Live Blog: Barcelona @ Osasuna

By: Pedro | October 31st, 2009

Come one come all, as FC Barcelona go to Pamplona aiming to sneak away with a full three points. Have a laugh, a cup of tea, watch the running of the bulls and perhaps celebrate a goal or two. Live Blog is up until the match is over.

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• Kyle |  October 31st, 2009 at 10:45 am

  
  
  

  Greetings from the Valencia blog. I have created a La Liga forum (in English) on my website and everyone is free to join. My website is a Valencia CF news site, but the forum itself is for all La Liga teams, Each team has their own seperate forum. I look forward to seeing as many different fans from as many different teams as possible.

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• Ramzi |  October 31st, 2009 at 1:53 pm

  
  
  

  First of all and before talking some Barcelona, Credit for Osasuna. This is the second team this season after Valencia who know how to stop Barca. Its not by parking a bus but by pressing defense and midfield to disturb ball fluidity and Offense build up. We drew because they played the right way, which lead us to play the wrong way.

  Now Barca:

  1) Using the Ukrainian with pique will not work. Too similar to complete, too slow to compete. It was better IMO to use Abidal as a CB and Maxwell on the left.

  2) Puyol once again proved that we have no problem on the right back, he is a great back up, Each option has his plus and minus. Again, there is no better player we can buy for this role.

  3) We better start to find a solution for the opponent pressing on our defense and midfield. In this game we tried few tricks like pulling Keita to the left so he pull his marker, with Iniesta sinking to the midfield to move the ball forward, dropping Busquets back between the two CBs and moving the fullbacks forward, etc… But it’s obvious that some training drills are needed to turn it to a strategy rather than being an alternative tactic.

  4) Messi is out of form and its hurting. We were so much focused on the left which maid us containable.

  5) I think it would have been better to substitute Busquets for Henry/Bojan/Pedro minute 60, keeping Keita-Iniesta-Xavi in the midfield rotating between holding mid position and AM/CM two seats. I think we would have broke the locks more smoothly. Pulling the Ukrainian out and getting Maxwell in and moving Abidal to center would have helped greatly as well.

  6) A draw is disappointing. But its not a disaster. This is the league story. Individually we had some good performers including Puyol, Abidal, Iniesta, Keita and Ibra. The problem was more a tactical issue, we have a challenge to deal with regarding opponent pressing and what I like to call “High Marking” strategy. Its good we know it this early so we fix it and move forward toward the deciding segment of the season.

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• felix marknick |  October 31st, 2009 at 4:03 pm

  
  
  

  First Thanks to all the barca fans worldwide,a big worldwide comunity with love and pasion for all the barca
  soccer,i live now one year in the uk and last week i got a trip to amsterdam (netherlands) and i was wondering me how much Fc Barcelona fans there are here.
  On saturday i was in a litle bar smoking a big one and i watch on a beamer live barca soccer from television ,After the match Osasuna-Fc Barcelona the barkeeper told me that it was a live stream from internet!
  I ask him from which website and he told me that this site are Barca4ever from the live world wide comunity!
  I never know about it but it seems to bee now 4 years old and always has the best live streams on the site!

  The sites name are Barca4ever and in the browser you must find it typing http://www,barca4ever.mysites.nl

  I hope i help you or the people who are looking every week for the live matches from fc barcelona!
  best regard F,Marnwick

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• Helge |  November 1st, 2009 at 3:23 am

  
  
  

  Compared to last season, we are (point-wise) still better in La Liga. I think we criticize on a VERY high level because most of us still believe that the treble should be or at least can be repeated with a high probability. I’m not concerned about La Liga, it will be decided in April or May.
  The CL is a lot more complicated. It’s almost a must-win against Kazan, otherwise it will get really tough and we then have to beat Inter. The weather forecast is ~ -4°C for Wednesday, so that won’t help us either… Yesterday’s draw was maybe a bit unhappy, but we are still one point above Real Madrid. So, as long as we win on Wednesday, everything’s fine. But if we draw or lose, crisis talcs will come up again. So Wednesday is actually our first small final of this season, let’s see how the players cope with it. Last season, I’m sure we would have won, last season we also beat Osasuna in the very last minute… but as I said, you shouldn’t compare last season to this. Will be a damn exciting match!

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