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Sports => Football => Topic started by: 100% Barataria on August 14, 2011, 11:54:00 AM
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Commences today w/the super cup at 4pm EST
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Pretty football on display. 2 very good goals so far.
Xavi, Pique, Puyol on the bench and Real have had the better and more numerous chances.
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No formula for Messi! Poison!
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Funny eh, this is the most disorganized I have seen us look for a while even w/Pique, Puyol, Xavi and others on the bench, 2 chances, 2 goals, actually, 1.5 chances, 2 goals...Madrid's fitness is way up, very fast game, exciting season lies ahead
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Yuh can't have any slackness around Messi nah.
Villa goal was a precision strike, beauty of a shot.
Benzema had a a couple chances to put the ball on frame, but once he couldn't find his feet and the other time the defender blocked.
I didn't realize how good Benzema's pass to Ozil was. Boss play.
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Damn Sanchez has been impressive-he beatsin and jumpin rope like nothing!
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2-2! And now Pepe make Alves feel it lol dat good for him.
How does Cristiana manage to disappear in these games?
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Will this match go to PKs if it ends in a draw?
Come on Madrid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This ref have balls of stone. I suppose that is in the top criteria to ref a Barca - Real match.
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Yuh see these dirty Barca men? I can't stand it. Valdez now trip Cristiano and then pretendin that Cristiano dive.
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Yuh see these dirty Barca men? I can't stand it. Valdez now trip Cristiano and then pretendin that Cristiano dive.
CR feel a breeze on his foot and tumble over like he get shot. It was a good no-call. Lots of good no-calls by this ref I think.
Alonso making some brave tackles though.
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Yuh see these dirty Barca men? I can't stand it. Valdez now trip Cristiano and then pretendin that Cristiano dive.
:D
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Yuh see these dirty Barca men? I can't stand it. Valdez now trip Cristiano and then pretendin that Cristiano dive.
CR feel a breeze on his foot and tumble over like he get shot. It was a good no-call. Lots of good no-calls by this ref I think.
Alonso making some brave tackles though.
Are you saying there was no contact? I didn't see the contact for sure, but Valdez did intend to trip him.
Now look Alves kickin away men and can't believe that the ref would penalize him. If yuh do yuh ting own up to it like a big man.
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Peong I never knew you were a Madrid fan! Or do you just hate Barca?
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good game. real pace. alot of wild tackles from both teams tho
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Yuh see these dirty Barca men? I can't stand it. Valdez now trip Cristiano and then pretendin that Cristiano dive.
CR feel a breeze on his foot and tumble over like he get shot. It was a good no-call. Lots of good no-calls by this ref I think.
Alonso making some brave tackles though.
Are you saying there was no contact? I didn't see the contact for sure, but Valdez did intend to trip him.
Now look Alves kickin away men and can't believe that the ref would penalize him. If yuh do yuh ting own up to it like a big man.
CR feet get tangle up with VV and then when he step out of that, he see VV put his hand out, he decide to fall over it. To me those are not fouls. Men diving so much we beginning to think that all kinda ticky-tack thing is fouls and penalties.
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Yuh see these dirty Barca men? I can't stand it. Valdez now trip Cristiano and then pretendin that Cristiano dive.
CR feel a breeze on his foot and tumble over like he get shot. It was a good no-call. Lots of good no-calls by this ref I think.
Alonso making some brave tackles though.
Are you saying there was no contact? I didn't see the contact for sure, but Valdez did intend to trip him.
Now look Alves kickin away men and can't believe that the ref would penalize him. If yuh do yuh ting own up to it like a big man.
CR feet get tangle up with VV and then when he step out of that, he see VV put his hand out, he decide to fall over it. To me those are not fouls. Men diving so much we beginning to think that all kinda ticky-tack thing is fouls and penalties.
Bitter, Valdez was having dark thoughts and wanted to trip him.
And if a goalie or defender actually tries to trip you, CR or not, TAKE THE FALL, I will not begrudge anyone for that. You wanted CR to hurdle it?
Toppa I love football and I love the underdog, that's all it is.
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Yuh see these dirty Barca men? I can't stand it. Valdez now trip Cristiano and then pretendin that Cristiano dive.
CR feel a breeze on his foot and tumble over like he get shot. It was a good no-call. Lots of good no-calls by this ref I think.
Alonso making some brave tackles though.
Are you saying there was no contact? I didn't see the contact for sure, but Valdez did intend to trip him.
Now look Alves kickin away men and can't believe that the ref would penalize him. If yuh do yuh ting own up to it like a big man.
CR feet get tangle up with VV and then when he step out of that, he see VV put his hand out, he decide to fall over it. To me those are not fouls. Men diving so much we beginning to think that all kinda ticky-tack thing is fouls and penalties.
Bitter, Valdez was having dark thoughts and wanted to trip him.
And if a goalie or defender actually tries to trip you, CR or not, TAKE THE FALL, I will not begrudge anyone for that. You wanted CR to hurdle it?
Toppa I love football and I love the underdog, that's all it is.
Looks to me like he clip him on the ankle... he was definitely living dangerously there. In all fairness the ref coulda (shoulda?) award Pedro a penalty on the Marcelo tackle on the other end... but I like the no-call. Slightest touch and dem men does drop and grab they foot like they get lash wid ah 2 x 4.
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Yuh see these dirty Barca men? I can't stand it. Valdez now trip Cristiano and then pretendin that Cristiano dive.
CR feel a breeze on his foot and tumble over like he get shot. It was a good no-call. Lots of good no-calls by this ref I think.
Alonso making some brave tackles though.
Are you saying there was no contact? I didn't see the contact for sure, but Valdez did intend to trip him.
Now look Alves kickin away men and can't believe that the ref would penalize him. If yuh do yuh ting own up to it like a big man.
CR feet get tangle up with VV and then when he step out of that, he see VV put his hand out, he decide to fall over it. To me those are not fouls. Men diving so much we beginning to think that all kinda ticky-tack thing is fouls and penalties.
Bitter, Valdez was having dark thoughts and wanted to trip him.
And if a goalie or defender actually tries to trip you, CR or not, TAKE THE FALL, I will not begrudge anyone for that. You wanted CR to hurdle it?
CR wasn't getting the ball unless he was Usain Bolt, it was out past the 18 with a barca defender closing in on it. Why would the ref call that near-foul a penalty? because Valdes intended to foul him?
My point is, that it was mostly nothing. Certainly in the context of the game and the way the ref was calling it, that wasn't a penalty.
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CR wasn't getting the ball unless he was Usain Bolt, it was out past the 18 with a barca defender closing in on it. Why would the ref call that near-foul a penalty? because Valdes intended to foul him?
My point is, that it was mostly nothing. Certainly in the context of the game and the way the ref was calling it, that wasn't a penalty.
First of all, if CR didn't go down, that ball was his. It was not past no 18, and the nearest defender was behind CR. You obviously need to re-watch the incident.
Second, the ref would give a penalty because Valdez hit him with his arm intentionally. It wasn't a sledgehammer blow, but he did hit him, and it was intentional. One without the other might be excuseable, but not both together.
Third, did you see me say anything about penalty? That wasn't my point. My point was that Valdez is a nasty player, and as I watch them more I see that the nasty play is definitely a trait that is shared within certain members of the squad. Busquets, Valdez play today and the biggest crybaby Alves.
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Commences today w/the super cup at 4pm EST
Been meaning to start this thread for some time now. Thanks!!
Real Madrid 2-2 FC Barcelona
1-0 : Özil 12'
1-1 : Villa 36'
1-2 : Messi 45'
2-2 : Xabi Alonso 53'
(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b28/strenkt/Barcelona/1b84694b4443f8812ad7b647902d9efc-getty-505055924.jpg)
(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b28/strenkt/Barcelona/ap-201108141746639789478.jpg)
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http://www.youtube.com/v/R_Pi6DyO7cA
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Got to love Puyol, hands down the best person w/whom to go into battle, takes no prisoners!
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Spanish Supercup 2nd Leg
Wenesday the 17th of August 2011
23:00 CET (Barcelona Time)
5:00 PM (Trinidad Time)
I am only seeing it scheduled on DirecTV.
Camp Nou, Barcelona
First Leg Result
Real Madrid 2-2 FC Barcelona
1-0 : Özil 12'
1-1 : Villa 36'
1-2 : Messi 45'
2-2 : Xabi Alonso 53'
Video Highlights of the Match:
http://www.youtube.com/v/39qJj6sK9Us
Sanchez eating up wild man Marcelo food.
http://www.youtube.com/v/4AERzljAMYQ
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ride pine cesc ride pine!
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Nice goal by Iniesta on the midfield pass by Messi.
1-0 Barca.
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1-1. why did we buy fabregas and need a defender sooooo badly?
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1-1. why did we buy fabregas and need a defender sooooo badly?
ask xavi pique iniesta pep puyol et al :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
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Messi is a beast!
Big Up!
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Messi literally and figuratively brings Ronaldo to his knees! ;D
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ride pine cesc ride pine!
Bitter much? ;D
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Messi is a killer boy. Big assist by Pique.
Cristiano strugglin vs Alves. I think he rushin it too much. He makin his move to early, givin Alves time to tackle.
Alves just waitin for him and pickin him off every time.
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ride pine cesc ride pine!
Bitter much? ;D
nope i love cesc but thats what he will be doing
i hope barca fail to win anything this season
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Seems like everytime Marcello comes up against Messi he leaves him writhing on the ground. A rake here a stamp there; very suttle how he does it to!
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For some reason Cesc looks like more of man and less of a boy wearing that Barca kit.
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For some reason Cesc looks like more of man and less of a boy wearing that Barca kit.
stfu :devil:
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That should have been a yellow on Messi, blatant kick.
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For some reason Cesc looks like more of man and less of a boy wearing that Barca kit.
stfu :devil:
Why yuh takin it personally Gunner? :devil: The fella jus look like he aged dise all! Any way Cesc safer on the bench cause Real aint takin no prisoners!
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Done supporting Barca, to much calls going their way and they playing just as nasty. #don'tlikeatall
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Real look like dey give up and dey decide tuh jus take out men now!
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Done supporting Barca, to much calls going their way and they playing just as nasty. #don'tlikeatall
Both sides playin stink!
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1-1. why did we buy fabregas and need a defender sooooo badly?
I see what you mean about Barca's defending. The Barca marking was awful on that Real equalizer.
2-2.
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Done supporting Barca, to much calls going their way and they playing just as nasty. #don'tlikeatall
Yeah I kinda came to that realization earlier this year too (the return game against Arsenal specifically) ...that I'm no longer comfortable rooting for them.
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It only took Cesc 15minutes to win a trophy with Barca; mean while at Arsenal :whistling:
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It only took Cesc 15minutes to win a trophy with Barca; mean while at Arsenal :whistling:
Steupss, I knew someone was going to say something like that :devil:....look fight, Fab get hacked down oui...now he is a MAN lol red passing left right and center!
Big Up!
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Very poor officiating. Marcelo, has been doing really well. I realize that he is a quality player.
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It only took Cesc 15minutes to win a trophy with Barca; mean while at Arsenal :whistling:
took manu 18 YEARS until fergie came rolling down from scotland
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Waitin tuh see who is the first player tuh get seriously hurt when these two play. It is coming like Christmas.
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Fighting Aside these two teams are the best in the world and have been the best since last yr in my opinion. Hopefully they get to meet in the Munich final this yr.
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Very poor officiating. Marcelo, has been doing really well. I realize that he is a quality player.
Marcelo deserve that red though... on the replay he scythe him down from behind.
I kinda tired ah Pep and he tight clothes... but Mourinho is ah real tun tun, de man walk up behind Tito Vilanova and twist he ears in de middle ah de thing. Vilanova pelt ah Gervinho and ketch him back on he face. Real li'l boy thing.
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Very poor officiating. Marcelo, has been doing really well. I realize that he is a quality player.
Marcelo deserve that red though... on the replay he scythe him down from behind.
I kinda tired ah Pep and he tight clothes... but Mourinho is ah real tun tun, de man walk up behind Tito Vilanova and twist he ears in de middle ah de thing. Vilanova pelt ah Gervinho and ketch him back on he face. Real li'l boy thing.
Yeah did not see the tackle, but I guess as much. Just in general I was talking. Can't believe Mourinho do that. SMH
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It only took Cesc 15minutes to win a trophy with Barca; mean while at Arsenal :whistling:
Steupss, I knew someone was going to say something like that :devil:....look fight, Fab get hacked down oui...now he is a MAN lol red passing left right and center!
Big Up!
Look Ray steal meh line! ;D
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It only took Cesc 15minutes to win a trophy with Barca; mean while at Arsenal :whistling:
Steupss, I knew someone was going to say something like that :devil:....look fight, Fab get hacked down oui...now he is a MAN lol red passing left right and center!
Big Up!
Look Ray steal meh line! ;D
Yuh shoulda copyright it :rotfl:
I think Fab did win ah trophy with Arsenal though, FA cup in 2005/06? :-\
Big Up!
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Match Stats
Barcelona Real Madrid
11 (8) Shots (on Goal) 16(6)
17 Fouls 17
7 Corner Kicks 7
5 Offsides 6
60% Time of Possession 40%
2 Yellow Cards 6
1 Red Cards 2
4 Saves 5
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Once again Barca win ah match against Real when they get a red card :devil:
Big Up!
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Very poor officiating. Marcelo, has been doing really well. I realize that he is a quality player.
Marcelo deserve that red though... on the replay he scythe him down from behind.
I kinda tired ah Pep and he tight clothes... but Mourinho is ah real tun tun, de man walk up behind Tito Vilanova and twist he ears in de middle ah de thing. Vilanova pelt ah Gervinho and ketch him back on he face. Real li'l boy thing.
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: oh shit :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
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Yeah did not see the tackle, but I guess as much. Just in general I was talking. Can't believe Mourinho do that. SMH
http://www.youtube.com/v/ck0zKU9TNr0
Tito is Pep bulldog... Pep refuse to engage Mourinho in de back and forth so he have Tito doing the talking fuh him. Ah guess Mourinho decide tuh treat him like ah misbehaving chile in return, lol
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The game in general was not played in a good spirit. Far to many deliberate fouls and way too much diving from both teams. Pepe & Marcello are way too talented to play such wild ass football. Marcelo lucky to have been on the field to receive the red. That was a malicious tackle
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Great games and some beautiful goals. This matchup was a real treat for the start of the season.
