Copa Del Rey: Barcelona Vs Sevilla 1st Leg

gimmick

Live on Sky Sports tonight with a 9pm Kick Off.

Looking forward to this game. Sevilla are damned good side, but are on a very dodgy run at the moment, having drawn a few games at home to relegation candidates, and losing against Atleti on Saturday 2-1, despite taking the lead.

I expect both teams to field fairly strong sides. Sevilla want some Silverware back, and this is probably their best route, as with all due respect, they will not win the CL or La Liga. Barca for their part will want to get back to winning ways and continue their quest for another clean sweep.

I would like to see Bojan start tonight just to get his sharpness back. Would not surprise me to see Dos Santos start again either as Pep will want to do a small bit of rotation.

Peyton Manning

Cheers for the heads up, didnt know this was on tonight! What's the Barca team likely to be?

gimmick

Goal.coms team news

Personally I would be shocked if Barca go that much understrength. Plus I think Jeffren is injured? Sevilla have alot out injured, so I would have thought that pep might look at this as an oppurtunity to take full advantage, get a nice lead, so maybe rest a few for the return leg.

TEAM NEWS
Barcelona

Lionel Messi and Rafael Marquez are both back training with the first team after an extended winter break.

Seydou Keita and Yaya Toure are on international duty in Angola, but they are considered to be the only selection issue for the Blaugrana, who have called upon Jonathan dos Santos, Thiago Alcantara, Gai Assulin, Victor Vazquez and Ruben Mino from their reserve side.

Expect to see a number of fringe players on display.

Probable Starting XI: Pinto; Dani Alves, Marques, Chygrynskiy, Maxwell; Busquets, Dos Santos, Iniesta; Pedro, Bojan, Jeffren

Sevilla

As well as the aforementioned injuries to Sebastien Squillaci and Luis Fabiano, there are other problems for Jimenez, who only has 14 senior players available, to cope with.

Adriano has failed to shake off a weekend problem and will not be involved, while Federico Fazio, Lautaro Acosta, Sergio Sanchez, Javi Varas and Tom de Mul are all missing. Julien Escude had stomach flu but seems to have overcome the illness. Diego Perotti should be involved, despite picking up a minor issue at the weekend.

Didier Zokora, Arouna Kone and Frederic Kanoute are on international duty.

Aldo Duscher is available, despite being dismissed at the weekend.

Probable Starting XI: Palop; Konko, Escude, Dragutinovic, Fernando Navarro; Romaric, Lolo; Navas, Renato, Diego Capel; Kone

mike65

Sevilla have a match squad of 14 players.

fillmore jive

Good to see Dos Santos getting games, no doubt the Villareal match will give him a boost. Sure some of the Catalan press have already dubbed him the next Xavi.

UnitedIrishman

Could be some goals in this one. Particularly with Pinto and Chyrgianski (or whatever the hell his name is) playing for Barca.

Peyton Manning

Would love to see Gai Assulin and Thiago get some game time tonight. Been waiting years for these fellows!

Vokes

Is this quarters / semi-final?

Bukman13

Vokes wrote: »

Is this quarters / semi-final?

Last 16

Bandit12

Excellent. Looking forward to this one.

An Citeog

Goal wrote:

Didier Zokora, Arouna Kone and Frederic Kanoute are on international duty.

Aldo Duscher is available, despite being dismissed at the weekend.

Probable Starting XI: Palop; Konko, Escude, Dragutinovic, Fernando Navarro; Romaric, Lolo; Navas, Renato, Diego Capel; Kone

Guessing that's meant to be Negredo.

mike65

When the line ups are known could someone post them up? Cheers.

redout

Barca lineup:

Pinto; Alves, Chygrynskiy, Milito, Maxwell; Iniesta, Márquez, Thiago; Messi, Bojan, Pedro


Very weak but Sevilla missing half their starting 11 so.........

Headshot

redout wrote: »

Barca lineup:

Pinto; Alves, Chygrynskiy, Milito, Maxwell; Iniesta, Márquez, Thiago; Messi, Bojan, Pedro


Very weak but Sevilla missing half their starting 11 so.........

ya it is weak alright

not sure what to do

mike65

Any rescue remedy on the bench?

redout

Headshot wrote: »

ya it is weak alright

not sure what to do

Wait for the bench brother.

No idea who is on it yet.

Remember I told you Ibra suspended for the weekend so could well feature at some stage.

Xavi, Puyol, Henry, Busquets or Pique could be on the bench.

So wait and see.

redout

Sevilla lineup:

Palop; Komko, Dragutinovic, Escudé, Fernando Navarro; Lolo, Romaric; Perotti, Navas, Capel; Koné.


Weak also. I would definitely go with Barca at home against this weakened team.

Headshot

redout wrote: »

Barca lineup:

Pinto; Alves, Chygrynskiy, Milito, Maxwell; Iniesta, Márquez, Thiago; Messi, Bojan, Pedro


Very weak but Sevilla missing half their starting 11 so.........

how will that team line out ?

redout

---

Pinto
Alves---Chyg---Mil

---

Max

---

Marq
----Iniesta

---

Thiago
Messi

---

Bojan ----Pedro

Would seem logical

redout

Barca bench:

Valdes
Henry
Ibra
Xavi
Puyol
Pique
Busquets


Very strong.

redout

The ball control by Barca is unreal.

fillmore jive

What a zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Think I might stick Desperate Houswives on for the second half:pac:

redout

Pretty poor apart from Messi's chance off the upright.

