Liga BBVA 2010-2011 Thread.

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Anyone else watching the Barcelona match?

2-0 up at half time, brace from Messi.

I'm betting at a 4-1 final scoreline.
 
Thinking a Barca massacre, look fantastic [suprise suprise].

5-0
 
Who're they playing? And who have been the scorers?
 
Barcelona 2-0 Atletico Madrid

Messi x2

His 38th and 39th of the season, 2nd and 23rd league goals.
 
3 nil finally, another hat trick by Leo Messi.

I saw him running with Agüero to his own team's field side to recover a ball.
He even defends now.
He is amazing.
 
Lionel Messi scored a hat-trick last night vs Atletico Madrid to get his 40th goal of the season already.

He only got to 40 goals last season in April.. Crazy.
 
Unfortunately due to my time zone I have watched little La Liga this season, and now without rojadirecta I can't download the games later afterwards. Can someone who has been following it closely explain why Atletico has been so poor this season?
 
curtis290 said:
Unfortunately due to my time zone I have watched little La Liga this season, and now without rojadirecta I can't download the games later afterwards. Can someone who has been following it closely explain why Atletico has been so poor this season?
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About rojadirecta, http://www.rojadirecta.es/. And you have further links on the top of this.

Regarding Atletico, well, their defence may have improved last years, but it is still far from being top class, in my opinion.
Also I think they keep being a quite unbalanced squad; not so good defensive line, great strikers couple, poor midfield (Tiago being the only one able to create any quality football).
 
The way Cristiano Ronaldo took down the ball using his back against Real Sociedad was just genius. That is the (only) thing I like about him, his skills make him so entertaining. Not that I like the Liga BBVA anyway :P
 
Anyone watching the Madrid game? As I plan to, unless the first fifteen minutes of Inter/Juve proves to be the most exciting spectacle of football imaginable.

Edit: Christ, Casillas has been sent off in the first minute.
 
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Heard about that from my cousin who was watching the game, what exactly did Iker do? Was it a fair red card?
 
Pythonidae said:
Heard about that from my cousin who was watching the game, what exactly did Iker do? Was it a fair red card?
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See for yourself.

In the next La Liga match for Barcelona (vs Athletic Bilbao) I think after consumption of plenty of stress on the Arsenal game, playing against a tricky, iron-in-the-back Bilbao would be very hard.
 
Just watched it on youtube.

Such a slight touch wouldn't send you crashing down like that.

That's just a clear dive in my opinion, if I was the ref I would give that player a red card for diving and trying to give Iker a red card, which he successfully did. Shame though.
 
Stopped a clear goalscoring opportunity, so it is a red, soft or not.
 
Deovoultcha said:
In the next La Liga match for Barcelona (vs Athletic Bilbao) I think after consumption of plenty of stress on the Arsenal game, playing against a tricky, iron-in-the-back Bilbao would be very hard.
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Indeed, the title race seems to be heating up again.

Today was important for Madrid. As good as they are, any team away and down to ten men for the vast majority of the game need to have strength to win, and they did it with relative ease (though it's worth saying that a couple of calls went against Espanyol - soft red card besides - and their attack was awful, troubling Madrid only infrequently).

I could see them gaining a couple more points toward Barca by the time the next league run-in comes. Then who knows? Despite the 5-0 drubbing, tactical nuance and complacency might bring about an upset.
 
red157 said:
Indeed, the title race seems to be heating up again.

Today was important for Madrid. As good as they are, any team away and down to ten men for the vast majority of the game need to have strength to win, and they did it with relative ease (though it's worth saying that a couple of calls went against Espanyol - soft red card besides - and their attack was awful, troubling Madrid only infrequently).

I could see them gaining a couple more points toward Barca by the time the next league run-in comes. Then who knows? Despite the 5-0 drubbing, tactical nuance and complacency might bring about an upset.
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Offensively, Madrid had spark in retaining possession, in finishing it was awful in terms of even testing the keeper, amazing work by Kameni to help Barcelona keep the title runners from increasing GD, which the title might come down to if Barcelona don't start firing on all cylinders with a rejuvenated Puyol.
 
Unless Madrid go winning against Barcelona by 5 goals or more without conceding, it'll be looked at head2head results first.
 
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