➫ La Liga (Week 07)
Saturday, 15 Oct, 2011
FC Barcelona vs Racing @ 8PM Barcelona Time


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~ La Liga Standings (Week 7):

[1] FC Barcelona | 14 Pts +19
[2] Levante UD | 14 Pts +5
[3] Real Madrid | 13 Pts +15
[4] Malaga | 13 Pts +6
[5] Valencia | 13 Pts +3
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[18] Racing | 4 Pts -5


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~ La Liga Top Scorers (Week 7):

[1] Leo Messi [Barcelona] 8 Goals
[2] Cristiano Ronaldo [Real Madrid] 7 Goals
[3] Radamel Falcao [Atlético Madrid ] 5 Goals
Higuain [Real Madrid] 5 Goals
Soldado [Valencia] 5 Goals

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~ Messi Stats: https://goallegacy.forumotion.com/t77-leo-lionel-messi

~ Barca Stats (2011/2012):
https://goallegacy.forumotion.com/t6061-barca-stats-2011-2012


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FCBarcelona Record vs Racing:

- @Home, 43matches (36W, 5D, 2L) scored 130 goals & conceded 28.
- Overall, 86matches (51W, 20D, 15L) scored 196 goals & conceded 90.


FCBarcelona Record vs Racing ( Guardiola Era since 2008/2009):


- @ Home: 3 matches ( 2W, 1D, 0L) scored 8 goals & conceded 1.
- Overall: 6 matches ( 5W, 1D, 0L) scored 17 goals & conceeded 3.

`2010/2011
- (Week 20): FC Barcelona 3 - 0 Racing Santander
- (Week 01): Racing Santander 0 - 3 FC Barcelona

`2009/2010
- (Week 23): FC Barcelona 4 - 0 Racing Santander
- (Week 04): Racing Santander 1 - 4 FC Barcelona

`2008/2009
- (Week 21): Racing Santander 1 - 2 FC Barcelona
- (Week 02): FC Barcelona 1 - 1 Racing Santander

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`Injury news:


- Iniesta is back.
- Abidal & Xavi are fit & trained normally on Wednesday (12/10/2011)
- Injury List: Fabregas, Alexis & Afellay

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What is your line-up & score Predictions?

~ Victor Valdes played 15 matches vs Racing (12W, 3D, 0L) conceded 6 goals (10 clean-sheets).

~ Messi played 11 matches (631 minutes) vs Racing Santander, scored 8 goals & made 3 assists / Ratio: Goal every 78 minutes vs Racing.

Khaledbarca wrote:What is your line-up & score Predictions?

I'm pretty sure that Keita will start. I think Guardiola will use this line-up: Valdes - Alves - Pique - Mascherano - Maxwell - Thiago - Keita - Iniesta - Pedro - Messi - Villa

Bench: Pinto, Adriano, Fontas, Puyol, Abidal, Xavi, Busquets.

Scoreline prediction? 2-0 after hard game.

La Liga (Week 7): FCBarcelona vs Racing

Starting Line-up: Valdés, Alves, Piqué, Puyol, Maxwell, Xavi, Iniesta, Thiago, Villa, Messi & Pedro

There is no real DM in that line-up or am i imagining things?

WTF Pique injured

MEssiiiiiiiiiiii. GOLAZO

That touch by iniesta in the buildup to messi's 2nd

that first messi goal was great,gotta admit it

Ganso, you who said that you don't like messi playing style, what did you think of the little roulette pass that messi made?

Messi used some of his hidden tricks in this match



another trick in the same match



another one

Very gd match by Barca.. Thiago is improving with each match.. Messi great goal like always !!
Sad for Pique's Injury :S (Out for 2 weeks) but Abidal came on & had great game, would have loved if that double kick went in !!

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~ La Liga (Week 7): FCBarcelona 3 - 0 Racing FT
- Goals by Messi 11' 68' & Xavi 28'
- Assists: Iniesta (2) & Pedro (1)

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~Messi has now 16 Goals & 10 Assists in 12 matches (11 starts) this season .

The 16 Goals scored by Messi this season: (Left Foot: 11,Right Foot: 4, Headers: 1) / (Inside the box: 16 , Outside the box: 0)

Today vs Racing: Messi scored 2 goals with his RIGHT Foot & Xavi scored a header, really (O_o)?

Messi has surpassed Kubala (194 goals) for 2nd place on Barcelona's all-time top scorers list in all competitions (196).

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~ Barca are now unbeaten in 18 consecutive matches / Valdes didn't concede a goal in 427 consecutive minutes since the Valencia match


More stats Later!

wow you guys are getting many injuries lately....... has any of your fitness coaches left or something? lol

That touch Messi did to control that ball hoofed high up into the air was Dinho-esque. What a touch.

Glad to see us play our conventional 4-3-3 once again. One unique aspect was still there - playing without any DM. Also need I say I was so glad to see Iniesta back in action. As for Messi, it's been said many times before but once again he is simply the ultimate combo of a genius and a machine.

Iniesta was superb. Great plays in both Messi's goals by Iniesta.
Glad to see him back. Btw, Messi played as RW, long time he wasn't used in that position.

I think this was another Pep experiment. No DM and playing Messi RW again. I have to say i actually prefer no DM to 3-4-3 when playing weak temas. The 3-4-3 is nice, but we can not face good teams with that, an in time i think even bad teams would learn to exploit the deficiencies of the 3-4-3

So sorry for Pique. Only played 8 minutes of that game. Good to see a solid performance from Maxwell. Pity that Puyol didn't score. Messi made the first goal all to easy! Hopefully we can play the same in the Champions League!