PBP: Copa del Rey | Semifinal 1st Leg | FC Barcelona v Valencia CF | 3 February 2016 [R]

Absolutely nothing is going their way.. [emoji23] [emoji23]

Except that... Neymar seriously has too stop that stupidity... How many has he missed like that? Moron.. [emoji19]

 

Neymar misses the penalty.

HT: 3-0.

 

Of course if our Copa had the CL's new rule, all cards reset / tossed before final it would be a nonissue. But I guess we don't have that rule.

Very nice of Messi to let Neymar take it so all of MSN could score. Of course Messi could have had a brace and his 500th goal but better to get that in open play. Shame about the miss. Bigger shame Masch not in to take (and make) the PK. Also could've let Suarez get his 34th goal of the season and 4th(?) hat trick, but no need to get greedy or make Neymar jealous of Leo's special bond with Luis.

 

I mean wth hell is neymar doing with his short run!? Its just stupid.. if I was Lucho id rip him a new one. There is no way he should take a penalty if its 0-0 or something.. get a grip lad and slam it.. no one cares if you are special penalty taker!! They´ll just laugh at you!!

 

Neymar needs to stop being fancy with the pks!!

 

God dammit should have let Suarez take it

 

In the fourth round when the Primera clubs enter the tournament, all bookings re-set for the lower division teams.
At this point, the finalists will have played eight matches total, from the Round of 32 through the semifinals.
3 bookings in 8 matches is deserving of a suspension, imo.

 

Camp Nou attendance

94,990 Sat 30 Jan Atlético Madrid 16:00
94,422 Wed 5 Aug Roma (Gamper) 22:00
88,834 Mon 17 Aug Athletic Bilbao (Supercopa) 22:00
83,630 Wed 30 Dec Real Betis 20:30
80,812 Sat 29 Aug Málaga 20:30
78,228 Sun 25 Oct Eibar 18:15
76,667 Wed 6 Jan Espanyol (Copa) 20:30
76,013 Sun 20 Sept Levante 20:30
75,472 Sat 17 Oct Rayo Vallecano 20:30
74,916 Sat 26 Sept Las Palmas 16:00
74,109 Sun 8 Nov Villarreal 16:00
74,020 Sat 28 Nov Real Sociedad 16:00
71,433 Tue 24 Nov Roma (UCL) 20:45
70,720 Sat 9 Jan Granada 16:00
68,694 Tue 29 Sept Leverkusen (UCL) 20:45
68,502 Wed 4 Nov BATE Borisov (UCL) 20:45
68,019 Sun 17 Jan Athletic Bilbao 20:30
67,703 Wed 2 Dec Villanovense (Copa) 20:00
67.194 Sat 12 Dec Deportivo 16:00
63,405 Wed 27 Jan Athletic Bilbao (Copa) 21:30
60,635 Wed 3 Feb Valencia (Copa) 21:00

 

Second goal came after 25 passes , pretty nice

 

Well for a one-off final in a generally neutral location it is simply nice to have each club able to play its very best side. If Pique, Masch, and/or Suarez missed the CdR final that would be a shame, similarly if Celta or Sevilla (or even Valencia) were missing 1 or more of their key players. So I agree that not getting 3 yellows in 8 games should be do-able, I'd just as soon they not suspend anyone for the final accept for red card, not for mere yellow card accumulation.

 

3 goals 11vs11 knowing Barca it will be 0 goals 11vs10

 

By my count it looks like the passes must be under-represented on this cute little graphic (if 25 is correct) but at least it gives a nice idea of the flow and who touched the ball before the goal:

 

Well first off I'd take it if we can keep them from an away goal, secondly, after witnessing the first half I have a hard time seeing that hold true. I don't think Neville and Valencia can pull off a Simeone or a Mourinho and park the bus like that. They also have already used 2 of their substitutions so they'll be tired (Vezo just came on for Siqueira).

Nice to see Iniesta rested and Roberto on.

Will be interesting to see if Pichici de Copa Munir gets time in the 2nd half or next game.

 

Yep...

 

Last sub on for 10 man Valencia with Cheryshev on.

 

Hilarious!

 

500!!!!!!!!!

Arda to Suarez, quick no look pass to Messi, dribble one, dribble two, fire with the left to near post!

Edit - did not realize that they counted U20 and U23 in the total, I mean I guess that's OK but well, is it really:
Messi has now scored 500 career goals
435 Barcelona
49 Argentina
14 ARG U20
2 ARG U23 #MESSI500

Messi has now scored 250 goals at the Camp Nou - 248 for Barcelona - 2 for Argentina

 

500 career goals !!!! messi makes it 4-0 !!

 

Messi x2!!!!!!! 4-0.

Should be the tie, but let's keep going.

 

I think we can now expect LPB to come up with reasons why the Bernabeu won't be available for the Copa final.

 

I loved how we cheered him!!!