La Liga - Week 24

redout

Saturday, 27 February 2010
Barcelona v Malaga, 21:00 - Live Sky Sports 4
Getafe v Real Zaragoza, 17:00
Tenerife v Real Madrid, 19:00 - Live Sky Sports 4

Sunday, 28 February 2010
Atletico Madrid v Valencia, 20:00 - Live Sky Sports 3
Racing Santander v Almeria, 16:00
Sevilla v Athletic Bilbao, 18:00 - Live Sky Sports 3
Sporting Gijon v Osasuna, 16:00
Valladolid v Mallorca, 16:00
Villarreal v Deportivo La Coruna, 16:00
Xerez v Espanyol, 16:00


El Tri Campions take on Malaga at the Camp Nou on saturday night were Man City boy Caicedo will lead the attack. The pretenders from Madrid meanwhile will travel to the Canary Islands to take on a struggling Tenerife side who sit second from bottom. Míchel's boys welcome Jermaine Pennants Zaragoza to the Madrid suburbs for saturdays early kick-off.

Villarreal will entertain high flying Deportivo at El Madrigal fresh on the back of a humiliating Uefa cup exit to Wolfsburg midweek. Sevilla take on Los Rojillos at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán after a valiant display midweek in a bitterly cold Moscow were they secured the all important away goal. Last but not least it is the game of the weekend from the Vicente Calderón on the banks of the Manzanares were unpredictable Atleti take on Champions league chasing Valencia.

Smegball

Ronaldo roadshow to continue with a brace..

dfx-

Memories of Real and Leo Beenhakker losing the league on the last day by losing in Tenerife 'gifting' it to the Dream Team...

Distant memories..

redout

CD Tenerife lineup:
ARAGONESES; MARC BERTRÁN, LUNA, MANOLO MARTÍNEZ, PABLO SICILIA; RICARDO, MIKEL ALONSO; JUANLU, ALFARO, AYOZE; NINO

Real Madrid CF lineup:
CASILLAS; SERGIO RAMOS, ALBIOL, GARAY, MARCELO; XABI ALONSO, LASS, GRANERO, KAKÁ; RONALDO, HIGUAÍN

Le King

Nice brace for Suazo today. Proper goalscorer.

mike65

Battle of the Alonsos!

redout

mike65 wrote: »

Battle of the Alonos!

HalloweenJack

I think he means Alonso's; Mikel vs. Xabi.

I went to the Rayo Vallecano match last night and it was fascinating. The first Friday night match they've played and after 15 minutes the ultras all exited and left a banner saying "No to Friday night football" in their place. It was surreal.

redout

HalloweenJack wrote: »

I think he means Alonso's; Mikel vs. Xabi.

I thought it was some Spanish word I had never heard of!

Apologies Mike.

mike65

No worries. I'd wondered what had happend to Mikel, I knew he'd been at Bolton but wasn't sure where he was now.

redout

Anyone else disappointed not to see Pedro get a call up to the national side this week ?

I was actually gutted for him but with Mata to compete against I suppose its tough competition.

I dont think he will make the World cup squad now. Thats a shocker when you think about it considering the season he has been having. Any other team in the world he is in the squad. Just goes to show the ridiculous wealth of talent Spain have all over the pitch.

cruiserweight

Marcelo will definitely be on the Showboat next Saturday for that assist

redout

Goal........

2 - 0

Higuain

redout

Ooh, new Spanish Football studio for Sky.

Its an improvement on the previous one but then again I suppose that wouldnt have been to hard to achieve.

redout

Goal.........

2 - 1

Tenerife score inside 45 seconds of the restart.

Dodgy goal!

cruiserweight

Forgot the game was back on and missed two goals at the start of the second half

cruiserweight

Tenerife are throwing everything at Madrid now, they have had a few good chances since it went to 3-1

gimmick

Anyone so kind as to provide a link for streams for this and the Barca game? Exiled from living room. Lousy wimminz.

blindpilot

gimmick wrote: »

Anyone so kind as to provide a link for streams for this and the Barca game? Exiled from living room. Lousy wimminz.

PM'd you there sir.

gimmick

Thanks, but no you didn't

EDIT: Jut got it. Cheers man

redout

Goal.........

