La Liga - Week 16

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Saturday, 2 January 2010

Atletico Madrid v Sevilla, 21:00 - Live Sky Sports 2
Barcelona v Villarreal, 19:00 - Live Sky Sports 2
Valencia v Espanyol, 17:00 - Live Sky Sports 1

Sunday, 3 January 2010

Almeria v Xerez, 16:00
Getafe v Valladolid, 16:00
Mallorca v Athletic Bilbao, 18:00 - Live Sky Sports 2
Osasuna v Real Madrid, 20:00 - Live Sky Sports 2
Racing Santander v Tenerife, 16:00
Real Zaragoza v Deportivo La Coruna, 16:00
Sporting Gijon v Malaga, 16:00


La Liga returns from its Xmas break with 3 absolute crackers tonight. Barca will have a very much depleted squad for tonights game with the entire south american contingent all missing aswell as Keita and Toure.

gimmick

Id imagine Puyol will play right back tonight, with Marquez at centre half with Pique.

Valdes
Puyol....Marquez....Pique....Abidal
.........Busquets...........
Xavi...............Iniesta
Pedro.....Ibra.....Henry

Still a strong side, but Villareal are in great form at the moment. Id be delighted with a 1-0, but this fixture generally gives us a lash of goals

redout

gimmick wrote: »

Id imagine Puyol will play right back tonight, with Marquez at centre half with Pique.

Valdes
Puyol....Marquez....Pique....Abidal
.........Busquets...........
Xavi...............Iniesta
Pedro.....Ibra.....Henry

Still a strong side, but Villareal are in great form at the moment. Id be delighted with a 1-0, but this fixture generally gives us a lash of goals

The team could have a more familiar look to it tonight as I just read that even though the whole South American contingent were given leave until today that they all returned early except for Messi. Jeffren is also injured since before Xmas.

redout

Valencia have confirmed that Silva is still injured and will not feature tonight. Villa picked up a knock and had to be withdrawn from training yesterday but should be ok to play.

gimmick

Saying the entire south american contingent is slightly misleading as we are only talking about 2 certain starters in Messi and Alves. Maxwell probably would not be considered for tonight regardless as it is too big a game and he is yet to really impress.

redout

gimmick wrote: »

Saying the entire south american contingent is slightly misleading as we are only talking about 2 certain starters in Messi and Alves. Maxwell probably would not be considered for tonight regardless as it is too big a game and he is yet to really impress.

Yeah your really just talking about Messi, Alves, Maxwell and Milito. Alves would be the only one to start considering Messi just arrived back in Barcelona.

Not sure if Marquez was included in that or not.

gimmick

I would prefer Marquez to start over Chrgy, but as you say, he could well be included in the South Americans. Milito would hardly have been considered either given he has not started a game in almost 2 years.

redout

gimmick wrote: »

I would prefer Marquez to start over Chrgy, but as you say, he could well be included in the South Americans. Milito would hardly have been considered either given he has not started a game in almost 2 years.

But like I said originally the squad would have been depleted.

Messi, Alves, Maxwell, Marquez, Keita, Toure, Jeffren and Iniesta only got the all clear yesterday.

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Eto'o will not be present at former club Barcelona's parade of the six trophies they won in 2009 which will be held before tonights game.

"I was pleased to receive an invite from my ex-team mates but obviously tomorrow I can't be there because I have to be here with Inter,"

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Valencia lineup: César; Miguel, David Navarro, Alexis, Bruno; Joaquín, Albelda, Éver Banega, Jordi Alba; Mata, Villa

Espanyol lineup: Kameni; Chica, Márquez, Pareja, Roncaglia; Verdú, Coro, Moisés, Forlín; Callejón, Luis García

gimmick

^ Zip at HT

redout

Pretty quiet first have from both sides. David Villa came closest to opening the scoring.

redout

gimmick wrote: »

^ Zip at HT

Did Sky have the first 30mins on the red button ?

I saw they were not starting until 5:30pm so switched over to Canal + Liga.

Very poor showing by sky advertising the game as live yet not mentioning the first 30mins were not gonna be shown!

redout

How in the name of god have Valencia not scored in the second half!

gimmick

No Iniesta :mad:

............Valdés..........
Alves, Piqué, Puyol, Abidal,
........Busquets.......
......Xavi, Jonathan,
Pedro, Henry Ibrahimovic


Looks like one of those nights for Valencia. Though they were lucky to concede a minute ago.




