barca without messi(injury), deco(bench), ronaldinho(bench). apparantly ronaldinho and rijkard had some arguments at fridays practise and that is why ronaldinho gets the bench T_T hopefully he make a successful exchange later in the game
interesting to see dos santos as a starter tonight. i made a bet on barca but now when i saw starting lineups i'm not so sure anymore.
fc barcelona 1 V. Valdés 5 C. Puyol 4 R. Márquez 3 G. Milito 22 É. Abidal 6 Xavi 24 Y. Touré 7 E. Gudjohnsen 17 G. Dos Santos 9 S. Eto´o 8 A. Iniesta
real madrid 1 I. Casillas 16 G. Heinze 5 F. Cannavaro 3 Pepe 4 S. Ramos 6 M. Diarra 23 W. Sneijder 10 Robinho 19 Baptista 7 Raúl (c) 17 R. van Nistelrooy
Nice match. Madrid had the control all the time. Awesome Pepe and Baptista. Barça needs to kick out Ronaldinho (he is a blackhole for the ball) and start giving Iniesta what he deserves. If he were brazilian they will make him untouchable... Iniesta:
bah I like lazydinho so much, I just can't stand lazy players like him, it makes me mad.
Julio Baptista is not an awesome players, but he is known for being a hard worker in every team he played. Even for Sao Paulo (where he was so hated, because he was pretty bad as a forward).
btw I think Iniesta is one of the best players of the world since 2006, I don't know how they make him sub. He was pretty good since he was young, he was more offensive before. I think he is playing a little bit back in Barça because of the amount of awesome offensive players they have.
Man, barça line up is sooo good you end up trying to figure out why its not working.
In the match there was a memorable situation where Iniesta was running with the ball and he stopped in the corner of '16' and waited few seconds for someone to show up on position. Nobody fuckin' moved. Then I thought "OK, thats enough, you can lose this match, I dont fuckin' mind."
Angolan striker Manucho who had previously played in the Angolan league went on a three week trial with United and impressed so much that he was offered a deal. This is really unheard of, if he doesn't have problems dealing with pressure and the physical nature of English football then I think he will do well considering how talented he must be to impress everyone.
On January 06 2008 03:03 MyTHicaL wrote: physical nature of english football? joke? compared to the italian leagues maybe, but seriously look to the SPL for some physicality...
lol
madrid is looking to offload saviola and dudek, and loan out drenthe??
EPT
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.. nice goal by baptista tho.. bleh![[image loading]](http://fotos.subefotos.com/c295f8a7ab332fc7887bc95482392e17o.gif)
