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ddippset: wow wow mr phil, i love your passion honestly. we need alot more like you on this thread. keep it up bro.

You are Welcome!

ddippset: some good points but you must understand that this is a new madrid. Like it or not they are a more complete team than barca. This time last season we were up to 8 points clear already. Over the last 5 years we used to win la liga not because we beat the smaller teams but because we thrashed madrid for fun, both home and away. We can still loase to madrid and win la liga by chance but to guarantee la liga success we have to get 6 points off them, playing the tiki taka mcleo spoke of. We have to beat milan to avoid a repeat of last season. Needing to overturn a 2-0 first leg defeat, it should have been 1-1 when the black milan striker forgotten his name missed a one on one with valdez. Can't forget that miss cus I almost caught a heart attack. We went on to win 4-0. We have to beat milan no loss no draw. Good you said they are 8th, we have to get the three points. Last season ending we couldn't compete with bayern and madrid. Guys we used to have for breakfast 4 years ago. This is why this week's games are the very true test of our strength this season.

I dont believe that Madrid is a more complete team than Barca bro..This is a fallacy! How complete is Madrid?
*This is a team with upto 4 new players infused into the team who are yet to undastand themselves!
*This is a team that has no pattern of football..
*This is a team whose never won any team in laliga comprehensively without some ref ish!
How is Madrid a much complete team than Barca?
On paper,with recent form,that game is as good as won..but then,cuz its an El Classico,the El Classico importance must be attached to it,to get big revenue!!
Barca are much more complete than Madrid bro,even if u start doing Player per player head to head stats!
N:B- Am not saying this as a barca fan,am saying it as it is!!

I will Be back

ddippset: for me it is over the next two games that we will know the real pattern. Ac milan and then real madrid. The biggest game we ve had all seaason is athletico which we failed to win. If we beat milan and madrid then I will know tata has succeeded. It's easy to tiki taka against average la liga teams so I would be overjoyed to see same over the next 2 games. It's crunch time.

Bro,i think you are wrong here..
Whether or not we win against AC Milan or Madrid doesnt relay much as per the Yardstick you are talking about...Every Match is a test..
For example,Barca cruised to a 7-0 win over Levante,but it was the same Levante that nearly won Madrid save for their last minute let-up...
Barca have played Sevilla,Valencia,Athletico Madrid,Celtic,Ajax; and none of this teams is a pushover{forget the fact that Barca won...at least u knw wot happened in that Sevilla and Valencia game}...
Saying that "If Tata wins those two matches,you will know he has succeeded",is a wrong statement to make,because both games CAN NEVER DETERMINE the outcome of both the league and Champions league...
Mourinho won us last season,but he didnt win the league..We won the league because we played well and won the rest of the 18teams in La liga,which Madrid didnt....
AC Milan is not of even a test,because they are weak and reeking in 8th Position in their league! How is that a test?
As far as am concerned,both games are just like any other game,and the winner doesnt determine who wins the league/Champions league,rather,JUST THREE POINTS OR A POINT,and the league moves on........

usbcable: @ bolded

Barcelona will be thunked silly. MARK MA WERDS.

History in Football as we both know,always repeats itself!
As a Barca fan,i want Barca victorious that day,and i know u want same for Madrid...But{a big 'B'},dont be surprised when u see a 3 - 0 scoreline in favour of us,and with Neymar on the score sheet!! Just saying.

Evestar200: PROMOTED TEAMS: Giwa Fc,,Taraba Fc,,Crown Fc and Aba warriors

Jeez! Aba Warriors .....Whew! So so happy o!
This shud be the first time they are in the Top flight right?

I know Ten things about You right now..Do you think am joking? Okay check it out:
1}You are holding your phone.
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2}You are on Nairaland Forum games..
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3}You are now reading/viewing this post
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4}You are human
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5}You cant say the Letter "P" without separating your lips.
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7}You just attempted it.
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8}You are laughing at Yourself.
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9}You skipped reading number six{6}
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10}You just checked to see if there is number six{6}...
True or false?
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Add yours,let the game begin!!

