Another Bojan goal. His 6th of the season. Roma lost 4-2 to Lecce.

5 of the 8 semi-finalists in Europe are Spanish teams. . . La Liga teams ruling Europe.

As per the first penalty, yes, Messi was in an offside position but Antonini played the ball back. . . . therefore, no offside. The first was very legit.

The 2nd though, I thought the ref should have just let it fly. I wouldn't give that if I were the ref. It was just too soft.

Not the prettiest of displays but can't argue with the result though.

Nice passing but not sharp in the final third, with Xavi off it just turned ugly...

Thiago and Adriano both should have finished their chances but in the end it didn't matter so it all cool!

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Like captain, like club.

usbcable: and YESSSSSSSSSSSS.

CR scores another wonderful strike from 40 yards away and another freekick too.
later some folks will say he is selfish. i hope they saw those wonderful assists he had for both benzema and higuain.


its good higuain and bemzema scored valencia better not take not though.

1st goal: It's one of those which he tries 10 per game and we all laugh at him. Then he puts one of those away after like 1000 attemps per year and then everybody says what a rocket, best player ever.

2) He wanted to dive or he actually dived for a penalty, but won a freekick instead. His first freekick goal of the season after like 60-70 attempts and that was a lucky deflection as well, shit freekick as always.

usbcable: olohun oba iye ooooooo.
i can only imagine whay would happen if CR wins the pichichi again.

medjai will simply jump over 3rd mainland bridge out of jealousy and mcleo will prolly jump along maybe if ddippset is around then he may tag along.

he scored two wonderful goals last night and made two super assists one leading to a van basten similitude goal and messi was the one that scored via penalty.

yet no form of appreciation but just spew venom on him. later them go dey form say barca fans are humble and gracious in all situations.

atoyinti.

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Bojan scored for Roma vs Novara. He started the game. His 5th goal of the season. Not bad, considering that majority of his appearances have come as sub. He has only played 1035 minutes in the league. 5 goals in 1035 minutes is a decent return.

As per Madrid's game, did anyone see how desperate CR was to surpass Messi in the Pichichi race that he tackled Higuain who was about to score. I couldn't stop laughing #thingsmessiwouldmakeyoudo

Stealthy: Meanwhile, can we buy Muniain? Has any Basque player ever played with us? But seriously, it would be a shame to see him play for Madrid or one of the EPL teams. If he has to leave Bilbao, we really should get him and send Cuenca on loan

We've had many Basque players play for us - Txiki Begristain, Zubizareta, Goikoetxea, etc. Cruyff's Dream Team had quite a lot of them.

Iniesta in ultra ghost-mode. If Pep ever plays him on the wings again, ehn. . . I'd go find him in Barcelona

2 assits, 1 goal -> 50m well spent

dayokanu:

Maybe you would take 12 assist and 2 league goals from the top striker for Barcelona

I would look beyond his stats and look at how good his overall performance has been.

dayokanu:

Someone already told us Torres is Chelseas best player this season

12 assits this season. Def one of Chelsea's best performers this season.

AjanleKoko:

Boys are just expressing cautious optimism. I don't doubt for a second that Pep and the crew will be ready.

Up next though, a visit from the in-form (in Europe) Basque side. Promises to be a cracker. Sets the stage nicely for Tuesday.

Athletic have been very poor in the league of late. Lost their last three. It's like they are channeling all their efforts towards winning the EL. It's understandable though. Fourth place seems to be out of reach, Malaga seem to have got that on lock and they'd be playing in Europe next season anyway since they reached the copa final so EL represents their only chance of winning a trophy.

My preffered line up vs Athletic:

-----Valdes-----

----Alves----Pique----Puyi----Muniesa----

----Keita----

----Iniesta----Thiago----

----Pedro----Messi----Tello----


Key players should be rested ahead of the Milan game on Tuesday.

Adriano can come on as sub for Muniesa in the 2nd half. I expect him to play a big part on Tuesday. We missed him at the San Siro. He would have really stretched that Milan defence with his bombing forward.

Xavi can come on for Iniesta and Sanchez for Messi.

Cesc's injured, between. Expected to be fit for Tuesday though.

