El Clasico

[gomessi]

6.30pm, Saturday, Sky Sports 3

should be a great match. Real have to win and barca will go for it as well. I'm hoping for a real goalfest.

I think we'll see a really beautiful match and barca will nick it 3-4 :drool:

[gomessi]

guti is injured
sneijder injured
pepe banned for 0 games

but I think robben has recovered from his calf injury

henry out with an injury so iniesta will be pushed into henry position.

[Rojoknapp]

VAMOS RÉAL!!!!!

Would be brilliant if they could nick the League again - I remember watching them last year every Sunday/Saturday night at the end of the season, scoring late goals in every game, it was unbelievable :001_smile:

And I'm really looking forward (due to the circumstances) to an improvement on the last game - when Réal just prayed for 0-0 and hacked anything that moved :thumbdown:

[Rojoknapp]

Alas - Henry plays JS.

[Rojoknapp]

Capello has swine flu :scared:

[Rojoknapp]

Robben looks up for it - he's on fire already :thumbup:

[TURKISH]

Get In There!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TURKISH]

Get In There!!!

[TURKISH]

Get In There!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ioang]

Have you heard of the pattern of La Liga to Premiership winners? They've correlated last few years:

2001 Real Madrid - Manchester United
2002 Valencia - Arsenal
2003 Real Madrid - Manchester United
2004 Valencia - Arsenal
2005 Barca - Chelsea
2006 Barca - Chelsea
2007 Real Madrid - Manchester United
2008 Real Madrid - Manchester United

Having said that, Barca winning now, sure to get the title... will we see a late Chelsea run!?

[TURKISH]

Casillas is the best keeper in the world and has been for years.:drool:

[TURKISH]

Get In There!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[earl warwick]

Casillas is the best keeper in the world and has been for years.:drool:

Nonsense. Until his injury Cech was, but Buffon and Given are more reliable and solid than Casillas. Casillas is certainly better than any English keeper.

[Keanoldinho]

Nonsense. Until his injury Cech was, but Buffon and Given are more reliable and solid than Casillas. Casillas is certainly better than any English keeper.



Buffon is the best and has been for ages imo

[TURKISH]

Nonsense. Until his injury Cech was, but Buffon and Given are more reliable and solid than Casillas. Casillas is certainly better than any English keeper.

Consistently imo he has been brilliant for years, cech has been poor since that irish lad hunt nearly killed him.:scared:

[Keanoldinho]

Have you heard of the pattern of La Liga to Premiership winners? They've correlated last few years:

2001 Real Madrid - Manchester United
2002 Valencia - Arsenal
2003 Real Madrid - Manchester United
2004 Valencia - Arsenal
2005 Barca - Chelsea
2006 Barca - Chelsea
2007 Real Madrid - Manchester United
2008 Real Madrid - Manchester United

Having said that, Barca winning now, sure to get the title... will we see a late Chelsea run!?


that's a crazy stat

[Keanoldinho]

Real are getting their asses handed to them on a platter

[earl warwick]

Consistently imo he has been brilliant for years, cech has been poor since that irish lad hunt nearly killed him.:scared:
That's largely what I said.

[Rojoknapp]

:scared: :scared: :scared:

[gomessi]

told you so...

barcelona are on a different planet and if chelsea even play footie for 5 minutes they'll get slaughtered. :drool:

I thought everyone from Barcelona put in a good shift. Messi has just scary amounts of talent - if he can stay injury free for the next couple of seasons Barca fans are in for history in the making.

and Xavi's ball for their 5th goal was just brilliant. Pique was awesome tonight as well, defensively brilliant and pretty composed to tuck away his goal.

Not much to say in Real Madrid's favour though. It just shows how impressive Barca were that in the first half Casillas was their best player and they were still 2 goals ahead! Robben's got some real talent but goes down far too easily, and Higuain looked pretty good on the rare occasion he had the ball. Seriously though, they looked seriously average compared to Barcelona.

