So, was Mourinho happy about Ramos sending one into orbit?
Friday 27 April 2012
Football GIF: Sergio Ramos Penalty Gets Obligatory ‘Ice Cream Guy’ Treatment
So, was Mourinho happy about Ramos sending one into orbit?
Pies: Gerard Pique Released From Hospital, Can’t Remember Playing Against Chelsea
Barcelona centre-half Gerard Pique was discharged from hospital
yesterday afternoon following an evening under observation after getting
knocked out sparko in a collision with Victor Valdes at the Nou Camp on
Tuesday night.
However, according to Catalunya Radio, Pique cannot remember playing
against Chelsea at all despite making it through 18 minutes of the match
before being carted off to hospital with a pretty serious case of
concussion – which is either extremely worrying or extremely convenient.
We jest of course as it would appear to be the former. Pique was
quite clearly seeing stars when he was sat up on the ground following
the accident, heaven knows why he was allowed to play on by the medical
staff afterwards.
Pique is now set to return to Barca’s medical facilities to ‘have his situation assessed’.
Get well soon and all that.
Thursday 26 April 2012
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Wednesday 25 April 2012
Tuesday 24 April 2012
Clásico fallout
World Cup Winner
Join Date: Jan 2002
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Re: FC Barcelona Thread
Something different about saturday's match. This time there were no
troubles, no allegations, no fingers put in eyes...could it be that
Barcelona is the more fair team?
Monday 23 April 2012
Pies: XI Conclusions: Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona
By Chris Wright
1. One shot, one goal. It don’t get more efficient than that boyo!
3. Let’s not kid ourselves. If Barca had been a tad more ruthless/lucky they’d have been two or three goals up within the first half-an-hour. If only Cesc didn’t have a nerveless hock of ham at the bottom of his left leg, eh? Chelsea may well have ‘had a plan’ (as Frank Lampard insisted after the game) but they also rode their luck to the point of indecency. Thankfully, the footballing gods were with them and they came out smelling of roses.
4. Ashley Cole had his best game in months. He was up and down that touchline all night like a particularly pacey and well-aspirated tractor. Maybe a top-of-the-line Massey Ferguson? He and the equally mobile Ramires nullified Dani Alves for the majority of the game, stifling one of Barca’s key attacking thoroughfares and getting in behind the Brazilian full-back on several occasions – including the goal.
5. Didier Drogba led the line like a little girl manfully. His grovelling quickly became utterly nauseating to those watching on, but that wasn’t the point. It was obviously a pre-approved tactic for him to disrupt the play as often as possible; diving, feigning, etc – and he stuck to his designated role with vim and vigour. Nothing funny about the kick in the perineum from Mascherano though, that looked bloody painful.
7. Not to take anything away from Chelsea, but it seemed that Barca played at somewhere hovering around 70% after conceding. Safe in the knowledge that they’ll be given another crack at Roberto Di Matteo’s side in a week’s time, and that a one-goal deficit will not be insurmountable, maybe Saturday’s El Clasico became a more pressing concern as the night wore on and breaking down Chelsea’s sturdy defence became increasingly energy-sapping?
8. John Terry became the latest Premier League footballer to struggle with the simple concept of a handshake…
9. Frank Lampard and Raul Meireles did a fine job without touching the ball so much as 10 times between them all evening. Both had their panties pulled down a couple of times in terms of being rushed and technically flustered by Barcelona’s nippy midfielders, but Lamps and Meirels remained incredibly disciplined while not in possession – staying deep and narrow to clog Barca’s passing arteries. Christ, even Obi Mikel did his bit.
10. They may be flagging somewhat, and a concerted league campaign may be gradually getting beyond them, but on a one-off big game basis, Chelsea definitely have the players at their disposal to win. Seeing lone frontman Drogba barking out defensive/positional orders, moving his pawns this way and that before a late Barca set-piece neatly summed up the value of both his and the rest of his veteran colleagues’ collated experience.
11. Despite the two overwhelming favourites for the final having suffered minor set-backs in the first legs of their respective semis, don’t you just have the nagging suspicion that we’re still staring down the barrel of an all-Spanish Champions League final this year?
RSSF says
Most Competitive League
The most balanced final league table known to us:
Romania 1983-84, Divizia C, Seria a VIII-a.
1.Muresul Deva 30 16 6 8 53-33 38 Promoted to Divizia B
2.UMT Timisoara 30 14 3 13 57-37 31
3.Mecanica Orastie 30 15 1 14 49-53 31
4.Minerul Paroseni 30 13 5 12 41-46 31
5.Minerul Moldova-Noua 30 14 2 14 41-39 30
6.Minerul Stiinta Vulcan 30 13 4 13 38-47 30
7.Metalul Bocsa 30 13 3 14 40-32 29
8.Dacia Orastie 30 11 7 12 58-50 29
9.Minerul Certej 30 13 3 14 48-47 29
10.Metalul Otelu-Rosu 30 14 1 15 38-40 29
11.Minerul Anina 30 13 3 14 46-48 29
12.Victoria Calan 30 13 3 14 35-37 29
13.Constructorul Timisoara 30 13 3 14 57-62 29
14.Minerul Oravita 30 13 3 14 39-45 29
15.Minerul Ghelar 30 12 5 13 35-52 29 Relegated
16.Minerul Aninoasa 30 11 6 13 32-39 28 Relegated
[first tie-breaker: goal difference; second tie-breaker: number of wins]
Difference first-last: 10 points (16.67% of possible gap)
Difference second-last: 3 points ( 5.00% of points that could be gained)
Number of teams equal on points: 9 (56.25%)
Number of teams within 1 point : 11 (68.75%)
Number of teams within 2 points: 14 (87.50%)
Number of teams within 3 points: 15 (93.75%)
Number of teams called Minerul : 8 (50.00%)
Number of teams called M****ul : 11 (68.75%)
Total absolute deviation of 50%: 22 (1.375 pts/team)
Monday 9 April 2012
Thursday 5 April 2012
LLL: Fear of failure spooking Camp Nou collective ahead of Milan showdown
When Cristiano Ronaldo scored his wonder-thwack against Osasuna on
Saturday and revealed a shapely thigh, it was enough to send Josep María
Casanovas off the edge, with the Sport writer claiming on Monday
that this was yet more evidence of the moral superiority of Leo Messi
over what he considers to be a comparitively vulgar Portuguese prole.
