Neymar tries Isco Busquets: La Liga 13/14

barca penalty a total cunt's call

but the second valencia goal idk idk i mean how much would you have to bribe two barcelona players to throw a match cos

http://i.imgur.com/O2V1jJg.jpg?1

http://f1.thejournal.ie/media/2014/02/messi-rugby-tackle.gif

subtle.

# Team Pl W D L F A Pts GD
1 Barcelona 23 18 3 2 63 17 57 46
2 Real Madrid 23 18 3 2 65 24 57 41
3 Atletico Madrid 23 18 3 2 56 16 57 40

How's do maria been doing in central midfield?

Ooh benzema goal

shit goal

atletico fucked up by trying to win the copa del rey when they have a small squad for cl & league challenge

di maría has been good by all accounts, keeping early season fan favourite isco out of the team

that little tattoo under ramos' ear is helping me learn to hate him all over again

not as much as diego costa though

Trying to get his new national teammate casillas back in the real team by killing lopez

very good game

SUCH a good game

notice how bale is slightly estranged from the rest of the teams during the 20 man stramashes that occur every few minutes

maybe a game where khedira would have helped

classic Pepe

https://vine.co/v/MKl0mB3arwX

had to go offline, but yeah good game until atletico shelled to try to keep the win

costa should have had 2 pens minimum

http://i.imgur.com/wd97rqd.jpg

Barca lose again.

http://www.marca.com/2014/03/05/en/football/spanish_football/1394020307.html

http://i.imgur.com/AcE9F8K.jpg

Illarramendi: "There is a disciplinary code so players avoid doing anything dangerous. It's the first time I've seen a player run with bulls. He has apologised and I don't think he'll do it again".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31XjJjdZb-w

messi breaks paulino alcantara's barcelona goals record and is warming up nicely for the season finale and world cup
the lightning fast but slightly dumb tello scores with an impressive finish
osasuna's flueorescent tabard-like strip enhances the training session ambience

Kinda assumed (without watching much) that La Liga was broken, but 3 teams in CL quarters and 2 teams in EL quarters ain't too shabby.

Really need Barca to win tmrw for maximum interest in the run-in. Would leave RM behind in the head-to-head vs both Barca and Atleti.

this is another ridiculous game

neymar diving again

surely the worst game to referee

yeah

ronaldo pk was outside the area so it sort of evens out the iniesta one

the weight on the pass to neymar for the first barcelona penalty was exquisite, ronaldo has been better for the last year because of messi's injuries but the disparity in talent is the same, now he is playing slightly deeper and he is a better #10 than riquelme ever was

if they play two of pedro neymar and alexis, it is a 4-3-1-2 during significant phases in the game and messi's vision, close control and weight of pass is emphasized (not that this is anything he wasn't capable of in prior seasons)

it takes a special kind of pedant and fitba illiterate to think ronaldo's physicality and directness makes him nearly as dangerous as messi

also good work to whoever at the liga bbva found mikhail kalatozov to do the tv direction

http://i.imgur.com/lOnaYI8.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/4KfBfkY.jpg

Real Madrid suffered another blow in the title race, falling to consecutive defeats as Carlos Bacca's double saw them lose 2-1 to Sevilla at Wednesday.

another one of colombia's half dozen or so talented centre forwards

valdes crocked, that's barca fucked.

significant problem in the champions league, in the league their run-in isn't that difficult apart from that final game

pinto is awful though, surely the worst second goalkeeper at a major team

kind of want atleti to win now. not quite a Montpelier situation,but the nearest to definite underdogs.

don't know what that last sentence was meant to be.nearest thing to an underdog winning la liga maybe

bilbao vs atleti 1-1 at 50 mins is worth watching

oh shi-

ah right, I thought Bilbao were in yellow. Confusing

barca betis 1-0 messi pk after alexis shows messi level close control and drops a leg

not hugely fond of 34 y/o xavi, messi and iniesta playing at home vs worst team in league before the cl qf

2-1, ruben castro takes advantage of typically risible adriano defending

messi still fucking playing at 70 mins

75 mins, granada 1 barca 0

only half watched about 20 mins of this but it's grim viewing from a barca pov

and so it finishes

barcelona didn't seem to lack 'passion' or whatever, they just couldn't get past a solid defensive line, liverpool's lightning fast on loan cb tiago illori was creditable and the cameroonian rb nyom whom was brilliant, locked down the right side of defence and at 6'2 nearly outpaced jordi alba over a short sprint, which virtually never happens

everything with barcelona is as cristiano ronaldo used to say, 'polemic' and happens against the backdrop of idiot entitled fans and emotionally incontinent sports-press but i'd like to exculpate

i) tata, who landed his first european job at the last minute and has been dignified and mostly competent

he was outwitted by simeone and he will probably narrowly lose la liga, but neither of those is a disgrace

ii) messi, who for the second year running was tasked with rescuing their entire season as soon as he came back, and who has done that until the last two games -- took them past manchester city, kept their faint hopes in la liga alive with a hat-trick at the bernabeu

no idea what happened to him lately, but he took them to a position they would not otherwise have got to

the whole club has been traduced by cunts and idiots, the rossell administration

i) alienated guardiola
ii) tried to neg messi
iii) humiliated the club with the corrupt neymar payments disaster
iv) mismanaged the squad renewal by (eg) failing to give thiago the contract he deserved and thereby let a gold plated successor to xavi leave for scarcely more than they wasted on the very clearly inadequate alex song
iv) may well have given them a two year transfer ban, and even if this is eventually defeated on appeal, they will have to plan for this summer on the presumption that it stands

they urgently need to get their shit together now

two /window/ transfer ban

gr8 posts. i shall add the simplistic & plebeian notion that should results now proceed as expected, we may be faced with real madrid needing a title-excluded barcelona to get a result against atletico on the last day, and the consequent pressure on barca to not play 11 teenagers

hopefully that doesn't happen

atleti would win the title on the penultimate game if they win the rest of them, though they have valencia away and a couple of other tricky games

if not and barca are out of it then they owe it to themselves & everyone else not to be cunts about it, no youth teamers and no transparently shitty play like gerrard's assist to drogba in may 2010

Be fair, that was the purest most genuine shittines on Gerrard's part.

everything with barcelona is as cristiano ronaldo used to say, 'polemic'

:)