PBP: Copa del Rey | 1/8 2nd Leg | FC Barcelona v Cordoba CF | 10 Jan 2013 [R]

Out of my special request to VeB to make this thread.

Thursday, the 10th of January 2013

| BARCELONA (CEST), 21:30 | LOS ANGELES (PDT), 12:30 | MONTREAL( EDT), 15:30 | LONDON (BST), 20:30 |MELBOURNE (EST), 5:30 (NEXT DAY)

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CAMP NOU

Barcelona

Capacity: 99,354

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Head to Head Results

Wed 12/12/12 Cordoba 0 - 2 Barcelona

Current Form

Sun 06/01/13 PRD Barcelona 4 - 0 Espanyol

Sat 22/12/12 PRD Valladolid 1 - 3 Barcelona

Sun 16/12/12 PRD Barcelona 4 - 1 Atletico Madrid

Referee

Alejandro José Hernández Hernández

Wed 12/12/12 CDR Cordoba 0 - 2 Barcelona

Sun 09/12/12 PRD Betis 1 - 2 Barcelona

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Visca el Barça

Hope Jona gets some minutes.

Pinto

Montoya Bartra Mascherano Adriano

Jonathan Song Thiago

Tello Alexis Villa

I'd like for that to be the starting lineup, although it's likely that Cesc, Alves, and Messi may start this. Don't think we should risk them though, just have them on the bench as options in case things go wrong.

Looking forward to this though. If we hold on to our lead, we'll face Malaga in the quarterfinals and with the league fixture this weekend also being against them, it'll be 3 Barca-Malaga games in 10 days. If LPB go through tomorrow, they will also face Valencia 3 times but all meetings coming one after the other.

^ and possibly Barca will play Valencia 3 games in-a-row, I think.

That would have been correct initially, but the Copa semifinal second leg won't take place until February 27 after the switchup on the fixture scheduling last month. Assuming we get past Cordoba and then Malaga, while Valencia beat LPB/Celta, we would play them in the Copa semi first leg on January 30 at Camp Nou, then in the league three or four days later at the Mestalla, and then the Copa semi second leg would be on February 27 at the Mestalla. In between the league and the second Copa meeting, we have to play four games (Getafe (H), Granada (A), Milan (A), Sevillla (H)).

Sport's prediction for line-ups - to start both Alexis and Villa:

that lineup makes sense to me, although i think i'd like to see bartra play instead of puyol for this one.

All I want to see from this game is Thiago take control!!! I'm kinda tired of seeing him on the field, pulling a couple of sweet (but ultimately aimless) jukes, glorious cross field field passes (that don't end up going anywhere), but rarely contributing to dangerous attacking moves. Dude is probably as skilled as Iniesta but doesn't have a tenth of the influence on the game that the other mid's do. Come on Thiago!!!

thiago isn't doing any worse than iniesta or xavi did by the age of 21. growing into the players xavi and iniesta are today took years, not days. thiago's doing just fine.

Very true, that does remind me of the Baggy Shirt Iniesta version that I often wondered about. Skills were obvious to see, but seemed to operate solely on the periphial of the game. Which is my beef with Thiago...fair enough!

Messi starts on the bench.

Pinto
Alves -- Puyol -- Mascherano -- Montoya
Song
Sergi Roberto -- Thiago
Villa -- Alexis -- Cesc

Subs
Valdes, Bartra, Alba, Busquets, Dos Santos, Messi, Tello

Adriano discarded.

If we score first, it's over

EDIT

MESSI is on the bench NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I really wanted to see Bartra and Tello play today

Let's do this, Barca!

Glad Villa, Song and Masch are playing

Morning guys. Any decent streaming links?

Pretty solid: http://www.rojadirecta.me/goto/bilbainita7.blogspot.com.es/p/canal-2.html

Cool to see some new faces in the squad

I'm watching here: http://www.frombar.tv/v-4/10/70/v-507075.html

So close

Thaigo has scored

THIAGO!

Thiago!

Alexis just can't score...