Barça-Sevilla Match Comments Post
By: Isaiah | April 22nd, 2009Holy Jezebel it’s time for some soccer.
Lineups:
Barça: Valdés, Alves, Márquez, Piqué, Abidal, Xavi, Touré, Keita, Iniesta, Eto’o, Henry.
Sevilla: Javi Varas, Mosquera, Squillaci, Escudé, Fernando Navarro, Jesús Navas, Maresca, Romaric, Capel, Luis Fabiano, Koné
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Not only that, but he kicked the Penalty kick taker, how disgraceful.
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Anyways. Take this with pound of salt, but:
Goal.com has a tabloid saying that Tevez told an Argentine Radio program that he needs to leave MAnU:
pretty low on the credibility specturm, but still interesting. Tevez is TOO good for the bench.
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btw, shouldnt that footage of Marcelona be good enough to earn him some suspensions?
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According to this article http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2009/apr/22/laligafootball the Madrid stewards were taunting the Getafe fans and making gestures signaling “you’re going down”
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Enough about how disgraceful RM has been.
Can we talk more about how Hleb totally played decently?
I knew my post would work.
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Totally there with you Isaiah.
Even when it didnt go the right way for him, he had an admirable aire of Intnetion and Competency
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HLEB played pretty good. I was very excited that he was gonna get a good 30 mins on the pitch. I really wish he would have scored, that would have been the cherry on top of the beautiful game. I think he can be super sub next year if we can get him more reps with the first team. He has some excellent ball skills and is pretty quick.
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On the article mentioned above…
The Uefa Champions League reformatting would need an incredible amount of work to have any chance of happening.
First all of the possible gulf in class created between the domestic clubs and UCL teams for financial reasons would be almost irreparable after 2 or 3 seasons.
The domestic clubs would not have the ability to keep any players with talent and loyalty would go down the drain.Another problem is that local rivalry would be lost between big teams and their smaller rivals as the likes of Espanyol & Getafe would never get to play Barca & EE.
The one final thing is that nothing creates spectacle like semi-finals and finals.
If a league system came into place then the top 4 finishers would have to play each other in a set of 2 semis and a grand final at the end of the season.Barca will potentially play 62 matches this season, with a guaranteed 61. Villarreal are playing 52 and Sevilla, Valencia & EE playing approximately 50.
In England it would be similar for the big four who have all progressed in cup competitions.If the UCL was reformatted to a 38 game league, with 3 more matches to life the trophy, then surely the domestic league would be totally eradicated?
If all of the top clubs had to play approx 60 games then it would only leave room 20 fixtures.
I don’t think that the FA Cup or Copa Del Rey is gonna do the job.
A single away leg with every La Liga team? Maybe.It would be interesting to see how they will be able to pull it off.
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All of a sudden espanyol are just 1 point from safety >:( .
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Jason: you care so much about happens in Real games its as if you watch them as a fan. Living a double life (Nothing).
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I loved that Champion’s League article above. Excellent solution to a problem I couldn’t figure out: let the UEFA Cup winners get promoted. I would say though make that unconditional: not Panathinaikos loses and Anorthosis comes in to replace it because Greece is a one-seed joint.
But Ciaran is absolutely right on all points. The gulf in class is inevitable, just as it is now in all the other domestic leagues. And the “finals” and “seminfinals” would be loss: that is the main sacrifice that will keep it from happening in the near future.
(Solution: The CL/Europa teams would have to compete in their own European Cup competition, not all in their own domestic cups.)
But it will happen in the far future, and you know what? I can’t wait. It’ll be the bees’ knees. And the Europa League will be interesting as well, a kind of Coca-Cola Championship times a million.
Er…a problem as I conclude this. Say Arsenal gets relegated, but no English teams place top in Europa. So then the Prem has 21 teams the next season?
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WOW was i disappointed in my namesake after watching that video. what the hell was Marcelo thinking…..but back to the team that matters.
first things first not seeing Lionel for a match was definately a very good thing, him having decently fresh legs and having time to shake off whatever stomach problems he may be having before next week.
Iniesta is a complete monster….his goal was just a disgusting shot which was preceded by some nasty defensive skills from Titi with the beautiful sliding steal/pass straight to casper the friendly ghost, who naturally glided along the pitch and slotted one right over the keeper. the other assist were very nice indeed most noticeably the second and third goals all showed excellent vision and timing…holy crap is the layoff to the top of the 18 sick or what.
although Eto’o has been ridiculous lately but his touch is as usual made of stone and he needs to stop missing those gimme’s making/missing some of those is the difference in big games.
unfortunately i did not get to see hleb aka. “the white ape” get his time in but from what i hear he seems to be slowly gaining his swagger back after his run of poor form.
Just so you know not having my match report fix has been killing me. I almost think i look forward to hearing the adventures of the YAYA and friends as much if not more than watching our games.
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I’ll just throw this out there: why shouldn’t the Champions League be some play-in tournament games and then like a 10-team league?
No auto-qualifiers.
So then you have a 38-game domestic season, and a 22 or 24 game Champions League season. Or, if you don’t qualify for the Champions League, you get to drop to the Europa Tournament, which can be like the CL is now.
