Barcelona was seriously stormed last year, but with the arrival of Xavi, the situation as a whole stabilized, they even managed to get silver, while there was no talk of any fight for the championship. In the summer, the Catalans stepped up very seriously. One of the main transfers of the club, and of Europe as a whole, was Robert Lewandowski, who moved from Bayern as a free agent. In the same status, the Blaugranas got Marcos Alonso from Chelsea. For the money, Barcelona acquired Rafinha from Leeds. The British managed to get more than 50 million euros for the Brazilian. Jules Kundet and Frank Kessy are called upon to strengthen the defensive potential of the team. The latter also got free, the Ivorian’s contract with Milan expired in June. In the championship of Spain, Barcelona started with a goalless draw. They failed to beat Rayo Vallecano at home. However, to date, this is the last loss of points for the Blaugranas. There were no problems with Real Sociedad (4:1), Valladolid (4:0) and Sevilla (3:0). So far, Barca are second in the table and two points behind Real Madrid.
Last season, Viktoria under the leadership of Michal Bilek won the league title quite easily, being ahead of the second Slavia by as much as seven points. The result of the championship was quite unexpected, because the club from Pilsen was not considered a clear favorite for gold. Thus, for the first time in four seasons, the Red-Blues took the trophy, thus interrupting Slavia Prague’s three-trophy streak in a row. In the summer, the club worked on the transfer market, concentrating mainly on buying players from the Czech championship. There are no big names, for obvious reasons, except for Vaclav Pilar, who once appeared in the German Bundesliga as part of Wolfsburg and Freiburg, who also has 27 matches for the Czech national team. At the same time, champion status did not guarantee Viktoria a direct ticket to the Champions League group, while the Czech Republic occupied only 13th place in the UEFA coefficients table. They had to go through three qualifying rounds, from which the “red-blues” knocked out the Finnish HJK, the Moldavian “Sheriff” and the Azerbaijani “Karabakh”, with the latter it was especially difficult. In the championship Viktoria beat Slovan with a score 1:0 over the weekend, thus obtaining the fifth consecutive victory in the tournament and rising to second place in the table. The leader Slavia is ahead due to additional indicators, but at the same time played a match more. More accurate football predictions for today can be obtained from the link provided.
