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How'd you feel if Trezeguet was a Barcelona player yesterday?
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How'd you feel if Trezeguet was a Barcelona player yesterday?
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i was waiting all day for some one to comment on this eto'o bit.Have Barça Handed La Liga To Madrid?
Yesterday night’s events in both Camp Nou and La Romareda have left La Liga de las Estrellas (The League Of Stars) hitting supernova as Barcelona had two points tackled away by cross-town arch-rivals Espanyol and Real Madrid managed to grasp a draw from the jaws of defeat. Both scorelines were defined in the waning moments of both games and have led many to say that the Spanish league trophy is now all but heading to the capital, but have Barça really handed La Liga to Madrid…?
Both goals came in the eighty-ninth minute and turned Culé delight to despair and Merengue hopelessness to heaven-sent hope of finally breaking that tiresome trophy drought. La Liga seesawed again and Capello and his men celebrated long and hard as Rijkaard and co were left metaphorically beating their heads against a brick wall as Messi put it.
Espanyol Captain Raúl Tamudo made it into club history with a goal that beat the previous Periquito scoring record held by Rafa Marañón. To be able to stick a knife in the side of the more successful cross-town arch-rivals – perhaps repeating the feat of a quarter a century ago and swiping the title away from Barça – was sheer joy for the traditional underdogs.
Ironically enough, the pass that sent the Captain through the ever-wobbly Barça offside trap was from a former FC Barcelona youth player: Rufete, rejected by the Blaugranas when it came to making the move up or out from the B team and moving to Malaga and Valencia before returning to the Ciutat Condal to play in blue-and-white.
At the same time –well, to be retentively exact there was a twenty second lag between the two goals – there was an apotheosis in Zaragoza as the tables turned full circle with Van Nistelrooy nodding home a Sergio Ramos cross with the flying Dutchman’s characteristic efficiency. Slightly less irony here, but the keeper who let in the goal that kept Real Madrid on top was…ex-Real Madrid keeper César, although only the paranoid could see any deliberate error.
Even Messi, fast developing into a Merengue bogeyman, proved that he may be being groomed to step into Maradona's boots by the legendary number 10 himself but his hand isn’t the same talismanic 'Mano de Dios' (Hand of God) as Diego Armando. It was, in fact, Messi’s second handball-goal after the Getafe game and worthless in terms of victory as the Barça rearguard turned to stone and crumbled like rotten masonry with the Rufete-Tamudo connection.
It could, however, be decisive in the final round as the title goes down to wire with anything possible next weekend. If, for example, Barça draw and Madrid lose then the title will be bussed through the streets of the Catalan Capital on the basis of a one-point advantage for Barcelona. In that hypothetical situation Messi’s goal will have handed the Liga to Barça and all hell will break loose as to how Real Madrid were robbed by an illegal goal.
The sniping would continue with Culés pointing out the favours that they saw Merengues benefiting from and both would be at loggerheads with their accusations. Perhaps the case would be taken to the RFEF (Real Federación de Fútbol Española – Royal Spanish Football Federation) in an appeal that could leave the title up in the air, although this is unlikely as most observers admit.
The hangover from the match is beginning to cause delirium tremens in a Barcelona already worried that the tightly-knit fabric of a team that was supposed to outdo Johan Cruyff’s Dream Team is coming apart alarmingly quickly. More than being outplayed by Madrid, Barça are showing signs of decadence and a fundamental lack of ideas by both Coach and squad that previously marked the Merengues walk in the wilderness.
Much of this is subjective, but there is a chorus of criticism that Frank Rijkaard is a poor judge of substitutes. This was reflected in most Catalan dailies, as in El Mundo Deportivo (The Sporting World). ''The clearest thing in the last phase of the game is that whereas Valverde took off Angel and Jônatas looking for more pace to break through and attack Barça clammed up with the introduction of Oleguer and Motta.''
Both players have come in for a storm of criticism this season for their lack of pace and ability to turn a straightforward tackle into unnecessarily harsh hacks, but it must be stressed that they can hardly be blamed as Espanyol scored in the only approach the Periquitos made in the second half.
