Barcelona vs Real Madrid: Copa Del Rey Final, Barcelona 1 - 2 Real Madrid

Real Madrid clinched their maiden trophy under Carlo Ancelotti beating their bitter rivals Barcelona, 2 - 1 in the last night's triller of an encounter. Goals from Di Maria and Gareth Bale helped them secure their 19th Copa Del Rey title last night. With Cristiano Rolando injured, Gareth Bale stood up to the challenge and proved his worth in the left wing of Madrid's strike force. His winner in the 85th minute marked on of the most crucial goals of his career as it sinked the Catalans and their hopes of the only silverware this season.

Barcelona who are already out of the Champions League, now failed to clinch the Copa Del Ray and are in 3rd in the table behind Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid. With only 5 more games still to play Barcelona may end this season without any silverware.

Real Madrid with their 19th Copa Del Ray title

Real Madrid are still alive in the Champions League as they face the defending champions Bayern Munich in the semi final next week. With the Copa Del Rey already in the back they look to add to that tally, as they are only 3 points behind Atletico Madrid in La Liga as both teams have 5 more games to play. Rolando's injury and he missing these crucial matches is certainly a big loss to the Spanish giants but yet the manner in which they managed to clinch the major within the reach of their rivals last night was just incredible.

by  John Paul Komaravalli                                                                                    
posted on 4/16/2014 

Categories: La Liga, League Cup

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Real Madrid lose to Malaga 3-2

Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho, choose 25 year-old goal keeper Antonio Adan as his main man in front of the Madrid goal leaving behind the veteran, Iker Casillas on the bench. This eventually led Madrid to slip past Barca who are now 16 points ahead of the defending champions Real Madrid.

Malaga started the scoring with Isco who smashed the ball past Adan who couldn't do anything but just watch the ball strike the far corner. Real managed an equalizer, all thanks to Sanchez who turned the ball into his own goal.

La Liga, 23rd Dec 2012

Malaga                3     Isco 49, Santa Cruz 72, 75

Real Madrid         2     Sanchez 69(OG), Benzema 82

Santa Cruz came off the bench to score two quick goals in just 5 minutes which kept Malaga out from reach of Madrid. Karim Benzema managed to find a second for Mardid in the final minutes of the match which eventually ended up as a consolation for the defending champions. 

by John Paul Komaravalli

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Barcelona 3-1 Valladolid, Messi extends record

Goals from Messi, Xavi and Tello confirmed Barcelona's victory last night, with 16 consecutive wins from 17 La Liga matches. Tito Vilanova who was recovering form his surgery made way for Jordi Roura who took his first assignment as the head coach of Barca and saw nothing wrong as his side hold firm control over the game last night. Messi extended his record with 91 goals in a calender year with a couple of matches yet to play this year.

La Liga, 22 nd Dec 2012

Real Valladolid             1        Pucela 89

Barcelona                     3        Messi 60, Xavi 42, Tello 90+2

Barcelona now have 49 points from 17 matches, 9 clear of Atletico Mardid in second.

by John Paul Komaravalli

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Barcelona beat Atletico Madrid 4-1 as Messi scores twice

The Sunday night match between the top two in the league was a thriller, as many people expected it to be but was an easy win for Barcelona. The home side were prone to several burst outs by way side and eventually Falcao opened the scoring for Madrid in the 30th minute and once again proved his worth as one of the best strikers in the world.

Barcelona responded just five minutes later when Adriano cut out a long range strike from the right hand side to make the sides level on goals. Barcelona managed to keep up the momentum with Sergio Busquets scoring the second with minutes from the end of first half.

La Liga, 16th Dec 2012
Barcelona                      4             Adriano 35, Busquets 45+1, Messi 51, 87
Atletico Madrid            1             Falcao 30 

Then it was all Messi adding to his record of most goals in a calender year with his 89th and 90th netting past the Atletico goal. Barcelona are now nine points clear at the top of the La Liga table.

by John Paul Komaravalli

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Ozil the star as Madrid beat Valladolid 3-2

Mesut Özil scored a brace to save the day for Real Madrid as they were 2-1 down in the  dying minutes of the first half. Valladolid's striker Manucho was the first to strike from a corner due some sloppy defending from Khedira which marked the opening goal of the match. Benzema leveled just after five minutes with a simple tap in off a cross from Callejon. Manucho managed to strike once more from the corner, this time it was a mix-up from Casillas and Ramos which made the goal for the Vallodolid's striker.

La Liga, 9th Dec 2012
Valladolid                    2    Manucho 7, 22
Real Madrid                3    Benzema 12, Özil 45, 72

Mesut Özil burst out a fabulous run with the ball beating several Valladolid defenders and seeing the ball past the goal for a equalizer in the stoppage time of the first half. This goal made the sides level going into the second half.