First 25mins Barca had some quality ball control.

the1andonly1

Is it just me or have everyone bar Messi and Iniesta been pretty poor for the last 20 minutes for Barca? Time to use the bench methinks

redout

Busquets on Marquez must revert back to CB.

Hope Xavi come on to add some spark.

Good man Pep.

Listen to Redout

redout

Goal

Dirt!

Headshot

ref is a ****ing joke

its a contact sport ffs

redout

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

1 - 1

Brilliant finish

Ibracadabra

redout

Christ Peno Sevilla

Headshot

that Chygrynskiy fella is one of the worse defenders iv seen in a top team for a long time

mike65

I was fully expecting a 3-0 scoreline by now Bottlers.

eagle eye

Wow Barca lost a domestic game. It took until the new year for it to happen.

Headshot

mg barca was crap

dreamers75

he he he

SlickRic

they're just luring everyone into a false sense of security.

redout

In fairness they had two goals ruled out.

The first definitely should have stood.

Sevilla had one also.

CHD

Imagine that, ref decisions robbing them.

SlickRic

CHD wrote: »

Imagine that, ref decisions robbing them.

let it go.

:P

eagle eye

CHD wrote: »

Imagine that, ref decisions robbing them.

Its refreshing isn't it, to see the big teams not getting favourable refereeing. I think it was a penalty but you wouldn't get it against United, Chelsea, Arsenal or Liverpool.

CHD

SlickRic wrote:

let it go.

:P

Never!

eagle eye wrote:

Its refreshing isn't it, to see the big teams not getting favourable refereeing. I think it was a penalty but you wouldn't get it against United, Chelsea, Arsenal or Liverpool.

Yup and will be interesting to see how Barca deal with losing players to African nations.

An Citeog

CHD wrote: »

Yup and will be interesting to see how Barca deal with losing players to African nations.

Keita and Touré are the only players they're losing. Pretty sure a midfield trio of Busquets, Xavi and Iniesta will be well able to cope without them.

redout

CHD wrote: »

Imagine that, ref decisions robbing them.

eZe^

CHD wrote: »

Never!


Yup and will be interesting to see how Barca deal with losing players to African nations.

Even without those players it's still the best midfield in the world though mate.


I think that this result is important for neutrals more than anyone. I mean, you can see even on this forum that it's a big deal. Barca haven't been as dominant or as captivating as last season, but they have been efficient. A result like this was always on the cards. However, it was a pretty tight game, Sevilla's tactics were spot on, have three defenders ready to nullify Alves, Messi and Iniesta.

A positive was Thiago, thought he showed alot of class for youngin, wasn't afraid to shoot on occasion instead of passing it to a more 'experienced' player. He also made a fool of a number of Seville defenders. Bright prospect, would love him to stay at the club.

Good game though, disappointing result, it'll be interesting to see how this team copes with going to the Ramon Sanchez Pizquan needing two goals to go through. I think Sevilla will probably knock us out of the Copa Del Rey now though, which is incredibly disappointing, but Barca/ Guardiola needed to be taken down to earth eventually.

CHD

redout wrote: »

Hilarious, if that came from a decent poster I might lol but a glory hunter who is confused and can't decide if he supports the team winning in Spain or England and does Hulk Hogan impressions is the funny part. Keep up the good work, brother.


eze^, I thought Barca lost more players, should be fine with what is left.

redout

CHD wrote: »

Hilarious, if that came from a decent poster I might lol but a glory hunter who is confused and can't decide if he supports the team winning in Spain or England and does Hulk Hogan impressions is the funny part. Keep up the good work, brother.

Still bitter brother ?

CHD

redout wrote: »

Still bitter brother ?

Not one little bit sister.

Anyway back on topic Barca 1-2 Sevilla, cool.

redout

CHD wrote: »

Not one little bit sister.

Anyway back on topic Barca 1-2 Sevilla, cool.

Could have fooled me.

But as you say back on topic.

flahavaj

CHD wrote: »

Hilarious, if that came from a decent poster I might lol but a glory hunter who is confused and can't decide if he supports the team winning in Spain or England and does Hulk Hogan impressions is the funny part. Keep up the good work, brother.


eze^, I thought Barca lost more players, should be fine with what is left.

Thought of this straight away:



"Barca-mania's runnin wild BROTHER!!!!!!"

eZe^

CHD wrote: »

eze^, I thought Barca lost more players, should be fine with what is left.

Sure hope so mate, Busquets can be a hot head and if he gets red carded we'll be relying on Marquez to play DMF.

An Citeog

eZe^ wrote: »

Sure hope so mate, Busquets can be a hot head and if he gets red carded we'll be relying on Marquez to play DMF.

Piqué is an option there aswell if you're willing to risk Chyrgy/Marquez/Milito/Abidal at centre half.

Ush1

eZe^ wrote: »

Sure hope so mate, Busquets can be a hot head and if he gets red carded we'll be relying on Marquez to play DMF.

I actually think when he's on form it's Marquez' best position, but he's looked dodgy for a while.