La liga - week 18

redout

Saturday, 10 January 2009
Deportivo La Coruna v Sevilla, 19:00
Valencia v Villarreal, 21:00
Sunday, 11 January 2009
Atletico Madrid v Athletic Bilbao, 16:00
Espanyol v Almeria, 18:00
Mallorca v Real Madrid, 16:00
Numancia v Getafe, 16:00
Osasuna v Barcelona, 20:00
Racing Santander v Recreativo Huelva, 16:00
Real Betis v Malaga, 16:00
Sporting Gijon v Valladolid, 16:00

redout

Sevilla on Sky Sports one at the moment followed by the game of the weekend Valencia v Villarreal at 9pm.


Sevilla Lineup:
Palop, Crespo, Squillaci, Prieto, Fernando Navarro, Romaric, Renato, Jesús Navas, Adriano, Luis Fabiano, Maresca.

Deportivo Lineup:
Aranzubia, Manuel Pablo, Lopo, Zé Castro, Filipe, Sergio, Juan Rodríguez, Lafita, Guardado, Verdú, Bodipo.

gimmick

Looking forward to Valencia Villareal. The one on at the moment is a slow starter.

redout

What a goal.............

1 - 0

Deportivo currently 3rd as it stands !

Keeper what were you doing !

Nuri Sahin

How Depor are doing this is beyond anyone's expectation. With all their problems they should be fighting for mid-table medicority at best.

Valencia and Villarreal will be a cracking game no doubt. Very much looking forward to that

dreamers75

gimmick

This is quite a good game actually. Sevilla just took the lead. They are down to 10 men as well. Kanoute having a very god game as a sub.

Am I right in saying the co commentator (Terry Gibson?) has invented a new word on TRANSFORMISED? He has used it at least twice to comment on Kanoutes contribution thus far!!!

dreamers75

Capel scores his 4th goal ever

gimmick

Fantastic run from Navas to set it up. Hopefully game two will be as good as what we have just seen, and make staying in on this Saturday night acceptable.

dreamers75

1-0 valencia


being poor makes it a simple reason for me staying in

gimmick

Good grief. What a start for Valencia. Baraja header just over a minute gone.

dreamers75

villareal hit the bar twice in about 30 seconds.


edit 2-0 Villa



**** me valencia are on fire

redout

Lads the first 10 mins have been a belter.

2 - 1

Goals:

Valencia: Baraja, Villa
Villarreal: Fuentes

The first half has without doubt been the most entertaining 45mins of football I have watched this season. Anyone second that ?

dreamers75

superb 1st half.

redout

Goal.............

2 - 2

Llorente

Good follow up from the player.

They drew level for all of two minutes.

3 - 2

Edu


My god this just keeps getting better. Penalty to Villarreal.

3 - 3

Rossi

Make that Valencia led again for all but two minutes.

An Citeog

2-2 now. Llorente

An Citeog

Make that 3-2. Edu for Valencia!

gimmick

Finished 3-3. Dodgy dodgy penalty given to Villareal. Cracking game.

eZe^

Two absolutely excellent matches, pity that the Villareal game ended up in a draw because of a dive, although both teams had enough to chances to justify it being a draw. And in the Sevilla game, how good is Kanoute, he is so good at holding the ball up, he's big and powerful but he's also really really skillful, it's a little surprising that bigger teams haven't made a bid for him, maybe it's because people view him as being a tottenham standard of player.

delija_sever029

What a great game Valencia-Villareal last night,best i saw lately....

eZe^

delija_sever029 wrote: »

What a great game Valencia-Villareal last night,best i saw lately....

Agreed, the first 45 minutes were some of the best football I've seen in years.


Just saw Madrid have beaten Mallorca 3-0, Robben, Raul and Ramos scoring goals. The triple R's... :pac:

Athletic Bilbao beat Atletico Madrid 3-2 in what sounds like a thriller. They seem to be self destructing at this point in the season as per usual!

gimmick

Osasuna Vs Barca next in a bottom Vs top affair. Never an easy place to visit, and Osasuna will be buoyed from their good result last weekend away to Sevilla. Hard one to call. I am reckon a 1-1 draw.

eZe^

gimmick wrote: »

Osasuna Vs Barca next in a bottom Vs top affair. Never an easy place to visit, and Osasuna will be buoyed from their good result last weekend away to Sevilla. Hard one to call. I am reckon a 1-1 draw.

Pamplona is easily one of the most intimidating places in Spain, I do think Barca should scrape a win, an early goal is the most important thing.

eZe^

1-0, Eto'o goal with Messi assist. 16 league goals in 17 games for Eto'o, 19 goals and 10 assists in 22 appearances for Messi.

Delighted. Messi is in such super form at the moment. Virtually unplayable.

Headshot

osa 2-1 barca

Headshot

some game

2-2

eZe^

MESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!! 3-2....

Next years world player of the year. I must place a bet on it.

eZe^

2-3 final score! Relieved to get 3 points at Pamplona, Messi is the man, Xavi or Dani Alves man of the match. Thats 47 points from the last 51 (I think)...

ctrl-alt-delete

Only caught the game from when it was 1-1,

Barcelona were a joy to watch, their passing especially between their atacking players was superb.

Messi is in a league of his own, his goal was a bullet of a shot! by far the best player in the world at the moment.

Raskolnikov

Fair play to Barcelona. If this was last season, I doubt they would have had the resilience to come back from 2-1 down. Messi has been incredible this season. If he stays fit; Barcelona are going to the Champions League final.

redout

Just looking the statistics on screen after the game. Busquets completed 57 of 61 passes tonight for a 93% completion rate. Thats pretty phenomenal if you ask me. Xavi had 81 from 87 for 93% also. Mighty impressive. Messi's goal was class. Thats 4 in the last 2 games for him.

There was a few scuffles between Bilbao supporters this afternoon before the Atletico game. I got held at the lights for 10mins watching bottles being flung at the police then a baton charge at about 4:30pm this afternoon. Is there a rivalry with these two clubs ? All quite entertaining although a little pissed as I was trying to make it home before the start of the United v Chelsea game.

eZe^

redout wrote: »

I got held at the lights for 10mins watching bottles being flung at the police then a baton charge at about 4:30pm this afternoon. Is there a rivalry with these two clubs ?

Might be the whole Basque vs Castile rivalry considering Madrid is the centre of Castile and Bilbao have the strongest Basque ties of any football team in the Liga.

Raskolnikov

redout wrote: »

There was a few scuffles between Bilbao supporters this afternoon before the Atletico game. I got held at the lights for 10mins watching bottles being flung at the police then a baton charge at about 4:30pm this afternoon. Is there a rivalry with these two clubs ? All quite entertaining although a little pissed as I was trying to make it home before the start of the United v Chelsea game.

Bilbao are a Basque club and Atletico were founded by Basque students so there shouldn't be too much animosity between the two clubs.

eZe^

Raskolnikov wrote: »

Atletico were founded by Basque students

Didn't know that, interesting though!

dfx-

http://www.101greatgoals.com/videodisplay/1957148/

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