These losses real hurtin Real Madrid, they are always the first to lose their tempers.
Barca is still the better side by a good margin.
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Game was good until the 75th when it got chippy. Madrid couldn't keep up the high line for 90 mins...they got tired and their defensive play got a bit sloppy (and rough)...Pretty even match overall but Barca was more clinical and precise. I like that Madrid is playing them high up the field and attempting to outplay them instead of bunkering down and countering like we saw last season...looking forward to the clasicos during the season, though I'm afraid that they are degenerating into some serious alley fights where the good football either gets overshadowed or eventually disappears when the legs get a bit tired...
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Game was good until the 75th when it got chippy. Madrid couldn't keep up the high line for 90 mins...they got tired and their defensive play got a bit sloppy (and rough)...Pretty even match overall but Barca was more clinical and precise. I like that Madrid is playing them high up the field and attempting to outplay them instead of bunkering down and countering like we saw last season...looking forward to the clasicos during the season, though I'm afraid that they are degenerating into some serious alley fights where the good football either gets overshadowed or eventually disappears when the legs get a bit tired...
I have to agree on the point about Real's defending. Mourinh obviously worked on this tactical approach for 2011-12. Barca are clearly not up to their best in terms of physical standards, but dam they are technically precise.
This was arguably the best defensive display I have ever witnessed from Danny Alves.
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I've been watching Madrid's preseason closely. In terms of speed of play and sharpness I was very impressed with them. To be honest I was ready to concede the cup before the whistle blew for the first leg. The fact that Barca beat Madrid when they are far ahead of us in terms of preparation says something about the technical ability of Barcelona. Lionel Messi is an anomaly that is very difficult neutralize.
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jose try to ride out quietly before tito saw him.... :rotfl: :rotfl: he move like he in standard 2.
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I have to agree on the point about Real's defending. Mourinh obviously worked on this tactical approach for 2011-12. Barca are clearly not up to their best in terms of physical standards, but dam they are technically precise.
This was arguably the best defensive display I have ever witnessed from Danny Alves.
Yeah Barca still has a gear or two in reserve - They are still the team to beat.
Alves read every one of Cristiano Ronaldo's moves like a book...
Messi tips the scale as well - He adds a dynamic of unpredictability that no other team has the luxury of.... without him they would be a totally different team.
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FC Barcelona 3-2 Real Madrid
1-0 : Iniesta 15'
1-1 : C.Ronaldo 20'
2-1 : Messi 45'
2-2 : Benzema 82'
3-2 : Messi 88'
Barcelona wins 5-4 on aggregate.
Highlights:
http://www.youtube.com/v/yJcSmC1SpEs
Fracas:
http://www.youtube.com/v/UNajyNeem3w
Somebody fart??
http://www.youtube.com/v/tCYqIwmVI1g
(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b28/strenkt/Barcelona/BarcelonavRealMadrid08172011Vlad6.jpg)
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Always been one of the biggest fans of Mourinho but really and truly it gone past the point where I can even think of defending his conduct..
Some things bigger than football, like respect for the opponent regardless and for him to condone what Marcelo did at the end of the game is reprehensible.. Furthermore his conduct in joining in the melee instead of trying to hold back his own players is rhell low for a man in his position..
He really dragging Real Madrid name through the mud.
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He really dragging Real Madrid name through the mud.
With Mourinho yuh take the good with the bad - good manager, stands by his players and supposedly an incredible motivator...the bad is that he's a gamesman who loves to live in front of the camera and doesn't know when to shy away from the circus....sometimes at the expense of his own perceived integrity.
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So what happened to Pinto? He need to keep quiet after Chivas ress 4 on him.
And I seein rumours about Villa and Ozil, I wonder what really happened between them.
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So what happened to Pinto? He need to keep quiet after Chivas ress 4 on him.
And I seein rumours about Villa and Ozil, I wonder what really happened between them.
what rumors?
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Always been one of the biggest fans of Mourinho but really and truly it gone past the point where I can even think of defending his conduct..
Some things bigger than football, like respect for the opponent regardless and for him to condone what Marcelo did at the end of the game is reprehensible.. Furthermore his conduct in joining in the melee instead of trying to hold back his own players is rhell low for a man in his position..
He really dragging Real Madrid name through the mud.
his conduct real poor. every single call against him during the game he remonstrating on the sidelines. at some point he have to tell his team live with the calls and play the damn game. and then when a melee break out he instigating thing too.
tactically he have madrid looking good but he playing with fire with his behavior.
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Always been one of the biggest fans of Mourinho but really and truly it gone past the point where I can even think of defending his conduct..
Some things bigger than football, like respect for the opponent regardless and for him to condone what Marcelo did at the end of the game is reprehensible.. Furthermore his conduct in joining in the melee instead of trying to hold back his own players is rhell low for a man in his position..
He really dragging Real Madrid name through the mud.
his conduct real poor. every single call against him during the game he remonstrating on the sidelines. at some point he have to tell his team live with the calls and play the damn game. and then when a melee break out he instigating thing too.
tactically he have madrid looking good but he playing with fire with his behavior.
Out of these two teams you think Real need to learn to live with the calls? You sure about that?
Mourinho must have learnt it while at Barca because he wails about every call just like a Barca player.
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i think both needs to live with the calls. as a coach you have to set the example. pep is jumping up and down at every call and crying conspiracy in the press is he?
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So what happened to Pinto? He need to keep quiet after Chivas ress 4 on him.
And I seein rumours about Villa and Ozil, I wonder what really happened between them.
what rumors?
That Villa insulted Ozil's religion. (Islam)
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FC Barcelona v Villarreal CF • 29 August 2011
Barcelona 9:00pm
Trinidad 3:00pm
Camp Nou, Barcelona
Previous Meetings:
02/04/11 PRD Villarreal 0 - 1 Barcelona
01/05/10 PRD Villarreal 1 - 4 Barcelona
02/01/10 PRD Barcelona 1 - 1 Villarreal
10/05/09 PRD Barcelona 3 - 3 Villarreal
Puyol, Piqué, Maxwell, Adriano injured, and Alves suspended.
The La Liga race start off hot and sweaty.
Real gave Zaragoza a rout and CR7 scored a hattrick.
Let's see if Messi can answer back and keep pace with him.
Oh and Small Mag and the rest of the ManU bandwagon - all yuh like phoqing advantage. Run up against Barca with the likes of Evans, Jones, Smalling, and Cleverley and we go show yuh what is advantage.
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delicious match...im sure v'real gonna be up to it...i rel like that side..
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FC Barcelona v Villarreal CF • 29 August 2011
Barcelona 9:00pm
Trinidad 3:00pm
Camp Nou, Barcelona
Previous Meetings:
02/04/11 PRD Villarreal 0 - 1 Barcelona
01/05/10 PRD Villarreal 1 - 4 Barcelona
02/01/10 PRD Barcelona 1 - 1 Villarreal
10/05/09 PRD Barcelona 3 - 3 Villarreal
Puyol, Piqué, Maxwell, Adriano injured, and Alves suspended.
The La Liga race start off hot and sweaty.
Real gave Zaragoza a rout and CR7 scored a hattrick.
Let's see if Messi can answer back and keep pace with him.
Oh and Small Mag and the rest of the ManU bandwagon - all yuh like phoqing advantage. Run up against Barca with the likes of Evans, Jones, Smalling, and Cleverley and we go show yuh what is advantage.
Wenger bring food...men eat :rotfl:
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Buh wha de arse.
*ahem*
Madrid spanked Zaragoza for 6 and it have easily been 12.
That it all.
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Who see Kaka's golaso???
I hope he scores a lot more.
http://video.rutube.ru/27e51e8050139b727a10295ab508c0c5
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Yes, Kaka's goal was very bess.
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Good start to the season for RM - Not sure how good Zaragoza is, but six is six, on to the next one.
Not really on Kaka but glad to see him finding the net...Very Kaka-like goal - seen him score a bunch like that.
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:yapping:
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:yapping:
:bringiton:
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FC Barcelona 5-0 Villarreal CF
1-0 : Thiago 25'
2-0 : Fàbregas 45'
3-0 : Alexis 47'
4-0 : Messi 52'
5-0 : Messi 74'
(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b28/strenkt/Barcelona/20.jpg)
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(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b28/strenkt/Barcelona/2110.jpg)
Highlights:
http://www.youtube.com/v/5X9VPhGjeeM
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I want Barca to hand out these kinds of beatings to the English clubs, especially Man U.
Make it happen.
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I want Barca to hand out these kinds of beatings to the English clubs, especially Man U.
Make it happen.
I go make a call and see wha I could arrange.
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FC Barcelona v Villarreal CF • 29 August 2011
Barcelona 9:00pm
Trinidad 3:00pm
Camp Nou, Barcelona
Previous Meetings:
02/04/11 PRD Villarreal 0 - 1 Barcelona
01/05/10 PRD Villarreal 1 - 4 Barcelona
02/01/10 PRD Barcelona 1 - 1 Villarreal
10/05/09 PRD Barcelona 3 - 3 Villarreal
Puyol, Piqué, Maxwell, Adriano injured, and Alves suspended.
The La Liga race start off hot and sweaty.
Real gave Zaragoza a rout and CR7 scored a hattrick.
Let's see if Messi can answer back and keep pace with him.
Oh and Small Mag and the rest of the ManU bandwagon - all yuh like phoqing advantage. Run up against Barca with the likes of Evans, Jones, Smalling, and Cleverley and we go show yuh what is advantage.
Wenger bring food...men eat :rotfl:
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: ENT?!?!?!!
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Villarreal on shit ah wha?!? steupsssss
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Villarreal on shit ah wha?!? steupsssss
Ask jai john :devil:
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Enzo Zidane training with the senior squad.
http://www.youtube.com/v/Zsh3EYvveHM
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Villarreal on shit ah wha?!? steupsssss
Well we run into the best team in de world when we are not yet up to our best. As a selling club we will always struggle after a successful year. I remember Ajax winning the European cup one year and lost most of their players the next. needless to say what happened to them then. After finishing 4th in La Liga and qualifying for the European play offs last year we had to sell playmaker and spanish International Santi Cazorla. when a small side like Villareal loses an influential player they really feel it ...we are not like the big clubs with cover in every position. this year villareal had to sell a " big player " simply to survive. The same was happening to south american clubs until recently.
It is all about the money ....if you dont have it ..you will struggle to survive. Look at how many big clubs are bordering on arbitration ... If you have good players they wont stay when the big cluba come calling .
..But the season is long and we will rise to the surface like any good submarine ...in the end we are always there ...we are not even attractive as a club for some rich arab ...population too small ...we eh even a good buy over..but we are a good team as we have demonstrated ...we are in the European Cup competition ...many big clubs cant say that .... villareal ...the world's biggest small side !! :rotfl:
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Barca drop 2 points today...Not even a desperate Messi dive in the dregs could rescue them today...
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Ball by Ronaldo for the third!
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Barca drop 2 points today...Not even a desperate Messi dive in the dregs could rescue them today...
No seen, we could afford RM at most a 5 point gap prior to our two meetings :devil:
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Who scheduled a practice game during the season?
Barca 5 - Osasuna :'(
... in the first half.
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Who scheduled a practice game during the season?
Barca 5 - Osasuna :'(
... in the first half.
Lard!! They get 8. Talk about Sampat!!!
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honestly, i rarely find this league entertaining.
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Real lacks discipline and always seem tuh be involve in drama! Some of these players in La liga must take acting lessons on the side!
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Her nah Real under pressha. Ah man just rest a stink stink drag on Carvalho.
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Her nah Real under pressha. Ah man just rest a stink stink drag on Carvalho.
They replayed it 3 times
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FC Barcelona 8-0 Osasuna
1-0 : Messi 5'
2-0 : Fàbregas 13'
3-0 : Villa 34'
4-0 : Rovérsio (o.g.) 40'
5-0 : Messi 41'
6-0 : Xavi 57'
7-0 : Villa 76'
8-0 : Messi 79'
(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b28/strenkt/Barcelona/1210-1.jpg)
(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b28/strenkt/Barcelona/251.jpg)
(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b28/strenkt/Barcelona/171.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/v/--928-v0hIo
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i have always loved la liga in comparison to the epl
imo the epl is scrappy football, while la liga imo is more free flowing and entertaining football to watch
too bad i have not taken in too many matches this season, maybe later on i will, has any started a fantasy league la liga season?
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Valencia CF v FC Barcelona | 21 Sep 2011
Estadio Mestalla, Valencia
Barcelona (CEST), 22:00
Trinidad, 4:00 pm
Past Meetings:
Wed 02/03/11 PRD Valencia 0 - 1 Barcelona
Sat 16/10/10 PRD Barcelona 2 - 1 Valencia
http://www.youtube.com/v/UrlIGXzBw9M
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A good article on an excellent young coach.
La Liga a better place after Valencia's rise to the top of the table
Never mind the top two, Barcelona and Real Madrid are not even in the top three, after another dramatic night of action
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/sep/22/la-liga-better-place-valencia (http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/sep/22/la-liga-better-place-valencia)
It was well past one in the morning and the votes were still pouring in. TV station La Sexta had asked the question and they were answering in their thousands. Can Valencia win the league? Not Real Madrid, not FC Barcelona: Valencia. Never mind the 25-point gap that separated them from the top last year or the 28 points by which they missed out on the title the year before, never mind the obligatory departure of their best players or the fact that the Sevilla president, José María Del Nido, had dubbed this a "shit league" that could only be won by the big two, the answer was "yes". And by some distance, too: 73% of viewers said that Valencia can win the league.
A few hours before, Real Madrid had drawn a desperately dull match in Santander 0-0 against Racing; now Valencia had drawn 2-2 with Barcelona in a fantastic, frenetic and fascinating game. After the opening weekend, it had appeared all over already: Madrid had won 6-0 and Barcelona 5-0. A revolution was launched and immediately crushed. Now, four weeks into the season, La Liga has a very different look. Madrid have dropped five of the last six points, Barcelona four of the last nine. Never mind the top two, they're not even in the top three. On Thursday morning Real Madrid sit in seventh and Barcelona are fourth. Above them, Real Betis – who will go top if they get a point against Real Zaragoza – and Málaga. And above them, sitting unbeaten, Valencia. So much for a two-team league.
