La Liga Thread 2011/12

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Real Betis 1-0 Sporting, Roque Santa Cruz.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Two footed challenge by Pique on Weiss, nothing given.

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Superb block from Abidal.

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

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Nah the commentator said he wasn't called up earlier

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Espanyol have played quite well, terrible finishing though.

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