Our main problem vs Milan was width - we didn't stretch the Milan defence wide enough. It was easy for them to maintain their shape at the back. This is part of the problem with playing Iniesta as a winger. He has more bad games than good ones playing from that position.

We didn't offer much threat down the right either apart from Alves. Sanchez always tends to drift into that CF position and become our focal point in attack with Messi playing off him.

Story of the match?

Distribution of attack: Right flank-33%. Middle-45%. Left flank-only 21%.

I do understand why Pep played Keita for 90 mins. though. It was for tactical reasons. He was trying to avoid an Inter, San Siro repeat.

Pep could have made his subs earlier. Tello could have been introduced earlier. He really troubled the Milan defence with his pace and skill when he came on.

Good thing is we didn't concede. We just need to win at home.

chic2pimp:
Tired, Old and Lame Excuse. Abeg give credit to whom it's due. Those dudes defended their hearts out tonight.

I'm not blaming the result on the state of the pitch but truth is the pitch was bad. It was like they poured ogbono soup on the pitch just minutes before kickoff. It was very slippery and players from both sides easily lost their balance.


That aside, it wasn't best of performances from us. We played under-par last night. I know that Milan away is not an easy game, but I expected more from the team in such a season-defining game.


We seemed tired(which is a bit weird, since we had 3 days of proper rest) and also lacked a bit in resolve. Iniesta despite being played out of position, should have done a lot more. Alexis lacks in finishing and decision-making.


The initiative is still ours but the 2nd leg is just 90 minutes and luck can play a big role.


If Milan go ahead, prepare yourselves for an Inter/Chelsea bus-parking. The team must be in tip-toe condition for the 2nd leg and for that reason, key players must be rested for the Bilbao game.

Fucking Milan. . . It's like we're playing on a banana peel.

Cesc dropped - Been poor in the last two games.

Puyol at LB - didn't look very comfortable there in our last match vs Mallorca.

Barcelona XI: Valdes, Alves, Pique, Puyol, Keita, Busquets, Mascherano, Xavi, Iniesta, Sanchez, Messi

coogar:

i am convinced you are one half-illiterate.
langera started in 1933/34 and scored his 100th goal in 1947/48
it took him 14 seasons to score 100 goals albeit fewer number of league games per season.
however, it took ronaldo just 2.5 seasons to score 100 goals. i ask again - who was faster?



you're the troll here who has been put in his place by claiming half of ronaldo's goals are penalties.
messi takes more penalties and misses more. ronaldo is dead accurate with his.
so there you go. . . .

You didn't see my earlier post?

It'd be nice if we scored an away goal tonight.

I'd gladly take a draw.

usbcable:
and how many goals and games did he play while in the second division for thesame club between 1930 and 1933

There are no records for the number of goals he scored whilst playing in the 2nd division.

Here's the record of goals he scored in La Liga:

1933/34
Real Oviedo
La Liga
18
26
1934/35
22
27
1935/36
21
28
1946/47
20
18
1947/48
9
5
Total
90
104

The man is a legend. . . .Fastest 100

eyoniggar: Medjai Sharon and burntcable knows the obvious. They are just twisting you to say more. Free um bro!

No mind dem jare. They're just trolling. I'd stop feeding them.

coogar:

stop lying to yourself. messi wasn't the chief penalty taker under rijkaard.
the baton was passed from ronaldinho to samuel etoo. messi started taking penalties the same season ronaldo joined real madrid.
fact remains ronaldo is deadlier from the spot than messi. you support barcelona, these facts are not far-fetched. messi takes these penalties but he has missed more -

Lying? It's you whose stats are dodgy. Messi has taken
9 penalties in the league since 08/09 and has scored 8. Ronaldo has taken 23 and scored 22.

Since 08/09, Barcelona have had 12 penalties in the league, Madrid have had 28. Compare with other teams: Chelsea have had 20 and Man Utd, 16, in the same period.

No other team in the world get as much penalties as Madrid. . . .And you are surprised Ronaldo is scoring a goal a game?

just as good? yet he's the first player to score more than 40 goals in la liga?
wipe your mouth, there must be blood residue beside your lips.

Replace Ronaldo with any decent striker and the records would be just as good.