A 72nd minute free kick from Özil, which may go down as the best goal this season sealed the victory for Madrid ass they ended Valladolid’s six-match unbeaten streak. Madrid are now third in the league with 8 points behind the leaders Barcelona.

by John Paul Komaravalli

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Real Madrid beat Zaragoza 4-0

Real Madrid beat Zaragoza this Saturday and claimed all the 3 points as thry beat their opponents 4-0. A 23rd minute goal from Gonzalo Higuain was the defending champions take the lead and two minutes later Di Maria made it 2-0 for the Champions.

Madrid sealed the match with two goals in the extra time from Michael Essien and Luka Modric.

La Liga, 3rd Nov 2012
Real Madrid         4       Gonzalo Higuain, Di Maria, Michael Essien, Luka Modric
Real Zaragoza      0

Iker Casillas was fabulous with his outstanding saves which made Real Madrid not only win the match convincingly but also maintain a clean sheet for the home side.

Real Madrid are now 8 points behind the leaders Barcelona with 20 points from 10 matches in third.

Atletico Madrid are second with 25 points from their 10 matches.

posted on 3 Nov, 2012 by John Paul Komaravalli

Categories: La Liga

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Barcelona make it took simple against Celta Vigo

Barcelona last night continue their supremacy at the top of the table with a win over Celta Vigo with 3 goals to 1. The goal came as early as in the 24th minute as Adriano scored for the Catalan club.

Celta Vigo then came back with an equalizer from Mario Bermejo.

Barcelona who had about two third's of the possession in the match sealed it off with two more goals from David Villa and Jordi Alba.

La Liga, 3rd Nov 2012

Barcelona    3       Adriano, David Villa, Jordi Alba
Celta Vigo   1       Mario Bermejo
Barcelona are now top of the La Liga table with 28 points from 10 matches so far.

posted on 3 Nov, 2012 by John Paul Komaravalli  

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Teams which can beat Barcelona this Season

Barcelona was not able to win the Champions League or the La Liga title last season which marked the last year for Pep Quardiola at the Camp Nou, but they were able to pull off the League Cup  adding to the list of many in the Quardiola's reign. Vilanova took over and with new additions into the team Barcelona is still the team to beat in Europe.

Chelsea were able to beat Barca last season in the Champions League even with 10 men and this made many teams to believe "Barcelona can be beaten".

New signing Alex Song and Jordi Alba add on to their strike force and make the team even more superior when compared to all other teams.

Barcelona in the recent past have kept the ball for most of the time and have failed to convert their ball possession into winning possession. They keep the ball but were not able to score enough where as other teams take their chances even though they are small in number.

Teams which can beat Barcelona this season

1.Real Madrid
2.Manchester United
3.Chelsea
4.Bayern Munich
5.Manchester City

Champions league this season will be a fight to the end, all big teams have good quality players who are in great form so far this season.

Real Madrid and Manchester United have the best strike forces in Europe as of now and Chelsea may not be more convincing without Drogba and even  miss a quality striker.

Manchester City with a very physical side can be a very tough opponent for Barca, they have a very good defensive record which can challenge even Messi who scored more than 70 goals last season.

posted on 31 Oct, 2012 by John Paul Komaravalli

Categories: Champions League, La Liga

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Barcelona v Real Madrid - The first El Clasico 2012

The best place to watch football has to be Spain with the Spanish National side roaring with titles and many of the players playing in the Spanish league, undoubtedly La Liga BBVA is the ultimate stop for football. If you are talking about La Liga, you should start with the El Clasico. Barcelona weren’t able to defend their title last season which led Real Madrid to win a record points Championship last time around. The start of the season for Real was not great in their sense and Barcelona leading the table from the start this season.

Barcelona always got the better of Real in the El Clasico ties, Mourinho was not able to get past the might of Quardiola’s Barca in the last two seasons

                                         Barcelona 2 - 2 Real Madrid,  Camp Nou, 7th October 2012

The Vilanova era was very good for Barca in the league but lost the la liga Super Cup to Real Madrid, Real despite their poor start were able to clinch the super cup. As they faced off for the first time this season, Rolando and Messi get another chance to prove their supremacy on the game.

The match kicked off in an usual fashion with both teams adapting to their own style of playing football. Barca tried to keep the ball and Real Madrid wanted to break through as usual. No better score line than a 2-2 draw with both Messi and Rolando scoring twice for each side. The never ending excitement and passion for the El Clasico goes on as the both sides meet again in Bernabeu.

posted on 10 Oct, 2012 by John Paul Komaravalli

Categories: La Liga

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