Well, Barça, Real Madrid and Sevilla came out of this week’s Champions League fixtures with flying colours but poor old Atletico don’t look as though they’ll be progressing to the next round.

Sevilla Take On The Mighty Madrid This Weekend

There’s only one ‘must watch’ game in La Liga this week and it’s a biggie – Sevilla v Real Madrid in the Sanchez Pizjuan. The Sevillanos look like the only team capable of ruffling the Big Two’s feathers this season, so it should be a great match.

I must admit, though, that Real Madrid whilst not very entertaining look pretty lethal in the box – they only seem to need to put their game together for five minutes and they go two up.

Barça should have no problems dismissing Almeria – they’re the opposite of Madrid. Lovely creative football, millions of chances but they’re not scoring quite as many as they should.

I do think they deserve to go top, though.

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Here are this week’s fixtures

03 Oct 2009
18:00 CET    Tenerife v Deportivo
20:00 CET    Barcelona v Almeria
22:00 CET    Atletico Madrid v Zaragoza
04 Oct 2009
17:00 CET    Getafe v Osasuna
17:00 CET    Sporting Gijon v Mallorca
17:00 CET    Valladolid v Athletic
17:00 CET    Villarreal v Espanyol
17:00 CET    Xerez v Malaga
19:00 CET    Racing Santander v Valencia
21:00 CET    Sevilla v Real Madrid

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Well it’s Sunday morning and the weekend’s big games are over – I didn’t see Real Madrid’s 3-0 victory over Tenerife but one of my merengue mates still isn’t really convinced about how Madrid play. Good result, though and they go top of the table on goal difference.

The Barça game in Malaga was pretty tough – Weligton looked like a man with a licence to kill! But Ibrahimovic came on for Henry and very quickly put FC Barcelona ahead – that’s 5 goals in his first five games. Historic!

Gerard Pique - FC Barcelona's Piquenbauer

The player that really impressed me though – he came on for Chygrynskiy and suddenly the Barcelona defence started to connect with midfield – Xavi in particular. Pique just gets better and better – and what’s more he even scored. The new Franz Beckenbauer – Piquenbauer.

The other two games were pretty tasty – Sevilla’s impressive 4-0 victory over Athletic Bilbao and a draw against Valencia was a good result for Atletico.

Looking forward to Tuesday with Barcelona v Dinamo Kiev in Camp Nou and Sevilla away to Rangers.

Wednesday sees FC Porto against Atletico de Madrid and Real Madrid at Santiago Bernabeu against Marseille.

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Just a quick post today with the fixtures for this weekend’s games.

Here they are . . .

FC Barcelona have got an interesting game against an erratic Malaga – Iniesta could well start the game if Ibrahimovic is still injured.

26 Sep 2009 
18:00 CET Athletic ? : ? Sevilla 
18:00 CET Real Madrid ? : ? Tenerife 
20:00 CET Malaga ? : ? Barcelona 
22:00 CET Valencia ? : ? Atletico Madrid 
27 Sep 2009 
17:00 CET Almeria ? : ? Racing Santander 
17:00 CET Espanyol ? : ? Xerez 
17:00 CET Mallorca ? : ? Valladolid 
17:00 CET Osasuna ? : ? Sporting Gijon 
19:00 CET Zaragoza ? : ? Getafe 
21:00 CET Deportivo ? : ? Villarreal

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Champions League against Dinamo Kiev on Tuesday, so Click Here for Champions League Tickets and I’ll prepare something a little more coherent after the weekend.

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Hot off the press! Barça’s fantastic performance against Atletico de Madrid at Camp Nou on Saturday.

1-0 Min 1: Ibrahimovic gets the blaugrana off the mark with a really classy goal. The poise and control necessary to put this one away is the mark of a truly great player.

2-0 Min 16: A work of art from Messi who was quite possibly offside but Who Cares? He seems to beat the defence and goalie without touching the ball.

3-0 Min 20: Dani Alves free kick goes in like a rocket – I’m surprised the post stayed standing.

4-0 Min 41: A great goal from Keita, which just goes to show that you don’t have to be one of the stars to join in the party with this Barça!

4-1 Min 45: Kun takes advantage of a mistake by Busquets to beat Valdés but Atletico still go into the half time break shell-shocked

4-2 Min 85: Forlán beats Valdés with a well-executed shot

5-2 Min 94: Messi just shows he’s the greatest player in the world by taking advantage of an Iniesta pass.

 FC Barcelona’s first 40 minutes were just pure genius but the defence showed some weaknesses as soon as Barça had less possession. Still spectacular stuff which makes it well-worth getting FC Barcelona Tickets

Atletico, though, are really up against it, though – only 1 point from the first three games and a disappointing draw against Apoel Nicosia in the Champions League. They’ve got a great side and you can watch Kun, Forlan, Simao and Maxi at Vicente Calderon by buying Atletico de Madrid Tickets

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Although I hope that Barça win La Liga for the second year on the trot, what I really want to see is a well-fought competition – and that means more than just competition from Real Madrid.

