La Liga Thread 2011/12

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cesc off, Keita on.

And no, they don't bore me.

[Cripps_orig]

Cesc hauled off

[McNamara That Ghost...]

4-0 Messi again. His technique is ridiculous.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

4-0 FT. At least it was only 4-0 this time for Osasuna.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cesc's second goal. :bow:

[Niall_Quinn]

Cesc's second goal. :bow:

Still pissed we gave this guy away for pretty much free.

[Cripps_orig]

Wengers fault

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Still pissed we gave this guy away for pretty much free.

Having said that, at least we had the er sense(?) to put in some clauses with regards to winning things and possibly goals too. That should keep the vault warm for another winter.

[Niall_Quinn]

Wengers fault

Actually your fault.

[Boss]

Fabregas :bow: :bow:

What a beast.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Real Madrid vs Granada is on in a couple of minutes.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Real Madrid: Casillas, Marceloa, Varane, Sergio Ramos, Lass, Khedira, Xabi Alonso, Oezil, Benzema, Higuain, Ronaldo.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Siqueira nearly did a Lee Dixon. :lol: Brilliant effort.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Marketing have been dire so far.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-0 Benzema.

Me. :bow:

Great interplay by Ronaldo and Oezil for the goal.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Real Madrid 1-1 Granada! Great header by Rico in off the post.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Good save by Casillas to deny Rico again. Brilliant football by Granada.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Real Madrid lead 2-1 at half time, Sergio Ramos putting them back ahead.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

3-1 Higuain, that didn't take long. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

4-1 Benzema again. :blink: Great finish.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Now Benzema is injured. Callejon to come on for him.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

5-1 Ronaldo. :lol:

[Cripps_orig]

Still going to be top then

And people call Barca the best team in the world :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

The other four games today only yielded one goal. :unsure:

[Cripps_orig]

La Liga :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Villarreal 2-1 Valencia at HT. Ruben and Gonzalo scoring for Villarreal, Feghouli getting one back for Valencia. Second half is on now.

Sevilla lost 2-1 away to Rayo Vallecano. :doh:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Disallowed goal for Soldado, offside.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Villarreal 2-2 Valencia, Aduriz! Four minutes remaining.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

2-2 FT. Good match.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Real Betis vs Sporting on now, not that I will be paying much attention to it. Espanyol vs Barcelona at 8:30.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Real Betis 1-0 Sporting, Roque Santa Cruz. :blink:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Real Betis 2-0 Sporting, Molina. And that's FT. Barca game on now.

Espanyol: Alvarez, Navarro, Amat, Moreno, Vila, Forlin, Romaric, Kulossa, Verdu, Weiss, Sergio Garcia.

Barcelona: Valdes, Alves, Pique, Puyol, Abidal, Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta, Cesc, Messi, Sanchez.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

What a save by Valdes! And Pique clears off the line from Verdu's second attempt.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Disallowed goal for Cesc. :haha: And Messi has been booked, handballed it apparently. Terrible keeping error anyway.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Messi did deliberately handball it, why he did I'm not sure. He was in acres of space.

A few seconds later Alvarez easily could've brought Sanchez down and give a pelanty away.

Now he has messed up for Cesc to make it 0-1 with his head, again.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Two footed challenge by Pique on Weiss, nothing given. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Superb block from Abidal.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Has Romaric been called up to the Cote D'ivoire squad? Interesting that he is allowed to play in this if so.

[KESSLER]

Nah the commentator said he wasn't called up earlier

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Espanyol have played quite well, terrible finishing though.

And ah I see, that'll explain why he can play then!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Romaric booked.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Espanyol 0-1 Barcelona, HT. Good match.

[KESSLER]

Biscuits trying to start another barca brawl :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Disallowed goal for Dani Alves. Not that Rob Palmer knew.

[GP]

Biscuits trying to start another barca brawl :lol:

If he actually were a biscuit, what kind would he be?

I think rich tea.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

That was not a foul on Puyol, Barca were extremely lucky there.

