Mar 7, 2010

Almeria vs Barca Highlights.
Barca dropped two vital points after managing only a draw from their visit to Almeria. Actually Barca can consider themselves lucky not to have lost the match after Ibrahmovic was sent off in the beginning of first half. Once again it was Lionel Messi who scored twice to equalise for Barca after conceding two extremely soft goals. Everything was going against us in the match. Real Madrid meanwhile turned around their match against Sevilla after going 2-0 down , eventually winning the encounter 3-2. That victory has taken them ahead in the table on better goal difference. Barca should have been placed first as we have better head to head record this season. But there is no denial that Real Madrid have found their grove lately and are producing some sensational performances. Guardiola who managed to get himself send off, chose Alves, Puyol, Milito and Maxwell in defense in front of Valdes. Iniesta and Xavi formed the midfield partnership with Toure. The front three had Messi, Ibra and Pedro lining up together.

Mar 6, 2010

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.

Mar 2, 2010

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finished, and thus the most recent data available often appears to be out of sync with the footballing world, or out of date.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