Now, a little advice from Harvey Keitel wouldn't go amiss. At this stage last season, Barcelona were also fourth; two weeks later, Valencia were top and Real Madrid third. And the league finished the way it finished. But you could understand the enthusiasm. Valencia, after all, have done it again. This summer Juan Mata departed. Economic and footballing reality bites. Like Sergio Agüero, his departure underlined that the best players at Spain's other clubs have one of two choices: sign for Madrid or Barcelona or leave the country. It also followed a trend; Mata followed David Silva and David Villa out of Mestalla. Raúl Albiol and Carlos Marchena had gone too: none of Valencia's World Cup winners are left.
Yet by the time next summer's European Championship comes round, Valencia may once again have players in the Spain squad. Roberto Soldado has scored 17 in his last 13 games, giving him the best goals-per-game ratio of any Spanish striker in 2011, and both Jordi Alba and Sergio Canales could get opportunities. Nor are they alone. Valencia have again sold their best player for a huge profit – they have made €120m (£105m) on Silva, Villa, Albiol and Mata alone – and reinvested the money wisely, while also continuing to service their debt. They will certainly miss Mata, just as they missed Villa and Silva but they have once again rebuilt intelligently.
In total, 14 players left this summer, but eight came in. The average age dropped from 28 to 24 – the departure of the 40-year-old goalkeeper César Sánchez helped – and the overall impression is of a squad that has got stronger. The centre-backs Edil Rami and Víctor Ruiz in particular have given them the solidity that they lacked, complementing each other well and proving to be a hugely effective partnership, and they have been joined by Canales, Diego Alves and Dani Parejo. Meanwhile, Ever Banega, Tino Costa and Mehmet Topal are still around. Even Miguel has stayed – and he is promising to be good too.
Just as importantly, the manager, Unai Emery, is still around. That alone is a miracle. Every year, Valencia debate whether or not to renew Emery's contract and every year they do. There always seem to be doubts – occasionally Emery fuels them with defensive changes that do not please supporters or directors – and this summer he took a pay cut to continue. Yet this is his fourth season at Mestalla and only two coaches have ever lasted as long. Every year he has to rebuild his side. Every year, he succeeds too.
So now Valencia sit top. But it is not just that they are top that has fuelled the optimism, it is how they got there and how they stayed there: beating Atlético Madrid, Sporting and Racing and now this.
Last season Valencia were top until they faced Barcelona. Unluckily beaten 2-1 at the Camp Nou, they lost the leadership of the league and never got it back. But this was different. On the night that Rafa Benítez returned to Mestalla for the first time since 2004, there was something redolent about this performance. Benítez won Valencia's first league in 31 years; there was a feeling that emulating that might not be so impossible after all. Before the game, Emery insisted: "If Barcelona play to their best the only choice you have is how you die." Instead, it was Barcelona feeling thankful to have survived. The Valencia newspaper Super Deporte led on: "That's the way we like it." Inside, the headline ran: "A magnificent Valencia make Barcelona suffer."
They certainly did: even the Catalan media were cheering the draw. Unlike Madrid's 0-0 in Santander, 2-2 at Mestalla was, said the cover of El Mundo Deportivo, "a puntazo" – a hell of a point. In fact, according to Sport, it was "más que un punto". Not strictly true of course – Barcelona's lead over Madrid is just one point when it could have been a three-point lead that would look hugely significant even as early as this – but there was a certain logic to the argument.
Before every game, Emery gathers his players in a small, white room equipped with rows of chairs like a tiny cinema. There, with the help of a whiteboard, a marker and an old sock to wipe away his workings, he talks them through what they have to do – reinforcing the work done in training during the week, leaping to the board to scribble arrows and circles. Before they leave, he hands each one of them their "homework": a USB pen-drive containing individual instructions, details of what he expects from them and what they can expect from the opposition – the right-back is told about their left-winger, the centre-forward about their centre-back. The man who took Almería to a miraculous eighth place in 2008, an obsessive tactician who can be found at grounds all over the country furiously scribbling on scraps of paper, Emery pores over every detail trying to get his tactics right.
On Wednesday night, he did. Guardiola on the other hand didn't. Before the match, Guardiola had insisted that playing with three at the back was "risky"; he had so much respect for Valencia, he said, that never mind four, last year he played with five. But when it came to it, he opted for a back three in a 3-3-1-3 formation with Javier Mascherano as a kind of narrow right-back and Dani Alves as a right-winger miles away up at the other end of the pitch. "What a game Mascherano had," Guardiola said afterwards, forgetting to include the word "terrible". Exposed, out of position and alone, the Argentinian could not cope. Emery pushed Jérémy Mathieu up on the left-hand side – and it was from there that both of Valencia's goals came as they took a 1-0 lead through an Abidal own goal and a 2-1 lead through Pablo Hernández (even if the ref's report gave it to Miguel, who was miles away). It was from there too that the chance was created for Soldado's extraordinary miss. At half-time Guardiola moved Alves back to full-back; he had taken his time.
Emery pushed his side high, played with speed and intensity and sought to rob the ball, giving Barcelona "as little possession as possible". Midway through the second half the statistics read: Barcelona 53%, Valencia 47% – startlingly low for a Barcelona team which averages closer to 65%. Xavi rarely settled, Sergio Busquets was hurried and Seydou Keïta was irrelevant. Banega in particular was hugely impressive. "They took the ball off us and we really suffer when that happens," Puyol said afterwards, "it was a great game with two great teams." "Having less possession than normal meant that we had to work harder and that led to far greater defensive tiredness," Guardiola admitted. "Valencia were wonderful; Mathieu and Alba always caused us problems."
For Valencia there was just one issue: Barcelona have Cesc Fábregas and, above all, they have Leo Messi. He provided a superb assist for Pedro to get the first equaliser, got bundled over for a penalty that was ignored, and then provided another assist for Cesc to score his fifth in five games. With Barcelona finally finding their rhythm and with Alba sent off in the 92nd minute, Valencia were forced to hang on for the 2-2 draw. "I am," Emery said, saying it all, "half-satisfied." He still has not defeated Barcelona but few have so come close so often; and few have impressed like Valencia did, clinching a draw that La Liga need almost as much as they did in the aftermath of Mata's departure. As Guardiola put it: "This result may reconcile people with the league."
Back in the spring of last year, Emery was explaining his approach. Leaping to his feet, a marker in his hand, he drew a cross on the whiteboard. "If you have Messi here, he dribbles past five and scores," he said, frantically adding more crosses and circles and arrows. "Great. But if you don't have Messi, or some other amazing player, you have to look at the move again. Messi starts here, and the ball ends up in the net. So, let's start there and try to end at the goal too. What's the aim? What's the best path? A one-two, a movement from this side, an overlap? There's no Messi so, this guy has to play inside, he returns it, he overlaps, he crosses … we might not have the one player who can complete that journey but with three we can do it."
The enthusiasm defines Emery and the phrase defines Valencia. With each passing season, they have sold their best player, their quickest route to goal – Silva, Villa, Mata – but with each passing season they have brought in three more. With each passing season, Emery has been forced to find another route and every year that journey becomes harder, but he keeps on making it. For all the optimism, winning the league is almost certainly beyond Valencia but they have journeyed to the top of the table. And La Liga is a better place for it.
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Valencia gone and do shit to lose today.
Now Real Madrid down 1-0 in the 1st minute :rotfl:
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Valencia gone and do shit to lose today.
Now Real Madrid down 1-0 in the 1st minute :rotfl:
Kanoute goal should have stood anyways... so all's well that ends well.
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Di Maria have the IQ of a raisin, game on now for the underdogs
Edit: RM responds, but ah like this side, knockin a nice brand, this Lass fella from Guinea lookin like a bright prospeck
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Messi just advantageous right now.. Rough up Chelsea on-loan goal keeper yesterday.
http://www.goalsarena.org/video/spain-liga-bbva/24-09-2011-barcelona-atletico-madrid_en.html
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FC Barcelona 5-0 Club Atlético de Madrid
1-0 : Villa 9'
2-0 : Miranda (og) 15'
3-0 : Messi 26'
4-0 : Messi 78'
5-0 : Messi 90'
(http://www.fcbarcelona.com/web/Galeries/futbol/temporada11-12/09/partits/fcb-atletico/2011-09-24_FCB_-_ATLETICO_DE_MADRID_017.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/v/jai_FVbZmkc
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Great goals by Higuain for his hat-trick. What's mourinho going to do once Benzema recovers? :-\
http://www.youtube.com/v/ON1Gq-1KHbI
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Another hat-trick by Higuain and another Golazo by Kaka.
http://www.youtube.com/v/VqCEjRlVmRI
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rel cracked up when i saw this during the game...dem is real gladmen yes
http://www.youtube.com/v/hmRdRbqfmpg&feature=related
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^__^
Yes, it was very funny.
Ronaldo hat-trick.
And they tremble in the Camp Nou!
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So Messi is a mortal after all.
Iniesta with one big swan dive. Good for allyuh.
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What really going on with Levante at all???? Dey over-doing it now.
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What really going on with Levante at all???? Dey over-doing it now.
i scope d game against villareal...they play some really enterprising football..off course its still early in the season but its nice a team can come and just shake up things a bit
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So Messi is a mortal after all.
Iniesta with one big swan dive. Good for allyuh.
Same thing Messi did earlier in the season... When facing a draw, I guess the tactic is a 90th minute dive... Still very early in the season but it's good to see a team holding Dive-alona scoreless in Noucamp Aquatic Centre...
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Real look frighteningly good. They are in the moment!
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Are Barca struggling? 1-0 over Granada who played 35 mins with 10 men.
Anybody saw the game? How Barca played?
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Are Barca struggling? 1-0 over Granada who played 35 mins with 10 men.
Anybody saw the game? How Barca played?
Like Barca. the goal was a free kick. Granada had good chances.
Barcelona looking like they bored with these games. Them playing like Jesse Eisenberg in Zombieland - stay alive, don't get bitten.
Real playing like Woody Harrelson, if you see a zombie kill it with much violence and great relish.
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Ah wonder if Villarreal frighten fuh tomorrow...
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Real Madrid won by a disappointing 3 - nil. :bs:
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Bess goal by Kaka.
http://www.youtube.com/v/umRQUxv35qU
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Levante scored a 93rd minute winner at home to stay top of the table yes... After 10 rounds this can't be no flukes thing :o
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Guardiola rejects Yaya Toure snub claim
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/975477/barcelona-coach-pep-guardiola-rejects-yaya-toure%27s-snub-claim?campaign=rss&source=soccernet&cc=3888
Barcelona coach Pepe Guardiola has denied that he froze Yaya Toure out of the club, insisting that the midfielder asked for a transfer and that the Catalans "tried to convince him to stay".
Toure, 28, left Camp Nou in July 2010 for big-spending Manchester City in a dealt worth around £24 million and enjoyed a fine first season, winning the FA Cup and helping Roberto Mancini's side qualify for the Champions League for the first time.
The Ivory Coast international has since claimed he was forced out of Barca and this week reiterated that stance, insisting Guardiola "ignored" him and that he "did not want to leave".
"When I spoke with Guardiola he left me blank," Toure said. "His explanations were a bit strange and he ignored me up until I had the offer from City. My family were laughing because they thought my situation at the club with Guardiola was a joke.
"At the end Guardiola spoke to me, but initially he never said anything. He had no confidence in me. I wanted to stay and he did not. If Guardiola had spoken to me I would have stayed at the club. I did not want to leave. I wanted to finish my career at Barca."
But Guardiola has responded by rejecting Toure's comments, with the Barca boss recalling events towards the end of Toure's spell at Camp Nou differently to his former player.
"The doors of my office were always open," Guardiola said. "The reality is that he asked president Joan Laporta to leave and that we tried to convince him to stay. If we face City in the Champions League I'll talk to him."
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Levante scored a 93rd minute winner at home to stay top of the table yes... After 10 rounds this can't be no flukes thing :o
lol Ent. But they go must run out of gas and Real Madrid ready and waiting.
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Levante scored a 93rd minute winner at home to stay top of the table yes... After 10 rounds this can't be no flukes thing :o
lol Ent. But they go must run out of gas and Real Madrid ready and waiting.
Toppa girl, yuh had to watch dat typin in yuh sleep business ;D
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Toppa girl, yuh had to watch dat typin in yuh sleep business ;D
seriously weys apart from d obvious few it real hard to pick females on dis board boy........ assuming yuh not being facetious
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Toppa girl, yuh had to watch dat typin in yuh sleep business ;D
seriously weys apart from d obvious few it real hard to pick females on dis board boy........ assuming yuh not being facetious
Nah, Toppa is female, unless somebody tief she IP address and impersonatin....
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Toppa girl, yuh had to watch dat typin in yuh sleep business ;D
seriously weys apart from d obvious few it real hard to pick females on dis board boy........ assuming yuh not being facetious
Buh ent you'se a girl too? Or no? ???
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Toppa girl, yuh had to watch dat typin in yuh sleep business ;D
seriously weys apart from d obvious few it real hard to pick females on dis board boy........ assuming yuh not being facetious
Buh ent you'se a girl too? Or no? ???
So is ova hea yuh does be campin out eh? Yuh wha ah lil sweat laytah aought?
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Toppa girl, yuh had to watch dat typin in yuh sleep business ;D
seriously weys apart from d obvious few it real hard to pick females on dis board boy........ assuming yuh not being facetious
Buh ent you'se a girl too? Or no? ???
So is ova hea yuh does be campin out eh? Yuh wha ah lil sweat laytah aought?
How later is later? It go look rel bad if ah get ketch playing All Fours on work, but I down! lol
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How later is later? It go look rel bad if ah get ketch playing All Fours on work, but I down! lol
Wha time good fuh u?
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Toppa girl, yuh had to watch dat typin in yuh sleep business ;D
seriously weys apart from d obvious few it real hard to pick females on dis board boy........ assuming yuh not being facetious
Buh ent you'se a girl too? Or no? ???
fullashit :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :laugh:
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Toppa girl, yuh had to watch dat typin in yuh sleep business ;D
seriously weys apart from d obvious few it real hard to pick females on dis board boy........ assuming yuh not being facetious
Buh ent you'se a girl too? Or no? ???
fullashit :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :laugh:
So dise ah yes or ah no? ???
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guess
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Real Madrid 7- Osasuna 1
http://www.youtube.com/v/OKw4TBjcn1Q
Real like they mashing ants.
The next super classico will be the games of the year.
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Real Madrid 7- Osasuna 1
http://www.youtube.com/v/OKw4TBjcn1Q
Real like they mashing ants.
The next super classico will be the games of the year.