So,hurray! KANO PILLARS ARE THE NEW LEAGUE WINNERS

Afam4eva: Since Rangers is currently beating El Kanemi at home, i think they'll take over the 4th spot and get a continental ticket.

I pray o!! I want to See Enyimba and Rangers go International next season..Being a while!

gbokukueba: As it stands 70mins gone
1 Kano Pillars. 38 . 7. 63
2 Enyimba. 38 . 13. 62
3 Bayelsa United. 38 . 4. 62
4 El-Kanemi W. 38 . 12. 60

What of the Relegation Zone? Who and who are there currently now?

I know the table should be:
Kano Pillars 63pts
Enyimba 62pts,
with the current scores now,so who nd who are occupying the third and fourth position right now?

My Dear,i must really Praise you,or rather,Tell you Well done...You are really trying with this thread o seriously,especialy,considering the fact that Women rarely find joy in football here in Nigeria....You are really trying o,keep it up....
I hope say Seun do give u something?

It was like i knew What was going to happen against Osasuna,and that was why i referred to that match in 2012.....
If most of u followed Osasuna like i did,you wouldnt be surprised by the End result of that Match..
I wouldnt lay the blame on anybody,but i would say that it was not Fabregas' day...People miss chances worse than he missed...If anyone really followed that match with no prejudice,u wil realise that the coach was partly to blame for that Match...Neymar{instead of Fabregas},should have retained his Messi-like role,and Tello should have started on the left Wing, I mean,Tello didnt go for any international,did he? Iniesta should have been rested,and Fabregas would have been better off operating from his normal position...If one saw clearly,I for once missed Alexis Sanchez in that match{dnt knw for others}...
Montoya was totally in mess,but i blame it on lack of game time and overhyping{come on guys,Montoya will never reach the standard of Bartra,not to talk of Alves..Barca shud ofload him now that his price is high,and give that Bagnak guy a chance..from what i have seen,he is much better,although not all that attack minded}..
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I dont want to talk about the Milan Match,so i will jump to El Classico:
In 2009,R.madrid hired a new coach,Pellegrini..In his debut El Classico,Barca won 1 - 0...Messi didnt score,but a certain new buy{Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored}...
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In 2010,R.Madrid hired another coach{Mourinho},and in his debut El Classico match,Barca won 5 - 0..Messi didnt score again,but a certain new buy{David Villa} got a brace for himself,alongside other debutant{Jeffren}....
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In 2013,R.Madrid hired another new coach{Carlo Anceloti},and there is another new buy{Neymar Jnr} in Barca in the same year 2013......
So,is anybody thinking what am thinking?

