrong things, generally, and he is always hoping for big name transfers back and forth. Usually he sides with smaller teams in hopes of an upset, and then when he is questioned by emails and angry readers, he shrugs it off and basically suggests that he knows so much more than the average, informed fan.