Romaric off, Alvaro on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

A can has been thrown on to the pitch. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Freekick to Barca, dangerous area.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Xavi puts it over. Cesc was trying to distract by doing a crab impression.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sanchez hauled off, Pedro on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Messi shoots from a tight angle, could only go near post from there, Alvarez saves it.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Alvarez off injured, Casilla on. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cesc off, Keita on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Espanyol 1-1 Barcelona, Alvaro!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Four added minutes.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Pique smacks the bar! Pedro hammers the rebound, handball denies the probable goal! :lol:

[Olivier's xmas twist]

If he actually were a biscuit, what kind would he be?

I think rich tea.

Deffo a hobbKnob

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-1 FT.

Barca. :haha:

Espanyol. :bow:

[Cripps_orig]

Best team in the world? :haha:

5 points behind Real. :haha:

Mourinho does it again :bow:

Should have got him in 2004 tbh

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Barca :pal:

Cesc :pal:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

That was 06/07 Rijkaard complacency Barca. :lol:

[Niall_Quinn]

If he actually were a biscuit, what kind would he be?

I think rich tea.

A McVitie's Cunt (do they still make those?)

[GP]

A McVitie's Cunt (do they still make those?)

They are Fox's Cunts now

[Master Splinter]

The New Lampard keeping up his scoring run.

Barcelona :haha:.

Espanyol :bow:.

Valencia :doh: could have gone two points closer to Barcelona.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Apparently the tax rate in Spain for high earners is to go from 24% to 54%. It won't affect those already in Spain but of course, it might have an effect on players that would want to go to Spain from here on in.

Also, monkey chants were aimed at Dani Alves last night from Espanyol supporters. I believe it was at Espanyol's old stadium (the Olympic stadium) when English players were racially abused. That fine from FIFA sure hurt them.

[Coney]

Apparently the tax rate in Spain for high earners is to go from 24% to 54%. It won't affect those already in Spain but of course, it might have an effect on players that would want to go to Spain from here on in.

They will already have offshore accounts/companies to deal with that issue.

[Coney]

Also, monkey chants were aimed at Dani Alves last night from Espanyol supporters. I believe it was at Espanyol's old stadium (the Olympic stadium) when English players were racially abused. That fine from FIFA sure hurt them.

What do you expect from a bunch of greasy dagos? ;)

[McNamara That Ghost...]

They will already have offshore accounts/companies to deal with that issue.

I'm not sure players would. And in any case, I meant more of players that might go to Spain in the future.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

They are Fox's Cunts now

No thats Mitt Romney

[Xhaka Can’t]

No thats Mitt Romney

MO's mental Manager made a funny!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Malaga vs Real Madrid, Copa Del Rey fifth round second leg is on tonight at 9pm. SS2, :popcorn:

[Niall_Quinn]

No thats Mitt Romney

As already said, Fox's cunt.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Lass booked. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Khedira looks badly injured. Oezil on for him.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sergio Ramos heads just wide. Come on Malaga.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

0-0 HT.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Second half on now. Kaka off, Marcelo on.

[GP]

Is Khedira pretty much dead? I'm hearing it's a bad one.

[Cripps_orig]

The New Lampard keeping up his scoring run.

Barcelona :haha:.

Espanyol :bow:.

Valencia :doh: could have gone two points closer to Barcelona.

New Lampard?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Brilliant save from Caballero to deny Ronaldo.

And yeah, I reckon Khedira is dead.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Disallowed goal for Higuain, offside. Rob Palmer didn't realise, again.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Higuain off, Benzema on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ronaldo. :haha:

WTF was that?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Malaga 0-1 Real Madrid, Benzema. An absolute howler from Caballero.

:haha: Amazing stuff.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Arbeloa sent off. :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Real Madrid are through. Sets up the tie with Barca, probably.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sevilla 0-1 Valencia, Soldado! :bow:

They are 0-2 up now on aggregate and will surely go through.

[Cripps_orig]

FFS i was just waching that and changed over to SSN to see Brian Swanson waffling on about something

[McNamara That Ghost...]