For La Liga to fulfill its potential as The Best League in the World – with the permission of the EPL – we need to see Sevilla, Atlético, Villarreal and Valencia fighting for more than just Champions and Europa League places. However, after only one game, it looks like this season’s Liga will follow a similar pattern to last year.

Sevilla lost in Mestalla and Atlético got thrashed by Málaga, so I won’t be surprised if Barça and Madrid are ten points clear at the top of the table come December. Let’s hope this doesn’t happen because it’d be very bad news for Spanish Football.

This week we’ll get a better idea of whether La Liga is going to be a two horse race or not. Espanyol-Madrid and Getafe-Barça are two interesting tests for the favourites - debuting in their new stadium and with the memory of Jarque still very present, Espanyol have got a lot of reasons to put up a fight and an unpredictable Getafe are a very tough nut to crack on a good day.

I think most of us agree that Barça start La Liga with a slight advantage over Pellegrini’s Real Madrid because they

Pellegrini has a tough job ahead of him

already play as a team, whereas the Bernabéu boys are as yet a group that relies on flashes of brilliance from individual players. The big question is whether the undeniable quality of Kaká, Cristiano Ronaldo and Benzema will be enough to follow the pace that Barça has already set by winning the two Super Cups.

Comparisons between the two squads are inevitable, and I must admit that I glance down the list of names that make up this Real Madrid side and some of my culé bravado fades. However, it remains to be seen whether this group of superstars will actually work well together as a block.

Barça have signed fewer players, but the three signings are players that were definitely on Guardiola’s Wish List. Chygrynskiy will be key in the centre of the defence, while with Maxwell on one flank and Alves on the other, the backs will be coming up to join the attack even more often than they did last season.

Guardiola ready for the season ahead

Having watched quite a few videos now, there’s no doubt in my mind that Ibrahimovic is a potentially great player but his role in the side will be very different from Samuel Eto’o. He’s more classy and stylish but I doubt whether he’ll score as many goals and he’s still got his work cut out to get himself in the right position for when Messi, Xavi and Iniesta, in particular, start to work their magic.

But the fact remains that Barça only have to adapt their game for one player whilst not even Pellegrini could predict Madrid’s starting line-up in a month’s time. And what’s more the ‘cantera’ factor means that Barça’s theoretical substitutes know the 4-3-3 philosophy like the back of their hands and both they themselves and the fans are confident that should anything go awry, they’ll slot into the first team just like veterans.

Anyway here are this week’s games . . .

12 Sep 2009
18:00 CET Atletico Madrid v Racing Santander
18:00 CET Getafe v Barcelona
20:00 CET Espanyol v Real Madrid
22:00 CET Sevilla v Zaragoza
13 Sep 2009
17:00 CET Deportivo v Malaga
17:00 CET Sporting Gijon v Almeria
17:00 CET Tenerife v Osasuna
17:00 CET Villarreal v Mallorca
19:00 CET Valladolid v Valencia
21:00 CET Xerez v Athletic Bilbao

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I just went into YouTube to try and find a video of Barça’s magnificent 4-1 victory over Racing on Tuesday (22-09-09). I must admit I had our boy Lionel Messi on my mind.

Nobody seems to have loaded up the goals yet but my attention was caught by this.

The ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC highlights so far this season, Some tasty moments and FOUR goals in FOUR games.

Young Lionel is undoubtedly the King of World Football but Prince Zlatan is growing in stature – if he wasn’t tall enough already.

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Does anyone remember the name of that Cameroon centre-forward who played for us last season?

Duration : 0:2:21

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Barça-Atleti - always a good game!

The big game is very obviously FC Barcelona against Atletico de Madrid at Camp Nou on Saturday, and it’ll be interesting to see what happens. Barça won’t be displeased at taking a point from the Guisseppe Meazza, but Atletico won’t be at all happy with their single point against extremely modest Apoel Nicosia. Barça are obviously the favourites but one never knows with Atletico (especially against Barça) – on paper, they’ve got a great side, perhaps they’ll start to put some decent football together on Saturday.

I doubt whether Xerez will be able to ruffle Real Madrid’s feathers. Despite a lapse of concentration in the second half against FC Zurich, the Merengue Machine looks like its slowly moving into first gear, and La Liga looks even more as if it’s going to be a Barça-Madrid head to head.

We mustn’t forget Sevilla, though, or Valencia who are playing in the Europa Cup tonight. Interestingly, the other two Europa Cup contenders Villarreal and Athletic Club are facing each other on Sunday. This is definitely the game I’ll be watching and I’ll also be watching closely tonight to see how they get on against their respective European rivals.

