FC Barcelona would belooking at a huge 10 point deficit with League leaders Real Madrid by the
end of tomorrow night after going down 3-2 against osasuna. If the Villareal draw had put a huge
blow to Barca's title hopes, then this defat at Pamplona virtually ends the league hopes. If Real
madrid win against Levante at home tomorrow, the lead at the top will climb to a huge 10
points.
FC Barcelona booked their place in the Copa Del Rey final with a 2-0 victory against Valencia at
Camp Nou. Goals from Cesc Fabregas and Xavi gave Barca a bit of nervous victory. Now the final will
be against Atletic Bilbao, between the two most successful teams in the Copa Del Rey history.
FC Barcelona took a good step towards proceeding to Copa Del Rey final with a 1-1 draw at
Mestella. Considering how tough we have found recently in Valencia, this draw is as good as a win -
especially because of the away goal. In the 27th minute Jonas put Valencia ahead, but Carles Puyol
equalised for Barca in the 36th minute.
FC Barcelona could have handed over the Liga title to Real Madrid unofficially after drawing
away at 17th placed Villareal. The lead at the top of the summit is seven points which could be too
much for our boys to climb. Already with a very depleted side, we weren't helped by Guardiola's
decision making all night.
FC Barcelona secured a semi-final birth in this season's Copa Del Rey after knocking out holders
Real Madrid with a sensational 2-2 draw. Barcelona who went into the break with a 2-0 lead had to
hold off a sensational fightback from Mourinho's boys to secure the semi-final birth. To an extent
we had to say that we were lucky after putting up the worst defensive display of the season, and
courtesy of the fact that Madrid missed a number of chances.
Lionel Messi scored his first away hat-trick of the season to give Barca a comfortable 4-1
victory over Malaga. The match wasn't as comfortable as the score-line suggest. In the first half
Malaga had some serious chances and ended as 1-0. Rondon scored the consolation goal for
Malaga.
It has become something like a routine for this team - to go to the home of their arch-rivals
and win in the most difficult circumstances. Guardiola's men has launched up many style of
victroies over here - this one was also a bit different from teh other one. In this edition they
decided to concede a lead at half time and then turned it completely over.
FC Barcelona continued with their winning streak at home in La Liga with a very hard fought 4-2
victory against an inspired Real betis side. The match started very brightly for us going 2-0 up
within 12 minute, then turned into a nightmare when Real Betis equalised early into second
half.
FC Barcelona dropped two precious points in their pursuit of league leaders Real Madrid with a
disappointing 1-1 draw against Espanyol. In teh 200-07 season, it was against Espanyol we lost the
league title. There is still 21 games to be played yet, but maybe at the ned of the season we would
be considering this match as a turning point.
FC Barcelona firmly placed their right foot in the next round of Copa del Rey with a 4-0 victroy
against Osasuna at the Camp Nou. Now unless a seriously bad loss happens in the return leg, we will
be firm favorite to face either Malaga or Real madrid in next round. A frist half brace from cesc
Fabregas put Barca on course for a easy victory.
FC Barcelona were crowned the 2011 World Club Champions following a brilliant 4-0 victory
against South American Champions Santos. The battle between the Champiosn of Europe and Champiosn
of South America were a mismatch with Barca controlling the proceedings for the majority of
match.
FC Barcelona booked a place in the final of this year's World Club Championship final against
Santos courtesy of an easy 4-0 drubbing of Qatari Club Al Sadd. It was a mismatch from the
beginning and the only question was by what margin FC Barcelona will emerge victorious. But the
match didn't end up so well for us, with David Villa being substituted midway due to injury.
FC Barcelona got the league back on track with a thrilling 1-3 comeback win at Santiago
Bernebeu. The match started with a disaster as far as Barca were concerened. We went a goal down in
the very first minute following a horrendous mistake by Valdes. But this match was about whether
Barca's grit and they dig deep and produced a brilliant comeback.
FC Barcelona closed down the lead between them and Real Madrid to six points with a comfortable
5-0 victory against fourth placed Levante. Cesc Fabregas opened the scoring, then doubled it
followed by Cuenca, Messi and Sanchez goals gave Barca a comfortable victory at Camp NOu. Now all
the focus will shift to next week's Clasico action at Bernebeu.
