Articles tagged with "lineups"
Barca 2-Mallorca 3, a.k.a. "Too much ugliness all around"
By Kevin | May 11th, 2008Must look good in blue and red, great first touch mandatory. Must be a team player and a fast learner. Patience and ability to learn new systems is essential. Catalan skills desired, but not essential. Please apply to: Pep G Camp Nou Avignud ...
Barca vs Mallorca, or "Here's to happier times," Sunday, 3 p.m. ET, (5pm on GolTV)
By Kevin | May 10th, 2008Okay. Time to play out the string, to find out what kind of fans we have at the Camp Nou. We're bound for third place, and will have to play our way into the Champions League next season. Frank Rijkaard and Ronaldinho, two faces who came to epito ...
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 ...
Man U 1-Barca 0, a.k.a. "No silver for you!"
By Kevin | April 29th, 2008I'm going to be brief with this one because it's late and my legs are tired from a long, cold ride home to watch a match that left me absolutely gutted. Time's up. No silver. I usually detest the idiots who do the post-game analysis for ESPN b ...
Manchester United - Barcelona: Champions League, Tuesday 2:45pmEST
By Isaiah | April 28th, 2008Update: Check out the liveblog on the main page This. Is. It. There's no tomorrow, no next match. We're in it to win or we're out on the street. The whole season, all the good and all the bad, have led up to this moment, this game, these 90 minu ...
Barca v Deportivo La Coruna, or "She's warming up...." Saturday, 1 p.m. CT, GolTV
By Kevin | April 25th, 2008Well, her song isn't done, but you have to wonder. We're in third place, one point behind Villarreal and eleven behind the Evil Empire, with five matches left to go. That's fifteen points. Barring a massive collapse, alien abductions and the like ...
Gnus you all can use, including Brazilians and Frenchmen
By Kevin | April 25th, 2008Guess who's coming to dinner at Old Trafford? Yes, lads and ladettes, it's already been announced: Thierry Henry will be getting the start at Old Trafford next Tuesday, because of his fine legacy of bedeviling the Red Devils. Woot! No word on ...
Barca 0-Espanyol 0, a.k.a. "Making Kameni look good"
By Kevin | April 19th, 2008Let's just give him a pedicure, a nap and a bottle while we're at it. Repeat after me: If you shoot the damned ball where the keeper is, he's probably going to make the save. Make sense? Feel better now? Good. Now. This match had the stink o ...
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 2, Barca 2, a.k.a. "Kxevin is speechless"
By Kevin | April 12th, 2008Good news. Messi is BACK! All the pace and energy are there. But I'm staggered. Wordless. There are times when you don't know what to say. I only have one page of notes for this match, and the most prominent word is "shit." I'm not at all sure ...
Champions League preview: Barcelona v Schalke 04 (12:45 p.m. CT Wed., ESPNDeportes, 2 p.m. CT Thursday, ESPN Classic)
By Kevin | April 8th, 2008It's GO TIME, baby! Some are saying that Schalke is going to roll over and die at the mere sight of the blaugrana, and the roaring multitudes singing away at our stirring Himno. I don't think so. They were encouraged by their second half performance, ...
Champions League preview: Schalke vs Barcelona, Tuesday 4 p.m. CT, ESPN Classic
By Kevin | March 31st, 2008I know, we don't get the high-def ESPN2 feed. Ripoff! It's April Fool's Day on this matchday, everyone, but since we've already played our cruel trick on Saturday against Betis, t'would be my vast, vast preference if we just rolled into Schalke's ...
Barca 4, Valladolid 1, a.k.a. the "Flatter to Deceive" edition, a.k.a. "And then there were four"
By Isaiah | March 23rd, 2008Four points, baby! Four. Freakin'. Points. Kevin in the house again for Isaiah, wanting to wait until after the Evil Empire/Valencia match to post this match report, so that I could say, once again: Four. Freakin'. Points. Ray Hudson cracked me up w
Preview: Barca v Valladolid, or "It's go time, yo!" (12 p.m. ET, GolTV)
By Isaiah | March 22nd, 2008Spare some love for me, up here amid the winter wonderland that is Highland Park, Illinois. 11 inches of snow, kids, on the second day of spring. Yum! On the up side, I have all-wheel-drive and snow tires on my car. On the down side, nobody else seems to.
Barca-Valencia preview (Thursday, 3:30 p.m. ET, GolTV), a.k.a. "Remember the Getafe," a.k.a. "Ronnie needs a smack"
By Isaiah | March 19th, 2008Right. This is the first, for-real, no messing about, bring-the-silver ass game. We all remember what happened last year. All we had to do was take care of business against Getafe, of all teams, and we laid a big, fat, stinking, 5-goals against egg. Ugh.
