La Liga 19/20 - The new Era

I know Pique has a negative rep in Spain and all but the yellow card vs foul argument is shit unless someone has actually gone through the pains of putting together each of their fouls and comparing the respective plays (and the contexts).

My initial impression after reading that stat is that Pique has more yellow cards because he has to commit more tactical fouls. Barca plays higher up the pitch than Madrid and has a very unathletic team which probably leads to him fouling from more dangerous situations. Is there a heat map for their respective foul locations? That would help put the comparison in a better perspective. Although you'd still need to see the context of the game. Home vs away, scoreline, and the referee are all contributing factors too.

Doc wrote:As a Madrid fan, complaining about ref decisions is useless as not only do refs give the team the benefit of the doubt on numerous occasions in La Liga, just as importantly, the club has the player personnel to win most of their matches.

Playing victim when your team can spend upwards of 100 million on a player is pretty shitty when you think about it.

this; a thousand percent, referee decisions are not always going to go your way, but i bet on average the bigger teams tend to get more favorable calls than their smaller counterparts (which also has something to do with the skill bigger teams posses). but if you spend 100s of millions of euros on players, facilities , medics etc...u should be good enough to offset any refereeing decisions (which on average are favorable to you anyways)

i dont think i've ever said anything about refereeing decisions (not because of refdrid as i'm sure someone will make a smart ass comment about), but because i've felt, we have the resources to not have to complain about a ref not giving us a call against a team like celta vigo who we shouldn't be struggling with in the first place

Alot Pique's yellows are for dissent too. And if LL were really biased against Barca Vidal would not be having 4 yellow cards today

We have been wronged alot more than Barca but we've stopped complaining. Tebas and RFEF already dislike Perez because he calls them and VAR out for their incompetence

At the start of the season we were told that there was a new rule on hitting a players achilles, Modric of all players got a red card against Celta away. We won. This past game against Espanyol Carvajal had his achilles stamped on by an Espanyol player and the play continued. Then you have the whole scenario of VAR room telling eachother not to give penalties to Vinicius or LL refusing to release VAR recordings for the first time when we asked for them

Barca are never wronged as much as us, don't make me laugh. They actively target our players. Ramos could be standing like a statute and they'll be falling a foul and a yellow when somebody runs into him

We unlike Barca are so used to it, we have learnt to play with a man less

Btw Ronaldo was never as protected as Messi is right now and has been over the years

Cas hit the nail on the head. That comparison is dumb as f. Not surprising since

Myesyats wrote:According to catalan newspapers

I'm just relaying the news

Remember @Harmonica had excel sheets regarding yellow card distribution as well

tbh i love the stats and spreadsheets harmonica puts up. they always make for great comic relief around here. i don't think i've seen his yellow card edition

Myesyats wrote:I'm just relaying the news

Remember @Harmonica had excel sheets regarding yellow card distribution as well

Seeing you with this avatar already makes me sad to think of Pjanic going.

Myesyats wrote:According to catalan newspapers it's more than just penalty calls.

Their headline today is: "Two measuring sticks"

Sergio Ramos: 46 fouls, 8 yellow cards
Pique: 30 fouls, 14 yellow cards

Yellow cards this season
Barca 83 - 61 Madrid

And penalties:
In favor/against
Barca 6/7
Madrid 7/2

You don't say. I've been saying this like 5 years, there's clear mathematical indications of strong bias in Spanish football. Nevermind former referees actually confirming this.

rincon wrote:

Myesyats wrote:I'm just relaying the news

Remember @Harmonica had excel sheets regarding yellow card distribution as well

Seeing you with this avatar already makes me sad to think of Pjanic going.

Always rated him, it seemed like he was always out there to do his part and just a solid player to have in your team. It's ridiculous that we pay a high price towards the end of his career but either way I wanted to pay him some tribute in that way for a warm welcome

Harmonica wrote:

Myesyats wrote:According to catalan newspapers it's more than just penalty calls.

Their headline today is: "Two measuring sticks"

Sergio Ramos: 46 fouls, 8 yellow cards
Pique: 30 fouls, 14 yellow cards

Yellow cards this season
Barca 83 - 61 Madrid

And penalties:
In favor/against
Barca 6/7
Madrid 7/2

You don't say. I've been saying this like 5 years, there's clear mathematical indications of strong bias in Spanish football. Nevermind former referees actually confirming this.

keep up the comic relief!

Myesyats wrote:

rincon wrote:

Myesyats wrote:I'm just relaying the news

Remember @Harmonica had excel sheets regarding yellow card distribution as well

Seeing you with this avatar already makes me sad to think of Pjanic going.

Always rated him, it seemed like he was always out there to do his part and just a solid player to have in your team. It's ridiculous that we pay a high price towards the end of his career but either way I wanted to pay him some tribute in that way for a warm welcome

I'm happy with the swap. I think it's a great move for us in the current circumstances for the future of the team. But I'm still sad to see him go.

He was really great in his prime. Remember that we went to the CL final (and knocked out Barca 3-0 ) with a midfield of Pjanic-Khedira. Pjanic in his 2 peak seasons did everything in midfield, post-Marchisio he was our best midfielder in every single aspect except goals.

Generally his trajectory in these last 2 declined seasons is a really hot start of the season, then a sharp decline by January. The last 2 games he looks back to form (maybe with the move confirmed he is more focused?), but then it's hard to say because the whole team looks excellent.

RM starting a 4 man midfield behind Benz and Vini. ZDiamond is truly back

Ramos is the goat

One of the greatest players of our lives

Fully hala madrid

He helped us win many CLs and now he's basically carrying us to another league title. Legend.

Ramos is not carrying us to anything lol

i love him but this la liga is a group effort

It's a group effort no doubt, but his contributions outweigh most if not all of the other players. Take away his goals and we wouldn't probably be in the position we are today.

This doesn't take anything away from the other guys who are killing themselves as well, but Ramos is Ramos. Simply irreplaceable.

So...Real win through a late penalty???

But wait, it's perfectly legit. But Catalan newspapers and certain fans will still use this as "proof" in a few weeks and people forget it was legit.

Next Sunday's games are crucial

RM away to Bilbao and Barca away to Villarreal

Those games could effectively either crown us champions or have Barca within sniffing distance. Villarreal is the last tough game Barca have left. We absolutely must get at least a point at the San Mames

Another match, another 3 points for Penaldrid.

Money well spent mister Pérez

Penalty not called for Bilbao

Smooth sailing for Madrid considering they start every game already 1-0 up

Ramos suspended for the next match. I don't know if Varane is fit enough to play in his stead.

7 wins in 7 games for Zizou's Madrid. Only 2 goals conceded

Who would've thought after last season that we could potentially finish this season with 89 points, only 4 less than 16/17 when we last won the league

Now up to Villarreal to round up the good news. A win or a draw would be fine

Both Ramos and Carvajal suspended

Which means we either get a Mendy-Militao-Casemiro-Marcelo backline or a LV-Militao-Casemiro-Mendy backline. Either or we are conceding

I wouldn't lie, I would be so annoyed to see Madrid winning by the jammiest of scorelines every time too if I were a Barca fan.