FC Barcelona secured the top spot of Group H in Champions League with a high tempo thrilling 3-2
victory against AC Milan. An own goal from Van Bommel, a penalty from Messi and another beautiful
goal from xavi completed Barca's socreline, whereas Ibrahimovic and Boateng scored for AC
Milan.
FC Barcelona made shot work of the visiting Zaragoza side with a brilliant 4-0 victory at the
Camp Nou. With this win, Barca had briefly moved to the top of standing, equalising with Real
Madrid, who will be playing Valencia shortly. In a night after the international break, Pique,
Messi, Puyol, Villa all scored for Barca.
It took an injury time goal from Lionel Messi to salvage a point for Barca at San Mames. With
this draw Barca found themselves trailing leaders Real Madrid by three points. This is the first
time Guardiola's team is trailing their arch rivals by more than two points. This result has put
the emphasis in the league back to Real madrid as they could aproach the home match against us on
December 10 with a bit of ease.
FC Barcelona went back to the top of La Liga with a 3-0 victory at home against Racing
Santander. Lionel Messi scored twice on the night and Xavi scored once to give Barca a comfortable
victory. Earlier on the night Real Madrid went on top with a 4-1 victory against Real Betis. We
needed to respond to that and boy, we indeed did that without much sweat.
FC Barcelona made to the top of La Liga with a hard fought 1-0 win against Sporting Gijon. This
incidently was the first away victory of the Catalan side this season in the league. Right now we
are tied with Levante, who beat Betis at the top of the table. Barcelona is on the top due to their
goal difference which is a whooping 19 goals.
Bate player, Filippe described this Barca team as made of outer space creatures and definitely
Barcelona produced a display to honour that compliment. FC Barcelona won their first match of this
year's Champions League season with a 5-0 result at the Dynamo stadium. This is our first away
victory in all official matches till now.
FC Barcelona continued their excellent home run in 2011-12 La Liga season with a 5-0 victory
against the high flying Atletico Madrid. With this victory FC Barcelona moved to second place in
the La Liga standing. David Villa opened the scoring for Barca, followed by an own goal from
Miranda and three brilliant goals from Messi gave Barca a comfortable victory, which is Barca's
fifth in a row against the same side.
FC Barcelona for the second time in four days failed to kill off a game which they dominated,
and ended sharing points in the first match of Champions League this season. AC Milan took a shock
lead within 25 second of start through Pato. Barca over turned it from through goals from Pedro and
Villa, but then in the dying moments Thiago Silva equalised from the corner for AC Milan.
Visiting Anoeta stadium is becoming a head-ache for Guardiola. Last season we ended losing well
after we secured the title, this season it was an improvement with a 2-2 draw. By doing this
Guardiola has continued the glorified tradition of dropping point of the second league match, last
time we lost to Hercules.
FC Barcelona started their La Liga title defense with a 5-0 thumping of fellow Champions League
colleague, Villareal. Thiago opened the scoring for Barca and Cesc, Messi with two, Sanchez all
completed the Manita list. It was important for us to start well in the league not only to warn our
La Liga rivals but also the Continental rivals like Manchester United etc.
FC Barcelona won the 2011 UEFA Super Cup by defeating Europa Cup Winner, FC Porto 2-0 at the
St.Louis stadium in Monaco. Goals from Messi and another from Cesc Fabregas sealed a record 11th
Trophy for Guardiola as a coach. FC Porto really made life difficult for Barca with their high
pressure.
FC Barcelona won the 46th edition of the annual pre-season friendly Joan Gamper tournament at
Camp Nou with an emphatic 5-0 victory over Napoli. With this victory Barca has won the trophy which
is named after the founder of the club for the 35th time. For Guardiola it's not a bad trophy to
win, as the last two times he won the same, he went on to win the Champion League as a coach.
FC Barcelona won this seasons Spanish Super Cup in the end of a sensational match which ended
3-2 in favor of the host at Camp Nou. Two goals from Messi and one from Iniesta took Guardiola to
yet another title. The match also some disgraceful scenes at the end courtesy of the fight started
by Real madrid players.