I think that will depend on if Jose doesn't decide to close up shop against Barca. The last time he decided to open it up dey get 5. It would be nice to see him trust that his talent good enough to take on Barca man for man.
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Right now, Real is in much better form than Barcelona.
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Real Madrid 7- Osasuna 1
Real like they mashing ants.
The next super classico will be the games of the year.
I think that will depend on if Jose doesn't decide to close up shop against Barca. The last time he decided to open it up dey get 5. It would be nice to see him trust that his talent good enough to take on Barca man for man.
I think JM found the right formula considering the 7 clasicos over the last 12 months. Compare the 5-nil blowout in the 1st clasico (first league meeting last season) to the 5-4 aggregate Dive-alona win in the last two clasicos (this season's Supercup). Anyhow, once both teams remain injury free, I am sure we in for some action...
Btw, with the victory today, cr7 is the first to score 4 hattricks in the first 11 games of any La Liga season.
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I doh know why Pep take off Pique. He was on a hat-trick!
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I doh know why Pep take off Pique. He was on a hat-trick!
ha ha, play w/pepto bismol today
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I doh know why Pep take off Pique. He was on a hat-trick!
ha ha, play w/pepto bismol today
Hahahaha @ these two comments. Whoooo and the lead extends!
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I doh know why Pep take off Pique. He was on a hat-trick!
ha ha, play w/pepto bismol today
Hahahaha @ these two comments. Whoooo and the lead extends!
Yeah, all yuh lookin betta right now, but is early days yet, will see how it unfold. Toppa, is 3 points yuh gloatin bout so
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I doh know why Pep take off Pique. He was on a hat-trick!
ha ha, play w/pepto bismol today
Hahahaha @ these two comments. Whoooo and the lead extends!
Yeah, all yuh lookin betta right now, but is early days yet, will see how it unfold. Toppa, is 3 points yuh gloatin bout so
How much allyuh won the league by last year? All we need is one point eh know - and maybe not even that! :bringiton:
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Real Madrid 7- Osasuna 1
Real like they mashing ants.
The next super classico will be the games of the year.
I think that will depend on if Jose doesn't decide to close up shop against Barca. The last time he decided to open it up dey get 5. It would be nice to see him trust that his talent good enough to take on Barca man for man.
I think JM found the right formula considering the 7 clasicos over the last 12 months. Compare the 5-nil blowout in the 1st clasico (first league meeting last season) to the 5-4 aggregate Dive-alona win in the last two clasicos (this season's Supercup). Anyhow, once both teams remain injury free, I am sure we in for some action...
Btw, with the victory today, cr7 is the first to score 4 hattricks in the first 11 games of any La Liga season.
dize awright, let metronaldo play he self. He chasin' dong scoring title, takin' every free-kick, every penalty, and still divin' (a tad bit less, but still doin' it all the same), he could have dat. He STILL cyah shine Messi boots. (and dat KILLIN' him!)
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Real Madrid 7- Osasuna 1
Real like they mashing ants.
The next super classico will be the games of the year.
I think that will depend on if Jose doesn't decide to close up shop against Barca. The last time he decided to open it up dey get 5. It would be nice to see him trust that his talent good enough to take on Barca man for man.
I think JM found the right formula considering the 7 clasicos over the last 12 months. Compare the 5-nil blowout in the 1st clasico (first league meeting last season) to the 5-4 aggregate Dive-alona win in the last two clasicos (this season's Supercup). Anyhow, once both teams remain injury free, I am sure we in for some action...
Btw, with the victory today, cr7 is the first to score 4 hattricks in the first 11 games of any La Liga season.
dize awright, let metronaldo play he self. He chasin' dong scoring title, takin' every free-kick, every penalty, and still divin' (a tad bit less, but still doin' it all the same), he could have dat. He STILL cyah shine Messi boots. (and dat KILLIN' him!)
Ummm...nobody not on Messi...
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Real Madrid 7- Osasuna 1
Real like they mashing ants.
The next super classico will be the games of the year.
I think that will depend on if Jose doesn't decide to close up shop against Barca. The last time he decided to open it up dey get 5. It would be nice to see him trust that his talent good enough to take on Barca man for man.
I think JM found the right formula considering the 7 clasicos over the last 12 months. Compare the 5-nil blowout in the 1st clasico (first league meeting last season) to the 5-4 aggregate Dive-alona win in the last two clasicos (this season's Supercup). Anyhow, once both teams remain injury free, I am sure we in for some action...
Btw, with the victory today, cr7 is the first to score 4 hattricks in the first 11 games of any La Liga season.
dize awright, let metronaldo play he self. He chasin' dong scoring title, takin' every free-kick, every penalty, and still divin' (a tad bit less, but still doin' it all the same), he could have dat. He STILL cyah shine Messi boots. (and dat KILLIN' him!)
Ummm...nobody not on Messi...
Yuh mean nobody wearin' allyuh shirt! :D
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ToBarataria who was wondering what I was crowing about...and to Mango Chow - just because.
Madrid extended their lead over Barca on Sunday to three points after the champions could only draw at Athletic Bilbao. And Guardiola has never been that far behind before. In fact, you have to go back 125 games since Madrid held such an advantage over Barca.
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They found the idiot though...
La Liga match between Granada and Mallorca abandoned after official is hit by an object from the crowd
http://www.goal.com/en/news/12/spain/2011/11/20/2766802/la-liga-match-between-granada-and-mallorca-abandoned-after (http://www.goal.com/en/news/12/spain/2011/11/20/2766802/la-liga-match-between-granada-and-mallorca-abandoned-after)
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=QLQbkT9sN9c (http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=QLQbkT9sN9c)
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Ah find Disgruntled stop post is dis thread eh!
Anyway...SIX POINT LEAD!!!!!!
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Just some stats... this is Barca's worst start under Pep after 13 rounds -> 2008/09 (32 points), 2009/10 (33 points), 2010/11 (34 points) and 2011/12 (28 points). On the flip side, Real Madrid's +36 Goal Difference is the best they had in their history, and the best La Liga has seen in the last 81 years -> 1930/31 (Athletic Bilbao +37).
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Yeh when Barca win Disgruntled used to come with all kinda long ass match summary with pics and vids. Now what happen?
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Yeh when Barca win Disgruntled used to come with all kinda long ass match summary with pics and vids. Now what happen?
Dise wey I saying...wey Disgruntled??? :worried:
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Took in the Barca v Espanyol game yesterday...
That game was pure entertainment. Barca came out looking lacklustre and off key.. Probably suffering from hangover from the World Club Championship or jet lag or something, but they didnt look like themselves at all. Messi more than anybody look totally out of the game.
Espanyol take the game to them and the midfield was battling, but the side on a whole was comedy. The keeper and the defender try to gift Barca goals in the first 15 minutes with hospital back passes and bad clearance. Then if i had a dollar for every miskick, bad trap, wild shot dem Espanyol forwards try when they was in decent positions to score i woulda be rich. They have a man name Thievy who is the very epitome of shitong, and a next man name Verdu who was just as bad if not worse. I thought them men get pay off or something.
Anyway, after Fabregas score it was end to end action whole game, but in truth the Espanyol goal was always coming.. A poisoner in the 85th minute. Then in injury time, Pique rock the crossbar and a defender save the follow up off the lines with hands, but the ref miss it.
Bess game though. Barca 5 points behind with work to do.
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Yeah Dinho, yuh hit de nail on de head, we look like we jus leave smokey and bunty and gears up. 5 points adrift, wuk to do
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Took in the Barca v Espanyol game yesterday...
That game was pure entertainment. Barca came out looking lacklustre and off key.. Probably suffering from hangover from the World Club Championship or jet lag or something, but they didnt look like themselves at all. Messi more than anybody look totally out of the game.
WCC was almost a month ago!
More like too much christmas ham and grog
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Page 3, no one interested in the clash today? Where Toppa?
Ronaldo just buss up Pinto nets.
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Sanchez with a superb header.
Now Pepe doin what he does best, causin pain.
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I was hunting for this thread all in page 4 and 5, only to find it on page 1.
Real ketch them on the break, but like they wake up the beast.
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Daiz pace........................we currently have any player to play at such a pace?
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Madrid going to lose this game. Barca dominating possession and making some :drool: passes.
.. and only throwing away.
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Daiz pace........................we currently have any player to play at such a pace?
Steups, why yuh cyah just enjoy the game yuh watching? yuh go see pace vs Finland.
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Yeh Barca goin to score. Same story as every game.
I can't believe Pepe so dumb he will go and get yet another early yellow.
Hatchet man to de bone yes.
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Yeh Barca goin to score. Same story as every game.
I can't believe Pepe so dumb he will go and get yet another early yellow.
Hatchet man to de bone yes.
Me eh think daiz ah yellow card tackle............I think it proactive reffing more than anything.
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Yeh Barca goin to score. Same story as every game.
I can't believe Pepe so dumb he will go and get yet another early yellow.
Hatchet man to de bone yes.
Me eh think daiz ah yellow card tackle............I think it proactive reffing more than anything.
He came in very late, he had every opportunity to pull out of that tackle because there was no way he was goin to get to the loose ball first. I woulda give him the yellow too.
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...and there it is.
Real playing too defensive so far. The counter-attack only work once. Fro the rest of the time they've been under too much pressure.
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When is the last time Ronaldo name call in this game?
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Sanchez with a superb header.
Now Pepe doin what he does best, causin pain.
Pepe lucky to still be on the field.
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Real will always beat dem selves by losing focus against Barca. You can't lose focus and try tuh beat Barca. Real talented but mentally weak compared to Barca.
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Madrid going to lose this game. Barca dominating possession and making some :drool: passes.
I selling lottery numbers!
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What a finish! No white shirts in the vicinity, nice defending.
Salt for RM once again.
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What a finish! No white shirts in the vicinity, nice defending.
Salt for RM once again.
Nah, that whole move was sweet. I feel is Ronaldo who lapse dey, b/c moments before Abidal was cutting off a pass to him.
Real was concentrating too hard on bottling up Messi - and get exposed by Messi.
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Murinho have to release the hounds. Yuh have thoroughbreds and playing them like is Clydesdales.
Defending like that vs Barca is just inviting trouble. The few times they put them under pressure they look dangerous.
Oh well, licks again. :whip:
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Barca knock too powerful...plain and simple. You see dem Real men just skating all over the place trying to win back the ball. Mourinho look like he want to cry. He just don't know how to stop this team.
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Mourinho have that side playing real stink. They damaging the brand. A big club shouldn't be getting on so.
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Mourinho have that side playing real stink. They damaging the brand. A big club shouldn't be getting on so.
Yup! Fuh madrid tuh beat barca dey hav tuh re-invent deyself and dat means tellin HM thanks and his efforts is no longer needed! He hav no cure fuh barca....right tru he tryin tuh stifle d middle wid wild men wid lots of brawn and no brain and rapist's touch. He philosophy will neva work against barca...if he come tuh play ball he would get ah much better result...cyar leave Kaka on yuh bench and wanna win....dais jus playin into we hands. Yuh feel puyol by pique by daniel by abidal wanna defend kaka....hell no! Dais d type ah relentless players HM hatta roll with to beat barca...come tuh play! So cuz of he stubbornish....madrid would continue tuh pay dearly...he dependin on too much ah shithounds! lol. OH how we love tuh play in we home away from home!
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i get disapponted with madrid..its like they forget to play proper ball when facing barca...the quality of this classico may drop and it would jus be a swanky old firm derby..
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I wonder how it feels to be part of such an elite group of players yet almost every time they meet they just get shat upon by Barca.
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Imagine Mourinho playing defensive football at home once again.
Formula: Intimidation, break rhythm with tactical fouls, counter Alves side.
I really hope the Spanish FA show some balls and give Pepe a well deserve ban.
That is pure tata in this day and age, know 40 cameras on yuh, yuh look down
and stamp on the man hand.
Nice game Barca, Pep I :notworthy: to you. 9 or 10 meetings now 1 loss. Back to back to back wins in they dam yard.
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I wonder how it feels to be part of such an elite group of players yet almost every time they meet they just get shat upon by Barca.
They did beat them for the Copa last year and are currently on top of the league. They might not be feeling too bad.
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When is the last time Ronaldo name call in this game?
Scored and disappear right away
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Really Bitter? Really! ;D The great Real Madrid happy with the Copa Del Rey & being on top of the League.
When in truth Real just lost the League, CL, Super Cup & three straight games to Barca, all of which were in their own yard.
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Really Bitter? Really! ;D The great Real Madrid happy with the Copa Del Rey & being on top of the League.
When in truth Real just lost the League, CL, Super Cup & three straight games to Barca, all of which were in their own yard.
I trying to present a positive spin. They ent loss ALL the games... ::)
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After one time is two time
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Barca v Real dese days come like watching the same game over and over... As long as they have the same personnel and the same managers, iz bess they doh play - just replay one of the matches on a big screen for everyone tuh watch....and with the amount of times they playing each other these days it kinda getting tiring.
That said we on top of the league and 2-1 eh no score tuh sleep on in a two-legged tie.
On to the next one.
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Barca v Real dese days come like watching the same game over and over... As long as they have the same personnel and the same managers, iz bess they doh play - just replay one of the matches on a big screen for everyone tuh watch....and with the amount of times they playing each other these days it kinda getting tiring.
That said we on top of the league and 2-1 eh no score tuh sleep on in a two-legged tie.
On to the next one.
Well Kicker I have to agree with you. You have to admit that at least it brought some respect to the Copa del Rey, which in the past, is a Cup that no one really took an interest in. Not long ago Atl Madrid only sold 24 pre game tickets for their Copa.
Just once I will like to see Jose send his team out and say allyuh go play, express yuh self and enjoy. Real players look like dem thinking too hard, and playing like a Ferrari with water in the gas tank.
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Well Kicker I have to agree with you. You have to admit that at least it brought some respect to the Copa del Rey, which in the past, is a Cup that no one really took an interest in. Not long ago Atl Madrid only sold 24 pre game tickets for their Copa.
Just once I will like to see Jose send his team out and say allyuh go play, express yuh self and enjoy. Real players look like dem thinking too hard, and playing like a Ferrari with water in the gas tank.
I hear you aout Jose - not my favorite manager - He's gotten alot of praise but IMO he's just riding on alot of talent -I don't think that he has done too much special with the side so far that another "good" manger wouldn't have done. IMO Pelligrini ran Barca closer in a way more open matches, and had pretty much the same avg league record as Jose...with less fire power, and more political obstacles.
