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Preview: Barça – Málaga, Saturday 3pmEST (GolTV)
By: Isaiah |
73 Comments
Welcome to the weekend, everyone. It’s Málaga for us this time around, further down the coast, well beyond rainy Benidorm.* Málaga is not a side to be discounted, having been on an upward swing for quite a while (4 league wins in a row), but, as always, there’s a lot more to them than a [...]
Category: Team News
Copa Preview: Benidorm – Barça, Tuesday 3pm EST
By: Isaiah | 120 Comments
UpdatedSo now we’re back with our third real competition (Copa Catalunya doesn’t count) of the year: the Copa del Rey. We start out in 4th round thanks to our status as Primera Liga members and we start out away to Benidorm in the first of a two-legged affair.
“Beniwhat?” you may be asking yourself. Fair enough, [...]
Barca 5, UD Almeria 0, a.k.a. “It’s time to shut it.”
By: Kevin | 56 Comments
The goals came hot and heavy in pre-season and it was “Well, they didn’t score all those goals against real competition.”
–Against Sporting it was “Well, it was Sporting, after all.”
–Against Atletico it was “Well, Atletico had a crappy match.”
–Against Basel it was “Well, it was Basel, after all.”
–What will they say after today?
Barcelona – Almeria Comments Post
By: Isaiah | 118 Comments
Please post all of your comments about the Barcelona – Almeria game here. I won’t be doing a liveblog, but I’ll certainly be making random comments about things.
Starting lineups:
Barcelona: Valdes, Dani Alves, Puyol, Marquez, Abidal, Toure, Iniesta, Xavi, Messi, Eto’o, Henry
Almeria: Alves (GK), Pellerano, Badias, Guilherme, Bruno, Mosquera, Corona, Soriano, Crusat, Ortiz, Negredo
Category: La LigaPreview: Barça – Almería, Saturday 4pm EST, GolTV
By: Isaiah | 11 Comments
Translation:
Pep Guardiola: Three points in the bag…and on top of that I didn’t have to use the “easy way”.
The sign on Messi reads: Use only in case of emergency
I’m including this comic not because it’s particularly funny, but because it is particularly indicative of where we’re going with this season. Guardiola has so many options [...]
Basel 0-Barca 5, a.k.a. “Men against boys.”
By: Kevin | 44 Comments
This was vicious. Really. The match was over after the first goal, given the record of futility that Basel had in their Champions League group. But still, it was to be played, and our lads came into the match with a number of goals: no injuries, a comprehensive smackdown so as to leave zero doubt, [...]
FC Basel – Barça Preview: Wednesday 2:45pmEST, ESPNDep
By: Isaiah | 66 Comments
We’re back to the Champions League once again, this time for a trip to Basel, Switzerland. There’s a lot to discuss, so let’s start with the history lesson:
FC Basel was founded in November 1893 — in fact, their full name is FC Basel 1893 just to reinforce that point — through a newspaper advertisement. Only [...]
Squad Rotations: Are We Thinking Clearly?
By: Isaiah | 20 Comments
Recently there was a spate of comments asking for Bojan’s inclusion in the rotation system that is going on at Barça. Is this a well-founded argument, or is there a level of bias going on? I’ve asked for player inclusion before, so I’m certainly not exempt, and I too would like to see More Bojan.
Let’s [...]
A brief update
By: Isaiah | No Comments
Thanks to Kevin, we know what we did and how we did it this weekend, but I thought it was relevant to our on-going discussions about the league in general to update everyone on what’s happening at the other end of the table, where Gijon and Real Betis answered the bell this time around:
Because our [...]
Category: La LigaAthletic Bilbao 0, Barca 1; a.k.a. “A moment of rare beauty.”
By: Kevin | 23 Comments
I’ll be brief with this one, because there just isn’t a whole lot to say about this match that was made more difficult than it in fact was, and because my fevered fingers are barely attached to my flu-addled brain.
Victor Valdes. My man! Forwards get all the glory, defenders get credit for all the grit, [...]
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