It's time for internationals again and as per usual, almost all the Barca boys are called up, with most of them facing off in the much awaited Spain - Argentina friendly.
Due to an injury in his left calf muscle, Puyol is left out of Spain's roster leaving his fellow countrymen Valdes, Pique, Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta, Villa and Pedro to represent Spain against their Barca teammates from the Argentine squad: Messi, Milito and Mascherano.

If you ask José Luis Astiazarán, the President of the Spanish League of Professional Footballers, then the answer is an unequivocal "yes". Why? Because, according to him, Spain's success is a result of "hard work with youth setup" that the LFP had done to promote "homegrown" talent in Spain.

The Road to Euro 2012 continues on Tuesday...

Euro 2012 qualifying continues tomorrow (Tuesday, September 7) after the most countries kicked off their qualification campaign last Friday. And even though we are two years away from the final tournament and its only matchday 2- some countries are already under pressure to get results.

I'm not sure how many Barcelona fans have witnessed Yaya Toure with his new club Manchester City, but he seems to be doing great with the club. Being used more as a central midfielder that attacks more (rather then the defensive midfield position that he played at Barcelona) Yaya has been very effective for the Billionaire club and Kompany is confused as to why Barca would let him go.

Barcelona – Hercules
It's the typical David versus Goliath matchup; Last year's champions against a newly promoted side. Hercules were one of the most active teams during the summer transfer window but they are up against a fresh side boosted by the presence of Mascherano.

Hércules! Hércules! Hércules! La Liga Lowdown, Jornada 2 is a post from: Just Football

The unlikeliest of results kicked off a goal-filled La Liga this weekend with newly promoted Hércules overcoming FC Barcelona in their own back yard. A packed Camp Nou was stunned into silence midway through the first half when recent summer acquisition Nelson Valdez put the team from Alicante ahead after some questionable defending.

Group D has an easy-to-predict first place but the rest of the group is wide open. FC Barcelona are a class above the teams they have been drawn in to Group C with, so complacency is going to be their biggest enemy. The real battle is going to be the home-and-away fixtures between FC Kobenhavn, FC Rubin Kazan and Panathinaikos F.

FC Barcelona won their first league match under Guardiola at the Vicente Calderon with a fighting 2-1 display. The hapiness of the victory was dampened by the scenes of Messi getting carried away in a streture towards the end after getting himself hurt by teh challenge of Ujfalausi. We have to wait for sometime inorder to access the injury.

Tough Job ahead at San Mames

FC Barcelona will be looking to continue with their winning streak continuiing when they visit San Mames on saturday. Our last visit to San Mames did end up in a 1-1 draw, but the fans will be hoping this time the score resembles something like Bilbao's visit to Camp Nou.

FC Barcelona moved to second place in the La Liga table behind Valencia with a 3-1 victory at San mames. Real madrid's failure to win against levante presented us with a great chance to leap forward them. In a match which saw two red card (Amorebieta, Villa) goals from Keita, Xavi and Busquets secured Barca a vital away win in one of the most toughest stadiums in Spain.

Athletic Bilbao 1 - 3 Barcelona
(0-1) 54' Keita, (0-2) 73' Xavi, (1-2) 90' Gabilondo, (1-3) 92' Busquets
After their lacklustre win over Sporting at home midweek, all the talk in the Spanish press had been about Barcelonas 'Messidependencia'. When you think about it, which team wouldn't depend on a player like Messi?

The name Rubin Kazan does not invoke happy memories for Barca fans. Last season, they were the one of the few teams who managed to gain an upperhand against us. Even against Inter we had a record of two wins, 1 defeat and a draw. Rubin Kazan visited Camp Nou shocking us all with a victory, and the return visit to Russia ended with a goalless draw.

FC Barcelona failed once again to register a victory against the Russian side Rubin Kazan. That is quite an understatement, as Barca trailed for large part of the match. A first half penalty gave Rubin Kazan the lead but a second half penalty from Villa equalised for Barca. We once again had the most of the possession and had some seriously good chances to put the match to rest.