The maestro of the Barcelona’s offense Xavi Hernandez has been playing football non-stop for the past year. He has guided Barcelona to the top of La Liga and led his Spanish National squad to become World Cup Champions. This weekend Xavi will be taking a much needed vacation for the next two weeks from football! [...]
FC Barcelona take on Sporting Gijon from the Nou Camp in midweek La Liga action. Watch the match live by clicking on any of the links below. Link 1 Link 2 Link 3 Link 4
With Lionel Messi starting on the bench Pep Guardiola opted for a defensive minded midfield with both Busquets and Mascherano starting alongside Xavi. The decision to start Mascherano in place of Keita may have in hindsight stifled Barcelona’s offense as they dominated possession but had few opportunities on goal. Barcelona featured Iniesta and Pedro on [...]
David Villa will be unavailable this weekend for their home match against Mallorca following the ruling by the Spanish Competition Committe. The Competition Committee decided that a one match ban was sufficent discipline for slapping Atheltic Bilbao’s Gurpegui following the two being tangled up with each other. The ruling does not affect the players ability [...]
“These are the games champions win,” began my half-time text to a couple of friends in other parts of the country, “pouring rain, miserable pitch, in Bilbao, incredibly hostile crowd, no Messi, 0-0 at the half. It’s like a novel.” The second half, of course, delivered. As I said in the text, these are exactly [...]
After some flight delays and turbulence Barcelona arrived a bit behind schedule to a rain soaked San Memés in Bilbao on Saturday looking to gain points on a Real Madrid squad who drew with bottom dwellers Levante earlier in the day. Bilbao were coming off a convincing 3-0 win against Mallorca earlier in the week [...]
At halftime of Saturday’s 1-3 win on the road at Athletic Bilbao Adriano was replaced by Maxwell after complaining about pain in his right thigh. The injury believed to have occurred due to the lack of footing on the Sam Memés pitch which looked to be a swamped as rain fell nonstop during the match. [...]
On Friday Pep Guardiola released the 18 man roster list that will be traveling Saturday morning to Bilbao to take on Athletic Club. Without Lionel Messi, who is still recovering from an ankle injury, Barcelona will see the return of Jeffren to the squad after he has recovered from an injury of his own that [...]
FC Barcelona take on Sporting Gijon from the Nou Camp in midweek La Liga action. Watch the match live by clicking on any of the links below. Link 1 Link 2 Link 3 Link 4
Following a two and a half week recovery period after suffering a left leg injury while playing with Spain’s U-21 squad, Jeffren Suarez receives medical clearance to return to the club. The return of Jeffren comes at a time when FC Barcelona are looking a little light upfront with Lionel Messi out of action for [...]
