La Liga 2012/2013

gimmick

Its crazy. If he "only" scores 40 this season people will say he has had a poor one!!

Glico Man

Lol #2!

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

LOL Messi gets a second.. Oh how I missed him!

eagle eye

Lionel fcuking awesome Mess!

miralize

2 goals in 5 minutes. Currently hes on his way to 400+ goals this season

miralize

Jordi Alba looks so comfortable, like he's been there for years!

BetterCallSaul

Barca look much more balanced with this formation, wasn't a fan of that 3 at the back they were using last year.

miralize

They're saying Villa scored during pre-season? Which preseason is that? He played 15 minutes at the end of the last game

miralize

4-1 Pedro!

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Pedro

miralize

Delighted for Pedro! And Tello for that matter. SHows that he's not just a pacey trickster, but can also pick out a great pass too. I'm now very optimistic this season

Mars Bar

My cousin is at the game. Behind the goal Barca scored into too. I'm a tad jealous!

CSF

Is the Atleti game not on TV tonight?

Chancer3001

yay villa is back. hero!

I can never understand why barca dont sub messi. 4-1up twenty minutes to go. take him off and rest him. one bad injury to him and they could be facked! Think Pep didnt sub him for over 2 years or something crazy like that!

I do really like the new Barca jersey though

miralize

Chancer3001 wrote: »

yay villa is back. hero!

I can never understand why barca dont sub messi. 4-1up twenty minutes to go. take him off and rest him. one bad injury to him and they could be facked! Think Pep didnt sub him for over 2 years or something crazy like that!

I do really like the new Barca jersey though

You do know how many Messi scored last season.. right?

miralize

Villa! Great goal on his league comeback!

Glico Man

VILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

El Guaje is back

eagle eye

Delighted for Villa, such a tough injury to come back from. Wonderful from Iniesta there.

Chancer3001

miralize wrote: »

You do know how many Messi scored last season.. right?

indeed i do. all the more reason to protect/rest him when youre winning a game 4-1.

BetterCallSaul

Chancer3001 wrote: »

indeed i do. all the more reason to protect/rest him when youre winning a game 4-1.

He's fresh now but I definitely think they need to start to do this later in the season. He looked exhausted during the Chelsea and Madrid games last season.

Chancer3001

yeah, the whole not subbing him for 2 years was retarded! the amount of times they had games wrapped up with 30mins to go too...

CongoPowers

miralize wrote: »

Scott Minto is returning as host of Revista. Kill me now.

:pac: my thoughts exactly.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Messi doesn't appreciate not playing, and it's well documented how the Barca coaches do all in their power to keep him happy. He's like an eager child in that sense, very refreshing to hear, don't know how many other players, big players, are like that. Rooney is probably another example.

tdv123

Dani Alves just looks stranger & stranger each season.

MD1990

"The kick-off times were conditioned by an agreement between the LFP and the AFE (the players' union) that the Spanish league season should start on the same weekend as the rest of the leagues in Europe, on August 18," the statement reads.

"The players need to be protected from the high temperatures of mid August and so the AFE asked us to make sure that no games started before 19:00CET.

"Therefore, we have had to schedule games at unusual times in August. Kick-off times will return to the usual times as of the third weekend of the season.

i think the weather had an effect on Real today
they lacked pace in there attack

MisterAnarchy

tdv123 wrote: »

Dani Alves just stranger & stranger each season.

I wouldnt like to meet him down a dark alley,he looks like the head of a Mexican drug cartel now.

i think the weather had an effect on Real today
they lacked pace in there attack

36 degrees at kick off in Madrid last night ,thats fairly hot .

elefant

Good result for Valencia last night. I've read that it was the first time that Ronaldo failed to get a shot on target for Real Madrid at the Bernabeu- credit to Perreira in his first competitive game for Valencia.

Pity about the 'offside' goal for Soldado (everytime I see it it's harder to believe how bad a call it was!), but a point is great in Madrid. Get something against Barca in two weeks time and maybe the Spanish league might be interesting for a little bit longer this season.

IvySlayer

Osasauna leading against Barcelona :eek:

Knex*

IvySlayer wrote: »

Osasauna leading against Barcelona :eek:

Deserved, if only for the abomination that is the Barcelona away jersey.

Nuri Sahin

Osasuna is one hell of a ground to go to and get a result. Barca have been a bit dodgy in Pampolona over the years. Draw wouldn't be the worst result in the world, but still, plenty of time left to turn this around.

IvySlayer

Knex. wrote: »

Deserved, if only for the abomination that is the Barcelona away jersey.

Indeed, at first I said they looked like puked up Sunny Delight, but now I say Jelly cos they are wobbling :pac:

IvySlayer

-Ade- wrote: »

Osasuna is one hell of a ground to go to and get a result. Barca have been a bit dodgy in Pampolona over the years. Draw wouldn't be the worst result in the world, but still, plenty of time left to turn this around.

Plus Barcelona stuffed them 8-0 or 9-0 or something mad like that last year, vengeance!

IvySlayer

Great blocks by Pique, should've been 2-0.

dfx-

IvySlayer wrote: »

Plus Barcelona stuffed them 8-0 or 9-0 or something mad like that last year, vengeance!

Lost 3-2 in the league last year..

IvySlayer

dfx- wrote: »

Lost 3-2 in the league last year..

Nop :P

Barcelona beat them 8-0 in 2011, and Osa beat them 3-2 in January so technically I'm right :P

Mars Bar

Should be 2-0. One on one with the keeper

Mars Bar

1-1

It was offside :mad:

James Forde

1-1 Messi, of course

Christ, the Barca jersey is atrocious

Mars Bar

There's an Osasuna guy in the crowd with what appears to be an Irish flag. He seems to have a flag on his jersey though that is the Ivory Coast flag. What's with that?

Mars Bar

1-2 Barca

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Mars Bar wrote: »

1-1

It was offside :mad:

Don't think it was tbh, the ref did get in the way of an Ossasuna player in the build up, then sent one of them off.

Poor little Barca weren't winning.

James Forde

2-1 who else but Messi

Jersey is hurting my eyes

Chucky the tree

Mars Bar wrote: »

There's an Osasuna guy in the crowd with what appears to be an Irish flag. He seems to have a flag on his jersey though that is the Ivory Coast flag. What's with that?

I'm guessing it was an Ivory Cost flag he was holding then/

_blank_

The fella kind of looks Irish though, and doesn't appear to know half of the chant. He knows the first line, but not the second.

James Forde

Colour blind Irish fan?

JPA

Mars Bar wrote: »

There's an Osasuna guy in the crowd with what appears to be an Irish flag. He seems to have a flag on his jersey though that is the Ivory Coast flag. What's with that?

upside down flag?

IvySlayer

Shout of handball by Puyol there.

Mars Bar

JPA wrote: »

upside down flag?

I fail to see his Ivory Coast connection. Looks European at least!

Shocking jersey, wtf

JPA

Mars Bar wrote: »

I fail to see his Ivory Coast connection. Looks European at least!

There's white people in Africa!