“He couldn’t think of any other celebration than to lift up his shorts
leg, show off the muscle and tell his team-mates: ‘what a great leg I
have, it’s a cannon’”.
In actual fact, Ronaldo was making a
private joke with Madrid’s back-up keeper Antonio Adán, who had mocked
the forward for only working on his upper body in the gym, but why let a
wee fact get in the way of another body blow in the endless Clásico
wars.
This led LLL to think that surely the culé crazies had bigger
fish to fry this week, and sure enough by Tuesday morning Casanovas was
finally focussed on a matter considerably more important than Ronaldo’s
manly thighs - AC Milan coming to the Camp Nou in the second leg of
their Champions League semi-final.
The writer continues a
theme in the Catalan capital ahead of the game, that the Milan meeting
is a final that isn’t a final but in actual fact is a final. “It’s the
most important match of the season. Spectacle won’t be enough, no other
result that a win for Barça will do.” The paper is once again calling
for the fans to play their part in the match - usually a definite sign
of panic - by clapping occasionally and making making the odd whoop of
encouragement. “With this support, with this team, today we’ll go to the
semis!” yells the cheerleading front cover.
There are few outward signs of nerves, with Francesc Aguilar over at Mundo Deportivo
getting rather excited about a “night of champions, superstars, some of
those of Barça who are the best in the world and will want to confirm
this.”
This bravado designed to ease the bone-clattering of the
culé collective expresses genuine nail-biting stress that this is a
clash where Barcelona may not win out and that it will be the dastardly
Italians and their defensive ways going through to the semi-finals.
Barça battle through as Mourinho rubbishes rumours
Whenever supporters of Real Madrid and Barcelona whine, bleat and stomp
their feet about how they are so, so, so hard done by when it comes to
referees, La Liga Loca always reminds such complainants of the notion of
'swings and roundabouts' in football and how everything tends to even
itself up at the end of the season.
But the philosophy came into play in Barcelona’s double header with AC
Milan. Alexis Sanchez was denied a decent penalty shout in the first
leg, but the Catalan club got a favourable decision in the second.
Alessandro Nesta’s naughty tug on Sergio Busquets, a player who doesn’t
need much encouragement to go to ground, was spotted by the referee, who
(eventually) pointed to the spot.
The happy-go-lucky Zlatan Ibrahimovic was not impressed. “I now know
what Mourinho meant about coming to the Camp Nou” the Swede grumbled.
Meanwhile, the Madrid manager’s ‘spokesman’ Eladio Paramés tweeted
“after the first 45 minutes we now know who is going to win the
Champions League.”
LLL says simply "them’s the breaks."
“Barcelona are officially the best team of the 21st century. Three
titles and five consecutive semi-finals show this,” boasts Lluís
Mascaró, who is already looking forward to a Clásico-themed final and
what could be a major, major back pedal should Barcelona eventually come
out second best. “The winner of this ‘mother of all finals’ would be
the ‘champion of champions’. The loser would suffer a difficult to
overcome sporting and psychological reverse.”
The may be a
distinct lack of similar tension in Wednesday night’s Champions League
clash between Real Madrid and APOEL, with the Spanish side 3-0 up from
the first leg and hosting their Cypriot rivals in the Santiago Bernabeu,
where the home team only tend to lose to sides rhyming with
‘Carcelona’.
Valencia are on the brink of oblivion, with poor Unai Emery facing a
game in an angry Mestalla against AZ Alkmaar, who have a 2-1 lead from
the first leg. Meanwhile, European heroes Athletic Bilbao will be
defending a 4-2 advantage in San Mamés against Schalke, with Marca predicting a giant tribute from the home fans for the former Real Madrid man, Raúl. LLL has a feeling that this may be a dream that won’t be coming true.
MTM> Btw, Valencia only won 3 in their last 18! games. And are visiting the Santiago Bernabeu on the weekend. G'luck with that.
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Surprised Geoff Shreeves did’nt beat them to it.
[Geoff Shreeves ii tipul care l-o informat pe Ivanovic ca nu va juca finala]
That made my day!
I believe that explains why Drogba is always on the ground! Can anybody blaim him now?
“Shakira is in the stands.
John Terry has been sent off.
You do the maths”
Also, imagine how that conversation with his parent’s went, “So you were 2-0 up against 10 men… but ummm…..in short, you’re out.”