Ronaldo has scored 35 goals(10 pks) from 2543 minutes in the league. Higuain, 18 goals from 1307 minutes.

Ronaldo is scoring a goal every 72.65 minutes, Higuain, a goal every 72.61 minutes.

If Higuain had played as much minutes as Ronaldo at that rate, he would have scored 35 goals, same as Ronaldo. If he had taken the 10 pks Ronaldo took this season, he would have scored 45 goals in the league or close to since he may not convert all.


If this Madrid team played for Higuain, like they do Ronaldo, he would easily be scoring 80 - 100 goals every season

who cares how old messi was when he made his 131st appearance.
ronaldo de lima won the best player of the year award at the age of 19.

Messi was 22 as at the time he made his 131st appearance for Barca, was Ronaldo scoring a goal a game when he was 22?

ronaldo is the fastest to reach 100 goals in la liga history. it took ronaldo just 2.5 seasons to reach 100 goals.
langera did it after 14 seasons because of the 9-yr war(world war 2 took place in between).

I don't understand why you insist on standing history on its head. Langara is La Liga's fastest 100. 14 years or 40 years or whatever, he scored 104 goals in 90 league appearances. Ronaldo, 101 goals in 91 league appearances.

Langara is the person that has played the least games to get to 100 La Liga goals - he's La Liga's fastest 100

131 goals in 131 apps for real madrid.
you won't find such stats in any other part of the world(quality league or non-quality league).
even in england where people opined the defenders are useless, ronaldo didn't reach these dizzying heights.
he has murdered, conquered and shat on la liga. he won't be the first though. 3 ex-united players have cremated la liga but
the level ronaldo has taken it to is just outstanding!

Abegi! Let him win La Liga first before we talk about murder and cremation. He has not won the biggest prize in the league he supposedly murdered, isn't that funny?

And which ex United strikers? Hope RVN isn't one of them? He was hit and miss. Yeah, he won the Pichichi and Madrid won the league, but Barca were in transition that season. . . They chased him out with a cutlass in the end.

messi does not have a ratio of 1 goal/game that ronaldo has.
messi wasn't the player that broke the pichichi record, ronaldo was. messi had been playing in that league for 4 seasons.
yet, ronaldo joined him there and have destroyed all the la liga goalscoring records.

With all those freebies, even Heskey would be scoring a goal a game and break all types of record.

may is a few couple of weeks away. ronaldo would lift la liga this season.

Then lets save the ode until then.

after winning the pichichi, broke the 40-league goal mark, the fastest player to score 100 league goals?
winning the title is no longer relevant. otherwise, pedro is a better striker than ronaldo.

He isn't La Liga's fastest 100 and yeah, he needs to win a league title.

No league title, no "cutting it", why must we change the rules now?

That pass from Ozil to set up the third goal, simply amazing.

usbcable: langara is not the fastest to score 100 goals/

it actually is ronaldo. i just checked around and all facts indicate that ronaldo is actually the fastest.

isidro played matches in the second division for real oviedo for three years and three in the top flight

Between 1933/34 and 1949/50 season, Real Oviedo were in the Primera Liga.

Real Oviedo

coogar:

you always brain-fart. it's not ronaldo's fault messi is shyte at taking penalties.
it's just ronaldo has been 99% accurate with his kicks and messi fluffs his lines.


ronaldo has actually taken less penalties for real madrid than messi has taken for barcelona,
ronaldo's hit rate is 23 out of 24, whereas messi's hit rate is 20 out of 27 and yet you are blaming ronaldo for messi's inadequacy?

The issue isn't about Ronaldo's conversion ratio, it's about the insane amount of penalties Real Madrid get. Ronaldo has taken 24 penalties in 2.5 seasons, that's a crazy amount of penalties. How many penalties have United or any EPL team for that matter had in the last 2 1/2 seasons? 24 penalties in less than 3 seasons should be a record in itself. Messi 27 penalties in 6.5 seasons, Ronaldo 24 penalties in 2.5 seasons. . . it's absurd!

I'm not blaming Ronaldo for the amount of penalties Madrid get but no other player in the world profits from such largesse and it has hugely impacted the number of goals he has scored. Replace Ronaldo with Heskey in that team and his record would be just as good. . . . I just think we should consider all these before singing Ronaldo's praise to the rafters.

cristiano has scored 131 goals in 131 apps for real madrid and you are talking about penalties?
how many goals did messi score in his first 131 apps for barcelona?

