La Liga - Week 23

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Saturday, 20 February 2010
Barcelona v Racing Santander, 19:00 - Live Sky Sports 4
Deportivo La Coruna v Xerez, 17:00
Mallorca v Sevilla, 21:00 - Live Sky Sports 4

Sunday, 21 February 2010
Almeria v Atletico Madrid, 18:00 - Live Sky Sports 1
Athletic Bilbao v Tenerife, 16:00
Malaga v Espanyol, 16:00
Osasuna v Valladolid, 16:00
Real Madrid v Villarreal, 20:00 - Live Sky Sports 1
Real Zaragoza v Sporting Gijon, 16:00

Monday, 22 February 2010
Valencia v Getafe, 20:00


Pep Guardiola will celebrate his 100th game in charge at home to Sergio Canales and co. Look out for Barca's Brazilian defender Henrique who is on loan at Racing. Fourth go up against fifth on saturday night from the Balearic Islands in what is sure to be a fascinating encounter. The game of the week takes place at the venue for this seasons Champions league final the Santiago Bernabéu as Real look to keep up the pressure on their eternal rivals as they take on a resurgent Villarreal. The monday night game see's the capitals lesser known side travel to the Mestalla.

RandolphEsq

Mallorca/Sevilla will be a great game!

I'm going to live in mere hope that Racing Santander get a result against Las Wankas

redout

Deportivo lineup:
ARANZUBIA; MANUEL PABLO, COLOTTO, LOPO, LAURE; JUAN RODRÍGUEZ, JUCA; PABLO ÁLVAREZ, GUARDADO; RIKI, BODIPO

Xerez lineup:
RENAN; FRANCIS, DAVID PRIETO, GIODA, CASADO; SIDI KEITA, MORENO; CARLOS CALVO, VÍCTOR SÁNCHEZ, MOMO; MARIO BERMEJO


Link: http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=64249&part=sports
or http://iraqgoals.net/6298-deportivo-la-coruna-vs-deportivo-xerez-.html

redout

Goal........

1 - 0

Guardado (Peno)

redout

Goal..........

2 - 0

Riki

Great finish

redout

Goal..........

2 - 1

Bermejo

monkey9

Is it Racing Santander who have that promising young striker up front? I can't remember his name, but he's Spanish and is only about 17.

Glico Man

monkey9 wrote: »

Is it Racing Santander who have that promising young striker up front? I can't remember his name, but he's Spanish and is only about 17.

I'm almost certain you're thinking of Iker Munian. He's 17 and plays for Athletic Bilbao

eZe^

monkey9 wrote: »

Is it Racing Santander who have that promising young striker up front? I can't remember his name, but he's Spanish and is only about 17.

You're definitely thinking of Sergio Canales, he's an attacking midfielder, and has agreed to join Real Madrid for 2011/2012.

Headshot

eZe^ wrote: »

You're definitely thinking of Sergio Canales, he's an attacking midfielder, and has agreed to join Real Madrid for 2011/2012.

poor kid made a bad decision

carlop

eZe^ wrote: »

You're definitely thinking of Sergio Canales, he's an attacking midfielder, and has agreed to join Real Madrid for 2011/2012.

Is it definite? I thought it may have just been definite in the 'Marca' sense of the word, but that nothing had actually been signed.

eZe^

carlop wrote: »

Is it definite? I thought it may have just been definite in the 'Marca' sense of the word, but that nothing had actually been signed.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11827_5945573,00.html

redout

Guardiola's century in charge

La Liga - Week 23

Camp Nou
Saturday, 20 February 2010
7pm

FC Barcelona lineup:
Valdés, Puyol, Piqué, Márquez, Maxwell, Touré, Busquets, Iniesta, Messi, Henry, Bojan

Racing Santander lineup:
Coltorti, Crespo, Henrique, Torrejón, Oriol, Lacen, Diop, Toni Moral, Óscar Serrano, Canales, Xisco

Glico Man

^^^Henry instead of Pedro??? and Bojan in instead of Ibra?

redout

Ibra has an ankle injury and is being rested for Stuttgart in the Champions league.

gimmick

Was hoping Thiago or Dos Santos would have gotten a start tonight.

Glico Man

redout wrote: »

Ibra has an ankle injury and is being rested for Stuttgart in the Champions league.

That would explain it.

Hopefully Thierry can prove me wrong and pick up a goal or two to help his form. He's been terrible this season thus far

monkey9

eZe^ wrote: »

You're definitely thinking of Sergio Canales, he's an attacking midfielder, and has agreed to join Real Madrid for 2011/2012.

Yep, that's him! I saw him on on sky when they were away to, i think Valencia? Anyway, he scored twice that night and won the game. He seems like a decent prospect.

I'm looking forward to seeing him play tonight, though he may not see much of the ball away at the Nou Camp. But interesting to see if he can do anything

Bukman13

I find it amazing that Iniesta still hasn't scored a goal in 30 games this season. Such a talent, what a strange stat....

redout

Goal..........

1 - 0

Iniesta

First since Chelsea

gimmick

^ Snap. Awful defending

Glico Man

Bukman13 wrote: »

I find it amazing that Iniesta still hasn't scored a goal in 30 games this season. Such a talent, what a strange stat....

redout wrote: »

Goal..........

