La Liga - 2012/2013

[Moby]

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.

Yes and we are lucky that the defense is sorted going into the important CL games. Had we still been as fragile as we were earlier against teams like Madrid we would have been badly punished, which Barca were earlier this week.

This is quite worrying for them, since if Milan score one goal, they will need 4 and their defense will have to really be top quality to give them a chance in the second leg.

 

[Snake Plissken]

Toshack summed it up. They have too many players going into their shell hoping for messi to conjure something up.

 

[wr8_utd]

With two clasicos and Milan matches, this is the shittest time of the season to lose form !!!

They did it last year too. Chose the CL semis and the Classico to go out of form.

 

[Vato]

I wish Sevilla had a counter attack.

 

[Vato]

Villa looks like one of the Village people with his tache.

 

[NoLogo]

Yes and we are lucky that the defense is sorted going into the important CL games. Had we still been as fragile as we were earlier against teams like Madrid we would have been badly punished, which Barca were earlier this week.

This is quite worrying for them, since if Milan score one goal, they will need 4 and their defense will have to really be top quality to give them a chance in the second leg.

Yeah it's good that we have sorted out our defensive problems going into the second half of the season.

Barca on the other hand has seems to get weaker the longer the season is going on.

They are also hurt by the fact that there is no one else in the team that manages to contribute a healthy amount of goals, Villa is out of form after his long injury, Sanchez is a complete disappointment, Tello seems to be unable to keep what his talent seemed to promise last season and Pedro seems to slip in and out of form on a game to game basis.

 

[Marcosdeto]

1-1 villa

 

[Skorenzy]

Villa the centre-forward!

 

[Vato]

Oh ffs, now he scores. Think I pissed him off.

 

[Moby]

Villa equalizes.

 

[Mighty Boosh]

Barca have come out of the break fired up, nice finish from Villa

 

[NoLogo]

1-1

Maybe that's a bit of a breakthrough for Villa.

 

[Skorenzy]

1-1

Maybe that's a bit of a breakthrough for Villa.

He's had a decent scoring record this season, despite playing so little, not that much of a surprise to me. 7 goals in 9 league starts.

 

[gbgary]

the stand-around defense succumbs.

 

[NoLogo]

He's had a decent scoring record this season, despite playing so little, not that much of a surprise to me. 7 goals in 9 league starts.

Yeah but he never really seemed to play to the level he did before his injury and hasn't been today but let's see how it goes for him.

On the other hand I think it was madness to play Sanchez ahead of him at any point of the season this year, even an out of form Villa is still miles ahead of Sanchez.

 

[Vato]

fecking useless.

 

[Skorenzy]

Tello! what a difference he's made

 

[Marcosdeto]

messi 2-1

 

[Moby]

Leo.

 

[Ish]

15 in a row

 

[Vato]

Pffft, was fun while it lasted.

 

[jojojo]

Amazing how big they made the penalty area look then - so precise

 

[gbgary]

barca have to love it when a team plays them like this.

 

[NoLogo]

2-1 Barca.

Messi with 38 league goals now.

 

[Skorenzy]

Amazing how big they made the penalty area look then - so precise

Yeah, didn't realize it right away, but once again a move started by Messi... He does that so often, playing a "delayed" one-two like that. Brilliant pass to Tello, great cross back to him and great finish.

 

[Cevno]

Amazing how big they made the penalty area look then - so precise

Well yeah, but Sevilla defenders helped a lot.

 

[Marcosdeto]

38 goals, that means that if he doesnt score another goal in the rest of la liga, he will average one goal a game

"average"

 

[gbgary]

Well yeah, but Sevilla defenders helped a lot.

yup. no pressure what so ever, back up, give space. ridiculous.

 

[jojojo]

Well yeah, but Sevilla defenders helped a lot.

You mean by looking like those metal men that they put up when players practice freekicks? Well, yeah, there is that - but even so, it was neat!

 

[Vato]

Pique's face is always at the end of a kick or an elbow, he's like a human punching bag.

 

[Marcosdeto]

it's never messi's brilliance, it's always the defenders fault

 

[NoLogo]

it's never messi's brilliance, it's always the defenders fault

...and tap ins or penalties.

 

[Marcosdeto]

...and tap ins or penalties.

or goalies bad positioned

 

[Vato]

Robert Downey coming on.

 

[Ish]

Pffft, was fun while it lasted.

There still hope

With Barcas defense...& as I post this it's almost 2-2

 

[NoLogo]

Rakitic really should have score there.

Barca defenders getting overrun time and time again.

 

[Marcosdeto]

it's hard to understand why barcelona, with all the money they have, didnt buy a world class defender, they are in dire need of one

 

[Skorenzy]

The feck Xavi? Messi right open in space, but he prefers to dribble back into midfield...

 

[Ish]

Is Abidal on the bench or has he only started training recently?

 

[Vato]

How's that not a yellow yet a stupid handball is?