Official La Liga Thread

[therockbox]

So, Atletico were 2-0 up away to Villareal but have shipped four goals, and if it wasn't for Franco it would've been 6-2.

Some crazy scores so far this season.

[therockbox]

4-4. Simao scored in the 83rd minute, now Raul Garcia's equalised in the 85th.

Given their form this season, Atleti will probably still go on an lose.

[Johnny Latino Heat]

Topic resurrection time.

Has anybody seen Pepe's aggression this weekend? Jesus, the guy went completely psycho on the opponents.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExmTpuPctIY

Should have a lengthy suspension waiting, I'd say.

[Turbo Yannis]

Haha, that's brilliant. Get stuck in lad.

[Dynamite]

What an overreaction from the guy who went down. That second kick got more of the guys shirt than his back. There's no need to hold your face crying after that.

[EddieG]

Anybody watching the Malaga game? Didn't think so

[Crybaby Bunting]

What an overreaction from the guy who went down. That second kick got more of the guys shirt than his back. There's no need to hold your face crying after that.

Ultimately for him to kick his shirt that far back, there's a good chance he DID catch the guys back.

Lets all remember that you don't notice the studs from the top down view, but in my eyes he got caught. It doesn't matter how lightly it was, when he's kicking that hard it hurts even worse to just catch a bodypart.

EDIT: Plus, the guy clearly falls over, Pepe is going crazy because he knows that he's going to get sent off for not touching him... so kicks him...

EDIT2: ...and stands on him whilst he walks over to him... and punches a Getafe player

Edited April 22, 2009 by The General

[Dynamite]

Yeah I think my hate of the Getafe player comes more from the fact that he fell down after being poked rather than the stuff Pepe does after. There's no doubt Pepe was completely out of order kicking his legs first and then going for another swipe and then going after anothef Getafe player as well.

[Crybaby Bunting]

The link I saw of it showed a completely different perspective

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am7DOKyItIw...feature=related

If you look there, it's a combination of the Getafe player getting brushed by momentum, and slipping... not as obvious a dive as I first thought. Pepe is pissed that he'll probably get sent off for that pissy little push so hacks him to pieces.

[mikevandam]

either way you look at it. Pepe is a nutter

[IAceI]

Not sure how he managed to hurt his head in all that mind.

But I do think a lot of people call on a dive too often, I know the player wanted a penalty because he was looking at the referee in mid air just about, but at the same time it doesn't take much to send you flying when running at a full sprint so I can understand why players sometimes go down. I think referees need to realise more often that when a player goes down it's not always a foul and it's not always a dive. There's that bit in the middle where, they've gone down because they've lost balance running at full speed. It's not always either or.

[Crybaby Bunting]

According to Football Weekly they're saying that the reason that he was pissed was probably because he singlehandedly destroyed Real Madrid's push at winning the La Liga

Should you tell him or should I?

[IAceI]

He knew the outcome anyways, he just got his moneys worth.

[Johnny Latino Heat]

And he got a 10-game ban.

[therockbox]

Barca vs. Real could be a hockey score tonight. Barcelona 2-1 up after 20 minutes, Real could have equalised a couple of times in the last few minutes. Both defences have been shocking.

[IAceI]

I was scouring SkyBet for a "Will be 4 or more goals in the game" bet, but all I could find was one team to score more than 4 or there to be exactly 4, 5, or 6+ games.

If I could have stuck £1 on the game to have more than 4 goals I would have, just couldn't find the relative bet. And here we are, 2-1 after 20 minutes.

[Crybaby Bunting]

The defences were always going to be an afterthought, I mean Cani's out for Real Madrid, and half of Barça's defence managed to injure themselves in the Chelsea game.

All we can really do is sit back and watch the concept of a goalkeeper slowly become irrelevant.

[IAceI]

I like the impartiality of our commentator friend who may as well be chanting Barcelona songs from the commentary booth.

[cmb211087]

2-6, ten minutes left, good game actually

[IAceI]

Exhibition stuff from Barcelona really. No ones put a foot wrong for Barcelona whereas Real's players have been largely missing. It reeks of Liverpool's 5-1 win over Newcastle, Casillas has actually made some great saves so to have conceded 6 is testament to how good Barcelona have been tonight.

But then again if you've watched the match the commentators will have told you how good Barca have been about 150 times, so no need for me to say anymore. Gutted Iniesta hasn't scored, in my eyes their most influential player this year - the key to their incredible play.

EDIT: Oh yeah and while I'm here. Heinze is absolutely fucking appalling, possibly one of the worst players in the world ever.

Edited May 2, 2009 by IAceI