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Corey. i am not proud to admit this, but my best friend is a Real fan. he likes to talk alot of crap, so i need to be particularly well informed on both sides you know?
Interestingly enough, he hasn’t had much to say this season
Plus, there are some truly great football players inbetween all the Mediocrity. Sure, they made a mistake by joining the Dark Side, but they are still great footballers, such as: Van Nistelrooy, Robben, Van derVaart, Casillas, Sergio Ramos, De la Red, sometimes Sneijder.
Then you have Cannavaro, Raul, Guti, Helguera. ugh.
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Compared to Atletico Madrid’s defense, Sevilla was really strong yesterday
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Interesting assertion.
This article pretty much argues that Iniesta’s role yesterday was eerily similar to that of Zidane in the old Galacticos. It argues that Iniesta’s position on the right wing was mostly only occupied by him for defensive purposes. When we had the ball, he moved behind the strikers, playing as a mediapunta or supporting forward/ 10 (think Riquelme at warp speed). This is possible because Alves is one of the few fullbacks in the world with the stamina and pace to cover a whole wing by himself. Thus, Iniesta was a “false winger” and played as a mediapunta for most of the time during the attack.
This is very similar to what RM used to do with Zidane except on the opposite wing. Zizou had Roberto Carlos to cover a whole wing and he usually started as a “false winger” too.
Hmmmm…. I gotta calmly watch the Barca TV replay to confirm this but it would not surprise me. Guardiola has a lot more tactical tricks up his sleeve than it seems.
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I’m almost ashamed to admit this, but watching that footage of Marcelo… made me like him a little bit more! (The little kick to the ankle excepted – that was inexcusable.) I guess, in my jaded POV, he came off as raffish – an incorrigible little rascal. When he was arguing and provoking Cata Diaz during the match, I was like ‘Hell yeah, Marcelo! Rile his ass up!’
I know none of you care about any of this, but I thought I’d give some perspective of the crazy way fans rationalize things.
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@ john. there are plenty of RM players to admire, and for many reasons, but Marcelo is not one of them, and especially not for that classless display. especially that little kick.
One thing is Alves and Busi getting under the opponents skin, but Marcelo was making a fool of himself, and not really giving your team a good name.
I’m not trying to tell you how to think, but trying to view it from the most objective point possible, Marcelo’s actions cannot be condoned.
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Heh, that’s interesting, John. Us fans DO have severely distorted viewpoints. I don’t remember where I saw this, but somebody wrote that Barca have both the Messiah (Messi) and the Anti-Christ (Alves) on the same wing. There are several types of players that are loved by their teams’ fans but hated by almost everybody else (yeah, you fake Ronaldo).
I probably would have seen Marcelo’s provocations during the game as spunkiness if I where an RM fan, up to the grabbing the crotch, sticking your tounge out, and running away from the player you taunted part after the game at which time I would be pissed at him. Jeez, be a man and don’t run away if you provoke somebody like that. Better yet, just don’t. Man U fans put up with fake Ronaldo because he is damn good whereas Marcelo has a WAYS to go before being considered near “damn good”.
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Yeah, I know that you’re both right (Jason and Hector). And again – the one thing I really can’t defend, and am disgusted by, is the ankle kick. But everything else, including the infantile gestures, followed by running away… I don’t know what it is! I was laughing my ass off! “Go, Marcelo, go! Now run!”
I guess there are two things I can bring up to partially excuse his scampering off. Although it certainly wasn’t manly, the alternative would have been to stand there and then get into a fight. We’d already had one player utterly disgrace himself by resorting to violence earlier in the game, and that was more than enough, to my way of thinking. Secondly, you’ve seen Cata Diaz right? The dude is scary, yo.
Honestly sorry to be marring your comments with this crap. I’m a bit confounded by my own reaction, but it is what it is, I guess.
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Hey all!
I found a very interesting article that’s sure to spark some discussion. It’s an article on The Times’ online website:
http://timesonline.typepad.com/thegame/2009/04/barcelona-in-for-a-shock-against-chelsea.html
The author says, and I quote,
“I’m not sure why Barcelona are attracting so much admiration and awe, as if they were one of the greatest sides in history. They’re not: they are overrated and Chelsea can beat them in the semi-finals of the Champions League”“It will be a shock to Barcelona to face a really tough team after the easy ride they’ve had so far”
A pretty bold statements, no?
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that article has been discussed in the last two threads, i believe.
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Well thats the 1st time i saw that article here on this site……and wow such a naive writer.If your going to downgrade a team at least do it by doing your research and keeping your dignity.
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sure, every team in Spain and Bayern Munich suck balls. We’re lucky and overrated
WHAT BULLSHIT BIASED OPINION-BASED CRAP UNINFORMED JOURNALISM
thats what happens when people who don’t know shit about football give their opinion
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As has been stated: it works both ways. Barca may not have been up against any Italian sides, or CLAM… But none of the CLAM have been up against Barca.
So, in a week, we will see.
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Hmm maybe the guys should read that dumbass article.
It would be better to go in as underdogs, no?
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