La Liga 2011/12 Season Thread

or maybe they just missed khedira, who knows

Barça B currently getting smashed, down 0-3 at home against Depor.

But glancing at the goalscorers, I have an important question - how the fuck is someone as talented as Guardado stuck at a Segunda club
He must have a really shit agent.

HT Malaga 2-0 Granada

Cazorla and Joaquin with the goals.

Valencia and Malaga currently leading 0-1, with goals from Soldado and Demichelis respectively. I have Mallorca-Malaga on in the background...bit of a dull game, neither side really imposing themselves. Malaga look dodgy at the back as we all expected. But they have enough firepower up front to overcome that problem. Cazorla in particular is impressive...definitely their best player.

Barça kick off in around 45 mins from now.

Valdés
Alves, Puyol, Mascherano, Abidal
Busquets, Xavi, Thiago
Cesc, Messi, Villa

cesc needs to stop trying to fit 3 of cesc,iniesta,xavi and thiago into midfield constantly

Judging by the start, they're shaping up in a 3-4-3. Cesc is playing on the left "wing".

Mistake from Abidal in possession, Osasuna force a corner, and hit the woodwork

Another goal for Fabregas. Lovely finish.

Very rapid ball movement so far. But it seems scoring 2 goals is cursed - the team starts doing stupid things. Too many silly moments inviting unnecessary pressure on the defense. The lines are too far apart, allowing Osasuna to occasionally move into the space between defense and midfield.

Abidal and Messi (great cross from Alves) hit the woodwork, but a few mins later Abidal slips Villa through, who rounds the keeper and scores to make it 3-0.

Now 4-0, Villa was 1-on-1 with the keeper and the initial shot was saved, but after some rebounds it somehow went in.

And 5-0 now.

Fine footwork from Fabregas and he put it on a plate for Messi. They're linking up really well already.

Messi hits the crossbar. 3rd time hitting hte woodwork this match.

Chipped pass from Messi to Xavi, who chips the goalkeeper. 6-0.

Adriano and Maxwell have come on for Puyol and Abidal. Hope to see Afellay soon. Valencia away in midweek, will be a very tough game.


Edit: Afellay does come on for Xavi. No idea what the formation now is. I guess the back 4 would be Adriano-Mascherano-Busquets-Maxwell, with Alves just continuing in midfield/attack. He's had a really good game, every cross was dangerous.

This is ridiculous. Puyol has barely been off for a few minutes and Osasuna have already had 3 very good chances.

Cesc runs in a straight line with the ball, into a crowd of Osasuna defenders, keeps running past them, somehow the ball bobbles through to him, and he squares it to Villa for the 7-0.

We want 8!


Edit: and there it is. Messi doing another one of his Playstation runs.

All that talk about La Liga being the new Scotland - such overdramatic nonsense...

Barce = Epic ! this team is the best team the world has ever seen in my opinion..simply incredible. Obviously i understand this was against Osasuna and i know they hve certin aspects that mean they can be beaten but they are only human at the end of the day (although the jury is out on messi) but they are total class and when they get going they are almost unstopable !

Sgoater1 wrote:
Barce = Epic ! this team is the best team the world has ever seen in my opinion..simply incredible. Obviously i understand this was against Osasuna and i know they hve certin aspects that mean they can be beaten but they are only human at the end of the day (although the jury is out on messi) but they are total class and when they get going they are almost unstopable !

Jaimito el Crack wrote:

Sgoater1 wrote:
Barce = Epic ! this team is the best team the world has ever seen in my opinion..simply incredible. Obviously i understand this was against Osasuna and i know they hve certin aspects that mean they can be beaten but they are only human at the end of the day (although the jury is out on messi) but they are total class and when they get going they are almost unstopable !

Why do you roll your eyes? Sgoater1 is right

What's happening in la liga? Is it becoming dull or are Madrid and Barcelona just that good? Barcelona 3 games, 15 scored, Real Madrid 2 games played 10 goals scored. Saragosse-Madrid 0-6 Barcelona -Villareal 5-0, and now Barcelona 8-0 . Great that there are so many goals, but how come a professsional team concede over 5 goals?! that's too much. Probably they just give up.

it must be annoying for the other 16 teams to play in this league

Its 1-0 day Barca has extra rules here too

Antarion wrote:Its 1-0 day Barca has extra rules here too

Wait for the Real match.

Sounds like a crazy game that finally gave Zaragoza their first win:

Zaragoza [2 - 1] Espanyol
29' [1 - 0] L. Garcia
71' [1 - 1] J. Lopez
86' red card J. Lopez
88' L. Garcia (missed pen.)
90' [2 - 1] L. Garcia



Edit: Falcao starting to fire. 2 goals to put Atletico 2-0 up at halftime.

özil, ronaldo benched

khedira plays

Kroos wrote:

khedira played

corrected

12 mins to go, Madrid losing 1-0. I switched on 10 mins ago and they just look desperately slow and lacking any ideas, creativity, or movement. Same problems as they had last year against small teams.

Or maybe they just can't play against teams in blaugrana-coloured kits

Hope I haven't jinxed it. Come on Levante, hang on.

PROGRESS!

I only watched the last 20-25 mins but Madrid were utterly dreadful. Kaka

Lucky Marca, they can pretend that they really care about Spain winning the basketball tonight

La Liga is the new Scotland

At least we've signed f*cking Neymar!

That was actually awful. And why take off Benzema n keep Kaka. For me the main problem today is we had one midfielder n that was Alonso. Noone for him to connect with what so ever. He's just out there isolated.