He always waffles.

Sevilla 1-1 Valencia, Rakitic. :popcorn:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Navarro off, Kanoute on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sevilla 2-1 Valencia, Ruiz own goal! Sevilla need one more goal.

[Cripps_orig]

Come on Reyes

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Kanoute heads just wide, what a chance.

[Marc Overmars]

Just realised Kanoute is Henry's brother.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

2-1 FT. Valencia are through on away goals (2-2).

A derby next round as Valencia play Levante. :popcorn:

[Cripps_orig]

Just realised Kanoute is Henry's brother.Muslim brothers tbf

[Cripps_orig]

Khedira out for 4 weeks

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Osasuna vs Barcelona is on in a minute, although the second leg is a formality.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Barca: Pinto, Adriano, Fontas, Pique, Montoya, Mascherano, Thiago, Sergi, Pedro, Cuenca, Sanchez.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

The fog. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fontas off injured, Abidal on. Osasuna nearly scored. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Osasuna 1-0 Barcelona, Lekic! :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-0 HT. Just three more needed for Osasuna to take it to extra-time. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Osasuna 1-1 Barcelona, Sanchez. Brilliant cross from Adriano.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sanchez off, Messi on.

[Syn]

Sanchez off, Messi on.

Because they can.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Possibly. He gets fairly grumpy if he doesn't play any part in a match apparently, the child.

Also, Pedro off, Busquets on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Osasuna 1-2 Barcelona, Sergi Roberto. Great finish - Messi assist. :rolleyes:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Barca win. Real Madrid vs Barcelona QF first leg on Wednesday. :popcorn:

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Saturday, 14 January 2012
Granada v Rayo Vallecano, 17:00
Real Zaragoza v Getafe, 17:00
Sevilla v Espanyol, 17:00
Mallorca v Real Madrid, 19:00
Valencia v Real Sociedad, 21:00

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Sunday, 15 January 2012
Atletico Madrid v Villarreal, 11:00
Osasuna v Racing Santander, 15:00
Athletic Bilbao v Levante, 17:00
Sporting Gijon v Malaga, 18:45
Barcelona v Real Betis, 20:30

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Real Mallorca 1-0 Real Madrid, Hemad! This is on SS1 at 8pm, second half only. :rolleyes:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Lass hauled off, Higuain on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cendros booked, bought the obvious trap Ronaldo had set.

Pelanty shout waived away for Marketing, mainly because Callejon dived and then went in with a headbutt movement once Ramis had a go at him, up the other end straight from it disallowed goal for Victor, given offside. And he wasn't offside.

:wacko:

Also, Kaka on, Arbeloa off.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Madrid player dives and mallorca denied a good goal.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ronaldo shoots from distance, easy for Dudu.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Good shot by Kaka, Dudu tips it over.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Real Mallorca 1-1 Real Madrid, Higuain. Deflected over Dudu from Tissone's attemptd block.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ronado smacks the bar!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Disallowed goal for Sergio Ramos. :lol:

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Madrid are bigger cheaters than Barcelona

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Real Mallorca 1-2 Real Madrid, Callejon.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Mallora defending :doh:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Huge pelanty appeal for Real Mallorca.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Rightly not given.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-2 FT.

[Cripps_orig]

8 points clear

[Niall_Quinn]

If Mourinho pulls this off it will end all discussion. You don't have to like the guy but you can't argue against the results he gets. Bet he leaves the minute he wins it.

[Marc Overmars]

Real Madrid should win the league but I think the real acid test for them is the CL, because that would mean needing to beat Barca along the way over 2 legs.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Barca might not get in their way at all whats to say Bayern won't do them.

[Niall_Quinn]

Real Madrid should win the league but I think the real acid test for them is the CL, because that would mean needing to beat Barca along the way over 2 legs.

Isn't a season a better indicator than a two leg tie with an invariably crooked ref?

I mean 10 seasons, because you can't judge it before that.

