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Another season of Madrid-Barcelona rivalry and trashing the opponents. Can't wait...

Madrid 1-1 Valencia
Barça 5-1 Sociedad

Villa scores in his comeback debut.

Ah well, Madrid can try next year

They actually looked really good. Though Jose has his La Liga title, I just want him to get a CL with them now.

No Milan fan should want Madrid to win the CL.

Not at our expense. But when we're out, I generally support Jose. I don't care about this ego of how many we have won.

Oh, I do care about it. It's part of our history, something which makes the CL more special to us. You may support Jose, just not in the CL

Valencia have signed Aly Cissokho from Lyon.

Link

Hmh. We'll see how well he can do.

...and how bad his teeth are.

LOL @ Valdes.

What an idiot!

Very enjoyable game topped off with a great refereeing display.

Sanchez' dives are criminal, he really needs to be suspended. Messi was very poor, Xavi ran the show. Valdes is an awful, awful, keeper.

Damn, forgot about this game

Where was Pepe to piss all over this again? Is he going to be back next week to f*** football?


Sure!

Did you not think so? I think he had no input on the game and missed 3 chances that are, usually for him, unmissable.

Very poor? No way.

Valdes should quit football.

By his standards I really think so. He doesn't miss those chances, forget 3 in the same game.

What did he do?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSOTp4Xvegc

No way should Valdez quit football. Pure entertainment. Never do I laugh more than when Valdes makes a mistake. Always fun, always amusing. If it were any other keeper, he'd lucky to be on the bench. But hey, we do need him to sabotage Barcelona matches and make them interesting. I'd play him till he's 50, at least.

Buffon made a similar mistake last season too... but Valdes does it all the time. it was a few el classicos ago he passed the ball straight to a Madrid player in minute 1 and Barca conceded.

It happens. (Un)fortunately - too often when Valdes is around.

So very true.

Makes the second leg a lot more interesting.


He did miss those chances but he was in no way very poor in my opinion. He was very active, constantly drawing attention (2, 3 or more players) and he set up quite a few attacks.

Messi looked like a great player yesterday... I agree with kurt, because of the standards he's set for himself, there is the Messi level and then the level every other great player plays at.

Iniesta on the other hand was just incredible!

Can we safely say now that Iniesta has surpassed Xavi? He's looked like the better player the past couple of seasons and it's all but a certainty now, I think.

Xavi has been more consistent IMO. performs almost perfectly most of the time like a machine. whereas Iniesta has his great days and (sometimes) less great days. in his defense he struggles with fitness more than Xavi does.

On their absolute best day, I'd say Iniesta edges Xavi.

Agree with all of the above Zed.

Fixed.

lol

Well, he's only played for Barça.

Think he's on about that irrelevant country somewhere in South America.

National teams are another matter. And besides, he's got all the time in the world to prove everyone wrong.

I'm not going to say anymore beyond this, but I think it's funny how Ronaldo scores plenty of goals at International tournements, scores a league and Cup win against Barca and people still question his ability in big games. Messi fails to show up at International tournements and recently against Madrid and he gets defended. Just funny to me.

I don't question Ronaldo's ability in big games anymore, he's been doing well recently. but in the end Messi is the better player in my eyes. he's performed enough times and scored enough goals against Madrid, you can't question anything because he hasn't humiliated them in 2 or 3 games like he used to!

Good god, always the same argument. Can't we agree that they simply both do an excellent job and deserve their world class status?

What would be the fun in that?

I'm not even bothered nowadays. I just enjoy annoying the Messi fanboys on here

Scoring goals against Madrid isn't all that hard. I'd really fancy my chances against this Madrid defense.

^^ Problem is, unless he scores at least 2 goals and rips Madrid's defense apart on numerous occasions, some will say he hasn't been his usual self, whereas for Ronaldo, a goal would suffice even if he does nothing else during a game. case in point: he scored a header in CL final and did nothing else, even nearly cost his team the title with his missed penalty but kurt always mentions Ronaldo "performing" in a CL final in his argument because of that goal where the crossed ball happened to land on his head at the right time and he took it well. Messi can play simply a good game like the recent El Classico but still get criticized by Ronaldo fanboys for not being "amazing".

I think the expectations from Messi are way higher and that only proves he's the better player of the two.

Oh god acid, they mad now

La Liga must be boring considering the same arguments pop up instantly.

I don't even think it was an argument this time, Kurt just said in his opinion Messi was poor in a match then they jumped on him and thus it goes into this trash again, where if you talk down of Messi or high of CR7 you get shot down and you get stipulated into this 'debate' again.

Therefore, it's just easier to make light of the situation!

Nah, anyway. Like I said before, both are good, world class players. But you guys are a bit too much fixated on whether one of them has a weakness or not.

Yeah, but it's a fact, Madrid's defense (save from their GK and Ramos) isn't nearly one fifth as good as the rest of their team. They always concede at the wrong time to even the smallest of teams. And unless they fix that, they'll have a hard time going alll the way in the Champions League.

Their attackers score at will, but Madrid's (dirty, talentless and idiotic) defense just undo it all.

Are you serious? I suppose Shearer was a pretty crap player then, just the ball happened to land on his head over and over again.

Hey...you leave Shearer the f@ck alone okay?

I was actually using Shearer as an example that heading is a great skill...

Barca 5-a-side

I like how Valdes added a fake 0 on his shirt and also had Messi's name on it.