The first leg of the Spanish Super Cup of this season ended with a thoroughly entertaining 2-2
draw at the Santiago Bernebeu stadium in Madrid. Realm madrid fans would have been wondering how on
earth they failed to save the match, may be how on earth we scored two goals. I haven't seen a
Barca side in near memory being so overly dominated especially in the midfield.
FC Barcelona won their first pre-season final of this season with a 2-0 victory against Bayern
Munich at the Allianz Arena, the same gorund where this season's Champions League final will take
place. This cup doesn't count much but the fact taht we triumphed with a very inexperienecd and
young side talks higly of our production unit named, La Masia.
FC Barcelona won their second pre-season game of the season in penalty shoot-out after it ended
2-2 in full time. There were plenty of changes in both half and that saw us playing in different
rhythm in different half. Starting Eleven for the first half had Valdes, Busquets, Maxwell, Fontas,
Riverola, thiago, keita, Iniesta, cuenca, Soriano and Afellay.
MVP(Messi, Villa Pedro) Goals secure Barca the Title
FC Barcelona won their 4th Champions League Title of their history with a classy 3-1 victory
over English Champions, Manchester United. With this victory we have won three Champions League
title in last six years. In a picture perfect night goals from Pedro, Messi and Villa all scored to
give Barca the victory and continue their love affair with the Wembley stadium.
The newly crowned Spanish La Liga Champion were held to a goal less draw by relegation
threatened Deportivo La Coruna at the Camp Nou. That one point could be very crucial for
Deportivo's hopes of surviving in the league. This incidently was the first goal less draw of Barca
in the league this season.
FC Barcelona won their 21st League title with a 1-1 draw at Levante with a bit of tricky
performance. This was not one of the usual flowing performance by the Barca side, but it was good
enough to complete a rare hat-trick of League title. The last team which did that was the dream
team of Barcelona back in the 90s.
FC Barcelona took a huge step to retaining their La Liga title with a massive 2-0 victory
against city rivals, Espanyol. With this victory we require only one more point to secure the title
and we can expect the team to round that up on their trip to levante in mid-week. Iniesta opened
the scoring for Barca in the 29th minute and Pique completed the scoreline with a header in the
48th minute.
FC Barcelona booked their place in this year's Champions League final in Wembley with a 1-1 draw
against their bitter rivals Real Madrid. The only draw back of what was a perfect night was the
stupid goal we conceded. Pedro put Barca ahead early in the first half but Marcelo equalised for
Real Madrid.
FC Barcelona looks favourite to play the final in wembley with a 2-0 away victory
Mourinho's biggest wish coming into this match was to see one FC Barcelona player sent off, he
got his wish granted. but the problem for him was the one who got sent back was on our bench and to
make matters worse Pepe and he himself got sent off to make matters easy for Barca.
FC Barcelona secured three precious point tonight at the Camp Nou with a not so inspiring
performance against Osasuna. Goals from David Villa and Lionel Messi maintained Barca's eight point
lead on top ahead of the big away leg of Champions League this Wednesday. Real Madrid who played
earlier at Valencia, has cut the lead back to five points with a spectacular 6-3 thrashing.
Cristiano Ronaldo's goal secured Copa del Rey triumph over FC Barcelona
Guardiola had the first taste of defeat in an El Clasico match and a cup final with a 1-0 defeat
against arch-rival Real Madrid. In a toughly contested final it was a goal from Cristiano Ronaldo
which secured the first trophy available in Spain to Real madrid.
FC Barcelona failed to muster three points against ten men Real madrid
FC Barcelona maintained their eight points lead at the top of table with a 1-1 draw at the
Santiago Bernebeu. Messi never had scored against Mourinho and Ronaldo niether against Barca coming
into this match. In the end both of broken that dubious record were broken courtesy of penalties on
either end.
Clinical Barca seal Semi-Final spot
FC Barcelona finished off the good work they did in the first leg with a 1-0 victory against
Shaktar at the Donbass Arena. In an arena, where many of the Europe's finest struggled, Barca
produced a very efficient display to book their place in yet another Champions League semi-final
and an aggregate score of 6-1.