What is clear is that Barça fans are between rage and depression over the way in which players and Coach have failed to follow up on last seasons successes. More than handing the Liga over to Madrid because of a single performance, only the deluded cannot look back at a string of matches where points were thrown away with incredible lack of concern.
The match against Real Betis was almost won but two points were frittered away by a late Rafael Sóbis strike on the very same Camp Nou stage. When was the goal scored? In the eighty-ninth minute, cancelling out Ronaldinho's early penalty, to underline the irony of Real (more irony) Espanyol's late equaliser.
It would be premature to say that Barcelona have, in fact, handed the title to Real Madrid as everything may go base over apex in the last round just as the tables turned in the waning moments of both games. Capello himself knows this only too well and is throwing buckets of iced water on the overheated fans and players who are assuming things too early – after all, assume makes an ass out of u and me.
The two Ligas that Real Madrid handed to Barcelona in Tenerife may be now well over a decade ago, but the memory lingers in both camps. It is true that Real Madrid have the edge against a poor Real (yes) Mallorca but Barcelona hardly have a tough task against the already-relegated minnows of Nàstic down in southern Catalan city of Tarragona.
The Tenerife experience that saw Jorge Valdano (together with a certain Fernando Redondo) down his ex-club twice in the mid-nineties in the very last round will be present in the nightmares of Merengues and the dreams of Culés. Have Barça really handed La Liga to Madrid? No, not yet, and if they did it took place over the season as a whole, and particularly in the second half.
Like a paralytic drunk blaming projectile vomiting after fifteen pints as 'down to that last bad pint', if Barcelona do lose the league it will be down not to one bad showing but a collection of performances that encourage both male pattern baldness and gnawed fingernails. There’s still life in La Liga and a whole world of possibilities…what more could any avid fan ask to be handed on the last Sunday?
APM
Yesterday night’s events in both Camp Nou and La Romareda have left La Liga de las Estrellas (The League Of Stars) hitting supernova as Barcelona had two points tackled away by cross-town arch-rivals Espanyol and Real Madrid managed to grasp a draw from the jaws of defeat. Both scorelines were defined in the waning moments of both games and have led many to say that the Spanish league trophy is now all but heading to the capital, but have Barça really handed La Liga to Madrid…?
Both goals came in the eighty-ninth minute and turned Culé delight to despair and Merengue hopelessness to heaven-sent hope of finally breaking that tiresome trophy drought. La Liga seesawed again and Capello and his men celebrated long and hard as Rijkaard and co were left metaphorically beating their heads against a brick wall as Messi put it.
Espanyol Captain Raúl Tamudo made it into club history with a goal that beat the previous Periquito scoring record held by Rafa Marañón. To be able to stick a knife in the side of the more successful cross-town arch-rivals – perhaps repeating the feat of a quarter a century ago and swiping the title away from Barça – was sheer joy for the traditional underdogs.
Ironically enough, the pass that sent the Captain through the ever-wobbly Barça offside trap was from a former FC Barcelona youth player: Rufete, rejected by the Blaugranas when it came to making the move up or out from the B team and moving to Malaga and Valencia before returning to the Ciutat Condal to play in blue-and-white.
At the same time –well, to be retentively exact there was a twenty second lag between the two goals – there was an apotheosis in Zaragoza as the tables turned full circle with Van Nistelrooy nodding home a Sergio Ramos cross with the flying Dutchman’s characteristic efficiency. Slightly less irony here, but the keeper who let in the goal that kept Real Madrid on top was…ex-Real Madrid keeper César, although only the paranoid could see any deliberate error.
Even Messi, fast developing into a Merengue bogeyman, proved that he may be being groomed to step into Maradona's boots by the legendary number 10 himself but his hand isn’t the same talismanic 'Mano de Dios' (Hand of God) as Diego Armando. It was, in fact, Messi’s second handball-goal after the Getafe game and worthless in terms of victory as the Barça rearguard turned to stone and crumbled like rotten masonry with the Rufete-Tamudo connection.
