The new La Liga season kicks off Friday, August 16 if Athletic Bilbao entertain Barcelona — kick-off in 3:00 pm EST..
Its expected to be another race near the top of the table between Barcelona and Real Madrid, and Lionel Messi is guaranteed to be one of the leagues leading goalscorers. However, several interesting over/under props have also opened up to get a few of the main protagonists of the league.
*All odds taken 08/12/19.
Eden Hazards summertime go to the Bernabeau is just one that has been rumored for a while, and with all the Belgian having arrived it will be intriguing to see whether he can have the impact that he did in the English Premier League.
Hazard scored 16 goals — his very best return since 2011/12 in his final year at Lille at Ligue 1 when he hit 20 — and so hes arrived at Madrid at the summit of his abilities.
While his group needed more than its share of superstars and at Chelsea was expensively assembled , the Real Madrid squad hes joined is on a different level. It major fish although at Stamford Bridge, Hazard was a large fish at a pond that is medium-sized — every player is an worldwide superstar.
So, while last year, a number of his 16 goals were made through his own brilliance, this season hell be surrounded with ingenuity, with manager Zinedine Zidane supporting his players to play with dash and liberty.
If Hazard can strike the floor, theres nothing stopping him scoring 17 along with a few.
Our selection: Hazard to score over 16.5 targets
Real Madrids Benzema will benefit from each one of the quality described previously, and hell have the ammunition being himself provided by Eden Hazard. His 21 goals equalled his second-best tally and last time out was his best return at 2015/16 since scoring 24.
In his decade at the Bernabeu, the 31-year-old Frenchman has averaged 14.8 goals a year, with his smallest tally being just five in 2017/18 — but the big question for those contemplating a bet on Benzema is how many games will he play this year. To get his 21 league goals, he played 36 times — the most he has played but together with Neymar on Reals radar, it does beg the question,who will the Brazilian substitute?
In case the game time of Benzema is limited, so also will his opportunity to break the 21 goal obstacle, and therefore were attracted around 15 goals this campaign to the Frenchman scoring.
Our pick: Benzema to score less than 17.5 goals
The small maestros document speaks for itself. In his 15 seasons in the Camp Nou, he has scored 419s awesome amount at a mean of over 29 a year — a phenomenal achievement.
He peaked in 2011/12 if he scored no longer than 50 goals in La Liga, and followed up the next time with 46; equally seasons being in the midst of his battle with Cristiano Ronaldo.
The pair, for several seasons, were locked in combat over the Golden Boot and the and in many ways were accountable for spurring each other onto greater heights, with both hitting on the half-century in that interval.?? However, theres no Ronaldo in La Liga — he plays for Juventus in Serie A — along with Messis struggle is with also the books and also himself.
Another astonishing truth is how fit the tiny Argentinian keeps himself, and even at 32-years-old he regularly plays over 30 league matches per season, and it has remained remarkably clear of serious and long-term harms.
His goalscoring ratio throughout the past couple of seasons has been almost a goal-a-game and providing he continues to remain fit and healthy and he performs well over 30 league games, we believe he will break the 35-goal barrier.
Our selection: Messi to score greater than 34.5 targets
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