Should make for an interesting semi final mid-week though.

Looking at tonight, a lot of Barca's weaknesses match up to Chelsea's strengths (set pieces, crosses etc.) and they won't have Puyol, so if Chelsea get their tactics right again and build from the back they're really capable of nicking a win.

[gomessi]

Get In There!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wanking over iniesta....



just kidding iniesta is ****ing awesome him xavier, and god are a delight to watch.

[TURKISH]

told you so...

barcelona are on a different planet and if chelsea even play footie for 5 minutes they'll get slaughtered. :drool:

I thought everyone from Barcelona put in a good shift. Messi has just scary amounts of talent - if he can stay injury free for the next couple of seasons Barca fans are in for history in the making.

and Xavi's ball for their 5th goal was just brilliant. Pique was awesome tonight as well, defensively brilliant and pretty composed to tuck away his goal.

Not much to say in Real Madrid's favour though. It just shows how impressive Barca were that in the first half Casillas was their best player and they were still 2 goals ahead! Robben's got some real talent but goes down far too easily, and Higuain looked pretty good on the rare occasion he had the ball. Seriously though, they looked seriously average compared to Barcelona.

Should make for an interesting semi final mid-week though.

Looking at tonight, a lot of Barca's weaknesses match up to Chelsea's strengths (set pieces, crosses etc.) and they won't have Puyol, so if Chelsea get their tactics right again and build from the back they're really capable of nicking a win.

:001_rolleyes: What did you tell us?:001_rolleyes:

[hastingsyid]

absolute classic:001_rolleyes:

[gomessi]

:001_rolleyes: What did you tell us?:001_rolleyes:

barca play football from another planeet, the thread on orgasmic football, my man crush on half the barca team

MESSI+INIESTA+XAVI:drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:

[TURKISH]

barca play football from another planeet, the thread on orgasmic football, my man crush on half the barca team

MESSI+INIESTA+XAVI:drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:

People have been saying the same thing, no one has disagreed with you so you don't need to gloat.:001_smile:

Anyway you tell how good they are when people don't really talk about Henry or Eto'o as there top players, its Messi, Iniesta and Xaxi. At arsenal it was Henry this Henry that.

[Keanoldinho]

now watch cheatski beat them on wednesday ffs

[SurreySpur]

barca play football from another planeet, the thread on orgasmic football, my man crush on half the barca team

MESSI+INIESTA+XAVI:drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:

Are you really a spurs fan? :scared:

[gomessi]

Are you really a spurs fan? :scared:

yes

watched el classico after stewarding at whl

i also like watching barca

[Rojoknapp]

:001_rolleyes: What did you tell us?:001_rolleyes:

He told us Barca would nick a tight one 4-3 :001_rolleyes:

[irishspur]

He told us Barca would nick a tight one 4-3 :001_rolleyes:

LOL:laugh:

[gomessi]

He told us Barca would nick a tight one 4-3 :001_rolleyes:

Another way of looking at it would be I predicted barca to score 4 away from home at the bernabeau. 8 goals in a game and I predicted 7.

[Rojoknapp]

Another way of looking at it would be I predicted barca to score 4 away from home at the bernabeau. 8 goals in a game and I predicted 7.

Well they didn't score 4 away from home. They scored 6. And Réal just got 2. Which isn't 3. And Barca beat them by 4. Not by 1. So really, whichever way you look at it, you were pretty far off with your prediction :sleep:

[Keanoldinho]

Henry is now fecked for Wednesday so looks like cheatski will be in with a big chance of beating them. Henry was their best player last week. The more I think about it the more I think cheatski are going to win which is bollox really. There isn't a team like the rusky ******s in la liga and Barca just looked like they didn't know how to break them down last week.

With a team like chavski you gotta give them some possesion to draw them out then hit them quick on the counter before they get all 9 of there defenders back. It will be an interesting game to see how it pans out.

