gingerless
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have a puff on the new stuff in the market i see
ok, i change my mind
11/12 Lliga: Real Madrid - FC Barcelona 1-3
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have a puff on the new stuff in the market i see
ok, i change my mind
Pepe Silvia
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*Night at the roxbury dance*
SeloBarca
Senior Member
Im happy it was Marcelo that did the owngoal, the little bastard. The second Madrid player dislike the most after Pepe
Reasonus
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I f*&%&^$ did. Interestingly, he kept passing the ball to the defenders all night and that horrible mistake did not force him to change his style. He is learned a thing or two from Pinto.
Thus spake dalitis8:
Hats off to you. I personally was fine with a draw seeing that Barcelona did not have a consistent starting XI and that in the past games, they were way below their level. Barcelona on an average day are superior to Madrid, no doubt. But our defense's performance against teams like Milan and even lesser teams have been very worrying. Still, who cares, right? We won. I see people talking about Ronaldo's 2 missed chances, we could have easily scored 2 more goals in the second half too.
Amen, bro.
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Man of the match: Busquets! I have to watch that game again, but Busquets was the best player in the first half and a damn good one in the second. Cesc was terrible, but he scored an awesome goal. That's what great players are capable of. Alves was outstanding in the second half. Messi played great until they were 2 goals ahead. By then, he was almost nonexistent. He was not missed though, as Iniesta was like a cat toying with white rats. Sanchez's technical abilities are needed in our forward line. I honestly did not see him scoring that goal, which was by no means an easy chance.
Iniesta HAS TO be in the middle of the park. It may take Pep 3 more seasons to get that Iniesta's efficiency is reduced by 90% when he plays up front.
Did you notice that the biggest change in the second half was changing the tempo? Barcelona slowed down their play and started to create their little triangles inside congested areas. Their passes finally started to go where they were intended to go. The rest, as they say, is an unbelievably mofoing sweet victory!!!!!!111!!11!!!11!!!!!11!!!!1!
La LL
Generally Delightful
Ditto that. Too confused and drunk with alcohol and ecstasy to know what to do with myself.
Just because objectivity is not your thing it doesnt make it wierd.
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mujtaba147
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When Real Madrid play against any team in the world they(Real madrid) look like the best team on the earth. But when they play against Barca.
Barca make them(ReaL Madrid) look an ordinary team.
Before the match everyone was talking about Real Madrid's 15 match winning streak. Most of people' including some of the Barca's fans were fearing that Barca cant stop Madrid. Beacuse of their form.
By god only for once' I too thoght about Madrid ruthless form an streak.
By god again once i saw our players taking on pitch, My heart was saying, today they will bury Madrid, and I proudly say they really buried Madrid.
Hats off to Iniesta, He did against Chelsea, He did against Ned, Again today was exellent performance by him. A big natch player
Barca make them(ReaL Madrid) look an ordinary team.
Before the match everyone was talking about Real Madrid's 15 match winning streak. Most of people' including some of the Barca's fans were fearing that Barca cant stop Madrid. Beacuse of their form.
By god only for once' I too thoght about Madrid ruthless form an streak.
By god again once i saw our players taking on pitch, My heart was saying, today they will bury Madrid, and I proudly say they really buried Madrid.
Hats off to Iniesta, He did against Chelsea, He did against Ned, Again today was exellent performance by him. A big natch player
10Rivaldo
Hoy, mañana y siempre traductor
Priceless....
Birdy
Senior Member
Real took the lead by a scrappy Valdez mistake - reminder of his old days - but we can forgive him, cauz the last 2 years he has been excellent..
Afterwards, it was obvious that we controlled the middlefield quite easy i would say..
We could penetrate and get into their box, whenever we wanted.. Real's only chance during the whole first half was Ronaldo's mis-shot..
Second half was more of the same, but with real threatening more with some chances, but barca also going all the way to casillas every now and then...
Mourinho approach is pretty obvious.. He is trying to forget his last year's various (either sit back(1-1 bernabeau), or play naive (5-0) or aggressive 3/4 pressure and counter (copa, CL bernabeau)) approaches and now he is clearly trying to make madrid press as high as possible, win balls deep in barcelona's half - or force to mistakes) and convert quickly..
I do not think he is any successful so far though..
It is clearly a failure (shown once more today) to try compete with barcelona, playing only 2 deep-lying mids, one of which was never able of decent defending(alonso)..
