August 2012
Xerez 0-1 Barcelona (Spanish Super Cup first leg)
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Barcelona had a lot of the ball, as you'd expect, but they didn't offer much more than us in the final third. The difference in this match was they have a team of match-winners, one of them found the net and they duly won the match. We weren't outclassed like we perhaps should have been. The second leg at Camp Nou could well be a different story tho - not looking forward to that.
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Xerez 6-0 QPR (EURO Cup 4th Qual.Rnd first leg)
(Mandzukic 4, Baptista, Velez)
Xerez's first ever European match ended in glory as we absolutely hammered the English League Cup winners. Mandzukic scored his first goal for us, and then three more, Baptista banged in a free kick and last years player of the season came off the bench to net another goal.
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QPR ( 2 ) 2-6 ( 12 ) Xerez (EURO Cup 4th Qual.Rnd second leg)
(Velez 2, Baptista 2, Mandzukic, Jorda)
What a game!! We came out the blocks with a bang, killing off the tie with three goals in the first thirteen minutes.The scoring wasn't over there, we maintained our three goal lead at half time despite QPR's fightback-5-2 at HT. Jorda came on in the second half to bag our sixth and conclude the scoring. We have been drawn in EURO Cup group L with Rubin, Besiktas and Caen. Baptista went off with a knock, thankfully just a dead leg.
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A very positive start to life at this level. Seven players made their debuts against Barcelona. We are yet to play a league game yet due to the EURO qualifiers clashing with our first game against Real Madrid. Instead our first game will now be against Sevilla, the team we beat in the cup final! Nothing easy on offer at this level.
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Player of the Month:
Joao Baptista
This was a close call to pick Baps over Mandzukic. Baps contributed to 8 of our 12 goals against QPR setting up 5 and scoring three free kicks!!! Outstanding.
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Barcelona had a lot of the ball, as you'd expect, but they didn't offer much more than us in the final third. The difference in this match was they have a team of match-winners, one of them found the net and they duly won the match. We weren't outclassed like we perhaps should have been. The second leg at Camp Nou could well be a different story tho - not looking forward to that.
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Xerez 6-0 QPR (EURO Cup 4th Qual.Rnd first leg)
(Mandzukic 4, Baptista, Velez)
Xerez's first ever European match ended in glory as we absolutely hammered the English League Cup winners. Mandzukic scored his first goal for us, and then three more, Baptista banged in a free kick and last years player of the season came off the bench to net another goal.
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QPR ( 2 ) 2-6 ( 12 ) Xerez (EURO Cup 4th Qual.Rnd second leg)
(Velez 2, Baptista 2, Mandzukic, Jorda)
What a game!! We came out the blocks with a bang, killing off the tie with three goals in the first thirteen minutes.The scoring wasn't over there, we maintained our three goal lead at half time despite QPR's fightback-5-2 at HT. Jorda came on in the second half to bag our sixth and conclude the scoring. We have been drawn in EURO Cup group L with Rubin, Besiktas and Caen. Baptista went off with a knock, thankfully just a dead leg.
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A very positive start to life at this level. Seven players made their debuts against Barcelona. We are yet to play a league game yet due to the EURO qualifiers clashing with our first game against Real Madrid. Instead our first game will now be against Sevilla, the team we beat in the cup final! Nothing easy on offer at this level.
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Player of the Month:
Joao Baptista
This was a close call to pick Baps over Mandzukic. Baps contributed to 8 of our 12 goals against QPR setting up 5 and scoring three free kicks!!! Outstanding.
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