Mini classico line up: Oier, Balliu, Gómez, Lombán, Grimaldo, Ilie, S Roberto, Lobato, Rafinha, Dongou, Deulofeu.

Not the best of streams though:

http://www.rojadirecta.me/goto/vipra.../stream-5.html

Meanwhile, tomorrow is mini-classico. Real Madrid B vs Barca B. 9 PM. I'd post a link if i find one.

honeric01:

We need a keeper badly.

Knee-jerk much. We don't need a new keeper. This is the down side to sweep-keeping. Barca keepers are required to be good with the ball at their feet and these mistakes are almost inevitable when you have to play out the back. If Valdes played for any other team there would have been nothing wrong with him booting that ball out but playing in a system that's averse to hoofing the ball, he has no other option than to try to play it out the back. Even if we sign Hart, Neuer or Casillas, these mistakes will happen. It's the occupational hazard of goalkeeping in the Barca system.

Madrid got more than deserved though.
Barca played well but were let down by Busquets poor marking/heading and Valdes.

Hopefully, Valdes' goof doesn't come to hunt us in the 2nd leg.

Deulofeu's hat-trick over the weekend for Barca B. First match of the season. Barca B lost 5-4. Dongou also got on the score sheet.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXArGW08bXA

Carlo Garganese is an anglophobic, calcio - loving dolt. He hates anything English and modern football.

Undeservedly drew bawo? More like y'all were lucky to draw. Soldado's goal after Tino had sliced your defence was wrongly called as offside.

It's like Tito forced Tello to write 300 pages of "I will use my head". No headless chicken runs today. He played great.

Great to see Villa back and getting amongst the goals.

Song is all in. Song Billongs to us now. Good signing. The price is just right. He will bring something different to what we already have - aggression, directness - and he's also a fine passer.
Yeah, I've heard people complain about his tactical naivety and positional indiscipline but IMO, it's all down to Wenger's laissez-faire approach. At Arsenal, they play a rotating midfield where players take turns to assume midfield roles so Song who is supposed to be the DM is sometimes the farthest forward of all midfielders. He'd fit in just fine and he has Cesc to help him with the integration.

Anyways, I guess this is bye bye JDS.

^^From whence did you purloin this? Or you speak Spanish too?

Wow! Stealthy is back!

Jonathan Soriano penalty for Red Bull Salzburg, LMAO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Jq287m0_j9Q

AjanleKoko:

Good to see Villa back.

Yeah, it's great to see him back.

Golazo Afellay 2-0. Great pass from Masch

Villa on

Fontas on

Solid defending by Bartra there.

^^SS3

Messi 1-0

Good to see Pique and Bartra starting alongside one another

Starting line-up vs Dinamo: v Dinamo: Valdés - Alves, Piqué, Bartra, Alba - Busquets, Xavi, Cesc - Alexis, Messi, Pedro.

Villa on the bench.

Alba finally making his debut...on for Adriano. Bartra, Montoya, Rafinha on for Masch, Alves and Sanchez.

Sanchez really looks off colour. Xavi, Fabregas, Pique, Afellay, Pedro on for Roberto, Iniesta, Puyol, Tello, Messi.

Roberto is having a good game. He's been pawning Anderson

That was an unnecessary challenge by Tello...Valdes saves from the resultant spot kick. Rooney balloons the rebound.

0-0 HT

Line-up vs Man Utd.
Valdes; Alves, Masch, Puyol, Adriano; Busi, Roberto, Iniesta; Alexis, Messi, Tello.

Roberto has started in all our pre-season games so far and has really impressed. I expect him to play more with the 1st team this season even though he hasn't been officially promoted. Sort of like Tello last season.

I'd love to see Bartra play some part in today's game. If possible, he should start. It would be a great test for him.

The Song rumours are gathering momentum. I think he would make a good signing. I was against us signing Martinez. Athletic's asking price of €40m is just outrageous and even though he is a better player than Song, I feel Song would offer us something different - grit, directness, craft, physicality - and add some sort of variety to our play and he'll come at a lesser price. He'd make a more sensible signing than Martinez. He's very versatile. He can play DM, CM, CB and he's got fantastic vision. He can play the final pass. He played the most through balls in the EPL last season. He's quality IMO.

Joselu has been sold to Hoffenheim. Barca B has very little to worry about this coming season.

Johnpaul88: I'm quite unhappy that Santi Carzola
have left laliga for Arsenal FC. With him around,
we could guarantee that some
club could still succeed in their bid to
compete with Barca and
Moudrid. Now his gone, it'll be
'to your tents oh! Isreal'. Pity!!
It was a shame Malaga could not
keep him. Their punching above
their weight have finally caught
up with them. We thought they
had money! Maybe some fake
Qatari investor,invested or Spain
poor economic situation was
finally taking it tolls! Again, it is a one big
shame! With this move, i fear he may have kissed whatever minute there was left for him to grab in national team, a resounding goodbye. Thiago 'll finally get good playing time.
Nevertheless, I wish Arsenal and him to live
happily ever after!

Real shame to see Santi gone. Us and Madrid apart, the other teams can't keep hold of their best players and that's really bad for the league. It's time the did something about the TV money being split equally otherwise it's just gonna get worse.

If Malaga can keep hold of their players, I think they can they still be a force to reckon with. They still have Isco and Joaquin. Baptista is currently out injured but when he returns, that's some fearsome attack they'd be having. They've also got Toulalan, Maresca and Camacho in midfield and their defence isn't bad. They just need to sign a very good striker now. They already sold Rondon to Rubin Kazan.

Yet more signings for the B team. Sergio Juste, a right-back and former youth team player has been signed from Gimnastic Tarragona.

Luis Alberto, a striker, has also been signed on loan from Sevilla.

freecocoa: I really don't have the time to go back and forth especially over NOTHING.

If you think its derogatory then go sue the makers of indomie or better still take out the anger on yourself by slapping yourself or slamming your head against a wall and just for the record,no matter what you do,the name stays .

You must be one spastic, odious, obtuse tool, lol...What's all the rant for? I only stated why I thought the name 'Hungry Man Size' was inappropriate and you are here talking rubbish.