Lyon vs. Manchester United Lineups, Viewing Options
By Inara | February 20th, 2008All I'm going to say is, please don't screw up, Perrin. Also, Laurie will be liveblogging this game over at the main Offside page, so definitely head over there and check it out. Lyon: Coupet Reveillere - Squillaci - Anderson - Grosso Juninh
Riep calls it quits plus starting XI at Maracaibo
By Lugo | January 13th, 2008Citing family reasons Rodrigo Riep has formally renounced his place at Junior but one wonders if the name of Giovanni Hernandez had too much to weigh in his decision as the first thing that the Colombian international did after arriving to Barranquilla wa
Red Letter Day: Rangers vs. Lyon Lineups
By Inara | December 12th, 2007OMG I am scared shitless. ALLEZ LYONNAIS!!! Lyon: Vercoutre Clerc - Squillaci - Anderson - Grosso Juninho - Toulalan - Kallstrom Govou - Benzema - Ben Arfa Bench: Roux, Reveillere, Bodmer, Baros, Remy, Belhadj, Keita Rangers
Barcelona - Deportivo La Coruña: Preview (Sunday, 3pm EST)
By Isaiah | December 8th, 2007Sometimes it seems like taking a week off from games is an eternity, especially in the middle of these seasons where the team is also playing in the Champions League, the domestic cup, and most of the squad is on their various international squads. This i
Flu season!
By Isaiah | December 7th, 2007Deco, who just returned from injury (and incidentally was officially given the medical all clear today), is sick with the flu and is a "serious doubt" for this weekend's game against Depor. Toure is also being laid low by the same virus and may not be abl
Espanyol - Barcelona: Derby Preview (Saturday, 4pm EST)
By Isaiah | November 30th, 2007Well, folks, it's Derby Day and it's going to be a hoot, I think. Espanyol are 4th in the table, 2 points behind Barcelona, who are third. Ruh-roh, as they say. This derby doesn't need much to ignite it, but fighting for a Champions League spot could de
Lyon vs. Barcelona Starting Lineups
By Inara | November 27th, 200745 minutes until Lyon's Date with Destiny! Lyon: Vercoutre Reveillere - Squillaci - Anderson - Grosso Fabio Santos - Toulalan - Juninho Govou - Fred - Ben Arfa Barcelona: Valdes Zambrotta - Puyol - Milito - Abidal Xavi - Toure -
Real Valladolid - Barcelona: Preview (5pm EST, GolTV)
By Isaiah | October 31st, 2007Jornada 10 opponent: Real Valladolid CF Location: Estadio José Zorilla, Valladolid, Castilla-Leon Time: Thursday, November 1, 10pm local time, 5pm EST in the US TV: GolTV, live, barring some bureaucratic nonsense that stops transmission Another day
Rangers - Barcelona: Champions League Matchday 3 Preview
By Isaiah | October 22nd, 2007Back to Scotland we go, this time with an actual game on tap rather than a round of exhibition matches. It's Ibrox and Rangers in a game to determine who is the leader of CL Group E. Currently the two teams are tied at 6 points, having both defeated Lyon
Barcelona - Sevilla: Saturday 4pm EST
By Isaiah | September 21st, 2007There has been some debate on whether or not this game will be shown, but as attentive reader John pointed out in a comment to a previous post, the rival TV companies MediaPro and Sogecable who have until now kept all but 2 La Liga games per weekend fro
Barcelona - Lyon Lineups, Video Options
By Inara | September 19th, 2007Here we go. Nearly 3000 Lyon fans have made the trip to Camp Nou. Perrin has surprised us with a rather defensive formation. I'll give you one thing, he's certainly unpredictable! From UEFA.com: Lyon: Vercoutre Clerc - Squillaci - Bodmer -
Champions League Squad
By Isaiah | September 19th, 2007Tomorrow's Champions League squad is as follows: Valdés, Jorquera, Abidal, Sylvinho, Oleguer, Zambrotta, Milito, Thuram, Márquez, Touré Yaya, Xavi, Iniesta, Deco, Ronaldinho, Bojan, Giovani, Messi and Henry. Potential European debuts for Toure, A
News in Brief: Welcome back Copa Catalunya
By Isaiah | September 5th, 2007Check it out, numbers followed by words: 1. The Copa Catalunya starts off today, with 5 reserve/youth team players included in the squad, what with most of the first team squad off on internationals break. The game is at Girona, about an hour from Barc
The weekend is coming (and Schuster sucks!)
By Isaiah | August 20th, 2007There really isn't that much news coming out of the Camp Nou these days, as the team warms up for its disbanding at the behest of a bunch of FAs who are going to suck most of the major teams dry in the lead up to the La Liga opener. 12 Barcelonistas are g
Some thoughts from Futbolitis
By Isaiah | July 30th, 2007I am sick today, so I'll merely be posting this from Futbolitis as seen in Sport: Translation: Panel 1: Lineup chosen by Rijkaard Panel 2: Lineup chosen by the fans Panel 3: The lineup Capello would choose (autocar = bus)
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