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Barcelona’s unlucky 13 – how the Catalans’ dropped away points are handing the title to Real Madrid [Goal.com]

Posted on January 30th, 2012 by admin

Barcelona’s draw at Villarreal on Saturday means they have now dropped more points already this season than they did by the end of last season and the seven point gap with Madrid is making it increasingly unlikely that Barcelona will be able to claw back the difference. As Goal.com says:

That’s 13 points dropped now for Barca in the league this term, already two more than in the whole of last season. And if Madrid – who beat Zaragoza 3-1 earlier on Sunday – can match their haul of 49 from the first 19 fixtures, the Catalans will need to win all of their remaining 18 games to claim a fourth successive title. Impossible, surely, even for this spectacular side.

Read “Barcelona’s unlucky 13 – how the Catalans’ dropped away points are handing the title to Real Madrid” at Goal.com

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Barça through to Copa semi after clasico draw

Posted on January 26th, 2012 by admin

Barcelona made it through to the Copa del Rey semifinal last night after a hard fought battle with Real Madrid ended in a 2-2 draw.

Madrid started the match fired up and going all out to score early on. However, despite being in full attack mode they never quite managed to get the ball into the net, despite coming close on several occasions.

Özil came close to scoring for the visitors after 20 minutes from 30 metres out. The ball went over Pinto’s head, struck the underside of the crossbar and bounced out just in front of the line.

It took 30 minutes or so for Barça to really get into the game. It wasn’t until the end of the first half though that Pedro scored from the area off a Messi assist; and shortly after Alves scored off a free kick.

In the second half neither side produced anything remarkable; Ramos put the ball past Pinto only to have the goal disallowed for tugging Alves.

However, the game was very much from over and an Özil assist to Cristiano Ronaldo gave the visitors their first goal. A few minutes later it started looking serious for Barça; Benzema equalised after putting the ball past Puyol.

However, as the final minutes ticked by Madrid lacked the conviction or energy to score one more goal that would have taken them through. Ramos was sent off for a second yellow card and the final whistle went with the best result for Mourinho against Barça to date.

After the match he was heard to say that it was impossible to beat Barcelona at the Nou Camp, something he denied in his monosyllabic press conference after the match.

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Messi scores three as Barcelona crush Malaga [ibnlive]

Posted on January 23rd, 2012 by admin

While the end result was a good one for FC Barcelona, they took some time to get into their stride against Malaga on Sunday night, with goal keeper Victor Valdes having to earn his keep. As ibnlive says:

Despite Pep Guardiola’s side’s strong showing, the hosts were the more threatening side in the early going. Before 20 minutes had passed, Isco had three chances in the space of two minutes, but Victor Valdes saved each acrobatically to keep the contest scoreless.

However, Lionel Messi scored just after the half hour mark and two goals from Messi and Alexis early in the second half had the match sealed. Messi scored his hat-trick in the 80th minutem while Malaga clawed a goal back a few minutes later.

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Casillas blames loss to Barça on poor marking [Goal.com]

Posted on January 19th, 2012 by admin

Real Madrid’s goal keeper and captain Iker Casillas blamed the host’s poor marking on Barcelona set piece play for his team’s loss at the Bernabeu last night. According to Goal.com he said:

“In the first half we achieved what we wanted to but we found it hard to defend on dead-ball situations. It’s a shame because if we had marked up on the play [that led to Puyol's goal], we would have achieved more,” Casillas told AS after the game.

Once again Real Madrid decided to use brute force against Barça’s skill and although this is one clasico that hasn’t ended in a brawl, defender Pepe has come under widespread criticism throughout the world for some of his actions, particulalrly stamping on Mionel Messi’s hand:

Naturally Jose Mourinho ssaid he didn’t see the incident and there are suggestions in the media that Pepe will face action, but it is up to both Real Madrid and the Spanish League authorities to stamp this kind of behavious out.

