Articles tagged with "andres iniesta"
Barcelona - Valencia: Sunday 1pm
By Isaiah | May 3rd, 2008There's a Spanish word that I love both because of its meaning and the actual sound when you spit it out: venganza. Revenge, payback. You know what it means and we've got two straight weeks of it, starting with the visit from Valencia and ending with ...
Barcelona - Espanyol: Saturday 2pmEST (GolTV)
By Isaiah | April 18th, 2008So it's another derby, another day, right? Weeellll, it's more like we haven't gotten the full measure of revenge for Tamudo scoring that title-destroying goal against us last year, so not only do we need to continue their losing streak (4 straight a ...
Recreativo Huelva - Barcelona: Saturday 4pm EST (GolTV)
By Isaiah | April 11th, 2008While El Mundo Deportivo reports that a Ronnie-to-Milan deal has been reached for €30million, the focus for the team must be on Recreativo Huelva and regaining some sort of foothold on the league title -- or at least not slipping further behind Rea ...
The Morning After: Injury Report
By Isaiah | April 10th, 2008The injuries just keep right on coming, that's for sure. Do we have a quota we have to fill or something? The biggest news is that Andres Iniesta has a slipped meniscus, which could require surgery either now or at the end of the season, depending on ...
Frank Rijkaard's Leather Couch
By Sam | April 7th, 2008Simon Kuper has a superb interview in today's Financial Times with Barcelona's Dutch coach. Frank's comment about Lionel Messi -- whom we shall not see this week due to injury -- illustrates Rijkaard's sensitivity toward his players and to the ...
Almeria - Barcelona: Preview; Sunday 2pm EST
By Isaiah | March 14th, 2008Updated version. I found out this morning that there is so much more news available that I just couldn't fail to update my "janky" preview. This is almost a complete rewrite. It's away to Almeria this weekend and it won't be a cakewalk. Yes, we beat th
Barcelona - Villarreal: Preview, Sunday 4pm EST
By Isaiah | March 8th, 2008The squad list is out and we're back to shuffling players due to injury: Valdés, Pinto, Abidal, Thuram, Milito, Sylvinho, Zambrotta, Edmílson, Touré Yaya, Xavi, Iniesta, Deco, Gudjohnsen, Giovani, Ronaldinho, Henry, Eto'o, Bojan. Note the absence
Barcelona 2 - 1 Deportivo La Coruña: Review (Don't Ignore the Overlap Edition)
By Isaiah | December 11th, 2007I know it's late and I know it's coming on the final Champions League matchday, but I promised a review and a review is what you'll get. At least it's better than some meandering post about whether or not Ronaldinho's latest on-field conversation with R
Lyon 2 - 2 Barcelona: Review and Highlights (Group Winners, biotches! edition)
By Isaiah | November 30th, 2007Before we truly get going, I think it's only fair that I admit that I did not get to see this game. Obviously this detracts from my abilities to discuss the game in-depth, but I'll do my best with the information at hand. I followed the game from work on
RAWR!!! Don't Look Now But Here We Come!
By Inara | November 28th, 2007Today Lyon crawled back from behind twice to draw with Barcelona at the Gerland. While a win would have been much sweeter, at least Lyon are still in the running for a place in the knockout rounds of the Champions League (thanks to our German friends over
Barcelona 4 - 1 Zaragoza: Review
By Isaiah | September 27th, 2007I left work early today to go home and watch the Barca-Zaragoza game and I'm definitely glad I did. The game was well and truly killed off by Marquez's first half extra time goal to make it 4-1. The other goals were by Messi (2) and Iniesta (Zaragoza's wa
Barcelona 2 - 1 Sevilla: Review and Highlights (I heart Toure edition)
By Isaiah | September 25th, 2007While everyone else is lauding the brilliance of Messi during Saturday's 2-1 defeat of Sevilla at the Camp Nou, I think it would be wrong of me not to start this post by nominating Andres Iniesta as the Man-of-the-Match. Prior to Saturday I had answered a
Marca makes some crap up...again.
By Isaiah | July 19th, 2007Surprise! Spanish daily doormat of a newspaper Marca has announced that Iniesta is moving to Madrid. Besides surprising Iniesta himself, who said his heart lies with Barcelona, Marca has forgotten Real Madrid as well, it seems. I'm sure that paying €60m
Atlético 0 - 6 Barcelona: "a professional humiliation" with highlights
By Isaiah | May 21st, 2007Well. What a difference a week can make. All the naysayers who came out of the woodwork after Getafe and Real Betis can return to the aforementioned woodwork and stat. Not that this is a time to crow as Barça remain in second place after Real Madrid conc
Barcelona 1 - 1 Real Betis - Review and Highlights
By Isaiah | May 14th, 2007It's hard to imagine a shot selection as inviting as that presented to Barça on Sunday against Real Betis, but somehow the blaugrana - and specifically Samuel Eto'o - were unable to capitalize on a dozen open shots. Few of the chances went on goal, even,
Real Sociedad 0 - 2 Barcelona - Highlights
By Isaiah | May 6th, 2007This video has highlights of the game and a brief interview with Andres Iniesta at the end. Goals by Iniesta and Eto'o (both assists by Ronaldinho). Rough translation of Iniesta's words: "Yes, we did our job, got what we needed to do done, and mor
Barcelona - Deportivo La Coruña Saturday 4pm ET
By Isaiah | March 30th, 2007Barcelona returns to action at home as the international break ends. A lot of blaugrana players were away on international duty, some of them even stirring up a little controversy by having his number switched. Regardless of what number he's wearing, Rona
Ronaldinho Comes to America
By Isaiah | March 26th, 2007It's the international break and so I too took a break from the action. I'm back now and here's a little roundup of all that happened with Barcelona's international team players: Spain: Iniesta and Xavi (Xabi Alonso 60') started in Spain's 2-1 win over
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