PBP: J10 La Liga 12/13 | FC Barcelona v Celta Vigo | 3 Nov 2012 [R]

Saturday, the 3rd of November 2012

| BARCELONA (CEST), 18:00 | LOS ANGELES (PDT), 9:45 | MONTREAL( EDT), 12:00 | LONDON (BST), 17:00 |MELBOURNE (EST), 2:00 (NEXT DAY)

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CAMP NOU

Barcelona

Capacity: 99,354

Stadium Info | Google Street

Head to Head Results

Sun 28/01/07 PRD Barcelona 3 - 1 Celta Vigo

Mon 28/08/06 PRD Celta Vigo 2 - 3 Barcelona

Wed 03/05/06 PRD Celta Vigo 0 - 1 Barcelona

Tue 20/12/05 PRD Barcelona 2 - 0 Celta Vigo

Current Form

Sun 07/10/12 PRD Barcelona 2 - 2 Real Madrid

Sat 20/10/12 PRD Deportivo La Coruna 4 - 5 Barcelona

Tue 23/10/12 ECL Barcelona 2 - 1 Celtic

Sat 27/10/12 PRD Rayo Vallecano 0 - 5 Barcelona

Tue 30/10/12 CDR Deportivo Alaves 0 - 3 Barcelona

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Visca el Barça

Game starts at 1:00p EDT due to the time change in Europe.

If we win today, this will be the best start ever to a liga season, surpassing Bobby Robson's team.

And I think a hat-trick from Messi will put him over Pele's single season scoring record. Leo's on 72, and Pele's mark is 74, no? (Muller's going down soon too, to shut up all the doubters )

Think Bartra will play?

Looks like Messi will play despite becoming a father yesterday.

Lol at the line-up: a BIT attack-focused, no? I like it. I suppose it makes some sense to twist the formation a bit towards what is our strength and away from our weakness: field more quality midfielders, less CBs. Expecting Busquets to drop back a lot today.

Yeah looks like a 3-4-3, though it could be a 4-3-3 if Busquets drops back.

Edit: haha, looks like we all think Busquets will lean back like Fat Joe.

Official Lineup

Valdes

Adriano Busquets Mascherano Alba

Xavi Cesc Iniesta

Pedro Messi Villa

Bench: Pinto, Alves, Montoya, Bartra, Song, Alexis, Tello

A reminder that Busquets is on four bookings.
(Next week: away to Mallorca)

Prediction: If When Messi scores, he'll celebrate by... sucking his thumb.

That's a nice and bold prediction imo. I'd go for the t-shirt message revelation.

A Messi staple. I think you may be right.

More likely this.

But hopefully this!

Will the t-shirt have the first public image of Thiago? I say yes.

What are the odds for the "check out my thigh" celebration?

Remember Celta is the team Pinto won the Zamora with... Crazy to think Celta were in the CL as recently as 2003-04.

He's lost it.

What a build-up!

Oh crap, Javi Vara trying to repeat what he did to us last year with Sevilla...

Messi's 2nd lob attempt, not quite.