It could, however, be decisive in the final round as the title goes down to wire with anything possible next weekend. If, for example, Barça draw and Madrid lose then the title will be bussed through the streets of the Catalan Capital on the basis of a one-point advantage for Barcelona. In that hypothetical situation Messi’s goal will have handed the Liga to Barça and all hell will break loose as to how Real Madrid were robbed by an illegal goal.
The sniping would continue with Culés pointing out the favours that they saw Merengues benefiting from and both would be at loggerheads with their accusations. Perhaps the case would be taken to the RFEF (Real Federación de Fútbol Española – Royal Spanish Football Federation) in an appeal that could leave the title up in the air, although this is unlikely as most observers admit.
The hangover from the match is beginning to cause delirium tremens in a Barcelona already worried that the tightly-knit fabric of a team that was supposed to outdo Johan Cruyff’s Dream Team is coming apart alarmingly quickly. More than being outplayed by Madrid, Barça are showing signs of decadence and a fundamental lack of ideas by both Coach and squad that previously marked the Merengues walk in the wilderness.
Much of this is subjective, but there is a chorus of criticism that Frank Rijkaard is a poor judge of substitutes. This was reflected in most Catalan dailies, as in El Mundo Deportivo (The Sporting World). ''The clearest thing in the last phase of the game is that whereas Valverde took off Angel and Jônatas looking for more pace to break through and attack Barça clammed up with the introduction of Oleguer and Motta.''
Both players have come in for a storm of criticism this season for their lack of pace and ability to turn a straightforward tackle into unnecessarily harsh hacks, but it must be stressed that they can hardly be blamed as Espanyol scored in the only approach the Periquitos made in the second half.
What is clear is that Barça fans are between rage and depression over the way in which players and Coach have failed to follow up on last seasons successes. More than handing the Liga over to Madrid because of a single performance, only the deluded cannot look back at a string of matches where points were thrown away with incredible lack of concern.
The match against Real Betis was almost won but two points were frittered away by a late Rafael Sóbis strike on the very same Camp Nou stage. When was the goal scored? In the eighty-ninth minute, cancelling out Ronaldinho's early penalty, to underline the irony of Real (more irony) Espanyol's late equaliser.
It would be premature to say that Barcelona have, in fact, handed the title to Real Madrid as everything may go base over apex in the last round just as the tables turned in the waning moments of both games. Capello himself knows this only too well and is throwing buckets of iced water on the overheated fans and players who are assuming things too early – after all, assume makes an ass out of u and me.
The two Ligas that Real Madrid handed to Barcelona in Tenerife may be now well over a decade ago, but the memory lingers in both camps. It is true that Real Madrid have the edge against a poor Real (yes) Mallorca but Barcelona hardly have a tough task against the already-relegated minnows of Nàstic down in southern Catalan city of Tarragona.
The Tenerife experience that saw Jorge Valdano (together with a certain Fernando Redondo) down his ex-club twice in the mid-nineties in the very last round will be present in the nightmares of Merengues and the dreams of Culés. Have Barça really handed La Liga to Madrid? No, not yet, and if they did it took place over the season as a whole, and particularly in the second half.
Like a paralytic drunk blaming projectile vomiting after fifteen pints as 'down to that last bad pint', if Barcelona do lose the league it will be down not to one bad showing but a collection of performances that encourage both male pattern baldness and gnawed fingernails. There’s still life in La Liga and a whole world of possibilities…what more could any avid fan ask to be handed on the last Sunday?
APM
Barca have clearly handed the title to madrid. Rijkard has to go. We have no opened up our eyes to who really was behind the success of barca the last 2 years. It was Ten Cate, the assistant coach of Rijkard who moved to Ajax this year and ever since he has been gone we have stunk the joint out. Rijkard smokes at halftime and we lose the game in the second half. Story of the season is losing games in the last 5 minutes.