Cont'd:
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The prophet said,"i will listen to what God the Lord will say"{Psalm85:8},as though to say,if God would confer with me,then he must come in,for i will not go out..It is Boethius who exclaims,"You men,why do you look without for that which is within You?"..
I prize detachment more than mercy too,for mercy means nothing else but a mans going out of himself because his heart is wrung and goes out to his fellow men in their need..Detachment is free from this;it stays within itself,allowing nothing to disturb it.In short,when i reflect on all the virtues,i find not one so wholly free from fault,so able to unite me to God,as detachment..
It was Avicenna the philosopher who said,"The mind detached is of such nobility that what it sees is true,what it desires comes about,and its wishes must be obeyed"..For you must know that when the free mind is quite detached,it constrains God to itself.If it could remain formless and free from outside events,it would take on the nature of God.But God grants this to noone except and apart from Himself;so,God can do no more for the solitary soul than make it a present of Himself.The man who is in absolute Detachment is carried away into eternity where nothing temporal affects him nor is he in the least aware of any mortal thing.The world is well and trully dead to him,for he has no taste for any earthly thing.St Paul meant this when he declared,"For me,to live is Christ and to die is gain"{Phil1:21}..
Perhaps you will say,'what is detachment then,that it should be so nobble in itself?'
........True detachment means a mind as little moved by what happens,by joy and sorrow,honour and disgrace,as a broad mountain by a gentle breeze.. ..Such motionless detachment makes a man godlike.For God is God because of His motionless detachment;He gets his purity and His simplicity and His unchangeableness from His detachment..If then,a man is going to be like God,so far as any creature can resemble God,it will be by detachment..This leads to purity,and from purity to simplicity,and from simplicity to immovability..This three constitute the likeness between man and God,and this likeness is of grace,for it is grace which draws a man away from mortal things,and purges him from corruptible things.I Would have you know that to be empty of creatures is to be full of God,and to be full of creatures is to be empty of God ..
Now,it must be remembered that God has always existed in this unchanging detachment,and does so still.When God created the heavens and earth,He might not have been making anything at all for all that it affected His detachment..Indeed,i say more than this: prayers and good works performed by a man in time no more affect the divine detachment than if no prayers or virtuos works had taken place in time.Nor is God any more kindly disposed towards such a man than if his prayers and deeds had all been left undone.Further,i declare that when the Son is in His Godhead was pleased to be made man and lived on earth and suffered martyrdom,God's motionless detachment was no more disturbed than if He had never been made man..
Maybe you will say 'i gather then that prayers and good deeds are useless since God takes too little interest in them to be affected by them..And yet it is said that God likes to be prayed to on all occassions?'..
Now mark this,and if possible,understand it..In His first Eternal Glance{if a first glance may be assumed},God saw all things as they would happen,and in that same glance,he saw both when He would make creatures.He saw the humblest prayer that will be offered,the least good deed that anyone would do,and moreover,he saw which prayers and worship He would hear..He saw that tomorrow,you will call upon Him sincerely,desperately pleading with him,and He saw that,nor for the first time,he would grant your request:he has granted it already in His eternity before you ever became man..Suppose your prayer is foolish or insincere,God will not say no to you tomorrow - HE has already said No in His eternity..Thus, God,who has seen everything in that first eternal glance,in no way acts from any cause at all,for everything is a FOREGONE CONCLUSION..
......But though God alwaz remains in motionless detachment,yet men's prayers and good works are not all in vain,for the man who does well is rewarded well..As Phillipus says,"The Creator God holds all things in the course and order he gave them from the beginning."..With Him,nothing is past and nothing is future,and He loves all His saints just as he saw and loved them before ever the world became..Yet when the things which He contemplated in eternity come to pass in time,then people think that God has Changed His mind..But whether he is angry or Gracious,it is we who change and He who remains the same,just as the sunshine hurts the weak eyes and helps strong eyes while the light itself remains unchanged..God does not not see in time,nor is His Outlook subject to Altercation...
To be cont'd..

