Almeria vs Barca Preview

With Real Madrid only just two points behind, this season is going into quite a nail biting finish. Eventhough Real Madrid is hosting Sevilla tomorrow, their current home form will make it difficult for Sevilla to get a favourable result. Meanwhile we will be travelling to Almeria, and our last trip on road saw a miserable performance against Stuttgart. We may hope Sevilla to give us some breathing space, especially Valencia visiting Camp Nou next week. Pep Guardiola has announced a 18 man squad which will be travelling to Almeria - Valdés, Pinto, Alves, Puyol, Chygrynskiy, Márquez, Milito, Maxwell, Touré, Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta, Jeffren, Bojan, Pedro, Messi, Henry, Ibrahimovic. Pique is suspended for this match and Keita and Abidal are out recovering from their injuries.

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Is There Something Wrong with La Liga?

Barcelona FC and Real Madrid Ranked Top In Football Money League

The Football Money League ranking 2008–09 are out and at the top it is a total Spanish domination. For the record, The Deloitte Football Money League is a ranking of football clubs by income. It is produced annually by the accountancy firm Deloitte. Deloitte reports on the richest clubs are released in early February of each year, describing the season most recently finished, and thus the most recent data available often appears to be out of sync with the footballing world, or out of date. However, it remains perhaps the best way of comparatively assessing football clubs' financial strength (ok, that is from Wiki Pedia). The methods used by deloitte to draw the ranking always has been debated, for example not taking into accord the revenue generated from Player Sales or may be the debts involved with the club and so on. But overall this is the only stats which give some kind of picture about football's state of affairs. Last year according to Deloitte Football Money League Real Madrid's revenue stands at 401.4 Million Euros, whereas FC Barcelona in the same period generated a revenue of 365.9 Million Euros. Manchester United dropped down by one place to third earning a revenue of 327.0 Million Euros. Bayern Munich, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Juventus, Inter and Milan form thye rest of top ten in the given order. If you want to see the entire list - Deloitte Football Money League ranking 2008–09

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FC Barcelona Pictures against Malaga

FC Barcelona Pictures Collection

FC Barcelona Pictures from Malaga Match

FC Barcelona successfully saw off the challenge from a spirited Malaga side. Goals from Pedro and Messi gave FC Barcelona a deserving victory.

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FC Barcelona vs Malaga Highlights

Hard Worked Win - FC Barcelona -2 , Malaga - 1

FC Barcelona needed a late goal from Lionel Messi to see off a very determined Malaga side at the Camp Nou. The scoreline could give an impression of a close encounter, but it never was. Barca was dominating all around the match and Malaga was hell bound not to concede a goal. A sensational strike from Pedro in the 68th minute broke the deadlock. But Valdo equalised in the 80th minute threatening to spoil Barca's night, but an 84th minute Lionel Messi strike gave us a very well deserving victory. Real Madrid earlier moved to the top with a 5-1 thrashing of Tenerife, that should have provided enough motivation for the players to work tirelessly to retain the top spot. Guardiola used a different formation in this match with Iniesta playing in the front left, Pedro on the right and Messi playing behind Ibrahmovic. Xavi and Busquets played in the midfield. The defense saw Alves coming back from injury, Pique and Puyol formed the central defense and Maxwell positioned himself in the left back position.

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