La Liga: FC Barcelona vs Real Sociedad

Date: Sunday, 08/19/2012 21:00

Competition: League

Stadium: Camp Nou

City: Barcelona

Capacity: 99786

Television: Canal + 1

Referee: González González, Jose Luis

This will be the first game that Tito Vilanova will coach FC Barcelona

My Predicting Lineup:

Valdes, Alves, Pique, Mascherano, Adriano, Busquests, Fabregas, Iniesta, Afellay, Messi, Pedro

My Predicted Lineup:

Valdes, Alves, Pique, Mascherano, Alba, Busquests, Fabregas, Iniesta, Alexis, Messi, Pedro

We will win 2-1

I predict a win... let's hope we start our season the right way

BarcaKizz wrote:My Predicted Lineup:

Valdes, Alves, Pique, Mascherano, Alba, Busquests, Fabregas, Iniesta, Alexis, Messi, Pedro

We will win 2-1

Kizz,

You reckon Sanchez will start after playing 90 minutes in his international friendly when Afellay didn't get a single minute? I would have thought to keep Sanchez fresh for SuperCopa...

Another season, another day hoping Madrid lose.

Guys... Just thought I'd let you know about this disgraceful news.

ESPN Australia/NZ have dumped rights to La Liga without notifying their customers. Huge storm on their FB at the moment... An utter disgrace.

What does this mean?

There is no way of watching La Liga on television in Oceania. Neither is there a way of watching legally online as there is no service which offers to this region. ESPN have essentially left Spanish football viewers with no other option than to watch La Liga on illegal streams.

An absolute joke... very angry right now. Betrayed by TV networks again.

Might sound like a fuss for you guys who watch on streams regularly, but we deserve, at the very least, the option to pay for TV coverage of this league. Having done so for a number of years I don't want to go back to sh*tty streams with arabic commentary which freeze every 5 minutes. What a joke...

Why is there no Xavi in your line-ups. Is he injured? I think he did not travel with Spain so he should be ready, or not?

EDIT:
BTW i would field the best possible line up and try to finish the game in the first half and then sub some of the more tired players.

Welcome to the streaming club Kizz, where your streams buffer every 20 seconds and you eventually end up 20 minutes behind the real match time. Oh, and you find out Barca scores but you stream is still showing a move from 5 minutes ago.

That really sucks though man, I thought TV companies were legally bound to tell thier paying customers when they plan on doing stuff like that. Now a whole continent has to resort to watching games in Arabic, thats ridiculous.

@ Eelir: Excellent point... I did forget about that. This has just been my thoughts for a while because we need Xavi at his best against Real Madrid and he didn't quite look up to speed yet in preseason.

However, I feel he may start after all. Thanks for that.

Here's what SPORT are saying:



Any idea why these publications keep putting Messi on the left? Is there any truth to this or have all the Spanish journos forgotten Messi plays from the right?

Haha yes welcome to the streaming world

But no that's awful you don't have the option at least, I have the option, it's just that it's pretty expensive, so I watch streams by choice. Wiziwig.tv is your friend, Kizz.

I predict a 2-0 win today. Will be fairly comfortable, however it won't be a dominating performance either.

I doubt either team goes that route.

Carlos Vela will score but we will win..
Make it happen!
P.s AT&T Uverse screwed me over.. from most expensive TV box to streaming.. awesome.

Ever Banega is still injured for Valencia?

Barcakizz, can you please link me directly to the site page you got that graphic?

--------Valdes
Alves-Puyol-Masch-Alba
--------Busi
----Xavi---Cex
Pedro---------Tello
--------Messi

Subs:
Pinto
Iniesta
Villa
Pique
Adriano
Alexis
Sergi Roberto

Real Madrid already dropping points

http://www.goal.com/en/news/12/spain/2012/08/19/3317755/team-news-jordi-alba-makes-barcelona-debut-against-real

Alba is starting

Fml used to watch the games at work.Now i just have to check the score on my phone.Shit sucks.

Unlucky man cause your missing out. We are playing bloody awesome.

I love the 4-4-3 formation so much.. and our sub bench looks scary as hell
Messi showing Ronaldo how to overcome a draw, or even do anything in the game.

4-1... awesome stuff.

Looks like Tito's got us playing a bit faster and more direct. I'm liking it and the players look so damn hungry. Defence still an issue for me... We had 2 men back most of that half.

Tello + Alba... the flank of lightning

Pedro

Tito bringing back the jizz-football

I like this Tello who dos not try to score all the time, but takes the time to see whats around him.

fap fap fap....more direct...yet still retaining our philosophy of tiki taka possession football

I'm liking this already

Tito

Well I was wrong about the whole not dominating thing.

I'm fapping to this as well

Tito

I told you guys, were gonna play much more direct football from now on. Song and Neymar would fit perfectly.

The Evolution continues