[Cripps_orig]

If Mourinho pulls this off it will end all discussion. You don't have to like the guy but you can't argue against the results he gets. Bet he leaves the minute he wins it.Hope so and then Wenger fucks off out of here and we get Mourinho :pray:

We'd have our Arsenal back

[Marc Overmars]

Barca might not get in their way at all whats to say Bayern won't do them.

Well it might sound melo dramatic but I don't think Barca can be beaten over 2 legs. Maybe we'll get an indication with the Copa Del Rey but if it was a CL tie I'd back Barca easily.

[Cripps_orig]

Depends on the officials tbh

Fair and impartial ones, of which non exist as Barca have a hold over all of them , then Real very easily.

Any other and Cunts will win

[Marc Overmars]

Isn't a season a better indicator than a two leg tie with an invariably crooked ref?

I mean 10 seasons, because you can't judge it before that.

The league is of course always the best measure, but I think if they were to beat Barca over 2 legs in the CL, that would hold greater significance for them because they could win the league despite losing both el classicos.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Hope so and then Wenger fucks off out of here and we get Mourinho :pray:

We'd have our Arsenal back

:pal: For thinking we'd ever get him, never going to happen.

[Niall_Quinn]

Well it might sound melo dramatic but I don't think Barca can be beaten over 2 legs. Maybe we'll get an indication with the Copa Del Rey but if it was a CL tie I'd back Barca easily.

They would have been beaten over two legs on two or three occasions in recent history but what about those refs? Okay it still counts, even when they have to cheat their arses off. But another shady tournament for them and the rose coloured glasses might come off for a lot of people.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sporting 1-1 Malaga, nearing the end now. Horseface equalised for Malaga, I think.

Barcelona vs Real Betis has started but they're waiting until the end of this game. :rolleyes:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sporting 2-1 Malaga, Trejo! What a goal!

Pellegrini. :haha:

Dirty money. :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

2-1 FT.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cesc is starting again. :lol:

:(

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Valdes just about denies Molina.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Three good chances for Betis in the space of a minute.

Barca. :lol:

[GP]

Barca 1-0 Real

Xavi

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Barcelona 1-0 Real Betis, Xavi. Cesc assist via the post.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

2-0, Messi. Bloody hell.

[GP]

Barca 2-0 Real

Messy

[GP]

:lol:

Oh Iniesta

[GP]

Cesc plays as a striker now?

Interesting.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Messi's vision. :wacko:

And yeah, there's not much need for him in their midfield.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Barcelona 2-1 Real Betis, Castro! First goal they have conceded at home in the league.

[GP]

Barcelona 2-1 Real Betis, Castro! First goal they have conceded at home in the league.

That's ridiculous

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Iriney booked, Busquets was dead again, briefly.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Messi booked for handballing it, again. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

2-1 HT. :popcorn:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Santa Cruz is on or Real Betis, Iriney off.

Cuenca hauled off (didn't even hear his name in the first half), Dani Alves on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Barcelona 2-2 Real Betis, Santa Cruz! What a goal, it had been coming.

[Cripps_orig]

Messis mis kick :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Dani Alves. :haha:

Won the ball but had no idea where he had headed it to.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I thought Iniesta was foueld there - booked for diving though. :lol:

[Cripps_orig]

Absolutely brilliant officiating there

Iniesta is a despicable cheating cunt

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Freekick to Barca, dangerous area. Mario commits his second bookable offence, he's off. What a dummy.

[Syn]

Amazing couple of runs fromMessi.

[Cripps_orig]

Spoke too soon

Betis player sent off

A close up of the referee after the Iniesta dive shows him saying hes sorry and he'll make it up to Barca

And so he has

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Messi hits the wall.

[Syn]

Fucking hell, barca love a good moan. Can't believe refs put up with it.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

3-2 Sanchez!

[GP]

:lol:

what a gift

[Syn]

Relentless from Barca. It was inevitable.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cesc hauled off, Thiago on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Chaos in Betis' area. :haha: Handball by Dorado, pelanty to Barca.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

4-2, Messi with his second of the game. 33rd of the season. :wacko:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Iniesta off, Adriano on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

4-2 FT. Great game.

