Comments on: Villareal 3 – 1 Barcelona: Review and Highlights (Finding silver linings edition)

By: Isaiah

Isaiah — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:14:14 +0000

As long as we can agree about the Venture Brothers thing, we’ll be friends. Venture friends. And I’m going as The Monarch for Halloween this year and my lady is going as Dr. Girlfriend.

By: Martha

Martha — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:31:10 +0000

While I care very little about Barca, any man that makes a Venture Brothers reference in a post has my eternal respect. Well done sir.

By: Kevin Williams

Kevin Williams — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:22:59 +0000

Messi should have been the guiding light. His energy is unreal. Henry is still a mixed bag for me. Pires said that Barca isn’t using Henry properly, but he should have enough talent to fit into Barca’s movement-based scheme, rather than waiting to be fed passes, then falling down at the least amount of contact. If Toure is in the side, neither Villarreal goal happens. GolTV finally aired the match on Sunday afternoon. Messi and Abidal were lions. Everybody else looked dead. Deco won’t be as much of a loss as people think. Look for Iniesta to rock the house.

Meanwhile….Drogba? He isn’t happy in Chelsea, and he’d be the kind of striker that Barca thought they were getting when they signed Gudjohnsen. I’ll even blaspheme here and say sell Ronaldinho now, and use the money to lock down Bojan and Giovani, then use the rest for Drogba.

By: Isaiah

Isaiah — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:32:03 +0000

I had previously decided to only read the headlines concerning the “Lio en Rio” (Mess in Rio) as Marca was calling it, especially since it seemed to be only about Robinho, so I know relatively little about the situation. I figured Ronnie was somehow involved, but I also know that when I made the trip from the US to Germany one fine day a year or so ago, the time change definitely threw me off ridiculously so that I was a bit jet lagged for a couple of days. So that makes sense to me, especially if drinking were somehow involved. Still, the official reason for Ronnie being left out was travel fatigue so I’m sticking with that.

By: john

john — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:08:54 +0000

A quick note on Ronnie’s absence – It wasn’t implicitly fatigue that ruled him out on Saturday; Ronaldinho, along with Madrid’s Robinho and Baptista, failed to make it back to Spain because of “flight delays” following a night of well pressed drinking and debotchery. Gutsy move for all of them – Robinho being somewhat out of favour due to his moodiness; Baptista distancing himself even further from the possibility of making the occasional starting XI, and of course Ronaldinho – who has already been under plenty of fire for his late night antics. It’s interesting: Ronaldinho’s career seems to be, at last, following the trends of Ronaldo, paunch and all.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:45:23 +0000

“If any other team on earth can lose Zambrotta, Toure, Edmilson, Eto’o, Marquez, and Ronaldinho and then be embarrassed to lose to the third place team in their league, I want to know what that team is and how I can make them illegal because they’re ruining my favorite sport. And all of this happens away from home. It’s not even like this happened in the Camp Nou; it took place at the Madrigal.”

By: llobster

llobster — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:28:48 +0000

ironically isaiah, i was drunk when i mentioned it was a bit embarrassing. so i guess those tequila shots made the lemons a bit more sour.

actually i think i’m just spoiled because my colts seemingly never lose (knock on wood tonight) and barca is more star studded than they are. which brings me to my issue that even our sub-optimal starting 11 should be able to muster at least another goal from a sometimes great, sometimes shaky (see: at osasuna) villareal defense