Barca under the pep era is really special, and yuh could argue that no amount of management, could beat the chemistry that has been built by their core of (extremely talented) players for years and years, but when yuh watch the two teams on paper, yuh not supposed to have that huge gap in class that we seeing in these match ups...
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Allyuh doh study it. Madrid beating dat this year. Mourinho just not gonna tip his hand as the Cop del Rey is essentially a relegation prize. He waiting for the big games - La Liga return and Champions League. At this point he is still experimenting.
When he unleashes the Ronaldo - Di Maria - Kaka - Ozil - Benzema - Higuan combination it go be real trouble.
Each game has been closer in my opinion. The pattern and results have been similar, but Barca getting more and more stressed man. No denying that.
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Absolutely despicable...
http://www.youtube.com/v/SpMhYp0BxOg
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RM need a player who is tough like Pepe but not so damn stupid.
If I was on the board I would make this season his last there.
He's too much of a liability.
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The spirit of Pepe's hand stamp was inexcusable, but lewwe put things in perspective... it was just a mash hand...no real harm done. Messi shake up he hand and bawl like a man light him on fire, and 2 minutes later was running at men normal... All games if yuh ask me. That no where in the class of rough tackling that could break man foot or even end a career. I see Rooney blowin' up he twitter criticising Pepe and I could only shake my head.
Dem kinda ting does pass in football right through- from intercol all the way up.
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The spirit of Pepe's hand stamp was inexcusable, but lewwe put things in perspective... it was just a mash hand...no real harm done. Messi shake up he hand and bawl like a man light him on fire, and 2 minutes later was running at men normal... All games if yuh ask me. That no where in the class of rough tackling that could break man foot or even end a career. I see Rooney blowin' up he twitter criticising Pepe and I could only shake my head.
Dem kinda ting does pass in football right through- from intercol all the way up.
What was Messi to do, pretend he didn't get stamped with the heel studs of a football boot ?
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The spirit of Pepe's hand stamp was inexcusable, but lewwe put things in perspective... it was just a mash hand...no real harm done. Messi shake up he hand and bawl like a man light him on fire, and 2 minutes later was running at men normal... All games if yuh ask me. That no where in the class of rough tackling that could break man foot or even end a career. I see Rooney blowin' up he twitter criticising Pepe and I could only shake my head.
Dem kinda ting does pass in football right through- from intercol all the way up.
maybe but for me not acceptable. Ok late tackle, rash tackle ok it happens. Like Carvalho kick down from behind, which in my eyes was a straight red.
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If a man stepped on his hand while he was pipsin' a ting on the beach you really feel he was reactin so? BIG STEUPS
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What was Messi to do, pretend he didn't get stamped with the heel studs of a football boot ?
I dunno, but my point is just that it wasn't really that bad. As I say, the intent was inexcusable but the actual act was kinda bleh. Yuh know how much times in school boy football man ring my ears, intentionally mash my foot, hit me a quick elbow to my ribs...all kinda gamesmanship roughness in smart - growing up that was part of football - If the referee sees it, yuh pay the price...if not yuh bear the short-lived pain and just keep playing. These days yuh have thousands of cameras covering the game from every angle, youtube, twitter etc etc, yuh can't get away with anything and that's fine, but it doh change the fact that football could be a dirty game during the run of play, and even in the down moments...and the way grown men in football carry on about stuff like that these days is kinda lame in my opinion - watch rugby or NFL and see the kinda physical treatment dem men is get without blinking an eyelid... Just because the rules different doh mean footballers hadda act like they made of paper...A man sneak in a mash hand and he labeled as despicable? Iz a mash hand that's all!! Seriously think about it.
If he got a red, he deserved it, but he got away with it, and it didn't really alter the game in any way, so lewwe move on...Maybe I old school but that was blown out of proportion in my opinion, and I'd say the same thing if a Barca player did it to a Madrid player.
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I can't relate with that at all nah. Messi's reaction was appropriate for stamp I thought.
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Pegs hurt a lot more than rubber soles fellas.
Gettin stepped on hurts like a bitch. I got nerve damage in one foot from getting stepped on.
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What was Messi to do, pretend he didn't get stamped with the heel studs of a football boot ?
I dunno, but my point is just that it wasn't really that bad. As I say, the intent was inexcusable but the actual act was kinda bleh. Yuh know how much times in school boy football man ring my ears, intentionally mash my foot, hit me a quick elbow to my ribs...all kinda gamesmanship roughness in smart - growing up that was part of football - If the referee sees it, yuh pay the price...if not yuh bear the short-lived pain and just keep playing. These days yuh have thousands of cameras covering the game from every angle, youtube, twitter etc etc, yuh can't get away with anything and that's fine, but it doh change the fact that football could be a dirty game during the run of play, and even in the down moments...and the way grown men in football carry on about stuff like that these days is kinda lame in my opinion - watch rugby or NFL and see the kinda physical treatment dem men is get without blinking an eyelid... Just because the rules different doh mean footballers hadda act like they made of paper...A man sneak in a mash hand and he labeled as despicable? Iz a mash hand that's all!! Seriously think about it.
If he got a red, he deserved it, but he got away with it, and it didn't really alter the game in any way, so lewwe move on...Maybe I old school but that was blown out of proportion in my opinion, and I'd say the same thing if a Barca player did it to a Madrid player.
Kicker, I agree with you on the issue of men rolling around and fakin' injury and all d drama queen nonsense, but lemme arkske yuh dis, yuh know how painful it is fuh a man to mash yuh hand wit a football boots on? Like Jah Gol say, WTF was Messi supposed to do, get up and shake pepe hand with he imps-ness? But here is what ah doh understand with you as a Madrid fan, yuh goin' een on Messi and sayin' all what yuh say about how he over-react and what not, and yuh even say yuh woulda say d same if was a Madrid player...so wha happ'm, yuh miss de action when pepe was tryin' to act like he had get shoot in he face and was rollin' around on d pitch fuh about 5 minutes or wha? And, in HIS case, he really had zero cause for his semantics because I don't even think anyboy touched him, far less stamp on he hand. Be fair nuh. Please.
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Pegs hurt a lot more than rubber soles fellas.
Gettin stepped on hurts like a bitch. I got nerve damage in one foot from getting stepped on.
lol pegs vs rubber soles was never the point so thanks, but what you're saying is obvious.
I not saying that Messi didn't feel any pain - just pointing out that it obviously wasn't that bad, and by that token the Pepe hand step is being blown out of porportion. Other than the spirit in which it was intended, it was really a minor offense in the whole scheme of things...
You and Jah Gol focussing the wrong thing as far as my post is concerned.
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Kicker, I agree with you on the issue of men rolling around and fakin' injury and all d drama queen nonsense, but lemme arkske yuh dis, yuh know how painful it is fuh a man to mash yuh hand wit a football boots on? Like Jah Gol say, WTF was Messi supposed to do, get up and shake pepe hand with he imps-ness? But here is what ah doh understand with you as a Madrid fan, yuh goin' een on Messi and sayin' all what yuh say about how he over-react and what not, and yuh even say yuh woulda say d same if was a Madrid player...so wha happ'm, yuh miss de action when pepe was tryin' to act like he had get shoot in he face and was rollin' around on d pitch fuh about 5 minutes or wha? And, in HIS case, he really had zero cause for his semantics because I don't even think anyboy touched him, far less stamp on he hand. Be fair nuh. Please.
I was talking about Pepe's stamp... the point I was making had nothing to do with Pepe play-acting.
If you want my view on Pepe's play-acting, yes it was very laughable...didn't think it was worth debating or discussing because it was so obviously comical and embarrassing.
Again, the Messi reaction (over-reacting or not) is not the point - point is despite the roll and agony, he was back on his feet playing his normal game short moments after - i.e. Pepe's hand mash was barely a game changer, and all the labels that being thrown at him because of this is a bit much if you ask me... but that's just my opinion. I think his reputation for being rough in his challenges and borderline insane at times is preceding him on this one...
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Kicker, I agree with you on the issue of men rolling around and fakin' injury and all d drama queen nonsense, but lemme arkske yuh dis, yuh know how painful it is fuh a man to mash yuh hand wit a football boots on? Like Jah Gol say, WTF was Messi supposed to do, get up and shake pepe hand with he imps-ness? But here is what ah doh understand with you as a Madrid fan, yuh goin' een on Messi and sayin' all what yuh say about how he over-react and what not, and yuh even say yuh woulda say d same if was a Madrid player...so wha happ'm, yuh miss de action when pepe was tryin' to act like he had get shoot in he face and was rollin' around on d pitch fuh about 5 minutes or wha? And, in HIS case, he really had zero cause for his semantics because I don't even think anyboy touched him, far less stamp on he hand. Be fair nuh. Please.
I was talking about Pepe's stamp... the point I was making had nothing to do with Pepe play-acting.
If you want my view on Pepe's play-acting, yes it was very laughable...didn't think it was worth debating or discussing because it was so obviously comical and embarrassing.
Again, the Messi reaction (over-reacting or not) is not the point - point is despite the roll and agony, he was back on his feet playing his normal game short moments after - i.e. Pepe's hand mash was barely a game changer, and all the labels that being thrown at him because of this is a bit much if you ask me... but that's just my opinion. I think his reputation for being rough in his challenges and borderline insane at times is preceding him on this one...
I know it had nothing to do with his play-acting, but under the broader issue of affecting the credibility of the game, especially when you refer to rugby and the nfl (the latter of which is beginning to take a page out of football's book with the play-acting) it belongs in the conversation. Whether or not Messi got up moments later is of no importance, IMHO, because that's how pain works sometimes. A knock or injury can give you a sharp pain that subsides quickly, or a terrible one that doesn't. Just because Messi got up within a few moments doesn't mean he was not feeling pain in he hand, and again, I will refer you to actually try gettin' yuh hand stepped on with a pair of boots, rubber or not, and tell meh dat shit doh hurt....don't tell me you are not going to react.
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Ok cool... It hurt (was never debating that) and he reacted to the pain...
Again, not my point, but I hear you...
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Ok, with 1 madrid win in 9 el clasicos over the last 14 months (compared to Barca's 5 and 3 draws), and on behalf of all madridistas on this site, I officially concede and acknowledge Barca's dominance over us.
Our strategy for the rest of the season will be (a) hope for a 2-0 loss (or better) in the Copa return leg, (b) win every game in la liga except the away game to Barca and (c) hope not to bounce up in th champions league.
Sincerely
Raul
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Best Madridista post yet Raul :beermug:
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Best Madridista post yet Raul :beermug:
haha wateva hoss...
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I think Real's reputation has been damaged since Jose became manager not just from this match. I think the best manager they had in recent times was Pelligreni (excuse spelling).
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Sid Lowe in Madrid
Thursday 19 January 2012 08.50 EST guardian.co.uk
Real Madrid damage image, reputation and status in defeat to Barcelona
Madrid's ill-tempered one-dimensional showing in the clásico was evidence of regression, not progression under Mourinho
As José Mourinho prepared to leave the Santiago Bernabéu press room and the clock ticked towards one in the morning, he had one last message to deliver. "Victory," he said for the third time, "has many fathers; defeat has only one and that is me. That's the way football is and I am used to it." Then he added a request: "Hit me, not my players – leave them alone." In part, he got what he wanted but only in part. They did indeed hit Mourinho but they hit his players too.
Players? Player. Two things dominated the post-match agenda: Mourinho's Madrid losing the game and Pepe losing his head. There was a familiar feel to both of them. Pepe is a repeat offender and so are Madrid. They lost another clásico; Pep Guardiola is unbeaten in seven trips to the Santiago Bernabéu, winning five of them. Since Mourinho took over at Madrid, he has not once been able to defeat Barcelona in 90 minutes. The solitary victory came via an extra-time winner in last season's Copa del Rey final. Madrid also lost something less tangible. Image, reputation, status.
When Madrid won the Copa del Rey, it appeared to be a stepping stone towards a real challenge on Barcelona. Defeat in the Champions League last season was justified with Mourinho's conspiratorial discourse – and Pepe's supposedly unlucky red card. The Spanish Super Copa at the start of this season offered up a Madrid side closer than ever to Barcelona, despite a 5-4 aggregate defeat. But now the sensation is one of regression not progression.
Defeated in the league last month, defeated here, Madrid offered virtually nothing. A midfield designed only to stop Barcelona – in which Xabi Alonso was nudged right, away from the area where he could truly influence the game – that did not stop Barcelona and certainly did not attack them. It was built around Pepe. If he defined Madrid's approach, most did not like what they saw. "Pepe returned to the midfield and brought out his entire repertoire of misdemeanours," said AS. One in particular would stand out, when he deliberately trod on Messi's hand. It was not as if, assault aside, he had helped much, either.
Mourinho complained about one of the goals his side conceded, describing it as "not normal". He also contradicted his 'blame me' message to snap: "Some players who normally play well played badly." And yet he admitted that part of his plan consisted simply of running the clock down. By the final whistle Barcelona's superiority was overwhelming. Madrid had 28% of the possession in their own stadium and just one shot on target.
And, asked the media, for what? For what Marca's cover described as "the never-ending story". "Mou," it added, "still hasn't found the right key and he is left without excuses." AS saw Mourinho "coming up against the wall". Its cover was clear: "Madrid offered dirtiness; Barcelona offered football."
Santiago Segurola wrote: "Madrid committed treason against their own history. Mourinho threw away all Madrid's history and instead insisted on a lamentable match from which he got no benefit for Madrid. It was all bad: the result, the play, the violence." In Público, Kike Marín saw the white flags by fans before the game as the perfect metaphor for Mourinho's management. El País led on "Madrid sully themselves for nothing". AS's editor Alfredo Relaño asked: "If you're just going to keep losing what's the need to lose your decorum too?"
The lasting image of this game was not so much defeat but Pepe's apparently calculated and cowardly stamp on Leo Messi. He was booked for a bad challenge on Sergio Busquets in the 17th minute and the surprise was that it was the only yellow card he saw. Ricardo Carvalho was fortunate to escape greater punishment too, for a wild hack at Messi. Xavi Hernández described Pepe's stamp as "senseless" and "lamentable". Carles Puyol called it "not normal" and insisted that something "has to be done". Mourinho hid behind the fact that he had not seen the incident but, pushed on the issue, admitted that if Pepe had deliberately trodden on Messi's hand that would be "censorable".
