It may look as simple as players covering their equivalents while on defense, but to have Robben and Ribery effectively negate the impacts of Alves and Alba is a remarkable sacrifice for the 2 attacking players and accomplishment for Heynckes to successfully implement.
The Spanish national team have arrived in Madrid to prepare for their decisive World Cup qualifiers against Finland and France. The 24 players called up by Vicente del Bosque were required to turn up at the headquarters at 10:30am this morning and the "early birds" were Barcelona's Victor Valdes, Gerard Pique and Andres Iniesta, who arrived half an hour before the stipulated time.
When you read or hear about Sergio Busquets what springs to mind? Diver? Play actor? In his time in the Barcelona first team he has been labelled and scrutinised in every way possible but there is so much more to him than what the press say. In this modern era of football people tend to go along with what they read in the media and don't say what they feel.
Barcelona vs Atletico Madrid 4-1 Goals 2012 Highlights Falcao Adriano Busquets Messi Video is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter
Barcelona vs Atletico Madrid 4-1 Goals 2012 Highlights Falcao Adriano Busquets Messi Video is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter Barcelona vs Atletico Madrid 2012 ( Barca Atletico VIDEO BELOW) Final score and result:- Barcelona vs Atletico Madrid 4-1 ( Adriano, Busquets, Messi*2/ Falcao) Camp Nou, Barcelona- 16 December, 2012- 20.
FC Barcelona emeregs 4-1 winners agaisnt second placed Atletico Madrid.
Adriano, Busquets and Messi scored for Barca
FC Barcelona emerged 4-1 victors against Atletico Madrid at the Camp Nou in the top of the table clash. We went into the match with six points lead over Atletico and eleven point lead over real madrid.
When footballers wear t-shirts relating to other footballers, death or serious illness is usually involved. So, it's nice to see this peculiar incident from a match between Saudi Arabia and Yemen in which Saudi player Abdullah Otayf celebrated a goal in the only way he knew how: by revealing a t-shirt bearing the face of [.
When it comes to any transfer window in this country, the press and media like to have a field day with all sorts of people being linked with moves from one club to another. It's also a chance for football agents to line their pockets trying to broker a move for their client or to try and get a better contract at the club his is at.
The holding midfielder, or defensive midfielder, or number 6 as we can also call it, is a thankless task that often gets overlooked in today's football of marauding fullbacks, twinkle-toed playmakers and dead-eye strikers. However what is most underappreciated about the number6 (as we will refer to it from henceforth) are its complexities that most fail to recognize.
Sergio Busquets of FC Barcelona (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)
The latest reports from Metro on Oct. 21, 2012 claim that English Premier League club Chelsea is set to make a major offer in the range of £25 million to FC Barcelona for the services of defensive midfielder Sergio Busquets.
07.10.2012 - Con goles de Lionel Messi (´30 y ´60) y Cristiano Ronaldo (´22 y ´65), Barcelona y Real Madrid empataron (2-2) en el Camp Nou por la 7º jornada de la Liga española.
Real Madrid golpeó primero y casi dos veces en el primer tiempo. Fue un breve lapso en que tuvo grogui al Barcelona.
Barca secures victory against Benifica with a 2-0 scoreline.
Carles Puyol broke his arm and may miss action for sometime.
FC Barcelona secured their second victory of UEFA Champions League group stage with a 2-0 victory against Benifica. Goals from Alexis Sanchez and Cesc Fabregas secured Barca the three points.
In case you just got the memo, it's international week and most of the remaining Euro-zone World
Cup 2014 qualifiers and friendly matches will be played throughout Friday and next Tuesday. Members
of the Spanish team trickled into the training ground with their signature Jeans and Tee combos at
the Ciudad de Futbol in Madrid yesterday, although Per
Mertesacker appeared to have accidentally arrived with Santi Cazorla in
the same van (behind).
An Osasuna side that refused to be intimidated put Barca to the sword. The other Llorente, the
one who is not sulking, Joseba, scored his debut goal finishing off Rolando Lamah's surging cross
with an acrobatic volley for the first salvo. Osasuna had a golden chance going two up after Sergio
Busquets getting a bit too cute lost the ball but Nino's shot just about bounced off the
upright.
Welcome back to La Liga Lunes, where we wrap up the weekend's action
'Futbolita' style for you! The Barcelona squad enjoyed a little banter before heading off to
Pamplona, where they came away with a 2-1 victory against
Osasuna yesterday.
Perhaps we should clarify that Sergio Busquets was lying on the ground at the time but then if you
were playing the percentages, you probably would have already guessed that. Flat on the floor after
a foul by Xabi Alonso, Busquets was immediately given a reason to wish he'd managed to stay on his
feet [.
Sergio Busquets is often harshly credited with being the Barcelona player who's least comfortable
on the ball. Goalkeeper Victor Valdes chose last night's El Clasico to prove that it's actually
him. Valdes has seen Lionel Messi doing those neat turns and dummies so often that he thought it
must be a piece of cake.
The former Arsenal midfielder Alex Song was in Barcelona today undergoing the formality of a
medical before being announced as a Barcelona player. Song has said very little during the recent
rumours and announcements, but has been biting his tongue apparently. Arsenal and Arsene Wenger
have let it be known that all the impetus for [.