Your question should be how old was Messi when he made his 131st appearance for Barça.

ronaldo is the fastest to score 100 goals, medjal is brain-farting as usual.
it took ronaldo 2.5 seasons to score 100 goals. . . .it took langara 5 different seasons(14 yrs) to score 100 goals.
i accept the number of games played in the era of langara was way fewer and there was the world war in between his career
but who cares.

Who cares if it took Langera
8 centuries? He's is the fastest to reach 100 goals in La Liga history. I read somewhere it took him 85 games to get to 100 goals. See coogar trying to change football rules. It's the not the number of years that matter but the number of games and in Langera's era, La Liga was not a 20 team league like we have it today so Langera played lesser games per season.

ronaldo has murdered la liga.

Is that how they murder a league in your village?

If Ronaldo has murdered La Liga then perhaps, we have to resort to an interpretative dance to describe what Messi has done to the same league because I don't think there's any word to describe that.

Murder La Liga? The same La Liga he's yet to win? Lol. Murder La Liga with only one Copa del Rey ? Lol. Even Kanoute has won multiple CDR.

Going by your logic, coogar, Ronaldo is yet to "cut it" in La Liga since he's yet to win a league title.

usbcable: Medjai,
for once in your life will you get over the penalty case.
its really becoming boring.
a penalty during regular time is a goal as a freekick or as a shot played from outside the 18yard box.
the next thing you will start whinning about is that his goals are tappings. na wa for you.
you just hate the guy or you are simply just jealous.

and you say he has the best midfielders around him.
why was messi not able to do it with xavi,iniesta,busquests,pedro abi you dey say all of them are not of same level as ozil, di maaria, kaka,alonso.

and btw what results into a penalty is it not a goal bound move. and he is givem custody of the penalty kicks since he is seen as the best PK taker in the team.

I don't think it's fair to talk about Ronaldo's scoring records without mentioning how many of those goals are PK's. His scoring record is seriously amplified by PK's. . . .It puts everything into perspective.


Ronaldo isn't La Liga's fastest 100. Isidro Langara is.

Barca B 2 - Alcoyano 1: Back to back wins for Barca B.

Rodri scored the first goal and Jean Marie Dongou scored the winner. He's still a Juvenil A player(16 years) but he has been making appearances for the B team. He's a very exciting prospect. One of the biggest talents coming through. He will likely get promoted to the B team next season.

coogar:


Cristiano Ronaldo became the fastest player to reach 100 goals in the Spanish league by scoring two to help leaders Real Madrid rebound from consecutive draws with a rout of Real Sociedad. Madrid great Ferenc Puskas formerly held the record for the fastest player to reach 100 goals after doing so in 105 matches in the 1960s. Ronaldo needed 92 games to score 101 goals.

He has scored 22 penalties between. Plus, he's got some of the best players in the world playing for him and laying goals on a plate for him. Heck! Madrid are the most expensively assembled side in the history of the sport and the entire team plays for Ronaldo, it's a no brainer. Infact, I'm surprised it took him this long to get to 100 goals.


Any half-decent striker will break scoring records having this Madrid side play for him.

Higuain has scored 18 goals(0 pk) from 1307 minutes.

Ronaldo has scored 35 goals(10 pks) from 2543.

Damn! If this team were built around Higuain.

I saw Cristiano Ronaldo in town today.
I said, "Can you sign my shirt?"
He said, "Have you got a pen?"
I said, "S[i]hi[/i]t, no. Hang on."
With that I threw myself on the floor, rolled over theatrically and began to cry.
He said, "How's that going to get a pen?"
I said, "Well that's how you f[i]uckin[/i]g do it."

Wonderful performance from Montoya
.

As soon as Pep brought him on the game changed and he began creating a whole lot of space with his occasional runs forward. Also, his defensive work was outstanding. Should have scored though.


Tough match! Mallorca is one of those grounds where it's just tough to get a result. Glad we won.

ogazi007: Alexis/Messi for the goal?

Goal awarded to Messi. Took no touch of Alexis.