If Mourinho did not see it, everyone else did – except the referee, César Muñiz Fernández. TV cameras showed the incident clearly and Pepe is on the cover of all four sports dailies. Marca called it "unacceptable" and "shameful", its editorial admitting: "The episode with [Getafe midfielder Javi] Casquero cannot be seen as isolated, but the sad reality. Pepe is not worthy of Real Madrid."
As for the Catalan daily El Mundo Deportivo, there was indignation and enjoyment. Its cover talked of "Heroes and villains: Barcelona imposed their football on Madrid's violence". "Pepe, a danger to the public," the paper added, "was the greatest expression of a Madrid side that was impotent and out of control." Inside, Fernando Polo insisted: "Good had beaten evil." And that, he said, "is not melodrama, it is the truth: Barcelona wanted the ball and attacked and beat a Madrid side that has a complex, a violent team lost in its own lack of control and adrift thanks to Mourinho – the man that was supposed to end Barcelona's hegemony."
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Leh Sid Lowe hul he Cule arse.
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Ok, with 1 madrid win in 9 el clasicos over the last 14 months (compared to Barca's 5 and 3 draws), and on behalf of all madridistas on this site, I officially concede and acknowledge Barca's dominance over us.
Our strategy for the rest of the season will be (a) hope for a 2-0 loss (or better) in the Copa return leg, (b) win every game in la liga except the away game to Barca and (c) hope not to bounce up in th champions league.
Sincerely
Raul
Ditto
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All may not be well in paradise!
Sid Lowe-Uk Guardian
Mourinho meltdown and hints of civil war at Real Madrid
The Portuguese wants to know who plunged the knife into his back after a training ground conversation was leaked to the press
There were just hours to go until Real Madrid's match against Athletic Bilbao and Madrid were about to finish the first half of the season five points clear at the top of the table with 16 wins in 19 games. Favourites to win the title, they were about to score their 67th goal and Cristiano Ronaldo would soon be on 23, one ahead of Leo Messi. But it was not about that all that. Not now and not later. It would not even be about the 4-1 win – a brilliant game, open, exciting and end-to-end, between two sides that can be great to watch. The focus was elsewhere. Even José Mourinho's focus was elsewhere. The team meeting at Madrid's Mirasierra Suites Hotel wasn't so much about formation as about information.
Mourinho wanted to know one thing above all and he wanted the players to know that he would find out. Who had plunged the knife in his back? Who had leaked a conversation from the training ground? Who was the mole? Mourinho claimed to have banned newspapers from the team hotel – "there is internet, you know", one player said with a smile later – and insisted that he had not read Marca on Sunday morning, but of course he had. Few coaches are so aware of the media as Mourinho, a man with his own press officer, a man who is delivered a dossier of cuttings every morning; one for whom the message is part of the match. Mourinho had read it, so had everyone else and it did not make for happy reading.
Marca's cover showed Mourinho and Sergio Ramos face to face. Word for word, they reproduced a conversation between the two men, and Iker Casillas, at Real Madrid's Valdebebas training ground on Friday morning – two days after Madrid, playing ultra-defensively, had again been beaten by Barcelona; two days after Ramos had noted: "We follow the coach's tactics. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't." According to Marca, the conversation started with Mourinho turning towards Ramos and saying: "You [plural] killed me in the mixed zone." To which Ramos replied: "No, mister, you only read what it says in the papers not everything we said."
Mourinho replied: "Sure, because you Spaniards have been world champions and your friends in the media protect you … and because the goalkeeper …" At that point there is a shout from Casillas, training 30 metres away: "Eh, mister, round here you say things to our faces, eh!"
Another part of the conversation starts with Mourinho saying: "Where were you on the first goal [against Barcelona], Sergio?"
"Marking Piqué"
"Well, you should have been marking Puyol."
"Yes, but they were blocking us off [using basketball style screens] with Piqué and we decided to change the marking."
"What? So now you're playing at being coach?"
"No," replies Ramos, "but depending on the situation in the game, sometimes you have to change the marking. Because you've never been a player, you don't know that that sometimes happens."
Suddenly, the lid had been lifted. Just a little, but lifted. The conversation – which was impeccably polite, Ramos even using the formal form of "you" – revealed Mourinho's irritation at the Spaniards and his belief that they are protected by the press; by extension, it hinted at his suspicion that they are the ones responsible for the leaks to the media – this report came in the context of a year in which El País's Diego Torres has written a number of stories about events within the dressing room and in a week in which Marca had correctly reported that Angel Di María would miss the clásico, despite the coach's attempts to keep that quiet.
From a player's point of view, it revealed the one flaw in Mourinho's long career: he was never a player. Somehow, he just doesn't know what they do. That is a feeling exacerbated by a mutual lack of comprehension, a sense of distrust and division, and by poor results against Barcelona. It also revealed something else, one of the greatest obstacles that Mourinho has encountered: Madrid is not Inter or Chelsea or Porto, the Spanish media are not the English or Italian media, and Spanish players are not the same as English ones, or Italians or Portuguese. One of Mourinho's greatest and most often lauded skill – dressing-room relations – has not been as easy to apply here.
It was not just the story itself that was interesting but the fact that it was published, how it was published and when it was published. After all, other stories have been written before. They were more easily (which is not to say honestly) dismissed; this story was not. The detail, the precision in the quotes, the specifics of it; the fearlessness with which it was put out and the silence with which it was met. Context is key, especially when the relationship between certain sections of the media and certain parts of the club is so instrumental. The shift was palpable. Columnists who were among Mourinho's most aggressive defenders had repositioned themselves. In the aftermath of the Barcelona defeat that was always likely. After Pepe's behaviour in the clásico – and the laughable, hostage-style video apology he was obliged to offer up on Thursday – it was more likely yet. But still the move was telling, hinting at a political realignment. And for Mourinho, that could be the most worrying thing of all.
Throughout Sunday, the story was chewed over; fans debated it, the media too. Not just the comments on the cover but the ones inside: the player complaining that Mourinho will not let them talk; the player insisting: "you got annoyed with Iker because he apologised to [Barcelona's] Xavi [after the Super Copa clásico], but what did Pepe do in that video?"; the player complaining that "it's impossible to win a game with eight defenders". The day before, El País had reported on the tensions between Mourinho and some players over the tactics; some players demanding a more expansive approach, Mourinho reproaching them for doing so.
The tension at the hotel grew. So, everywhere else, did the theories. It was hard not to go all conspiratorial. Who could it have been? And was Mourinho barking up the wrong tree? He was not the only one turning detective; everyone else was too. The assumption that it absolutely had to be a player seems flawed. Players have friends and agents. So do managers. And teams have people around them. Lots of people. Clubs do too, at all sorts of levels. Information is delivered in various forms and the form here was telling – this did not smell like whispers but something much more tangible. Marca's presentation of the conversations suggested not just that they had a story but that they had the proof that they had a story. Madrid, a club usually quick to deny, said nothing. After Sunday night's game, Mourinho would refuse to deny it. Three players would come out with the exact same phrase: "We're not here to say whether it's true or not." Anyone would think they are told what to say in the mixed zone.
Madrid versus Athletic Bilbao was presented as a plebiscite. On defeat to Barcelona. On Madrid's image under Mourinho. On the division – on whose side you were on, players or coach? On the signings, now down to Mourinho and of which only the substitute José Callejón has really succeeded. On Mourinho himself. By Sunday night, some at the Santiago Bernabéu decided, quite rightly, that the crime was not so much the leak as the content of the leak: the tension inside the dressing room, the defeats, the image of the club. And who was responsible for that? Mourinho. The question was what would happen next, where would this end?
The game was scoured for clues – was it significant that Ronaldo turned and gave Xabi Alonso a look that could kill? – and so was the starting lineup. Every action was analysed, counter-analysed and, let's face it, probably over-analysed. Mourinho left out five players who had played against Barcelona. Coentrão, Pepe, Carvalho, Lass, Higuaín, and Altintop. He included six who hadn't played against Barcelona: Ozil, Kaká, Marcelo, Arbeloa, Varane. Even Esteban Granero got a game. The lineup could not be any different; the polar opposite of what Mourinho had done in midweek: for virtually every hard-working but limited player taken out, a talented ball-player had been put in. You could see meaning in everything. Three Portuguese players had been taken out, two Spaniards put in. This was the team that some players had apparently demanded.
Had Mourinho given in? Or was he sticking them on the pitch knowing that it was almost a no-lose situation for him: if Madrid won, they won; if they lost, he could say: "see, that's what you get when we play your way." Had he also prevented the players from "making the bed" for him? They couldn't very well effectively down tools and turn him over precisely on the day that he did what they wanted. Or was he simply preparing for Wednesday night when there would now be no option but to attack Barcelona? Mourinho, normally so active, only left his bench once in the entire game – a game that had five goals, two penalties, a red card, and a couple more penalty shouts. Was that a clue too? Was he fearful of how the fans might react to him? Was he hiding? Or trying to keep a low profile? Was he trying to show his disconformities with the side he (?) had chosen, a kind of "this is your team, not mine"?
Or was he, as he insisted afterwards, just so confident that he never felt the need to get up and correct anything? Even though Madrid went 1-0 down and Athletic were the better side for the first half an hour.
There were many questions and few answers – least of all from Mourinho. There were, though, hints. Glimpses of a guerra civil. No more than hints perhaps, but hints nonetheless. When Granero was taken off on 72 minutes, the player who more than anyone else represented a shift in approach – the Madrid that Mourinho had turned his back on and some Spaniards had wanted – got a massive ovation. And then, with 10 minutes to go, it happened. The fans who had chanted Mourinho's name all season – something that has never happened for a coach before – chanted it once more.
Well, some of them did. More of them did not. In fact, they did the opposite. The Ultra Sur began chanting Mourinho's name. And the rest of the stadium – 30%? 50%? 80%? – whistled their disapproval.
It was not so much an attack on Mourinho per se as an attack on the decision to chant his name, to do it now, in this context, and with this backdrop. It was a symbol of disapproval of those that did so too – the Ultras who had chanted "Pepe, kill him!" and "Journalists, terrorists!" Divisions at Real Madrid had been laid bare. This time among the fans. And there was no escaping that there they were: whistles. Win on Wednesday and all will be right with Madrid's world again; Mourinho will be a genius again. Now, he is not. This has been perhaps his most difficult week as Madrid coach. Not that he admitted as much.
"Difficult? Why?" the coach asked. "I lost a game on Wednesday, I prepared one on Friday. Today we won. Tomorrow is Monday. Why is that hard? It is the first time that I have been whistled but it's not a problem. There is a first time for almost everything. If I had been whistled at Chelsea where they don't even whistle the opposition manager, it would be a problem. Here they whistled Zidane and Ronaldo and now Cristiano Ronaldo. This stadium whistles the best in the world – why shouldn't it whistle me?"
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Yeah dread, that glare from cr7 to Alonso was frightening... Even I get uneasy...
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Game on. More licks for Madrid? Most likely but I want to at least see them put up a good fight.
Throw away king already miss a sitter inside of 10 seconds.
Barcelona's staring XI : PINTO - ALVES - PUYOL - PIQUÉ - ABIDAL- BUSQUETS - XAVI - INIESTA - MESSI - CESC - ALEXIS
Real Madrid : CASILLAS - COENTRAO - ARBELOA - PEPE - RAMOS - XABI ALONSO - LASS - OZIL - KAKA - RONALDO - HIGUAIN
WHAT A SHOT!!!!!
Ozil just hit one from about 30 yards off the crossbar, the post, almost on the line then back out.
Shots like that deserve to score every time.
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Barca making some dirty challeneges and the ref turning a blind eye. That last yellow on Ramos was a proper blade. Diarra "tackle" was also fair and he got a yellow, but nothing for Alves when he launch into the defender, plus the no call on the handball from the corner.
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Sergio, knee high studs up, barely a whistle. Almost take CR knee.
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"That was very, very tasty!" lol
Messi bamboozle them.
Lord fadda what a goal!
Diarra is a next crazy man.
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LAAAWWWDDD!!!! :o :o :o
A demon from Alves up in the jep nest to make it 2-0.
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Barca making some dirty challeneges and the ref turning a blind eye. That last yellow on Ramos was a proper blade. Diarra "tackle" was also fair and he got a yellow, but nothing for Alves when he launch into the defender, plus the no call on the handball from the corner.
Sergio, knee high studs up, barely a whistle. Almost take CR knee.
All dat is payback from all d nasty play Real been carryin' on with the last few seasons. It's been a while now sice Real come to really "play football" against Barca as opposed to using....."stop them" tactics. Turnabout is fair play.
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Even though they draw, Real doh wah nuttn with Barca.
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I'm not a Real Madrid fan.. But the amount of decisions that go against them is borderline criminal.
Ref calling a setta soft fouls for Barca once the Barca players embellish it.. and Busquets/Dani/Pedro/Pique and co all too happy to go to ground and cry.
Then blowing off the game without letting them take the last free kick was the icing on the cake.
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Why was Ramos's goal disallowed? Did the ref call a foul on that play?
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Why was Ramos's goal disallowed? Did the ref call a foul on that play?
Yes...he did grab Alves' arm and tug on him like a small town church bell.
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Small ting.
Let them have the Copa. We will take the league and the CL.
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Why was Ramos's goal disallowed? Did the ref call a foul on that play?
Yes...he did grab Alves' arm and tug on him like a small town church bell.
well after a couple of Barca Basketball player made a guest appearance in the box.
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Barca making some dirty challeneges and the ref turning a blind eye. That last yellow on Ramos was a proper blade. Diarra "tackle" was also fair and he got a yellow, but nothing for Alves when he launch into the defender, plus the no call on the handball from the corner.
Sergio, knee high studs up, barely a whistle. Almost take CR knee.
All dat is payback from all d nasty play Real been carryin' on with the last few seasons. It's been a while now sice Real come to really "play football" against Barca as opposed to using....."stop them" tactics. Turnabout is fair play.
Their was no stop them football today, just fast, physical play. Good hard tackles that the refs only seeing as fouls. It eh no turnaround. As a ref you cannot come to a game with ideas. That is spoiling the game.
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Barca making some dirty challeneges and the ref turning a blind eye. That last yellow on Ramos was a proper blade. Diarra "tackle" was also fair and he got a yellow, but nothing for Alves when he launch into the defender, plus the no call on the handball from the corner.
Sergio, knee high studs up, barely a whistle. Almost take CR knee.
All dat is payback from all d nasty play Real been carryin' on with the last few seasons. It's been a while now sice Real come to really "play football" against Barca as opposed to using....."stop them" tactics. Turnabout is fair play.