Arsenal midfielder Alex Song has completed his £15million switch to Barcelona and immediately been
praised by the Catalan giants for his lack of fat. The Cameroon international was widely expected
to move to Camp Nou subject to a medical. Not only did he pass that formality with flying colours,
Barca's quacks were impressed by Song's [.
FC Barcelona have taken another player from Arsenal, as they have signed midfielder Alex Song
from the Premier League side for a reported €19million.
A statement on the Barcelona website read:
"Barcelona have agreed a deal with Arsenal for the transfer of Alex Song to the Nou Camp.
Arsenal have sold midfielder Alex Song to Barcelona for €19million. Song is reported to have
already agreed to personal terms and will undergo a medical in the next 24 hours.
A statement on the Barcelona website read:
"Barcelona have agreed a deal with Arsenal for the transfer of Alex Song to the Nou Camp.
FC BARCELONA has announced via the Clubs "Twitter" account the signing of ARSENAL midfielder ALEXÂ
SONG for 19M€. The player signs with Barça for the next 5 years Song Barça has been looking for
a versatile midfielder that could in an emergency also act as a defender. The idea behind the Song
signing is to have a "back-up" player for Busquets &/or Mascherano.
Real Madrid, Barcelona transfer targets beyond Neymar - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Real Madrid out-classed Barcelona last season which ended the Pep Guardiola era at the Catalan
club. Now Jose Mourinho and Tito Vilanova, the new Barca manager, are looking to strengthen their
teams in order to prepare for another long, hard year ahead.
There have been many rumours lately linking the Arsenal midfielder Alex Song with a move to
Barcelona, and as usual the Barca players like to join in with annoying habit of talking up their
targets in the Spanish press, which we saw so many times before Cesc Fabregas went there last
summer. Today it is [.
Should we sell Song? By SV I'm sure you've all heard that Barcelona are reportedly tracking Alex
Song. I'm not quite sure what to make of the reports myself, as while they did just lose Seydou
Keita, they do still have two great defensive midfielders in Mascherano and Busquets. But what this
article really focuses [.
Javier Mascherano has confirmed he is close to agreeing a contract extension at Barcelona. The
28-year-old midfielder, who joined Barca from Liverpool in 2010, is currently contracted to Barca
until 2014 but he is set to sign on for an extra two years.
Mascherano told El Mundo Deportivo:
"It is on the right track and I hope it will be signed shortly.
En el 2008 Austria y Suiza el mejor jugador fue Xavi Hernandez, en este 2012 su compañero Andres
Iniesta el Oliver Atom de carne y hueso para Marca es el jugador mas valioso.
Two of the best teams to have graced not only La Liga but the world football stage are undoubtedly are the 'first' galacticos of Real Madrid and Pep Guardiola's Barcelona team of recent years. But which team exactly boasted the best possible squad? Starting with Real, huge fortunes were spent on the likes of Luis [.
Tonight, United vs Barcelona at the Ullevi finished 0-0, before the reds lost on penalties. Nani
hit the crossbar and Ashley Young's poor penalty was saved. Xavi and Gerard Pique scored for
Barcelona.
Liverpool defender Daniel Agger has become a target for Premier League champions Manchester City,
after the Danish international told manager Brendan Rodgers that he sees his future away from
Anfield.
The Daily Mirror report that Manchester City have already tabled a bid of £13 million for the
27-year-old, with Real Madrid and Barcelona also monitoring the availability of Agger, who has
voiced his desire to move on.
When Arsene Wenger agreed to sell Alex Song to Barcelona near the end of the summer transfer window, Arsenal fans were up in arms. The failure to replace the Cameroonian has been a significant factor in Arsenal's defensive frailties this season, as he used to offer protection to the back four that is just not part of Mikel Arteta's game.
Santi Cazorla has been outstanding for Arsenal since moving from La Liga side Malaga in the summer. His name was unfamiliar to many people in this country and their is a common assumption that he is struggling to get a place in the Spanish national side. Cazorla may get a rare start this week as Spain travel to Belarus for the first of two World Cup qualifiers, the second being against France.
Vicente Del Bosque has announced his Spain squad for the games with Saudi Arabia and
Georgia.
The Saudi game, to be played in Pontevedra on September 7, is a friendly and will act as
preparation for the first World Cup 2014 qualifying match against Georgia in Tbilisi four days
later.
He of ghostly palour and lightning-quick feet, Andres Iniesta, has been named by the player of
Euro 2012 by the UEFA bigwigs after a starring role in La Roja's third major tournament triumph on
the bounce. Â I don't think there'll be too many dissenting voices on this one, with arguably only
Azzurri star Andrea Pirlo, Portugal numero uno Cristiano Ronaldo or Spanish defenders Jordi Alba
and Sergio Ramos deserving of the award.
Radamel Falcao is one of the strikers who is most in demand right now, and Atletico Madrid has set the amount that it will take for someone to pry him away from them.
Atletico Madrid GM Miguel Angel GIl Marin put a price on Falcao on Tuesday, saying the team will not be able to afford the Colombian striker if they do not qualify for the UEFA Champions League this season.