On the other hand you might argue that his new approach is to build an attacking madrid, but you know the best possession stat you can get versus barcelona is what he got today (40%).. Maybe madrid fans think that if this team plays more together this stat will rise.. Maybe, but not versus barca - barcelona players have played all their football life together..
Regarding our team: The worst problem that Madrid has created to us, is the psychological one: getting our players really nervous.. Since last year series, i have noticed this lack of concentration. It was also evident in the Supercopa.. It appeared again today.. I am not referring only to valdez mistake, but is the general tone.. I think that Pep should work on that. Our ability to circulate the ball was never questioned.. They sometimes seem to get overwhelmed and forget the basics..
I still hold that Pepe made a huge mistake with Fabregas (yeah ok he scored..). It was evident that Iniesta was struggling out wide, and at the beginning of the second half -as mentioned by other members - when he tried to come inside and fabregas came out to cover for him, the triangle was clicking again.. Pep should never spoil that again in any serious game..
Alexis is a beast - of stamina and determination. he is a real fighter.. already far ahead of villa.. i liked also the way he moved to CF position and messi came to the right to alternate.. I hope next time we face madrid the AMP will be devastating..
Also, we saw once more why Puyi is our captain and why he will be playing untill 38.. Wise choice that he started over mascherano..
What i didnot like - besides the un-fitting of cesc in the center - was that alves sometimes stayed so high up (second half mainly) that puyol had to shift right and busquets backtracked to fill the CB position.. I never liked busi there and his partnership with Pique..
Well, the league has a long way to go.. Leagues are decided on the basis of what you do with all the other teams and not so much what you do versus your main opponent. Madrid is still better in that sense.. And they can lead again by 3 if they win Sevilla.. We need to improve..
Afterwards, it was obvious that we controlled the middlefield quite easy i would say..
We could penetrate and get into their box, whenever we wanted.. Real's only chance during the whole first half was Ronaldo's mis-shot..
Second half was more of the same, but with real threatening more with some chances, but barca also going all the way to casillas every now and then...
Mourinho approach is pretty obvious.. He is trying to forget his last year's various (either sit back(1-1 bernabeau), or play naive (5-0) or aggressive 3/4 pressure and counter (copa, CL bernabeau)) approaches and now he is clearly trying to make madrid press as high as possible, win balls deep in barcelona's half - or force to mistakes) and convert quickly..
I do not think he is any successful so far though..
It is clearly a failure (shown once more today) to try compete with barcelona, playing only 2 deep-lying mids, one of which was never able of decent defending(alonso)..
On the other hand you might argue that his new approach is to build an attacking madrid, but you know the best possession stat you can get versus barcelona is what he got today (40%).. Maybe madrid fans think that if this team plays more together this stat will rise.. Maybe, but not versus barca - barcelona players have played all their football life together..
Regarding our team: The worst problem that Madrid has created to us, is the psychological one: getting our players really nervous.. Since last year series, i have noticed this lack of concentration. It was also evident in the Supercopa.. It appeared again today.. I am not referring only to valdez mistake, but is the general tone.. I think that Pep should work on that. Our ability to circulate the ball was never questioned.. They sometimes seem to get overwhelmed and forget the basics..
I still hold that Pepe made a huge mistake with Fabregas (yeah ok he scored..). It was evident that Iniesta was struggling out wide, and at the beginning of the second half -as mentioned by other members - when he tried to come inside and fabregas came out to cover for him, the triangle was clicking again.. Pep should never spoil that again in any serious game..
Alexis is a beast - of stamina and determination. he is a real fighter.. already far ahead of villa.. i liked also the way he moved to CF position and messi came to the right to alternate.. I hope next time we face madrid the AMP will be devastating..
Also, we saw once more why Puyi is our captain and why he will be playing untill 38.. Wise choice that he started over mascherano..
What i didnot like - besides the un-fitting of cesc in the center - was that alves sometimes stayed so high up (second half mainly) that puyol had to shift right and busquets backtracked to fill the CB position.. I never liked busi there and his partnership with Pique..
Well, the league has a long way to go.. Leagues are decided on the basis of what you do with all the other teams and not so much what you do versus your main opponent. Madrid is still better in that sense.. And they can lead again by 3 if they win Sevilla.. We need to improve..
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