I have read many writings by heathen philosophers and sages,of the old covenant and the new,and have sought earnestly and with the greatest diligence to find the highest virtue.This is the virtue which will enable someone to knit closely to God and in which he is most like his examplar,as he was when he was in God,when there was no difference between himself and God,bèfore God created creatures.And having studied all these Scriptures to the best of my ability,i find that this virtue is none other than absolute Detachment from all creatures.Our Lord said to Martha,"only one thing is needed"{Luke10:42},which is as good as saying that anyone who wishes to be serenf and pure needs only one thing:Detachment..
........Our doctors sing love's praises,as did St.Paul,who said "if i.......have not love,i gain nothing"{1Cor13:3}..But i extol detachment above any love.First,because at best,love constrains me to love God.Now it is far better for me to constrain God than for me to be constrained by God..My eternal happiness depends on God and me becoming one;but God is more inclined to adapt Himself to me and can more easily communicate with me than i can with Him..Detachment forces God to come to me..The reason why i say this is that everything likes to be in its own natural state..God's own natural state is unity and purity,and these come from Detachment.Hence,God is bound to give Himself to a heart that is detached..
.......Secondly,i rank Detachment above love because love constrains me to suffer all things for God's sake,whereas Detachment constrains me to recieve nothing but God.Now it is far better to accept nothing but God than to suffer all things for Gods sake..For in suffering,one is concerned with creatures from whom the sufferings comes,but Detachment is free from Creatures..I can demonstrate that Detachment accepts noone but God in this way:
*anything that is recieved must be recieved in something.But Detachment is so nearly nothing that there is nothing rarefied enough to stay in this Detachment,except God..He is so simple,so ethereal,that He can live in the solitary heart..Detachment, then accepts God alone..Anything which is recieved is recieved and grasped by its reciever in accordance with the make-up of the reciever.And so anything concieved is known and understood according to the mind of him who understands,and not according to its own innate concievability..
......The masters praise humility more than most other virtues..But i rank detachment before any meekness,and for the following reasons..Meekness can be without detachment,but complete Detachment is impossible without Humility ..
Perfect humility lies in making the self nothing,but detachment approximates so closely to nothing that there remains no room for anything between Zero and absolute Detachment.Therefore,without humility you cannot have complete detachment....And two virtues are alwaz better than one..
Another reason why i rank detachment higher than humility is this: humility means abasing self before all creatures,and in that same abasement,one goes out of oneself to creatures..But Detachment stays in itself.Now,no going out of oneself,however excellent,is better than staying still..As the prophet has it, "All glorious is the princess within....."{Psalm45:13}..
Perfect Detachment pays no attention to creatures.It is without lowliness and loftiness.It has no interest in being below or above.It is intent on being master of itself,loving noone and hating no one,having neither this nor that,being neither like nor unlike any creature..But,it has no desire at all to be either this or that.He who is this or that is something;but Detachment is absolutely nothing.It leaves things unmolested..
At this point,someone may object: 'but surely in our Lady,all the virtues flourished in perfection,and among them,absolute Detachment.Now,granting that Detachment is better than humility,why did our Lady glory in her lowliness instead of her detachment,and say, "He has been mindful of the humble state of his servant" {Luke1:48} ?
.......My answer is that in God,there is both detachment and humility- so far as virtues can be attributed to God.When God was made Man,it was His loving meekness that made Him stoop to enter human nature while it remained motionless within itself.And it was in meekness that he created the heavens and the earth,as i shall show you later..And when our Lord chose to be made man,he persisted in His motionless detachment..That was how our Lady knew that He expected her to be the same,even though for the time being,He paid particular to her lowliness,and not in her detachment..Had she but once said "He regarded my detachment....",her detachment would have been disturbed and would not have been absolute and perfect,since a going out has taken place..And there,you have the explanation of Our Lady's glorying in her lowliness instead of her Detachment..
To be Cont'd........

Well its really that simple..Once your heart has been contaminated,and you didnt engulf yourself in full Detachment here on Earth,you will not See God,cuz God is just Purely Holy,but you will feel His Glory...
Mathew5:8 "Happy are the Pure In Heart,for they shall see God" ...
Strive to be pure in heart,and the only way to be pure in heart is through Absolute Detachment ...

We are made in the Likeness and Image of the Highest Superpower,God!!
But then bro,i see You are into too Much Scifi superpower Movies!

bad meat: Mtcheeew!

I understand your frustration..I Will start Dropping them later bro..Just wait a little bit more..

bad meat: Mtcheeew!

I understand your frustration..I Will start Dropping them later bro..Just wait a little bit more

Make i sleep first...

2nd Half is under way.....
46' Corner kick to Osasuna..

Halftime...
Seriously,Barca are playing,but they are not playing like the free scoring barca of the last eight matches...
Montoya aint impressing...Bartra is at his usual best..Iniesta aint trying at all,conceding too many possession to the opposition easily....
Really,Barca is missing Sanchez in this match..
Anyway,lets hope the introduction of Messi in the 2nd Half will ease things off...Last Season,Messi scored six against them in both legs!!

Well,i cnt say if its badly we are playing,but am not impressed by our Play at the moment..
33' fabregas-yellow card

17' so far so good,although scoreless....
Men,this match sweet o....

4' O boy! Iniesta don use dribble give person injury o!