Fermin makes it 5-0 right ahead of half time.
La Liga 2024/25
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When they are on form, no current team plays better football
This could easily end 9 or 10. What's more important for Valencia is Alaves tomorrow. If they win, Valencia will be 7 points off safety.
Barca need Madrid to start dropping points soon, it's hard to see especially with Mbappe looking his peak self recently
Barca need Madrid to start dropping points soon, it's hard to see especially with Mbappe looking his peak self recently
Their football hasn't changed much through this season. Even when they were dropping points, they were creating chances for fun but just couldn't finish them off. I find myself trying to watch Barca matches every weekend because they're quite easily the most fun team to watch in Europe.
Even if Madrid were to drop points, Barca, this season, won't be consistent enough in closing off matches to win the league, imo. They're very much a cup side this year.
When will we get a striker who can do what Lewandowski just did ?
A classic score, warms the heart
I was thinking the same when I saw it, so clinical. Valencia haven't lost by 8 or more in their history. Lost a few times by 7, one being G Nev
I feel bad for Valencia.
That's 101 goals for Barca in their 32nd game of the season. They may or may not win anything but the football is just incredibly fun to watch.
The man has not really been very clinical in the last few months. This was quite out of character
He's scored 9 since the start of the December and is top scorer in the leagueThat's 101 goals for Barca in their 32nd game of the season. They may or may not win anything but the football is just incredibly fun to watch.
The man has not really been very clinical in the last few months. This was quite out of character
Relegation might help them get rid of Peter Lim
I know the stats and any striker would score a lot in this Barca team but Lewandowski has been quite poor in recent months with something like 1-2 goals in his last 8 Liga matches or so before today. He's been particularly non-clinical in front of goal in a lot of the recent defeats/draws vs Leganes, Atleti, Las Palmas etc. His performances really seemed to dip after the El Classico result in October.
They are in that bad shape that they might go under administration.
That's some heavy heavy price for it
I really rate Mosquera and he wasn't involved tonight so imagine they'll sell him for big money and a few other of their young players. I believe Javi Guerra was close to signing for Atletico Madrid last summer so they or someone else might come in for him.
Probably need to come back up straight away otherwise they could have a decline like Deportivo La Coruna did after relegation as that's a similar case currently.
You are both correct. He has scored those goals and his finishing has been poor
hopefully not, and he finishes the job
It's unbelievable to think that at one point Valencia was close to replacing Atletico as the third club in Spain. Absolutely spectacular mismanagement.
Well, the likes of Valencia, Real Betis and Deportivo might have built sustained success but we all know that they got fecked by that ridiculous rule letting Real Madrid and Barcelona swallow up over 70% of the leagues tv money for a decade and a half.
I get what you're saying but it's fairly irrelevant to my point here. Valencia's brutal decline has little do with the TV deal or lack thereof. It's just plain mismanagement. Clubs like Athletic Bilbao, Villareal or Real Sociedad have the same tv deal conditions but are well run sporting enterprises that remain competitive at a high level and can offer fans a good experience with their modern stadiums.
Valencia were done over largely because they'd been attempting to build a new stadium when the 2008 bubble bursted.
For all of the mismanagement in Valencia, they haven't even performed that badly. They have placed 10th or lower in the league only 4 times in the last twenty years. In that period of time, clubs like Villareal, Osasuna, Espanyol, Betis, Real Sociedad, and Celta were relegated.
For much of the 2000s I believe Valencia were the third best team in Spain. Cholo turned Atletico’s fortunes around tremendously.
Athletic Club is now coming back to prominence under Valverde.
They absolutely were the third best team in Spain those years. But what I meant was that they were on course to becoming an established big, big club. Between their stadium troubles and the kind of terrible ownership that makes the Glazers look positively presidential in comparison have ruined the chances of that. They're probably going down next season.
You’re very correct. Had they stayed the course of their early 2000s form where they were challenging for the league, CdR and even UCL, they’d easily be one of Europe’s biggest clubs. Not on the level of Real, Barca, Bayern, Utd and Pool, but just a hair below. Similar to where Atletico is today.