1 - 0

Iniesta

First since Chelsea

That was almost prophetic:D

redout

LoL even the Spanish commentators are mentioning the Chelsea game

Bukman13

Bukman13 wrote: »

I find it amazing that Iniesta still hasn't scored a goal in 30 games this season. Such a talent, what a strange stat....

gimmick wrote: »

^ Snap. Awful defending

Haha.... thats hilarious!!!

Yea disgraceful defending,

redout

Rubbish defending

As Keano pointed out against France

you cant let the ball bounce in your own box

(actually think he said 6 yard box)

Bukman13

What the hell were barca doing with that free kick, they left about 35yards of space for the racing players to run into.

Glico Man

Ata boy Thierry

2-0

Bukman13

Henry.....

That wall was a joke.....

Game over now.

redout

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

3 - 0

Marquez cracker

Bukman13

Pin point free kick....

This could end 8-0

Glico Man

Barça got lucky there. Didn't see anything wrong with that goal

gimmick

To think I was worried about a draw here.

Xisco was an idiot there. Goal would have stood had he not touched it. At least thats Valdes' mistake for the season out of the way anyway!!

Hope Bojan can het on the scoresheet.

Bukman13

aaronh007 wrote: »

Barça got lucky there. Didn't see anything wrong with that goal

It was offside.

dfx-

gimmick wrote: »

At least thats Valdes' mistake for the season out of the way anyway!!

Equaliser at the Riazor? That's more than one:P

Glico Man

Bukman13 wrote: »

It was offside.

Thought Puyol played him on..

Good news I suppose. Keeps the clean sheet intact

Bukman13

aaronh007 wrote: »

Thought Puyol played him on..

Good news I suppose. Keeps the clean sheet intact

Yea, only Puyol was playing him on, hence he was off side. (you need two defenders [usually includes goalkeeper] between the striker and the goal line to be onside.)

HalloweenJack

dfx- wrote: »

Equaliser at the Riazor? That's more than one:P

Also, I seem to remember him making a mess of the Osasuna equaliser. Or was that deflected?

gimmick

dfx- wrote: »

Equaliser at the Riazor? That's more than one:P

That was Busquets' fault!

Sr. Pirotecnic

Future Madridista Canales getting some stick from the Camp Nou crowd apparently.

Betis 0-0 Albacete - er Beti are making heavy work of escaping the second division.

eZe^

The only players on the pitch right now for Barca who aren't La Masia graduates are Marquez and Maxwell. 9 youth products playing, amazing.

redout

Real Mallorca lineup:
Aquate, Josemi, Ramis, Nunes, Ayoze, Alvarez, Suarez, Marti, Valero, Castro, Aduriz

Sevilla lineup:
Palop, Navarro, Fazio, Stankevicius, Dragutinovic, Zokora, Duscher, Renato, Capel, Navas, Negredo

Glico Man

eZe^ wrote: »

The only players on the pitch right now for Barca who aren't La Masia graduates are Marquez and Maxwell. 9 youth products playing, amazing.

It really is amazing. I can only think of Ajax with a similarly successful youth programme but no club in the world can compare with the quality of players that Barça have/will produce.

Extraordinary

gimmick

eZe^ wrote: »

The only players on the pitch right now for Barca who aren't La Masia graduates are Marquez and Maxwell. 9 youth products playing, amazing.

Jesus, thats incredible.

Poor enough game that in truth, but cannot complain. Messi was very quiet, but I guess he cannot be amazing every time. Thought Bojan was excellent. Looks very strong.

Warper

If Fabregas moves to Barca in the summer who would he replace?

Their front 4 of Ibra, Iniesta, Xavi and of course Messi seem untouchable so Fabs would have to sit behind these alongside probably Busquets. Personally I think Yaya Toure would be perfect beside him but he seems to be involved as a makeshift carrott to appease the transfer.

redout

Goal..........

1 - 0

Mallorca 11 out of 11 ?

Glico Man

Warper wrote: »

If Fabregas moves to Barca in the summer who would he replace?

Their front 4 of Ibra, Iniesta, Xavi and of course Messi seem untouchable so Fabs would have to sit behind these alongside probably Busquets. Personally I think Yaya Toure would be perfect beside him but he seems to be involved as a makeshift carrott to appease the transfer.

If Barça were to sign Fabregas then I would expect them to move Xavi back into Yaya's position (likelihood of him being used as make-weight in any deal)

so the midfield would effectively look like this

---

Xavi

---

---

Fabregas

---

Iniesta----

redout

Anyone see the replay just there of the Mallorca goal ?

It looked like the ball had gone out of play!

Bukman13

redout wrote: »

Goal..........

1 - 0

Mallorca 11 out of 11 ?

Fantastic record that.

gimmick

The ball has to be totally out. I thought it looked slightly still in, but it was very very close. Sevilla can feel hard done by, but had the goal been disallowed Mallorca could have felt equally hard done by.

kryogen

Bukman13 wrote: »

I find it amazing that Iniesta still hasn't scored a goal in 30 games this season. Such a talent, what a strange stat....

redout wrote: »

Goal..........

1 - 0

Iniesta

First since Chelsea

the timing in those posts was hilarious!

redout

Goal..........

1 - 1

Navas