What jinx? I much much prefer Barcelona to Real Madrid!
La Liga 2024/25
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Feck that. Madrid have saved us multiple times even in the last few years. Barcelona stopped us from getting 2 more UCL titles.
Looks like it does take more than 5 training sessions to build an unstoppable juggernaut.
Barca need more backups in the attacking positions and need to get back players in defense. You cannot look fatigued in November.
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Wouldn’t put too much stock into it. We have been absolute trash all season long 
poor LL season if anything.
poor LL season if anything.Barca have crumbled these last 4-5 games without Yamal. Hard to believe how influential he is this season.
Yup. I’ve in fact preferred Real Madrid over Barcelona since about 2011.
Atletico for the win then. Even though they aren't particularly good, their main strenght may be the depth of their squad.Wouldn’t put too much stock into it. We have been absolute trash all season long
Weirdos. You clearly haven't been in the CL and losing to those bastards enough to develop a solid hatred of Real like the rest of the world.
Bonkers that this shite Real Madrid side will go top if they win their games in hand.
That is because you guys are the baddies in your league. Let's ask what the rest of Germany think about this!
Nothing but respect for Real. Barcelona, on the other hand, can go feck themselves.
Respect for Real after the way they behaved when they took away your hero and everything they did between 2006 and 2009? Both clubs are despicable but Madrid are definitely even worse than Barca. Plus, I really couldn't care less about who wins the CL.
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That was Calderon's regime, who Fergie told to feck off, right?
What audacity. If you continue protesting we will have to sign Musiala
You are eager for your revenge.Time to remember some offsides from the 2018 game to lick your wounds
The offsides were 2017.What audacity. If you continue protesting we will have to sign Musiala
Time to remember some offsides from the 2018 game to lick your wounds
2018 was the stonewall penalties, and the goalie slipping, and the force field over our goal
Nah. Barcelona have always been a bunch of unlikeable cnuts. The revelation that they’ve been paying referees (which we all knew anyway) just confirms that.
It is not a given though. Getafe is the second best team at conceding least goals in the competition and beating Valencia at Mestalla is historically tough for Real Madrid
I liked our games vs Osasuna and Leganes but now we are without Camavinga and Vinicius who are both fantastic
Mbappe is playing very badly of late, I don't expect that to change soon
The Flick effect is maybe vanishing a bit but its fragance still lasts
The Mestalla game is an almost certain loss.
*enter „but… but Vidal should have been sent off.“*What audacity. If you continue protesting we will have to sign Musiala
Time to remember some offsides from the 2018 game to lick your wounds
Even as a Bayern supporter I respect Real more than Barca. Real (like Bayern) know who they are and are blunt about it. Barca pretend to be something else.
Real simply had some players I couldn’t stand while Barca had Messi who I loved watching. That made me root for them for a bit, but I am over it.
Madrid helped us so much after the Munich air disaster that it'd be rude to not like them. They actually wanted to do more than what they did but the FA wasn't having any of it. They even offered us a European Cup.
That’s stupid. Liverpool loaned us 5 players too after Munich. Rivalries can exist and people can have preferences in football regardless of what some blokes did 60 years back.
Vidal should have been sent off immediately but whatever. 2018 was a lot funnier*enter „but… but Vidal should have been sent off.“*
Private Valverde back to midfield.
Lucas back to RB position.
Modric to the bench, Ceballos to start.
No Arda, Rodrygo is back.
No Endrick either. Brahim remains.
Now Ceballos will have three great weeks, we will think that is the solution and then he will return to his old ways
Private Valverde back to midfield.
Lucas back to RB position.
Modric to the bench, Ceballos to start.
No Arda, Rodrygo is back.
No Endrick either. Brahim remains.
I used to have more affection for Barcelona - that kind of not-capital-city affinity with them. That is until I started working with some Barcelona fans - including some "my second club is Barcelona" fans in Spain.
My neighbours and other fans I met until then were mostly either Valencia only or "my second club's Madrid" fans. I actually liked them - I even started to accept the "second club" idea even if I didn't approve of it
Older and more traditional Barca fans were ok, they remembered the ups and downs of football. The new ones were all Messi, Masia, mes que un club, pure football zealots. Let's just say I haven't really forgiven them for their over excitability.
Madrid on the other hand have spoiled things for City and Liverpool at a time when we couldn't. I approve of that.
My neighbours and other fans I met until then were mostly either Valencia only or "my second club's Madrid" fans. I actually liked them - I even started to accept the "second club" idea even if I didn't approve of it
Older and more traditional Barca fans were ok, they remembered the ups and downs of football. The new ones were all Messi, Masia, mes que un club, pure football zealots. Let's just say I haven't really forgiven them for their over excitability.
Madrid on the other hand have spoiled things for City and Liverpool at a time when we couldn't. I approve of that.
Bravo.
PD: Great game by Atletico, great game by Gallagher, supergoal by Griezman.
And what about who wins La liga??
Very stupid play from Nyom, more even so considering his previous yellow card for also grabbing Rudiger.
Very symptomatic that Bellingham and not Mbappe is the one taking the penalty btw.
Mbappe is an asset for the opposition at this point. Terrible.
Credit where due; that was a great finish.
Hopefully he will start recovering his confidence back soon with more goals like this.
The finish is sensational btw.
Right decision, I also think it hit the leg.
Reminds me of Arsenal going to Everton most seasons and losing in recent times.
Valencia have a bunch of kids all over the pitch currently so should be no match for even an understrength Madrid. I mean if this was played at Bernabeu you'd fully expect Real Madrid to win it 3 or 4-0.
Has the game been rescheduled already?
The team is right up there for the title again, but surely better football in 2nd half is needed to win it , as this does not really look like a title-winning side to me.