Their was no stop them football today, just fast, physical play. Good hard tackles that the refs only seeing as fouls. It eh no turnaround. As a ref you cannot come to a game with ideas. That is spoiling the game.
I never said anything about the referee coming to the game with ideas. I said what I said based on what I have seen coming from Real the past couple seasons. So what if they came to play football...."today"? their tactics and wild play over the past couple seasons suggest that they weren't always interested in that as much as they were in stopping Barca by any means necessary. I have seen men like Adebayor and Diarra get away with virtual muder on the pitch in recent games...so if aa few Barca players get away with murder today, I reiterate, "turnabout is fair play".
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Why did Ramos get sent off? That was a fair contest for the ball, no way that's a yellow.
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Yeah the ref wasn't impressive. Diarra shoulda been sent off, Ramos 2nd yellow was nothing. Good thing the ref didn't affect the outcome of the tie.
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Why was Ramos' goal called off?
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Why was Ramos' goal called off?
He pulled Dani Alves down by the arm.
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Good game overall... The ref loved Barca yesterday. They got the calls - can't argue that... I count two handballs in the box (Busquets and Abidal) - one o' dem had to stick- I doh get it...Also alot of the foul calls were not fair, and they broke Madrid's momentum when Barca was unsettled - it changed the game alot because Barca's game is all about rhythm - on the rare occasions that yuh manage to break it, they get rattled and look ordinary - it's why they hardly dominate the first 15-20 mins of a game against a big side - it takes some time to settle into their game...IMO the ref halted the game with silly foul calls and allowed Barca to settle at crucial times when they were rattled...
Ramos eh tug down Alves like no church bell, he did hold his arm, but Alves embellish with a dive worthy of the Olympic springboard competition...My wife and all make out de scene and get hype..I tell her "yuh could tell you only now start tuh watch football"...Can't complain about that call though - it was a foul but I've seen worse go uncalled because the foul recipient tried to play instead of looking for a call...but yuh also can't blame Alves, contact or not he woulda been beaten to the ball and it was a matter of goal or no goal, so he had to make sure the ref saw the contact...
Lass foul wasn't no card - but the ref do sh*t by giving Messi a yellow on the play right before so it look bad...People (including the refs) iz get tie up when men bend up dey body, sommersault and flail dey arms like they got shot...Neither Messi's foul on Pepe, nor Lass' foul on Messi were cardable offenses - not a scratch was suffered, and there was no immediate danger.... they were just fouls, and fouls happen in football - full stop. I really get frustrated by how cheap cards are these days. Ronaldo had a fair tackle on Alves - the replay showed it was all ball...But Alves leap and roll like it was the end of the world - yellow card ...steups....
All in all it was a good game though....Other than Higuain missing two sitters, and the ref leaning toward Barca, Madrid hadda be happy with how they acquit themselves..they put some good pressure on Barca and made it a proper contest for a change. As long as Pep in charge, and Barca has the personnel they have right now, they will always be a dominant looking side, and the team to beat - yuh take what yuh could get against them... I think Iniesta was missed even though Barca's goals came after he got injured - what he adds in the run of play is priceless.
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I don't mean to sound like a stuck record but, we beatin dat this year. Every single game Barca seeing more stress. Now they resorting to theatrics, on their own field no less.
Pressure in Champions League. Boom
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kicker boy that Diarra tackle was late and clumsy.
Apart from violent tackles, I see late tackles get penalised the most.
Easy second yellow.
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kicker boy that Diarra tackle was late and clumsy.
Apart from violent tackles, I see late tackles get penalised the most.
Easy second yellow.
I hear what you're saying, but i personally just not on red cards except for in extreme circumstances... Too many games for me does get kill with these officiate-to-rule red cards that in reality very very ridiculous if yuh pull yuhself away and actually try tuh make sense of the ruling given the actual scenario that took place...
I'm not sure if the stricter red card rulings in the modern game have made the game safer, as much as they've exposed the game to alot more game-spoiling antics...
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kicker boy that Diarra tackle was late and clumsy.
Apart from violent tackles, I see late tackles get penalised the most.
Easy second yellow.
I hear what you're saying, but i personally just not on red cards except for in extreme circumstances... Too many games for me does get kill with these officiate-to-rule red cards that in reality very very ridiculous if yuh pull yuhself away and actually try tuh make sense of the ruling given the actual scenario that took place...
I'm not sure if the stricter red card rulings in the modern game have made the game safer, as much as they've exposed the game to alot more game-spoiling antics...
rules is rules, Jed.....the men who playing this sport professsionally (and even us armchair critics) have been playing the sport with basically the same rules all their lives. the players have to adjust to the rules. the kinds of tackles I does see men like Diarra, Pepe, Essien, De Jong (and too many more to mention) are tackles that I KNOW they know go beyond the boundaries of decent and fair play. Same for the play actors that Barca is accused of having on their team and the golden boy of play-acting, Mr. Mertonaldo himself. You can"t blame the referees for their own interpretations/applications of the rules as much as you should blame the players for testing the referees' discretion. If yuhh ridin' on a yellow card arready and d ref seem a little strict, then don't go tryin' to outdo your last offense and expect, or even worse, demand that the ref then be patient.
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Mango Chow ress yuh mouth nah or carry that in a Chelsea thread or something. I'll post the match highlights later. Ozil was very bad!
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http://www.youtube.com/v/Uc98GG842P8
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Look - Barcelona cah even beat Villarreal.
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Came across this video and thought I share it on here. I am not a Barca fan, and really don't care who wins between them and Real Madrid, but this is just too funny!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DhYU_znLSRk#!
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The should fire Murinho now! Seven points clear, but he cyah beat Barca. Fire Him! :banginghead:
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Dey saying he intends to resign at the end of the season. Taking infront before infront take him.
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Barcelona and in particular Messi, Fabragas and Xavi looked exhausted. League done now, so Jose gets his La Liga title.
Best game I have seen this year from La Liga, Rayo Vallecano vs Atl Bibao, what a match. End to end stuff and very technical football. The pace of the match was outstanding.
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So they say Joachim Low on Madrid's shortlist to replace Mourinho. :beermug:
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Is Madrid's 10 point lead unassailable? According to La Liga history it is... so those Barca fans who want to concede, please feel free to do so here...
Also, not only did that phenomenal goal by Cr7 bring up his hattrick, but it also brought Madrid's tally in all competitions to 4000... What a way to etch your name into Madrid history... Well deserved Cristiano...
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Just read Ronaldo has scored 119 goals out of 122 matches for Madrid, compared to 118 out of 292 matches for ManU. That's incredible.
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Barataria - The number for today is 10...
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Aie yie yie!
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Just read Ronaldo has scored 119 goals out of 122 matches for Madrid, compared to 118 out of 292 matches for ManU. That's incredible.
And I think that was before the hat trick
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Allyuh See Ronaldo goal of the season and Benzema bess goal?
http://www.youtube.com/v/_fU9snOJgIM
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No respect for the keeper.
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Just read Ronaldo has scored 119 goals out of 122 matches for Madrid, compared to 118 out of 292 matches for ManU. That's incredible.
Toppa I don't mean any disrespect just asking a question, to a passionate supporter of the League.
Does it mean that it is easier to score goals in La Liga vs Premier?
IMHO the toughest league to score goals in remains Italy, second France. Now I am not saying the
Leaues are better, just their approach to the game. Tactical fouls are a Premium in Italy and France, while in general play is far more cautious.
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Just read Ronaldo has scored 119 goals out of 122 matches for Madrid, compared to 118 out of 292 matches for ManU. That's incredible.
Toppa I don't mean any disrespect just asking a question, to a passionate supporter of the League.
Does it mean that it is easier to score goals in La Liga vs Premier?
IMHO the toughest league to score goals in remains Italy, second France. Now I am not saying the
Leaues are better, just their approach to the game. Tactical fouls are a Premium in Italy and France, while in general play is far more cautious.
Well...I guess if a great many other strikers had a similar goal-scoring rate...but perhaps it's not a matter of it being 'easier' to score goals but just a reflection of the different footballing philosophies or cultures. Spain is very driven by attacking football so perhaps that accounts for his astonishing strike-rate.
This reminds me of what Sid Lowe said about the fact that Madrid has been granted 10 penalties this season. He said it probably wasn't a matter for refs favouring them but more likely a reflection of their attack-minded approach (minus the Barca matches).
I hope I made sense.
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remember Ronaldo first 2 seasons at UTD..not much goals..
Fergie made a bet with him to score 20 the next season or something like that... fergie was pushing him to become a scoring winger...then it all bust loose after that...my take
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Just read Ronaldo has scored 119 goals out of 122 matches for Madrid, compared to 118 out of 292 matches for ManU. That's incredible.
Toppa I don't mean any disrespect just asking a question, to a passionate supporter of the League.
Does it mean that it is easier to score goals in La Liga vs Premier?
IMHO the toughest league to score goals in remains Italy, second France. Now I am not saying the
Leaues are better, just their approach to the game. Tactical fouls are a Premium in Italy and France, while in general play is far more cautious.
I agree with you there. I wonder if Cristiano had gone to Levante, Valencia, ATletico, would he score all those goals.
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Ronaldo is by and large a more developed and polished player now, than when he was at Man U. Also as Big Mag said, at the beginning of his career at Man U, he wasn't the goal-scoring type of player that he was towards the end of his Man U career (and as he is at Madrid)....
I don't know if scoring in Spain is easier on average than in England. I think individual tallies in general at the end of the season are comparable between the two leagues. With the recent dominance of Madrid and Barca in Spain though, being the go-to goal scorer on any one of those teams is more of a blessing than it used to be... So maybe scoring at Barca or Madrid is easier than scoring in England (and in the rest of Spain)
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With the recent dominance of Madrid and Barca in Spain
Recent!!!! Madrid and Barca have dominated the Spanish forever. Real won it 31 times. Barca 21. And the rest divided up for the other teams.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Spanish_football_champions
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With the recent dominance of Madrid and Barca in Spain
Recent!!!! Madrid and Barca have dominated the Spanish forever. Real won it 31 times. Barca 21. And the rest divided up for the other teams.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Spanish_football_champions
It's more of an uncontested two-horse race in the past couple seasons than it's been in a while... That's what I'm talking about. No question that they are historically the two dominant teams in the league.
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(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/419425_10100878672754652_10127346_58251660_1590688352_n.jpg)
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http://www.youtube.com/v/5usk6SFMo88
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Barataria - The number for today is 10...
Steups, we guh give all yuh de league, ah mean, all yuh deserve at least dat, but as de Bajans does say, "all else is mhine"
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Barataria - The number for today is 10...
Steups, we guh give all yuh de league, ah mean, all yuh deserve at least dat, but as de Bajans does say, "all else is mhine"
Yuh know allyuh not winning no CL.
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Whey yuh buy dem grapes Toppa? :devil:
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Whey yuh buy dem grapes Toppa? :devil:
Ah buy it fuh you to eat at the end of the football season.
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Whey yuh buy dem grapes Toppa? :devil:
Ah buy it fuh you to eat at the end of the football season.
:rotfl: awrite sistren, we guh see how dis pan out, but I eh friten, we comin strong for CL and CDR
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Madrid running on all cylinders and look a very well oiled machine. So much power, pace and technique it eh funny. With deMaria back they have an added dimension of penetration & goal scoring on both wings. Kaka is beginning to show signs of recovery and they have no injuries to talk about. Dam scary
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http://www.youtube.com/v/41aLI1iWNf8
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That is a comeback with style.
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Madrid running on all cylinders and look a very well oiled machine. So much power, pace and technique it eh funny. With deMaria back they have an added dimension of penetration & goal scoring on both wings. Kaka is beginning to show signs of recovery and they have no injuries to talk about. Dam scary
Madrid pretty steady, consistent and very organized...Defensively more compact than I've seen in a long long time, and plenty pace in the attack. We will probably never get to the level at which Barca played last night, but it doh matter at this point because the consistency this season is paying off...
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Madrid running on all cylinders and look a very well oiled machine. So much power, pace and technique it eh funny. With deMaria back they have an added dimension of penetration & goal scoring on both wings. Kaka is beginning to show signs of recovery and they have no injuries to talk about. Dam scary
Madrid pretty steady, consistent and very organized...Defensively more compact than I've seen in a long long time, and plenty pace in the attack. We will probably never get to the level at which Barca played last night, but it doh matter at this point because the consistency this season is paying off...
Good fuh madrid....Jose bringing something to the team that all the better coaches couldn't bring in recent years: something for the Madrid fans to be happy about for a change. Now if they could just outplay and beat Barca......
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Doh frighten Mango Chow, it will happen sooner than yuh think.
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Doh frighten Mango Chow, it will happen sooner than yuh think.
Nothing to fear, Toppa....when yuh enjoyin' SO much cake as Barca fans have been in recent times, it is ok to share a lil' slice or two once in a while. Jes make sure yuh exercise proper etiquette when yuh eatin' it and doh shove d whole ting dong yuh throat like if allyuh starving. :devil:
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Anyone heard Chutney Soca Monarch KI's remix for La Liga?
We don't have to buy no trophy...
We don't have to influence no referee...
We don't have to dive like Barceeeelooonaaaaa...
Ooohoooo
We goh be Real Madrid forevaaaaa
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Anyone heard Chutney Soca Monarch KI's remix for La Liga?
We don't have to buy no trophy...
We don't have to influence no referee...
We don't have to dive like Barceeeelooonaaaaa...
Ooohoooo
We goh be Real Madrid forevaaaaa
:beermug:
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Anyone heard Chutney Soca Monarch KI's remix for La Liga?
We don't have to buy no trophy...
We don't have to influence no referee...
We don't have to dive like Barceeeelooonaaaaa...
Ooohoooo
We goh be Real Madrid forevaaaaa
:beermug:
:rotfl: :beermug:
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Dat sound culd not even make de Caronia village competition finals list
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Dat sound culd not even make de Caronia village competition finals list
Dat song winning Chutney SM next year. Doh tote.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-dcxOEOBzU
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-dcxOEOBzU
That was an amazing goal!
http://www.youtube.com/v/f-dcxOEOBzU
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-dcxOEOBzU
Madnesssssss!!!!!!
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Lol yeah he bad, he bad.
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Messi free kick versus Atletico Madrid.
http://www.youtube.com/v/gzw1R3J3-hw
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-dcxOEOBzU
Madnesssssss!!!!!!
