2006 Champions League Final - Barcelona 2-1 Arsenal
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JANUARY
Lineup - Ter Stegen, Semedo, Pique, Lenglet (Araujo), Junior Firpo, Pjanic (S.Busquets), De Jong, Messi, Coutinho (Pedri), Fati, Griezmann (Edouard)
A humongous victory and the only downside was the fact that they scored 2 goals in stoppage time. We smothered Real Madrid and barely gave them a kick and we fully deserved our 3 goal lead and we now move 6pts clear at the top of the league.
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Supercopa Semi-Final
Lineup - Ter Stegen, Solano, Pique (Araujo), Lenglet, Alba, Pjanic (S.Busquets),
Moriba*, Messi (Collado), Pedri, Dembele (Trincao), Griezmann (Edouard)
We reach the Supercopa final thanks to a late goal from Trincao when he headed in from close range. Not the best of performances but we got the end result. I was forced to pick Solano at RB - he is not good enough for us but needs must as Semedo was injured.
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Supercopa Final
Lineup - Ter Stegen, Semedo, Pique, Lenglet, Junior Firpo, Pjanic (S.Busquets), De Jong,
Messi*, Pedri (Collado), Fati, Griezmann (Edouard)
My first trophy as a manager albeit a minor one as we win the Supercopa by beating my beloved Athletic Bilbao. Messi put us in front, Griezmann had one disallowed but Ansu Fati struck twice and the trophy was ours.
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Lineup - Ter Stegen, Solano, Pique, Lenglet (Araujo), Alba, Pjanic (S.Busquets), De Jong, Messi (Dembele), Pedri (Puig), Trincao (Fati), Griezmann
A weird game. We scored 2 early goals through Griezmann and Messi but both were disallowed and then we fell behind and Pjanic and Messi went off injured so at half time we were in disarray. However in the 2nd half we fought hard and levelled through Griezmann before Fati scored in stoppage time to give us a fine victory. Pjanic's injury will keep him out for 3 months which is a big blow.
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Copa del Rey 3rd Round
Lineup - Ter Stegen, Cedric, Araujo, Umtiti, Junior Firpo (Balde), S.Busquets (O.Busquets), Moriba,
Collado* (De La Fuente), Pedri (Puig), Trincao (Luzzi), Edouard
I gave a run out to my back ups here and a few players made their debuts including my recent signing - Cedric. We won easily enough but I would naturally have liked to have scored more goals.
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Lineup - Ter Stegen, Semedo, Pique, Lenglet, Alba (Junior Firpo), S.Busquets, De Jong,
Messi*, Coutinho (Pedri), Fati (Dembele), Griezmann (Edouard)
Lionel Messi's free-kick saved a point for us here but after 6 straight wins in the league I was disappointed to draw here however they deserved their point.
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Lineup - Ter Stegen, Semedo (Cedric), Pique, Lenglet (Umtiti), Alba, S.Busquets, De Jong,
Messi*, Coutinho (Moriba), Fati, Griezmann (Edouard)
WOW WOW WOW!!!!!!
Its fair to say that this game changed after the half hour mark! We were a goal down and couldnt get anything going but then Sergio Busquets lashed in a shot from 25 yards and then former Barcelona star, Ivan Rakitic, got sent-off. We certainly took advantage of that and we were 4-1 up at half-time and we didnt stop there. We ended up with 8 goals but it could have been 18!
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Copa del Rey 4th Round
Lineup - Ter Stegen, Cedric, Umtiti, Araujo, Junior Firpo (Balde), O.Busquets, Moriba (Puig), Dembele, Pedri
(Collado*), Trincao, Edouard
Two late goals from Odsonne Edouard - both set up by Collado - spared our blushes here as my backup side struggled to defeat our 2nd division opponents. Edouard now has 10 goals for the season.
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Lineup - Ter Stegen, Semedo (Cedric), Pique, Lenglet, Alba, S.Busquets (O.Busquets), De jong, Dembele, Coutinho (Collado), Fati (Trincao),
Griezmann*
This was an enthralling encounter and very exciting. We notched 5 goals but were behind at 2-1. Dembele got his first goals of the season, Griezmann had a penalty saved but converted the rebound and Collado came off the bench and got an assist with his first touch!
Dont like thumping Athletic though - thats an aggregate score of 12-3 in our 2 games this season!
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SUMMARY
January was a hectic month but a brilliant one! We won all of our matches bar one and handed out some real thrashings too. It got off to a perfect start with a 3-2 victory over Real Madrid and that scoreline flattered them tbh and although our next 2 league games were a narrow victory over Levante and a draw with Real Sociedad, we then smashed Sevilla 8-1 and Athletic 5-2!!!!
We won the Supercopa too during the month beating both Basque sides, Sociedad and Athletic (they are both coming up a lot lol) and in the Copa del Rey we have reached the quarter-finals and all the big guns are out with Real Sociedad being our possible hardest opponents but we have a tie against Leganes first to negotiate.
Regarding transfers I managed to bring in a RB in the shape of Cedric from Arsenal on loan until the end of the season. He is decent enough but hardly a world beater!
I did however manage to arrange a pre-contract agreement with Eric Garcia of Man City and the 20y/o wonderkid will be rejoining us in the summer when his contract expires.
Regarding manager moves - Athletic sacked theirs and HOORAY - NEWCASTLE SACKED STEVE BRUCE!!!!!!! (If only in real life - Javier Aguirre is the new man there) - however the first of my potential destinations to become available is....... Steaua Bucharest!
Finally I managed to get another potential destination - Hamburg - as a feeder side for Barcelona.
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PLAYER OF THE MONTH
ALEX COLLADO
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LA LIGA