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Jordi Alba and I apparently feel the same way about this result...
Even biased Barcelona fan that I am, I would never have predicted this victory. Barca arrived at the second leg of this Champions League round without an away goal, having lost to AC Milan 0-2 at the San Siro. In order to stay in the tournament, they had to score at least two goals in regular time AND keep a clean sheet, which they had not managed to do from mid-January to their Saturday match against Deportivo. In that recent match, I had seen promising signs of a sharper Barca, a hungrier Barca... but they had still only scored two goals total against the lowest team in the league standings. Tonight they were going to have to do much, much better.
( And they did. )
FOOTBALL RPF FIC: Seeing Red
Mar. 2nd, 2013 11:08 pmTitle: Seeing Red
Rating: PG-13, for language
Word count: 1238
Characters: Andrés Iniesta and Víctor Valdés
Summary: Víctor sees red at the end of the clásico.
Notes: Bittersweet catharsis fic. Inspired by this incident.
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Rating: PG-13, for language
Word count: 1238
Characters: Andrés Iniesta and Víctor Valdés
Summary: Víctor sees red at the end of the clásico.
Notes: Bittersweet catharsis fic. Inspired by this incident.
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I mean, I can totally see Geri assuring them that only their top halves would be in the photo, but did neither of them notice the truth before tweeting this?
Match mash-up - Euro 1st round reviewlets
Jun. 12th, 2012 10:34 pmI've only been able to watch a few games in their entirety, and what follows are my brief and not unbiased thoughts, observations, and predictions.
( Group A )
( Group B )
( Group C )
( Group D )
Those of you who have been watching, please chime in to agree, contradict, and/or add your own impressions from any of these matches!
( Group A )
( Group B )
( Group C )
( Group D )
Those of you who have been watching, please chime in to agree, contradict, and/or add your own impressions from any of these matches!
BFFs Gerard Pique and Carles Puyol celebrate this season's final victory
( The Copa del Rey: Pep's first and final trophy as manager of Barcelona )
( And, of course, there were locker room photos. )
Now it's off to the Euros for many of the Spanish players from both teams, who will miss tomorrow's friendly game against Serbia due to the late date of this Copa final. We won't see our boys in blaugrana again until the start of next season - when hopefully they will all arrive well-rested, injury-free, and ready to reclaim the Spanish league.
Barcelona vs. Malaga, 4-1
May. 2nd, 2012 08:30 pm
Leo Messi now holds the record for the most goals scored in one season
( The League is lost, but the race for Pichichi continues... )