Villa hits the post

flahavaj

gimmick wrote: »

No Iniesta :mad:

............Valdés..........
Alves, Piqué, Puyol, Abidal,
........Busquets.......
......Xavi, Jonathan,
Pedro, Henry Ibrahimovic

Forgive my pure ignorance bai, but who's Jonathon?

gimmick

Looks like one of those nights for Valencia. Though they were lucky to concede a minute ago.




Villa hits the post

flahavaj wrote: »

Forgive my pure ignorance bai, but who's Jonathon?

Jonathon Dos Santos, brother of Giovanni who went to Spurs (then Ipswich on loan). I know nothing else about him

flahavaj

gimmick wrote: »

Jonathon Dos Santos, brother of Giovanni who went to Spurs (then Ipswich on loan). I know nothing else about him

Hope hes better than the brother, hes sh*te.

redout

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

1 - 0

Zigic

92min!!!!!!!!!

gimmick

Get in. Great cross, great header

gimmick

Just FYI as well, Barca are due to parade their 6 throphies before the ko. Hopefully Sky will show that. Their programme starts on SS2 at 6.55

redout

Barca lineup: Valdés; Alves, Puyol, Piqué, Abidal; Busquets, Xavi, Jonathan; Pedro, Henry, Ibrahimovic

Villarreal lineup: Diego López, Javi Venta, Godín, Marcano, Capdevila, Cazorla, Cani, Fuster, Senna, Bruno, Nilmar

redout

gimmick wrote: »

No Iniesta :mad:

He should feature at some stage.

Pep said so yesterday.

redout

Sky didnt show the trophy showing.

I just watched it on Spanish tv.

Was just the squad standing on a stage in the centre circle with some fireworks and the 6 trophies. Lasted about 30 seconds! They made a balls of it to. They set off the fireworks before everyone was up on the stage so people started legging it across the field!

redout

Danny Glover in the house!

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Goal..........

1 - 0

Pedro

gimmick

What a shot from Henry. Pedrito can't stop scoring. Nerves settled now fingers crossed.

Soby

Fantastic move by barca..some shot off the bar..he was a mile onside..defense was asleep

gimmick

Great save from Valdes. Offside or no.

redout

Christ we are screwed if Busquets is injured with Toure and Keita already out.

Mgoraf

Villarreal have had a couple of good chances. Ibra has been pretty poor so far.

redout

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

1 - 1

Villarreal deserved that in fairness.

Look dangerous everytime they go forward.

Mgoraf

How many times has that clown Busquets lost the ball.

dreamers75

decent game so far.


Big one on later :cool:

An Citeog

Mgoraf wrote: »

How many times has that clown Busquets lost the ball.

Very harsh, especially seeing as he was superb in the first half imo.

dreamers75

Did henry block that shot with his hand ?

An Citeog

Iniesta looks like he shaved his own head without the use of a mirror!:pac:

Mgoraf

Great challenge by Marcano. Villarreal been very good at the back.

Puyol cleared off the line...

redout

Ibra should be off.

redout

Villarreal were good for the point.

Perhaps even deserved more.

Real can draw level on points tomorrow.

dreamers75

redout wrote: »

Villarreal were good for the point.

Perhaps even deserved more.

Real can draw level on points tomorrow.

guess its over on your tv/pc

was hoping for a last minute villareal winner there

redout

Atletico lineup:
Asenjo; Valera, Perea, Domínguez, Antonio López; Assunçao, Raúl García; Reyes, Ibrahima, Simao; Forlán

Sevilla lineup:
Palop; Konko, Squillaci, Dragutinovic, Fernando Navarro; Jesús Navas, Romaric, Duscher, Perotti; Renato, Negredo.

Zonda999

Good point for Villareal in that match, despite Barca being depleted, a Real win tomorrow now and they'll be on top on goal difference

redout

Zonda999 wrote: »

Good point for Villareal in that match, despite Barca being depleted, a Real win tomorrow now and they'll be on top on goal difference

Nope. Spain works on the head to head record which means Barca stay top regardless of a Real victory. Bolton made the same mistake on Sky also.

100% I am correct as thats how Real won la liga about 2-3 years ago.

redout

Look here at the 06/07 table and see how not just Real but other teams level on points are ahead of certain teams even though they have an inferior goal difference.

dreamers75

Head to head is better system imo.

Sevilla match isnt great, dont see Negredo getting a goal tbh

redout

Goal........

1 - 0

Renato

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

1 - 1

OG

Bukman13

What was Duscher playing at there. Made it easy for the ref.

redout

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

2 - 1

93min

Bukman13

Lopez wins it in the 93rd min