Date: Saturday, 12/01/2012 20:00
Competition: League
Stadium: Camp Nou
City: Barcelona
Capacity: 99786
Television: C+ Liga - GolT - C+ Liga HD
Referee: Mateu Lahoz


BARCELONA

Valdes
Montoya, Pique, Puyol, Alba
Iniesta, Busquets, Fabregas
Pedro, Messi, Villa


ATHLETIC BILBAO

Iraizoz
De Marcos, Ekiza, Amorebieta, Aurtenetxe
Herrera, Iturraspe, Muniain
Susaeta, Aduriz, Gomez

i'd like to see your line up, although I feel Tito will place Iniesta on the wings again

6-1 for Barca. Messi hattrick, Pedro with a brace and Villa with a goal.

that's 5 goals right there

I have never seen Iniesta and Cesc start together without Xavi, they may have played for some minutes previously though.

But I am not sure how it would work.

Cesc likes to get forward obviously and Iniesta like to drift left. Perhaps more likely is Cesc on the right hand side of Busquets and Iniesta in his usal position. The times I think I remember them playing together Cesc was on the right and trying to be more discplined in his movements and it not going well.

Anyway, I think it can be done but I would rather Xavi and Iniesta all the same.

Is Alves not fit? If fit, he should definitely start, his recent games were some of his best this season and there's no reason why Montoya should bench him.

Expecting a demolishing tbh, Athletic are a mess this season and I doubt they have the confidence required to be able to put in the same performance as last season at the cathedral. Easy win for Barca.

I don't want pedro to start, he has been rather bad maybe needs a break or something.
If I were Tito, I'd try out:
-----------------Valdes
Montoya---Pique--------Puyol---Alba
-----------------Buscuit
---------Xavi---------------Cesc
----Messi--------Villa---------Tello/Iniesta

Until Alexis is back, Iniesta is stuck on the wing, I'm afraid .

Villa just doesnt offer the same work rate and he seems to have beef with Messi!

There is no beef with Messi. ffs.

Bilbao might have been doing bad but they seem to almost always give us a run for our money unless it's a CDR final. Llorente is gonna cause us a lot of trouble. I predict a tough win tonight.

Bilbao suck too much this season, to give us a problem tonight.

Did u see how they bend over to be raped by Madrid just the other day ?

I hope we teach them a lesson

what a line up, nowhere near prediction...hahaha

so do we have the best la liga start record now?

BTW what are the rules? Was it owngoal or Messi's goal?

I think it will be counted as an own goal. Obviously, it was curling its way wide until the defender deflected it back in. We'll get the official call in a bit.

So much domination and we still couldn't keep a clean sheet. FML! It was all Adriano's fault. Though, they caught us on a moment when were chillaxing like every 1st 15-20 mins of the second half. Ughhh..

Messi's two goals are his ref confirmed it.
We played so fast today was quiet incredible.

eelir wrote:so do we have the best la liga start record now?

BTW what are the rules? Was it owngoal or Messi's goal?

The ref gave it to Messi but for the pichichi, suprise ,suprise, MARCA gave it as an own goal.

Can't Sport or El Mundo Deportivo make their own La Liga awards?

Let Marca give it as an OG!

Messi dont need no charity! (like a certain someone a few years back with that deflected goal)

There are many games left for Messi to find TWO goals!!

Poor match by Bilbao. They simply allowed Barcelona too much space.

Loco making the same mistakes over and over again.

Donuts wrote:Messi's two goals are his ref confirmed it.
We played so fast today was quiet incredible.

Thanks

SO there is going to be some drama about this

Well it kinda was an own goal tbh.

The xcx wrote:Well it kinda was an own goal tbh.

The goal was going in, so its Messi. It has always been like that so I dont see why there should be any problem...

I think it was going in, so it should be given to messi. Marca facepalm.

I think it was going out actually.