La Liga Week 22

Dolph Starbeam

Saturday Feb. 5

Almería vs Espanyol

Osasuna vs. Mallorca

Athletic Club vs. Sporting Gijón

Getafe vs. Deportivo La Coruña

Villarreal vs. Levante Sky Sports 4, Kick-off 7.00pm

FC Barcelona vs. Atlético Madrid Sky Sports 4, Kick-off 9.00pm



Sunday Feb. 6

Sevilla vs. Málaga

Real Madrid vs. Real Sociedad Sky Sports 1, Kick-off 6.00pm

Valencia vs. Hércules Sky Sports 1,Kick-off 8.00pm

HalloweenJack

Bollocks.

No chance of us getting anything tonight. IIRC, it's been 6-1 and 5-2 in the last two years at the Camp Nou. With Barca playing they way they are at the moment and us playing the way we are, it'll probably end up something similar.

CorkMan

I hope Atletí can pick up a draw.

redout

Pep: “Anything can happen against Atletico”

This must be without doubt europes highest scoring game of the past decade.

San Andrés is back but Puyo and Jeffren still out.

Thiago is once again called up.

Cianan2

Got my new (half) season ticket for the Mestalla, looking forward to the game against Hercules tomorrow!!

It must be the biggest bargain ever, still have to play: Hercules, Gijon, Barcelona, Sevilla, Villareal, Madrid, Sociedad and Levante. All these games for just €163!!

The Floyd p

Lets hope Ujfaluši isn't back to his old tricks :pac:

redout

Cianan2 wrote: »

Got my new (half) season ticket for the Mestalla, looking forward to the game against Hercules tomorrow!!

It must be the biggest bargain ever, still have to play: Hercules, Gijon, Barcelona, Sevilla, Villareal, Madrid, Sociedad and Levante. All these games for just €163!!

Absolute bargain.

Dolph Starbeam

With Athletic 2-0 up on Gijon and Espanyol losing 3-1 away to Almeria it looks like we will be heading to 5th place by the end of the day, praying to god we can keep this run up and qualify for Europe.

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Almeria 3 - 1 Espanyol
Zaragoza 1 - 1 Racing Santander
Getafe 3 - 0 Deportivo La Coruna
Osasuna 1 - 1 Mallorca
Athletic Bilbao 2 - 0 Sporting Gijon

All at half-time.

eZe^

baz2009 wrote: »

Almeria 3 - 1 Espanyol

That's a massive massive result for Almeria, especially with Racing drawing too.

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Espanyol pull one back. 3-2.

redout

Barca lineup:
Valdés; Alves, Piqué, Abidal, Maxwell; Xavi, Busquets, Iniesta; Messi, Villa, Pedro

Atleti lineup:
De Gea, Valera, Godin, Ujfalusi, Antonio Lopez, Assuncao, Tiago, Fran Mérida, Filipe, Reyes, Kun

redout

Goal.........

1 - 0

God

iMuse

Great goal as always, just too good.

JPA

A fine goal.

Bodhisopha

What more can you say about Messi?

dfx-

Pathetico had started well

Bodhisopha

Messi couldn't hit a donkeys arse with a banjo.

redout

Greatest ever we are witnessing.

2 - 0

39 for the season now.

Bodhisopha

Messi!

2-0

I get the sense he's about to pull away from Ronaldo over the coming months.

Not taking anything away from Ronaldo.

JPA

Easy money, betting on Messi.

eagle eye

Messi is just phenomenal, unstoppable. What else can you say?

flahavaj

Poor Arsenal.

iMuse

JPA wrote: »

Easy money, betting on Messi.

Its not betting, its an "investment" as headshot puts it

eagle eye

Bodhisopha wrote: »

Messi couldn't hit a donkeys arse with a banjo.

Maybe not but he can certainly score many goals with his foot and a football.

redout

MVP have now scored more Liga goals than the entire Real Madrid squad :pac:

Bodhisopha

Did they say the Copa Del Rey final is going to be at the Bernabeau?

redout

Bodhisopha wrote: »

Did they say the Copa Del Rey final is going to be at the Bernabeau?

Not sure as I am watching on La Sexta but if they did then they are just speculating. Official decision aint expected until next week - 12th I heard and the Mestalla has been touted most. Bernabeu nor Camp Nou shouldnt be allowed if you ask me as it will give one of the teams an unfair advantage.

dfx-

Bodhisopha wrote: »

Did they say the Copa Del Rey final is going to be at the Bernabeau?

