To be fair, he carded Di María and told him to move and he just defied him and kept blocking the FK... He only has himself to blame for being a dumbass.
La Liga - 2012/2013
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Jamie (@Vault Dweller) are here to talk about United's dreadful home defeat at the hands of Big Ange's Tottenham Hotspur. Should this have been the end of Ten Hag? How long does he actually have left? And does Nik finally want ETH out?!
To be fair, he carded Di María and told him to move and he just defied him and kept blocking the FK... He only has himself to blame for being a dumbass.
Most refs wouldnt send someone off that that.
but..
Stopping someone from taking a quick freekick is a yellow.. No problem. Ref showed him the yellow.. he stood there smiling. The ref moved away.. he still stood there.
Again. most refs wouldve waited a couple of seconds.. but Di Maria was pushing his luck... probably thinking no ref would give him 2 yellows that quickly..
What's up with all that garlic on the pitch?!
OK so now we have
Valdés, Alves, Piqué, Mascherano, Montoya, Song, Thiago, Iniesta, Alexis, Messi y Villa
Vs
Beto, Coke, Fazio, Botía, Navarro, Maduro, Medel, Navas, Rakitic, Man Utd y Babá.
I think that's three or four rested in each team.
Valdés, Alves, Piqué, Mascherano, Montoya, Song, Thiago, Iniesta, Alexis, Messi y Villa
Vs
Beto, Coke, Fazio, Botía, Navarro, Maduro, Medel, Navas, Rakitic, Man Utd y Babá.
I think that's three or four rested in each team.
Woot, Villa and Montoya
Iniesta really lacks that killer instinct when it comes to finishing
Just from reading the thread, I think more referees should do that.
That Iniesta's big flaw. Blowing big chances by trying to be too clever
He's a goal every now and again sort of player - he just picks the right games for it. Lulls everyone into a false sense of security then
What a ball by Messi
yes, and if they start with hated player like de maria, better
had this happened to vidic we would be fuming
Great action for once by Alexis
... and, almost all referees appear to give cards out readily to younger/lesser light players, especially in the bigger games as it easier for them to send a message without necessarily pissing off the stars.
A lot of them really are total worms.
Bit of a slow start by Barca.
thiago, the sort of player that has a clear pass to messi, but decides to stop and give it a bland pass to alves
afelay kind of player
afelay kind of player
It's almost impossible to imagine it happening in the PL. If it did VdS would have been sent off after every penalty call, and Scholes would have picked up a few doubles as well.
In fact a lot of yellows in the PL get followed up with enough dissent that another yellow is due - not often given though, even in Spain unless someone says something offensive to the ref. But it was funny seeing it happen to Di Maria a week after seeing Ramos get two (unrelated) yellow cards in a minute last week.
excellent play by iniesta and messi very well saved by sevilla goalie
Absolutely no-one running in behind or getting into goalscoring positions from Barca.
They haven't learned from the Milan defeat.
They haven't learned from the Milan defeat.
and messi gave a great ball to iniesta and he blew it
They're really hacking in on Messi... second time they tackle him with 2 players at the same time lol
way off with the free kicks!
Messi's saving it for the two Madrid games...
sevilla scores 
So predictable
1-0 Sevilla!
Barca will be annoyed now
No clean sheet again.Botía, the former Barça player scores against them
This could blow the title race wide open!
@ Barca defense.You ain't gonna win the CL defending like that.
Defensively it's like the Barca of 2007/08 all over again.
Iniesta waited far too long with his pass to Messi there. Great skill in his next move though.
Pretty much the same as what they served up at the San Siro!
Barca have been absolutely woeful and so has Messi. They really need to find other routes of scoring goals other than him.
They have been more or less toothless in the final third. Messi isn't doing as well as he can, missing a few crucial passes.
This makes it 11 games without a clean sheet. That's woeful for a team that's so far ahead at the top of the table!
This Barca team looks so slow and entirely out of form.
Well we didn't do much better through long parts of the season.
The thing is you can get away with it in the league if your offense is good enough but in the CL not being able to keep a clean sheet will hurt you sooner or later.
With two clasicos and Milan matches, this is the shittest time of the season to lose form !!!