J12 Liga BBVA | El Clásico | Barcelona vs Madrid | 29 Nov 09 | Pre/Dur/Post Match Discussion [R]

1. Gone when Barcelona players where saluting the fans everyone stayed but him.

2. No

Congrats to Madrid fans for their lost, I hear they are pretty happy. I get frustruated when we lose a clean sheet and can't sleep when we tie or lose but whatever floats their boat I guess.

 

Puyol was immense yesterday, he made 3 fantastic blocks and the one he made to stop a shot from Higuain was as good as a goal. Great performance from him.

 

anyone know why there aren't any away fans at barca-real and real-barca games?

 

thier was away barca fans at the 2-6 game.

 

Madrid played a good game. El Ingeniero tactically beat Pep in the first Half, Second Half was the other way around. I thought Van der Vaart coming in for them was more important than Raul. At the beginning of the second half, everybody knew Zlatan had to come in, but with Pep's history of only subbing in players late, I thought Zlatan was gonna come in with 15 mins left. I was glad Pep put him in 10 minutes instead of 30. When we got the Red Card, Pellegrini should have made his team play possession footall instead of Getting all desperate for the draw. They had one more man, and if they could not hold posession with one more man, they deserved to lose. At the end of the game it was Kaka vs Barcelona.
I also think the reason that Pep got a little bit more upset than usual for a red, was because he was about to sub Sergi out for Toure.

 

Tell me about it. Puyol lives for these games.

 

In this game you have to give credit to the defence and Valdes. OK, Alves will never be the greatest defender, that really is not his strong point, but Puyol in particular, but also Pique and Abidal were outstanding and the save Valdes made from Ronaldo was match altering. There were 3/4 times when I thought Real Madrid were going to score or create a goal scorering opportunity only for Puyol or Pique and Abidal to pop up and make a block or important tackle.

Shame Messi didn't score from his opportunity, but credit to Casillas.

 

I'd like to say all kinds of cool, important, tactical stuff like everyone else, but all I can do is smile about the results of the weekend.



Getting that W was h-u-g-e.

 

Watching the game again Pique was brilliant leading up to the goal. He owned Crynaldo in Barca's penalty area (something he did constantly throughout the match), moved the ball forward and went on a run right through the middle. When Alves put in the cross for Ibra Pique was also making a run into the area drawing some of the defenders' attention.

Runs like these have become a part of his game, he did the same last season in the clasico when he scored, and they confuse the hell out of the opponent's defense since they suddenly have another tower to worrying about marking.

 

Ray Hudson is such a ********ing trip, rewatching and hearing some commentary:

On Ibra: "He could make Barbara Walters cry with his football."


WTF?

 

Was there a particular reason for Toure not starting other than Pep simply chosing Busquets over him?

Based on Toure's declarations, it seems like he was fit and wanting to play.

 

Not only that, at this point Toure>>Busquets

 

Toure was coming off the swine flu, right? Toure also got hurt earlier in the season, I believe, which is why Busquets has played more over all. I think when Toure was out, Busquets played well so Pep kept riding him even when Toure got healthy again.

Yesterday, I thought Busquets played well aside from the dumb hand ball.

 

i hope yaya starts getting more minutes, be a huge loss if he left......dudes way more of a physical presence, he doesn't lose the ball making dumb back passes either....i was always for busquets getting play time but never over toure.

i think hes probably being subtly punished because his agent seems to like to lash out towrds the press at yayas bench time.....hes starting to do the same at times V_V...

 

toure >>>>>>>>>> busquets

i feel comfortable knowing big old yaya is there.

not so much with busquets who's made tons of backpassing errors.

 

For any individual game Toure hasn't started, you could come up with a reason for why he didn't start. Overall, though, the pattern is fishy. He's underpaid, and he's starting to speak publicly about his disappointment with the current rotation system. This may be another of Pep's mysterious "feelings."

 

hopefully not, but like i said, yaya and his agent putting the club on blast is not a good look for him.

hopefully this all gets settled before it blows up in their face >_>

 

For all we know it's been done indoors and going on for a while.

 

Your observations did not go unnoticed....

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