I’ll also be keeping an eye on Espanyol, who’ll be at La Coruña – they’ve had a bad start to the season and I’m hoping their luck will improve.

Anyway, here’s this week’s games as usual and I’ve also added Wednesday’s just in case I don’t find the time to write another post before then.

19 Sep
18:00 CET Mallorca ? : ? Tenerife
19:00 CET Deportivo ? : ? Espanyol
20:00 CET Malaga ? : ? Racing Santander
20:00 CET Osasuna ? : ? Sevilla
22:00 CET Barcelona ? : ? Atletico Madrid
20 Sep 2009
17:00 CET Almeria ? : ? Getafe
17:00 CET Athletic ? : ? Villarreal
17:00 CET Zaragoza ? : ? Valladolid
19:00 CET Real Madrid ? : ? Xerez
21:00 CET Valencia ? : ? Sporting Gijon

Wednesday’s games

20:00 CET Atletico Madrid ? : ? Almeria
20:00 CET Espanyol ? : ? Malaga
20:00 CET Getafe ? : ? Valencia
20:00 CET Racing Santander ? : ? Barcelona
20:00 CET Sevilla ? : ? Mallorca
20:00 CET Sporting Gijon ? : ? Zaragoza
20:00 CET Tenerife ? : ? Athletic
20:00 CET Villarreal ? : ? Real Madrid
20:00 CET Xerez ? : ? Deportivo

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Xerez  v Athletic

Deportivo v Málaga

Espanyol v Real Madrid

Villarreal v Mallorca

Tenerife v Osasuna

Sevilla v Zaragoza

Valladolid v Valencia

Sporting  v Almería

Getafe v Barcelona

Atlético de Madrid v Racing de Santander

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With Champions League winners FC Barcelona preparing to slug it out with Real Madrid’s New Galacticos, we were are set for a thrilling season.

It’s very early days yet, so conclusions are difficult to come to. Mostly predictable with a couple of eyebrow raisers.

Real Madrid 3 Deportivo 2
Zaragoza 1 Tenerife 0
Valencia 2 Sevilla 0
Athletic Bilbao 1 Espanyol 0
Malaga 3 Atletico Madrid 0
Mallorca 2 Xerez 0
Osasuna 1 Villarreal 1
Racing Santander 1 Getafe 4
Almeria 0 Valladolid 0
Barcelona 3 Sporting Gijon 0

PRIMERA LIGA WEEK ONE BLOW BY BLOW

Real Madrid 3 Deportivo 2
As all the bars round our way haven’t signed up for the new football channels yet. I had to listen to this on the radio. A pretty disappointing game by all accounts. Depor equalised in the first minute of the second half and I was quite looking forward to winding up my merengue mates, but the Blancos managed to scrape an unconvincing win.

Zaragoza 1 Tenerife 0
I quite enjoyed the twenty minutes I saw of this, but its difficult to draw any conclusions as they’re both recently promoted.

Valencia 2 Sevilla 0
A serious upset for Sevilla but I expect them to bounce back. When it comes to Valencia, one never knows what to expect. Kanoute’s sending around half-time was crucial.

Athletic Bilbao 1 Espanyol 0
Having already played the Spanish SuperCup and a couple of Europa League games, Athletic are more ‘rodado’ than Espanyol. I expect some good things from both these sides in 2009-10.

Malaga 3 Atletico Madrid 0
Now this is a real turn up for the books but Malaga had a good season in 08-09 so I’m not surprised – I’ve been fancying them for some time, as a matter of fact. On the other hand, Atletico are in the Champions League so the Colchoneros are going to be feeling pretty downtrodden.

Mallorca 2 Xerez 0
Very early days yet but I think Xerez are going to have difficulties in the top tier. They had a player sent off and everything fell apart.

Osasuna 1 Villarreal 1
Good result for Osasuna and Camacho sounded pretty chuffed on the radio. Senna got injured – Villarreal lost it – par for the course.

Racing Santander 1 Getafe 4
A great win for the unpredictable Getafe (Real Madrid’s B Team!) – an excellent hat-trick from Soldado.

Almeria 0 Valladolid 0
Insanely dull, apart from a five minute spell in the middle of the second half when the ball just wouldn’t go in for Almeria. Hugo Sanchez will be hopping mad, because Valladolid look like a candidate for relegation.

Barcelona 3 Sporting Gijon 0

Well, Barça start as they mean to go on by beating Sporting 3-nil. Goals from Keita, Bojan and the first one from Ibrahimovic. Very nice to see a forward line made up of Ibrahimovic, Bojan and Pedro for the first time – Barça’s youth system is just amazing!

International Break

This happens every season and drives me nuts every season – there’s one Liga game and then an immediate break for internationals. I like international football but I’ve been Liga-less for three months so it’s pretty frustrating. Grrrrrrrrr!

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