Real Madrid vs Barca Super Copa First Leg Preview

FC Barcelona will be playing their first competitive match of the 2011-12 season at Santiago Bernebeu stadium tomorrow night. The Spanish Super cup in contrast to their Premier League rivals is a two legged affair and we do have the advantage of playing teh second leg at home. Real Madrid and Barcelona had kind of a contrasting pre-season tour. Real Madrid won almost all their pre-season matches and did score lots of goals in those. In contrast we had a mixed result with wins and loss sandwiched between the draws. It is not a big matter of concern for us as we played our kids in most of the matches, whereas they played the stablished stars. Still the fact that majority of their stars has been playing togetehr in the pre-season gives them a bit more better preperation. But then ours is a team where the first eleven hasn't much changed in the last two seasons and should feel fine without much pre-season togetherness. We saw the example of that last season when Messi waljed into the team just like that in the second leg of super leg and won us the match. The build up to the Super Cup has been a very quiet affair till now but it is expected to get heaten up once the first leg get over at Madrid, the reason - Jose Mourinho.

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Finally it's Happening, Cesc is Coming to Barca

After a very hard and prolonged courting FC barcelona looks to have finally managed to land themselves their most priced catch for some season - Cesc fabregas. Nothing has been official as I write this post, but the rumours are emerging pretty fats and strong. Both Puyol and Pique has expressed their delight over the conclusion of their deal in their respective twitter accounts, Valdes almost gave away the news in the press conference, yes definitely there is a change in the mood at everyone associated with Barca. Two days before Guardian broke out the story of Arsenal accepting defeat in keeping both Cesc and Nasri. Have to admit I never trusted anything said in their, you can't blame me as this deal has been concluded atleast a 100 times in media over the past two season. Now it looks like Guardian story is emerging as a very credible one. Meanwhile Sport and Mundo should feel agitated as I am giving credit to Guardian for this story rather than them - they have been saying this from the last two seasons. As I said above, nothing has been officially confirmed but you could definitely smell it, and also the club is expected to make an offical statement pretty soon. The midfielder is expected to travel to Barca this weekend to complete the transfer and most probably will attend the Super Cup match at Bernebeu.

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Second Defeat in a Row, and the Cries Start Again

It's not that usual to wake up in the morning and read a scoreline where FC Barcelona is at the end of a 4-1 mauling. This was definitely one of those day, hope it's the last. The funny part was that I woke up ealry and watched Villa's goal live but couldn't hold my head still and went back to sleeping. So checking the score when I woke up was a bigger shock than it usually would have been. But the scale of shock I experienced was miniscule, compared to the reactions of Barca fans at some very popular Barca blogs. I mean when you hear terms like "Pedro is Crap", "We will be murdered by Real Madrid", "Deulofeu is shit" etc you actually know there is something wrong in the world. Yes, a 4-1 defeat is a bit hard and could have been avoided but if we look at the defense we had before conceding the goals, you could definitely see the light side of it. Chivas Guadalajara is a very good side and some of teh goals were absolutely brilliant. The confidence of Fabian in the way he scored his goals is a demonstration of how good a side they are.

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