Nice, too bad they cyah beat Barca.
But when you talking backheel goal, yuh still have to top Grafite vs Bayern.
http://www.youtube.com/v/e8eLSpDa_1E
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Barcelona news: Barca hit back at refs' chief (http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/1031494/barcelona-hit-back-over-refereeing-standards?cc=5901)
March 5, 2012
By ESPNsoccernet staff
Barcelona have hit back at referees' chief Victoriano Arminio over his criticism of Gerard Pique and revealed they will not attend Tuesday's Spanish football federation (RFEF) meeting.
Barca believe they have had poor luck with decisions throughout the season, and a row has erupted after Gerard Pique said he had "a feeling of premeditation" in relation to his dismissal during the weekend's 3-1 victory against Sporting Gijon.
Referees' chief Victoriano Arminio expressed outrage over Pique's comments and said the defender would be reported, but Tony Freixa, a spokesman for the Barca board, told a press conference that Arminio's comments represent "an opportunistic show for the benefit of the media that provoke discriminatory treatment in a top-level competition".
Freixa insists Barca are not blaming refereeing decisions for the fact they trail Real Madrid by ten points in La Liga but feels they have every right to be unhappy.
"Our place in the table isn't solely down to the officials," he said. "All I am saying is that we are not having any luck, but hopefully in the remainder of the season we will have no grounds to feel how we feel now."
He added: "We are talking about referees, but not criticising them. The job of a referee is very difficult. They make mistakes because it's a tough job. We stand by our policy of not discussing referees, but this year we have found that we are not having much luck."
Freixa added that Barca's response did not amount to a "tantrum" and said all at the club could be proud of their behaviour. "It should be noted that the behaviour of our players and coaching staff has been and is impeccable for Barcelona and the Spanish team," he said.
Freixa also said the club would not attend Tuesday's RFEF general assembly after their request to the Copa del Rey final at the Bernabeu had been declined.
Fellow finalists Athletic Bilbao had backed Barca's bid to play the final in the capital, but Real Madrid have claimed building work means it is not possible to do so, and it now appears likely the game will take place in Seville.
"We have agreed that we will not attend the meeting tomorrow regarding the venue for the Copa del Rey final," Freixa said. "We felt that our arguments weren't being taken into account."
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Dem shameless yes.
And why Madrid must let dem play the final at the Bernabeu? Go so eh!
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Without a doubt the best League in football, simply for the quality on view. The game Real vs Betis, today, was a display of exceptional
technical and tactical quality, peppered with individual invention :cheers: :applause:
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Without a doubt the best League in football, simply for the quality on view. The game Real vs Betis, today, was a display of exceptional
technical and tactical quality, peppered with individual invention :cheers: :applause:
That was pace!!
Betis showed Madrid no respect - took the game to them - game coulda gone either way.
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That match was therapy oui! I was too happy when that whistle blow. :-\
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That match was therapy oui! I was too happy when that whistle blow. :-\
For me I did not want the match to end. Montero was rinsing man at will.
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barcelona getting in the war business.
i never see such schupidness.
http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/news;_ylt=Aq1oAP85Gk.XH1VjM9Om.H8mw7YF?slug=ro-rogers_barcelona_syria_coded_messages_al-dunya_031912
Syria’s state-run television channel has made the astonishing claim that the Barcelona soccer team is assisting a group of rebel fighters by delivering coded messages via its tactical formations.
At least it seems astonishing. Some believe it was an elaborate hoax, and that wouldn’t be surprising given the content.
According to Syrian state TV accusations, Lionel Messi and his Barca teammates were part of an elaborate rebel plot.
Syria continues to be stricken with internal strife, as forces backing President Bashar al-Assad combat several rebel groups hoping to overthrow the government. Yet the long struggle might have caused widespread paranoia, even on the officially sanctioned news network
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Goals and the season by Benzema and Ronaldo.
http://www.youtube.com/v/8xXLhouqZEg&feature=related
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Benzema vs Van Basten
http://youtu.be/o7-sQaebuG8
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Barataria - The number for today is 10...
Steups, we guh give all yuh de league, ah mean, all yuh deserve at least dat, but as de Bajans does say, "all else is mhine"
Kicker, Toppa, FFA de # for today is 4 :beermug:
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hahahahaha
Yeah boy we let allyuh back in the race - 3 f-ing draws!! Yesterday I can't get too vex - Valencia real play and they actually coulda beat us...but the other 4 points we drop...
This is the toughest stretch of our season, and we didn't get off to a great start.
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I was too vex to come in this thread yesterday.
Not goan read Sid Lowe blog.
Not listening to Football Weekly.
I cah believe this shit.
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I was too vex to come in this thread yesterday.
Not goan read Sid Lowe blog.
Not listening to Football Weekly.
I cah believe this shit.
Go through strong and with faith... Real taking the league with games to spare.
Also Sid Lowe article this week is about Rayo... so doh frighten
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I was too vex to come in this thread yesterday.
Not goan read Sid Lowe blog.
Not listening to Football Weekly.
I cah believe this shit.
Go through strong and with faith... Real taking the league with games to spare.
Also Sid Lowe article this week is about Rayo... so doh frighten
He always has 'Talking Points' - which is always what I scroll to when the article isn't about Madrid. :D
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I was too vex to come in this thread yesterday.
Not goan read Sid Lowe blog.
Not listening to Football Weekly.
I cah believe this shit.
Go through strong and with faith... Real taking the league with games to spare.
Also Sid Lowe article this week is about Rayo... so doh frighten
Toppa, if yuh only know FF, is quake he quaking!!
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I was too vex to come in this thread yesterday.
Not goan read Sid Lowe blog.
Not listening to Football Weekly.
I cah believe this shit.
Go through strong and with faith... Real taking the league with games to spare.
Also Sid Lowe article this week is about Rayo... so doh frighten
Toppa, if yuh only know FF, is quake he quaking!!
lol FF can't quake! He needs to be strong for me!
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I was too vex to come in this thread yesterday.
Not goan read Sid Lowe blog.
Not listening to Football Weekly.
I cah believe this shit.
Go through strong and with faith... Real taking the league with games to spare.
Also Sid Lowe article this week is about Rayo... so doh frighten
Toppa, if yuh only know FF, is quake he quaking!!
lol FF can't quake! He needs to be strong for me!
girl you studying he... me and he from de same hometown, de same secondary school AND de same college.
(i ent know how he end up a barca fan, musbe primary school)
People like we doh quake... he grabbing at straws and he know it ;D
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Now I hadda miss de match. Cah take dem Cules at all boy!
Barcelona's game with Real Madrid at Camp Nou has been brought forward by a day to 21 April.
El Clásico, which will take place between the two legs of the Champions League semi-finals, has been moved from Sunday to Saturday.
Barcelona travel to Stamford Bridge to face Chelsea in the first leg of their last-four meeting three days earlier on Wednesday 18 April, with the return fixture on Tuesday 24 April.
Madrid face Bayern in the other semi-final on 17 and 25 April.
A statement on Madrid's website read: "Real Madrid will face Barcelona at the Nou Camp on Saturday, April 21 at 2000 in the 35th round of the season."
Barça trail Madrid by four points with seven rounds of league games remaining, opening the possibility of José Mourinho's side winning La Liga at their arch rivals' home ground.
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I was too vex to come in this thread yesterday.
Not goan read Sid Lowe blog.
Not listening to Football Weekly.
I cah believe this shit.
Go through strong and with faith... Real taking the league with games to spare.
Also Sid Lowe article this week is about Rayo... so doh frighten
Toppa, if yuh only know FF, is quake he quaking!!
lol FF can't quake! He needs to be strong for me!
girl you studying he... me and he from de same hometown, de same secondary school AND de same college.
(i ent know how he end up a barca fan, musbe primary school)
People like we doh quake... he grabbing at straws and he know it ;D
Good come back :beermug:
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Ronaldo just scored a ridiculous free kick from miles out.... not that much pace but ball bending all over the place...keeper didnt even move
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Ronaldo just scored a ridiculous free kick from miles out.... not that much pace but ball bending all over the place...keeper didnt even move
:D
Just two matches ago they were talking about his not having scored very many free-kicks this season. I guess he heard them.
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Big header by Falcao to equalize but then a venomous bullet from Ronaldo to take the lead...
Good to see him stepping up to the plate under pressure.
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.... And completes his hattrick with a PK.
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Two very bess goals. :o
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http://www.youtube.com/v/1cV4_YExGEw
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Real have some serious scoring power, besides Ronaldo.
Higuain 16 games 21 Goals
Benzema 20 games 18 goals
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Barca vs Levante on ESPN.
Shaka doing colour commentary
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Levante up 1 nil oui!! Come on, guys!
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Hard luck dey Levante.
That is 2 soft penalties from this ref.
Messi tied with CR7 on 41 goals
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Cheat!
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Hard luck dey Levante.
That is 2 soft penalties from this ref.
I agree it was kinda soft because the froward played it up a little, (ah didn't see d first penalty) but the devender used his ands/arms to push the player off the ball.....yuh cyah do dat and get vex if d ref call it. use yuh body to get in front de man and keep pace with him but once yuh shove with yuh arms, yuh arkskin' fuh trouble.....
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Hard luck dey Levante.
That is 2 soft penalties from this ref.
I agree it was kinda soft because the froward played it up a little, (ah didn't see d first penalty) but the devender used his ands/arms to push the player off the ball.....yuh cyah do dat and get vex if d ref call it. use yuh body to get in front de man and keep pace with him but once yuh shove with yuh arms, yuh arkskin' fuh trouble.....
Make excuses fuh dem nah...
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Hard luck dey Levante.
That is 2 soft penalties from this ref.
I agree it was kinda soft because the froward played it up a little, (ah didn't see d first penalty) but the devender used his ands/arms to push the player off the ball.....yuh cyah do dat and get vex if d ref call it. use yuh body to get in front de man and keep pace with him but once yuh shove with yuh arms, yuh arkskin' fuh trouble.....
Make excuses fuh dem nah...
dize not a excuse, Babes, is d trute. If a defender do d same ting to ronaldo, I would say d same exact ting.
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Both penalties was garbage calls, final score should have been 1-0 Barca
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according to reports within Spain, Pep is going to walk... he had a 3 hour meeting with the club today and was told to sleep on it, he wants to leave and has been thinking about it for 6 months
Interesting...
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Barcelona's Pep Guardiola 'on brink of leaving club'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17855980
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Wha happen to Pepe, he can't stand the pressure?!!!!
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Pep for Superstar Rangers ???
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Pep has resigned.
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He hinted mid-season that he may not renew the contract. Which suggest
that regardless of the outcome he was thinking of leaving. Its a shame! I asy
that not for Barcelona, but for football in general. Lets hope its just a meditation
phase and he does not leave football all together.
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Athletico get stunned by betis, last 5mins to give up d lead lol
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Sweet last second equaliser by athletico.
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Barataria, the word for today is congratulations... Say it.
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:D
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Barataria, the word for today is congratulations... Say it.
No, no, no - the number for the day is 32 - League Championships.
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Congratulations to Real Madrid, good season overall :applause: Many people are very critical of Benzema and Higuain, yet both players have a phenomenal strike rate (games played, goals scored). Real have 3 players in the top five in scoring in La Liga, amazing and one of the major contributions to them winning the league. :applause:
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Barataria, the word for today is congratulations... Say it.
No, no, no - the number for the day is 32 - League Championships.
;D ;D ;D ;D
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Congratulations to Real Madrid, good season overall :applause: Many people are very critical of Benzema and Higuain, yet both players have a phenomenal strike rate (games played, goals scored). Real have 3 players in the top five in scoring in La Liga, amazing and one of the major contributions to them winning the league. :applause:
Imagine Higuain wasn't even a regular starter this season too...
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Yeah man, all deserve de title, well played.
We'll re-group and come again, under new mgmt. 13 of out of 16 in de last 4 years is not too shabby
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Congrats to Messi on 50 league goals!
Umm errr I mean congrats to Xavi, Iniesta, the referees and to all the Barcelona dives in the 18-yard area that resulted in penalty kicks...
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APB FOR JAI JOHN!!
AMBER ALERT!!
Villareal get relegated yesterday... that is pressure... dem never finish lower than 7th or 8th de last decade.
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Yikes!
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Congrats to Messi on 50 league goals!
Umm errr I mean congrats to Xavi, Iniesta, the referees and to all the Barcelona dives in the 18-yard area that resulted in penalty kicks...
:beermug:
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APB FOR JAI JOHN!!
AMBER ALERT!!
Villareal get relegated yesterday... that is pressure... dem never finish lower than 7th or 8th de last decade.
Real sad day ...more than a relegation but rather a statement to illustrate that money is now controlling football ..... every team succeeding today has to spend hundreds of millions to attract the best players ...and those with lots of it ...buy players and farm them out so other competitors cant get them. So its like I dont really need him but you cant have him either !
Villareal lost the prize because they are forced into the wrong model ...they really did not have an option but to sell their best players . You cant do that and survive any decent league but what choice did they have ? If they buy big players they have to increase the wage bill ...they have a tiny stadium and will never attract large crowds at home because they simply cannot accommodate them.
So the world's biggest small side that shared second round points with barcelona and Real madrid now have a big task at hand ...how to keep their players who would obviously want first team football. If they could play with this team they would be back up next season ...just like Manchester united some years ago ....but I really cant see Rossi, Nilmar etc playing second tier football and expecting to play for their country . So it looks like the end of a good run finally unless FIFA goes the basketball and soccer salary cap way that the Us has put in to avoid just what has happened here .
I wonder who can really celebrate when a team like Villareal which plays the football that we the afficionados love, gets relegated with little hope to rise again soon ?
Can Villareal build from their youth team .? ..with a good coach they can ...can they keep their best players ...not even the best coach can help them there ...and no Arab is going to buy a club from a small town and with a small stadium ...unless he wants to take up the challenge ...when you have money to blow you own 10 cqrs ...who can understand the ways of the rich and famous ...not I . Calling Sheik al Thani ....S.O.S
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Losing Capdevilla and Cazorla, on top of injuries to Nilmar and Rossi, and the lack of a proper replacement for the aging Senna just killed that side -they don't have a deep roster, and they were playing in more than one competition this season too - was too much for them to handle.
It real sad, but I think they will be back. They have a good philosophy at that club. They were one major piece of silverware away from becoming a force to be reckoned with. If they managed to win a major championship in their prime days and got that influx of cash from it, they woulda never looked back.