[Cripps_orig]

Do we get a seperate thread for the Cup game el clasico?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I suppose we probably should.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Results today:
Espanyol 3-0 Granada. Rui Fonte scored Espanyol's third. :bow:
Racing Santander 1-2 Getafe.
Real Sociedad 0-4 Atletico Madrid. Falcao with a hat-trick. :bow:
Real Betis 1-1 Sevilla. Not sure if there was a riot or not but it wouldn't be a suprise in that fixture, even in a draw.

[Cripps_orig]

Sunday, 22 January 2012
Osasuna v Valencia, 11:00
Rayo Vallecano v Mallorca, 15:00
Malaga v Barcelona, 17:00
Levante v Real Zaragoza, 18:45
Real Madrid v Athletic Bilbao, 20:30

Monday, 23 January 2012
Villarreal v Sporting Gijon, 20:00

Finished 1-1 in Osasuna

93rd min equaliser by the home side cancelling out Soldados opener 5 minutes from time

Albelda was sent off in injury time just before the equaliser

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Malaga 0-1 Barcelona at HT, Messi with the goal. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Malaga 0-2 Barca, Sanchez. :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Malaga 0-3 Barca, Messi with his second. Fucking hell. :lol:

[Cripps_orig]

What a shit day

[McNamara That Ghost...]

0-4, Messi hat-trick. Absolutely ridiculous. Extended highlights are on SS1 at 7.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Malaga 1-4 Barca, Rondon.

[Cripps_orig]

Rondon :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-4 FT.

Pellegrini. :haha:

[Cripps_orig]

Fucked if im going to watch this shite at 7pm

Should have saved watching Wossy to now

[Olivier's xmas twist]

[QUOTE=Ach;89990]Fucked if im going to watch this shite at 7pm

Should have saved watching Wossy to now[/QUOTE

watch the acon not as good as barca but its still footie.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Valdes kept Barca in it early on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Horseface. :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

What a header Messi's first was. :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Barca had about eight attempts on goal before Sanchez finally put it in to make it 0-2.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Messi's second. Brilliant. :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

What an effort. Messi's freekick curled quite consdierably around the wall, hit the bar, bounced right down near the line.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Messi's third - when he runs directly at players, there isn't a hope in hell of stopping him.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Rondon had a brilliant chance to make it 2-4.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Messi is on 36 goals now for this season, five more than at this stage last year. :lol:

[Dennis Bendtner]

Xavi---Biscuits---Fabregas

Van Persie---Messi---Iniesta

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Real Madrid: Casillas, Arbeloa, Varane, Sergio Ramos, Marcelo, Xabi Alonso, Oezil, Kaka, Granero, Ronaldo, Benzema.

Athletic Bilbao: Iraizoz, Amorebieta, San Jose, Javi Martinez, Iraoa, Ander, Iturraspe, De Marcos, Sussaeta, Munain, Fernando Llorente.

Pepe has been dropped from the matchday squad. :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Xavi---Biscuits---Fabregas

Van Persie---Messi---Iniesta

:sick:

[Coney]

Messi is on 36 goals now for this season, five more than at this stage last year. :lol:


"He's still a wanker though" - Pele.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Mournful music before the game. Unconfirmed if it for Pepe's career or not.

[Cripps_orig]

Tbf that just shows what a great man Mourinho is. Pepe is in the wrong and hes been punished.

Busquets racially abuses players and Pep backs him all the way

Jose>Pep tbh

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Real Madrid 0-1 Athletic Bilbao. Llorente. :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

What a chance for De Marcos to make it 0-2! :doh:

[Marc Overmars]

Must g..

Ah fuck it, no point anymore.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Marcelo makes it 1-1.

[Cripps_orig]

Marcelo :bow:

Best LB in the world?

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Must g..

Ah fuck it, no point anymore.

Best post ever

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bilbao have been great. Hope they do well in the Europa League.