They were saying that Guardiola said he'd play at the Bernabeu then when Madrid were complaining about Mestalla as the venue...

iMuse

Bodhisopha wrote: »

Did they say the Copa Del Rey final is going to be at the Bernabeau?

Think they where just talking about a quote from Pep that madrid complained about having it in the mestalla so he said have it in the bernabeu if they want.

Bodhisopha

redout wrote: »

Not sure as I am watching on La Sexta but if they did then they are just speculating. Official decision aint expected until next week - 12th I heard and the Mestalla has been touted most. Bernabeu nor Camp Nou shouldnt be allowed if you ask me as it will give one of the teams an unfair advantage.

Well, to fill you in on what Gerry Armstrong said, he said Real said they don't want the Mestalla so Guardiola said the Bernabeu is fine by him.

redout

dfx- wrote: »

They were saying that Guardiola said he'd play at the Bernabeu then when Madrid were complaining about Mestalla as the venue...

iMuse wrote: »

Think they where just talking about a quote from Pep that madrid complained about having it in the mestalla so he said have it in the bernabeu if they want.

Did he say that ?

I read that he said he didnt want it in the Bernabeu as it will present Madrid with an unfair advantage.

JPA

Brutal Alves tackle.

HalloweenJack

Pretty sure they had last year's final in Barca because having it in the Bernabeu would have been an advantage for Atleti. I can't see it being in the Bernabeu. Probably be Mestalla or one of the Sevilla ones.

iMuse

"We will go wherever they decide," Guardiola said. "We will turn up wherever the federation decides that we will play."

"It doesn't worry me at all. If it is at the Bernabeu, then we will go there. If it is the Camp Nou, then we will play here - they decide."

Thats a quote I found. Could always be a mistranslation.

Bodhisopha

iMuse wrote: »

Thats a quote I found. Could always be a mistranslation.

Just sounds like typical no fuss Guardiola to be honest. He doesn't mind but probably knows it won't be Bernabeu anyways.

redout

Jammy off the line.

Anywhere else and it was in.

redout

iMuse wrote: »

Thats a quote I found. Could always be a mistranslation.

No I have read it now. He has actually said both it would seem.

The one I read was from a couple of days ago.

Could have been out of context.

JPA

Guardiola said it tongue in cheek I'm sure, like we'll beat them there anyway kinda thing.

Bodhisopha

This is a C+ performance from Barca.

redout

JPA wrote: »

Guardiola said it tongue in cheek I'm sure, like we'll beat them there anyway kinda thing.

Madrid played the final in 2002 at the Bernabeu and were beaten.

Still, like Pep says common sense should see it played at a neutral venue.

redout

FFS - Yellow for that!

JPA

Funny stuff.

Bodhisopha

I hope Aguero moves to a better club next season, even if it's Real. Fantastic player, somewhat wasted at Atletico.

redout

Hat-trick for the Messiah.

The Worlds Greatest.

redout

Xavi completed 128 of 133 passes up to the 78th min :eek:

EDIT: 144/151 when subbed 84th min.

Crazy stuff.

dfx-

Abidal has been by far and away MOTM

bookie basher

redout wrote: »

Xavi completed 128 of 133 passes up to the 78th min :eek:

EDIT: 144/151 when subbed 84th min.

Crazy stuff.

best passer of the ball i've ever seen

Boskowski

I didn't see a lot of Barca this season, half a dozen matches maybe, and I think it's the best I've seen a team play ever. Not even the Barca team of the nineties with Romario and Stoichkov compares to them. A team I liked a lot and I still think they went towards goal in a more direct fashion compared to today's team whose endless passfest can look a bit complacent at times.
Just hoping that someone cam give them a proper match in the CL. Will be interesting to see the likes of United, Real, Bayern against this team. Can't see Arsenal going through I'm afraid.

Bodhisopha

Boskowski wrote: »

I didn't see a lot of Barca this season, half a dozen matches maybe, and I think it's the best I've seen a team play ever. Not even the Barca team of the nineties with Romario and Stoichkov compares to them. A team I liked a lot and I still think they went towards goal in a more direct fashion compared to today's team whose endless passfest can look a bit complacent at times.
Just hoping that someone cam give them a proper match in the CL. Will be interesting to see the likes of United, Real, Bayern against this team. Can't see Arsenal going through I'm afraid.

I think the only way you will see a team give Barca a game this season is to go negative like Chelsea and Inter have done over the last two seasons. Many teams can try it, but few can pull it off. If Chelsea get their shiit together i reckon they're best placed to knock Barca out of the CL.

Dolph Starbeam

Real Madrid 2-0 up on Sociedad already, Kaka and Ronaldo with the goals.