Comments on: La Liga Round-up – Jornada 23

By: Joseph Sexton

Joseph Sexton — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:34:52 +0000

On Camacho, I had that set aside and somehow forgot to include it. So soon after that result against Real Madrid too.

Well, what more can anyone say about Marca (or AS, or Mundo Deportivo, or Sport for that matter). It must be infuriating the be one of those supporters of other clubs who has no soft for either Real or Barca. With this kind of patronising junk (and I haven’t even started on La Sexta, Gol Television and Estudio Estadio!), it’s a miracle that fans in Spain still remain knowledgeable and good to talk to about the sport.

Probably the best thing I can say about Marca is that their in-match and post match graphics on line-ups, subs, and stats are very user friendly, although they make a hash of them on occasion.

This is the first week in some time where both of the top sides provide something different by way of stories, hopefully in the coming weeks I’ll get the chance to focus on the sides in the bottom half.

By: Joseph Sexton

Joseph Sexton — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:25:53 +0000

Ooops. Cheers for that. It happens. I only heard about the crowd chanting Quique’s name after I’d finished the piece, and that’s great… aside from the fact that he deserves more time there, I can’t think of any coach who isn’t significantly worse who would even consider taking the job there.

By: Samuel

Samuel — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 02:29:43 +0000

Ohh… I was expecting to read something about the relegation threathened teams. By the way, you mistyped a result. As you must know it was Real 1-0 Osasuna, a defeat that meant the end of Camacho in Pamplona.

You should have mentioned that the Vicente Calderón chanted Quique Sánchez Flores name, which may have been the key factor not to sack him.

I got confused with that “Salas” playing for Racing. Of course, he’s Christian, or Christian Fernández, or even Fernández if you like it the British way, but not Salas. And Negredo was the one who missed the first penalty and Luís Fabiano came on after the 2-1.

These are the main things I wanted to point out. Of course I don’t want to look too picky!

It was a nice reading, and bow to you for slamming Marca. I can’t understand how masses follow them when anyone with common sense know they really stink especially when it comes to the Madrid-Barça rivalry.

By: Zach

Zach — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 02:26:14 +0000

I think the Barca loss just goes to show the importance of Puyol to Barcelona, and to a lesser extent Pedro and Busquets.

I can’t believe Barca signed Mascherano, he’s probably the best player in the world to have when you don’t have the ball but that isnt how Barca play, so he’s such a passenger in a vital area of our game. Busquets is one of the best young players in the world for me, and he’s only gonna get better. He’s a much better foil for those around him, ahead and behind, then Masch ever will be.

I think it was Cascarino or someone who said Barce’s weakest area is their defense, I’m sure he’d also say teams like Chelsea, Man Utd and Inter have better defenses when in fact they don’t.

Arsenal game should be amazing but its not going to be big a scoreline as last time, Messi won’t be able to copy that. Will be a very tough game and I’m not as confident as others