[choda]

Henry is now fecked for Wednesday so looks like cheatski will be in with a big chance of beating them. Henry was their best player last week. The more I think about it the more I think cheatski are going to win which is bollox really. There isn't a team like the rusky ******s in la liga and Barca just looked like they didn't know how to break them down last week.

With a team like chavski you gotta give them some possesion to draw them out then hit them quick on the counter before they get all 9 of there defenders back. It will be an interesting game to see how it pans out.

But they will have to come out and play a bit in this game. They just tried to kill it away from home and were lucky in the end to do it.

If they do that at home Barca will probably score at some point and then they are gone or in horrible shape.

And when they come out and play a bit, as they really have to, then the Barca players will get normal space to play and will kill them.

My only worry is Abidal at centre half. This guy has never impressed me in his main position not to mind somewhere I've never seen him play!

[berbzy 'G']

:001_rolleyes: 6-2... I jus knew it :001_rolleyes:

[gomessi]

Henry is now fecked for Wednesday so looks like cheatski will be in with a big chance of beating them. Henry was their best player last week. The more I think about it the more I think cheatski are going to win which is bollox really. There isn't a team like the rusky ******s in la liga and Barca just looked like they didn't know how to break them down last week.

With a team like chavski you gotta give them some possesion to draw them out then hit them quick on the counter before they get all 9 of there defenders back. It will be an interesting game to see how it pans out.

iniesta is one of them players who can go into any position and look orgasmically good.

Actually it might even be a blessing in disguise. If chelsea park the bus again iniesta and messi will have completly free roles to wreak havoc. Iniesta wont have defensive responsibilites and he could well tear them apart withhis movement.

Its unlikely messi will have 2 bag games in a week so chelsea could get torn apart if messi manages to conjure some magic up.

Eto
Iniesta Messi

Keita Xavi toure

looking at that guus will want to the park the bus and maybe nick one on the counter/set piece.

[TURKISH]

Chelsea to win by a set piece. I hope Barca and Man utd win.

[choda]

iniesta is one of them players who can go into any position and look orgasmically good.

Actually it might even be a blessing in disguise. If chelsea park the bus again iniesta and messi will have completly free roles to wreak havoc. Iniesta wont have defensive responsibilites and he could well tear them apart withhis movement.

Its unlikely messi will have 2 bag games in a week so chelsea could get torn apart if messi manages to conjure some magic up.

Eto
Iniesta Messi

Keita Xavi toure

looking at that guus will want to the park the bus and maybe nick one on the counter/set piece.

I think Pep made a big error in the last game by not switching to 343 at half time or very soon after. It was clear Chelsea were not going to attack but just sit in and hang on for dear life.

I'd say he will have a plan B this time. I think they'd have murdered them if they had some proper width and many attackers to receive the crosses, cut backs etc.

[irishspur]

But they will have to come out and play a bit in this game. They just tried to kill it away from home and were lucky in the end to do it.

If they do that at home Barca will probably score at some point and then they are gone or in horrible shape.

And when they come out and play a bit, as they really have to, then the Barca players will get normal space to play and will kill them.

My only worry is Abidal at centre half. This guy has never impressed me in his main position not to mind somewhere I've never seen him play!

Nope it'll be martin caceres the young uruguayan centre back hes highly rated but mightnt cope with Drogba. Bojan or Keita for henry shouldnt matter too much im still backing barca on away goals. It would be a tragedy for football if Chelski made it to the final. Barcelona v manure is a date for the diarys, unlike chelski v manure or arsenail:001_rolleyes:

[gomessi]

Nope it'll be martin caceres the young uruguayan centre back hes highly rated but mightnt cope with Drogba. Bojan or Keita for henry shouldnt matter too much im still backing barca on away goals. It would be a tragedy for football if Chelski made it to the final. Barcelona v manure is a date for the diarys, unlike chelski v manure or arsenail:001_rolleyes:

I'm almost sure it will be. He is light years ahead of abidal who is lucky to playing for a club like barca. Abidal is the shit on the stick playing alongside artists:laugh:

martin caceres has done a good job whenever he has had to fill in so I'm confident he'll perform. Hes decent in the air so he could match up to drogba.

