Traveling Time: Viktoria Plzeň – Barça UPDATED

31 October 2011

CL Preview: Viktoria Plzeň – Barcelona, 3:45pm ET, Fox Deportes The first game was a 2-0 at the Camp Nou and now matchday 4 arrives and Barça heads to the Czech Republic to play Viktoria Plzeň at their Stadion města Plzně. Synot Tip Arena in Prague.* The Czechs are coming off a 5-0 home win that moved them [...]

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Posted in Champions League, Preview75 Comments

Barca 5, Mallorca 0, aka “Let’s not go handing out woof tickets just yet.”

29 October 2011

The most enduring image from this match for me came late, when they showed a rear view of Isaac Cuenca, whose No. 39 shirt was pristine. Then they showed Mallorca’s Alvaro Gimenez, and his No. 30 shirt was bedraggled, with the 0 just hanging on by a bit of adhesive, the rest of shirt all [...]

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Posted in Kevin Rating Synthesis, La Liga, Review, Thoughts75 Comments

Let’s Get Back On Track: Barcelona vs Mallorca LiveBlog

29 October 2011

Meaning we win by 5 goals, of course. Big news is Iniesta (on the bench) and no Xavi at all (one of three players in stands; Fontas and Maxwell the others). Barcelona lineup: Valdés, Alves, Mascherano, Abidal, Adriano; Busi, Keita, Thiago; Villa, Messi, Cuenca Bench: Pinto, Montoya, Puyol, Pique, Cesc, Iniesta, Deulofeu Mallorca lineup: Aouate; [...]

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Posted in La Liga, Liveblog40 Comments

Desperately seeking magic, aka a Barca v Mallorca preview

28 October 2011

Liga Preview: Barcelona – Mallorca, Saturday 2pmET, ESPN Deportes/ESPN3 Please note: if you’re done reading Kari’s rambunctiously lovely breakdown of Barça B, I suppose you’re allowed to read this here preview. If you haven’t read the piece, go do it now or you’ll be flogged. Coming off of the midweek match, which I prefer to call a [...]

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Posted in La Liga, Preview33 Comments

Let’s talk about the B-team

27 October 2011

Might as well. It keeps coming up anyhow.

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Posted in Barcelona B, Nonsense, Thoughts31 Comments

Granada 0, Barca 1, aka “My eyes! My eyes!”

25 October 2011

Um, wait a minute …. I like being right, but not about this. I kept blathering about a team malaise, wanting our players to prove me wrong, to have everything click into place in glorious fashion as they gave some deserving club the hiding that they didn’t deserve, but hey, there they were. Not today. [...]

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Posted in Kevin Rating Synthesis, La Liga, Review, Thoughts104 Comments

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