4 - 1

Ronaldo (Peno)

Just like last week that was never a penalty.

gimmick

Barca line up

Valdés, Alves, Puyol, Piqué, Maxwell, Sergio, Xavi, Iniesta, Messi, Ibrahimovic and Pedro

redout

Barca lineup:
Valdés; Alves, Puyol, Piqué, Maxwell; Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta; Pedro, Messi, Ibrahimovic

Malaga lineup:
Munúa; Manolo Gaspar, Stepanov, Weligton, Manu Torres; Juanito, Toribio, Fernando, Baha, Duda, Obinna

cruiserweight

Good finish by Raul 5-1

Bukman13

cruiserweight wrote: »

Good finish by Raul 5-1

Raul is now joint 3rd, level with di Stéfano on the la liga all time goal scoring table with 227.

redout

The pace on the ball when Ibra strikes a free-kick is frightening.

Real are fairly rattling in the goals these days

cruiserweight

Torres a very lucky boy to stay on for Malaga

redout

That was fcuked up and the cheek of the ref to book Pique

I mean come on, seriously.

gimmick

Only a matter of time here surely?

Raskolnikov

Barcelona suffering from a Champions League hangover by the looks of it.

Ibrahimovic misses a sitter.

redout

Brilliant diving header from Valdes

10/10

kryogen

Barca feeling the pressure redout?

what happened? how is the league so close? i thought Barca had a pretty decent lead a while back, distinctly remember someone saying that the league was over and that they wouldnt lose it from the position they were in?

im asking genuinely, i havent seen much la liga in the last 3-4 months

gimmick

Nah. Barca lost to Atleti, and all of a sudden they are fallible again. They had a 5 point lead up until then.

The only difference is that Real are genuinely looking unbeatable at the moment.

Headshot

I cant get this Ibra love

cruiserweight

cruiserweight wrote: »

Torres a very lucky boy to stay on for Malaga

redout wrote: »

That was fcuked up and the cheek of the ref to book Pique

I mean come on, seriously.

Torres off at half time to save him from being sent off, according to the commentators Duda is at left back, Malaga looking for a point

Raskolnikov

Another sitter Ibrahimovic.

Headshot

How did Ibra miss that

kryogen

Headshot wrote: »

I cant get this Ibra love

he is an artist

some people like certain artists style, some people hate it

jaykay74

Ibra should have buried that header, artist or not

kryogen

very unlucky there from IBRAHIMOVIC!

great defending

Headshot

kryogen wrote: »

he is an artist

some people like certain artists style, some people hate it

an artist

are we referring to soccer players as artists now, blimey

Raskolnikov

Malaga getting close!

redout

Ibra is Berbatov except better and not as lazy.

actually I will change that slightly and add he is like Berba but far more consistant.

kryogen

Headshot wrote: »

an artist

are we referring to soccer players as artists now, blimey

of course

Ibra is an artist

Berba is an artist (i know you will like that one)

Cantona was an artist

Messi is an artist

and so on

Raskolnikov

redout wrote: »

Ibra is Berbatov except better and not as lazy.

actually I will change that slightly and add he is like Berba but far more consistant.

Well, he's had a stinker today.

Pedro saves the day 1-0

cruiserweight

Good strike from Pedro

kryogen

redout wrote: »

Ibra is Berbatov except better and not as lazy.

actually I will change that slightly and add he is like Berba but far more consistant.

Berba is very consistent when playing though

his goal scoring ratio to games started this year is impressive even though he is being nursed along with an injury

very similar styles of play and touch alright

Headshot

kryogen wrote: »

of course

Ibra is an artist

Berba is an artist (i know you will like that one)

Cantona was an artist

Messi is an artist

and so on

Im sorry but I just dont see soccer players like that

redout wrote: »

Ibra is Berbatov except better and not as lazy.

actually I will change that slightly and add he is like Berba but far more consistant.

40m better ?

redout

Ibra has more goals this season for Barca so far than Berba had in the whole of last season for United. Thats not bad considering he just came out of a near 2 month goal drought. Kryogen I agree that I see many similarities between the two. Thing is Berba just doesnt show them as much.

gimmick

Need a 2nd here.