A football romanticist's dream that club. :cloud9:

[Marc Overmars]

Bilbao have been great. Hope they do well in the Europa League.

A football romanticist's dream that club. :cloud9:

Because they only go for Basque born players?

[Cripps_orig]

Llorente :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Terrible finish from Llorente. Real Madrid carved open yet again.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Because they only go for Basque born players?

Yeah. And that they have never been relegated even despite doing that.

[Cripps_orig]

Apparently, if you manage Bilbao in FM, you can only go for Basque players and going for anyone else is a sackable offense

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Casillas takes a sore one.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Apparently, if you manage Bilbao in FM, you can only go for Basque players and going for anyone else is a sackable offense

:lol: Wenger to try it in the future (not on a game)? Surely the next step in his WUM domination of the world?

[Cripps_orig]

1-1 HT

Bilbao should be in front but Real are holding on

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-1 HT. Good game.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Tbf that just shows what a great man Mourinho is. Pepe is in the wrong and hes been punished.

Busquets racially abuses players and Pep backs him all the way

Jose>Pep tbh

It would help if Jose was not a pleb who gets out played and gets tactically caught out by pep every time they play barca.

all he does is tell his players to kick messi and co.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Pelanty to Real Madrid, bit soft but if you pull somebody's shirt you're in trouble.

[Cripps_orig]

Penalty to Real

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Real Madrid 2-1 Athletic Bilbao, Ronaldo absolutely hammers the pelanty in.

[Cripps_orig]

2-1

Ronaldo

What a penalty

Top corner

[Cripps_orig]

Benzema should have done better there during that counter

[McNamara That Ghost...]

They generally don't piss about when they're going on the counter.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Er why wasn't the advantage for Bilbao played there? Ramos booked.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Llorente and Amorebieta off, Toquero and Ibai Gomez on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Poor old Benzema. Puts the ball in the net but the whistle had already been given for a pelanty. :haha:

De Marcos sent off. :rose:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

3-1, Ronaldo puts it away, shockingly.

[Cripps_orig]

Ref :doh:

Real penalty but Benzema put the ball in the net anyway

Someone sent off

3-1

Ronaldooooo

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Benzema off, Higuain on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Granero off, Lass on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Stupid kick out by Lass on Toquero; not seen by the ref.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Higuain smashes the post!

[Cripps_orig]

Higuain hits the post

[Niall_Quinn]

Why don't we buy Higuain. He's good.

[Cripps_orig]

Why don't we buy Higuain. He's good.Hes not French/African. hes pretty good and he'll cost more than we are willing to pay

[Niall_Quinn]

Hes not French/African. hes pretty good and he'll cost more than we are willing to pay

Fine. Just checking.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Kaka off, Callejon on.

[Cripps_orig]

Kaka off, Callejon on.Is that all 3 subs then?

Will we see a rare 90 minutes for Ozil then?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Looks like it. Will probaby get injured though.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

4-1 Callejon, great goal.

[Cripps_orig]

4-1 Callejon

That was a good goal

Thought he fucked it up with the first touch. Great finish

[McNamara That Ghost...]

4-1 FT. On to Wednesday. :popcorn:

[Cripps_orig]

4-1 FT

Still 5 clear :bow:

Bilbao played very well in the first half but the penalty right at the start of the 2nd half killed them

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Real Madrid have won 23 of their last 25 games in all competitions. :lol:

[Marc Overmars]

Real Madrid must be the only realistic contenders to stop Barca winning the CL?

[Syn]

But they can't seem to beat Barca. I believe both the games they didn't win in those 25 were against Barca?

Real Madrid might well win the title this year. And usually I'm a firm believer in 'the league table never lies' but I think it's clear Barca are the best team around 'at the moment', ability-wise. And swap 'around at the moment' with 'in history'. Those cheating pussies are on another level from anybody else.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

MO, I guess so but only if they were to meet in the final and even then, only if they don't freeze. It's just too tough to get the better of them over two legs.

[Cripps_orig]

We'll knock Barca out for them