[irishspur]

I'm almost sure it will be. He is light years ahead of abidal who is lucky to playing for a club like barca. Abidal is the shit on the stick playing alongside artists:laugh:

martin caceres has done a good job whenever he has had to fill in so I'm confident he'll perform. Hes decent in the air so he could match up to drogba.

Its funny because a year or two ago abidal was widely regarded as the worlds best left back and frances number one. Now hes crap and frances third choice left back after evra and clichy.

[choda]

Its funny because a year or two ago abidal was widely regarded as the worlds best left back and frances number one. Now hes crap and frances third choice left back after evra and clichy.

I always thought he was SHIT! Never saw anything to suggest he should ever be in the French team or get a move to Barca. Horseshit is my opinion and how Evra wasn't ahead of him I will never know.

Ditto Malouda and playing Henry up front on his own instead of Benzema/ Saha. Not playing Saha and Henry wing forward cost them the world cup!

Malouda is PANTS!

Granted Guus has improved him, but he's still muck.

[TURKISH]

I always thought he was SHIT! Never saw anything to suggest he should ever be in the French team or get a move to Barca. Horseshit is my opinion and how Evra wasn't ahead of him I will never know.

Ditto Malouda and playing Henry up front on his own instead of Benzema/ Saha. Not playing Saha and Henry wing forward cost them the world cup!

Malouda is PANTS!

Granted Guus has improved him, but he's still muck.

I remember watching Abidal at the Euro's and thinking "this guy is garbage" what happens Barca buy him. He is still garbage and guy is a con artist.

Evra, Clichy are much better than this guy.

[gomessi]

I remember watching Abidal at the Euro's and thinking "this guy is garbage" what happens Barca buy him. He is still garbage and guy is a con artist.

Evra, Clichy are much better than this guy.

he really is wank. I've seen him give so many shit performances. It really is the one weak spot as well as valdes who is shit.

Problem is sylvnho (ex arsenal) is getting onthinkhe's about 35 and he's just as crap. So barca will definatly get another left back.

The other weak link is Valdes. He doesnt need to do anything though because barca are camped in the oppos half but he does look very dodgy at crosses and is only an average shot stopper.

[irishspur]

he really is wank. I've seen him give so many shit performances. It really is the one weak spot as well as valdes who is shit.

Problem is sylvnho (ex arsenal) is getting onthinkhe's about 35 and he's just as crap. So barca will definatly get another left back.

The other weak link is Valdes. He doesnt need to do anything though because barca are camped in the oppos half but he does look very dodgy at crosses and is only an average shot stopper.

I hear they want phillip lahm now theres a quality fullback. I agree valdes is dodgy they can do a lot better. They could also do with another striker gudjohnson is a donkey!

[gomessi]

I hear they want phillip lahm now theres a quality fullback. I agree valdes is dodgy they can do a lot better. They could also do with another striker gudjohnson is a donkey!

lahm looked shit in the euros I watched all 6 games and he was average in some and shit in the others. However I always hear good things about him but I havent watched him in ages.

Gudjohnsen has never ever played as a striker or wing forward under pep. Pep has always used him as a back up cm player. He dosent even play that much:confused1:

He obviouslty doesnt look as good as iniesta nd xavi but thats because they are out of this world so gudjohnsen looks very average when he plays.

[Keanoldinho]

lahm looked shit in the euros I watched all 6 games and he was average in some and shit in the others. However I always hear good things about him but I havent watched him in ages.

Gudjohnsen has never ever played as a striker or wing forward under pep. Pep has always used him as a back up cm player. He dosent even play that much:confused1:

He obviouslty doesnt look as good as iniesta nd xavi but thats because they are out of this world so gudjohnsen looks very average when he plays.


he sure as hell was Lahm got targeted by most teams and couldn't cope with it. I reckon he'd get found out at Barca too.