Read “Real Madrid’s Iker Casillas: Our marking on set-pieces let us down in Barcelona Copa del Rey loss” at Goal.com

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Barça wins hard fought battle against Betis

Posted on January 16th, 2012 by admin

Xavi made his 400th Spanish league appearance on Sunday when Barcelona played Betis at the Nou Camp. Xavi put Barça into an early lead in the 10th minute followed up two minutes later by Lionel Messi.

However this early advantage was not to last; just before the break Betis scored their first goal and and just after half time they scored the equaliser. It wasn’t until Mario Alvarez, the Betis defender, was sent off for a second yellow that the balance changed. Xavi passed to Alexis, who put the ball into the back of the net in the 75th minute. Finally Messi scored Barça’s fourth goal of the match from the penalty spot four minutes before the final whistle after a Betis handball.

Barcelona remain five points behind Real Madrid, who they face in the Cops del Rey on Wednesday.

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Osasuna knocked of of Copa del Rey by FC Barcelona

Posted on January 13th, 2012 by admin

Barcelona arrived to play Osasuna in freezing cold and foggy weather in the second leg of their Copa del Rey last 16 draw. Ofter the 4-0 win in the Nou Camp leg, Barça’s place in teh quarter finals were all but assured and with Real Madrid having seen of Malaga, the prospect of another two clasicos.

Barcelona went a goal down toward the end of the first half, but Ossuna seemed unable to be able to produce anything more during the remainder of the match. Back on after the break with more energy, Alexis quickly equalised; but it wasn’t until the 72nd minute that Sergi Roberto scored the winning goal.

Bad news for Pedro, who will be off for 10 days with a thigh strain. And Fontas was stretchered off after a bad fall and may have a knee injury requiring surgery – if so, that’s it for the rest of the season.

Next Wednesday Barça will travel to the Bernabeu for the first of the Copa del Rey clasicos. The Nou Camp let is the following Wednesday.

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Young Lionel Messi [VIDEO]

Posted on January 12th, 2012 by admin

In the video below you can watch some clips of Messi as a youngster. It’s amazing to see how his style doesn’t seem to have changed at all!

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Barcelona star Lionel Messi collects third straight Ballon d’Or award [The Daily Record]

Posted on January 10th, 2012 by admin

Lionel Messi won the Ballon d’Or for the third year running, beating team Xavi and Cristiano Ronaldo to the award for the best player in the world. According to The Scottish Daily record:

Messi, man of the match in the Champions League final in 2011, also won the Spanish league, Spanish Supercopa, UEFA Super Cup and Club World Cup last year.

The award is well deserved as Messi continues to thrill with his exciting football skills that make any defence weak at the knees.

Read “Barcelona star Lionel Messi collects third straight Ballon d’Or award” at The Daily Record

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Barcelona five points behind Real Madrid after draw against Espanyol [DNA]

Posted on January 9th, 2012 by admin

Real Madrid’s lead over FC Barcelona opened to five points at the weekend after the Catalans drew in the Barcelona derby. According to DNA:

Barca could only draw away to neighbours Espanyol in a thrilling and controversial game. Against an inspired and motivated home side, Barca took the first half lead through a Cesc Fabregas header, which was their 100th goal in all competitions this season.

The match was controversial due to a clear handball in the Espanyolñ area in injury time should have meant a penalty for Barça, but the refereee refused to give it. Pep Guardiola has since said that the league is far from over and has not given up on his ambitions to win the league yet again.

Read “Barcelona five points behind Real Madrid after draw against Espanyol” at DNA

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Barcelona beats Osasuna in Copa del Rey [USATODAY.com]

Posted on January 5th, 2012 by admin

FC Barcelona won their first match of the new year last night with a 4-0 win against Osasuna. Despite suffering flu and not being expected to play at all, Lionel Messi came on in the second half to score two goals, with the opening two goals scored by Cesc Fabregas.According to USATODAY:

Pep Guardiola’s team has outscored opponents 37-1 in eight straight victories since losing 1-0 at Getafe and hasn’t conceded a goal in 12 straight home games while scoring 53 times.

Read “Barcelona beats Osasuna in Copa del Rey” at USATODAY.com

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