Copa del Rey
Valencia 3, Barca 2, a.k.a. “Well, we still have the double” edition
By: Isaiah |
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Dammit, this one killed me for so many reasons. First off, I know why he did it, and I’ll never, ever question his manhood, but Yaya wasn’t himself. He took the needle (cortisone) to play, and tried like a lion. A healthy Yaya stops that first goal, but such is life. It does absolutely nothing […]
Category: Barca-Valencia preview (Thursday, 3:30 p.m. ET, GolTV), a.k.a. “Remember the Getafe,” a.k.a. “Ronnie needs a smack”
By: Isaiah | 84 Comments
Right. This is the first, for-real, no messing about, bring-the-silver ass game. We all remember what happened last year. All we had to do was take care of business against Getafe, of all teams, and we laid a big, fat, stinking, 5-goals against egg. Ugh. The woes of overconfidence shouldn’t be a problem this year, […]
Tags: Team News, Valencia, Barcelona, preview, Copa del Rey, Ronaldinho, Preview, Lineups, Injuries, Tag IndexCopa: Barcelona 1 - 1 Valencia (Deification Edition)
By: Isaiah | 13 Comments
The game came down to the hands of a man Ray Hudson screamed was a “black jungle cat” and yet another late, late, late heroic strike from Xavi. If not for Timo Hildebrand’s freakish ability to tell where the ball was going and his absurd luck, the game would have been 4-0 or even 5-0. […]
Tags: Copa del Rey, Barcelona, Review, Lionel Messi, Timo Hildebrand, Valencia, Xavi, Samuel Eto'o, Tag IndexCopa del Rey! Copa del Rrrrrreeeeyyyyyyy!!!!
By: Isaiah | 37 Comments
Remember this is what happened last time we played a Copa del Rey semifinal at the Camp Nou:
Tot el camp
és un clam
som la gent blaugrana
tant se val d’on venim
si del sud o del nord
ara estem d’acord, estem d’acord
una bandera ens agermana
blaugrana al vent,
un crit valent
tenim un nom,
el sap tothom
BARÇA ! BARÇA ! BAAAARÇA !
Jugadors,
seguidors,
tots units […]
Barcelona - Villarreal: Copa del Rey 2nd Leg, TODAY 4pm EST
By: Isaiah | 55 Comments
Heyyyyoooo it’s Barcelona hosting Villarreal in a must-win match. Not draw, not lose, but win. Outright. By putting more goals in the net than the other team. Anyone not clear on this? Rijkaard, any questions? Ronaldinho is back, in the squad, if not necessarily the starting lineup and perhaps Messi giving it 90 minutes on […]
Tags: Ronaldinho, Lionel Messi, Rafael Marquez, Frank Rijkaard, Villarreal, Copa del Rey, Preview, Barcelona, Tag IndexVillarreal - Barcelona: Copa del Rey preview, in brief
By: Isaiah | 26 Comments
It’s the Copa del Rey quarterfinals, first leg at El Madrigal, a place that hasn’t been kind to us this season (see 3-1 loss), but we’ve got our little “talisman” back and Lionel Messi might just prove the difference. He was there for that loss, of course, but that was a tragicomic moment in the […]
Tags: Villarreal, Lionel Messi, Edmilson, Marquez, Sylvinho, Copa del Rey, Preview, Barcelona, Tag IndexBarcelona 0 - 0 Sevilla: Copa del Rey review
By: Isaiah | 9 Comments
This is a delayed posting because of some technical problems. Sorry for the inconvenience. -The Management
I had the good fortune to leave work early on Tuesday in order to race home and tune in to GolTV’s presentation of Barcelona hosting Sevilla in the second leg of the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey. […]
Barcelona - Sevilla: Copa del Rey 2nd leg
By: Isaiah | 26 Comments
It’s 1-1 and we’ve got to make a statement. It’s more of a statement game than Murcia because, despite the 4-0 scoreline, it was Murcia and this is the UEFA Cup defending champ. This is the game where Frank can make up for all he seems to have lost over the last year. If that’s […]
How to deserve to lose
By: Isaiah | 32 Comments
Purely hypothetically let’s say you’re the manager of a famous club and your team is drawing 1-1 away during the first leg of a cup tie. Naturally you have several options open to you because, as has been previously stated, your club is famous and therefore has several world-class players on the bench. Just a […]
Sevilla - Barcelona: Copa del Rey preview + randomness
By: Isaiah | 19 Comments
It’s January and a soccer blogger of even my stature would be remiss if he or she didn’t cover a couple of the rumblings in the press about who is going where and when. There are a handful of keepers to keep an eye on, really, as Barcelona look for both a long term replacement […]
Tags: Team News, La Liga, Copa del Rey, Barcelona, Samuel Eto'o, Yaya Toure, Deco, Ronaldinho, Luis Fabiano, Tag Index
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