Venue: Camp Nou
Date: 10 Feb 2013
Barcelona vs Getafe 6-1 Highlights, Goals, Videos, Review & Stats

Barcelona comprehensively destroyed Getafe at home. They scored six goals while conceding just one. And they had six different goalscorers. Andres Iniesta was the coordinator though, as he masterminded Getafe’s collapse.

Barcelona Starting Lineup - Valdes; Adriano, Pique, Puyol, Alba; Thiago, Song, Iniesta; Alexis, Messi, Villa
Getafe Starting Lineup - Codina; Miguel Torres, Alexis, Lopo, Escudero; Lacen, Borja; Barrada, Castro, Gavilan; Colunga

An unusual lunch time kick off saw an Iniesta inspired Barcelona dismantling Getafe. They ate now 12 points clear at the top and look set to clinch their 22nd La Liga title. The Barcelona midfield had one of the greatest days in the office. Tiki Taka of the highest standards. Getafe defense had absolutely no clue what hit them.

Stats

Barcelona Goals – Alexis Sanchez (6′), Lionel Messi (13′), David Villa (58′), Cristian Tello (79′), Andres Iniesta (90′), Gerard Pique (90′+2)
Getafe Goals – Alvaro (83′)

Yellow Cards – Alex Song (58′), Lopo (39′), Diego Castro (42′)

Real Madrid comprehensively won against Sevilla despite being a man down as Gonzalo Higuain was sent off in the 66th minute. Even Sevilla played with 10 men but only for the last 10 minutes with Maduro receiving a red card.

But the centre of attraction was Cristiano Ronaldo who managed to hit another hat trick. His first goal was just too good, from his weaker foot. Karim Benzema scored the first goal for Madrid. And Manu scored the consolation for Sevilla. But still 7 points behind Atletico Madrid and 16 points behind Barca for Real Madrid.

Jose Mourinho will really have to do something ‘special’ to turn this around.

The second goal for Real Madrid, Cristiano Ronaldo showed his awesome skills which shows why he is so much better than Gareth Bale.

A shot taken from his weaker foot i.e. the left foot and into the left side of the goal.

An amazing hit.

Watch the goal below.

Camp Nou | 27 Jan 2013

Lionel Messi is just too much of a challenge for the low ranked teams. As Osasuna found out. Messi hit a mammoth 4 goals in an hours time. Earlier Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat trick too against Getafe.

Santiago Bernabeu | 27 Jan 2013 | Primera Division

Cristiano Ronaldo srtuck a hat trick in 10 minutes as Real piled on to Getafe in the second half of the match. The first half ended 0-0, all the goals were scored in the second half in a matter of 19 minutes. Despite the win, Real Madrid are still in the third position, 4 points below Atletico who have a game in hand.

Goalscorers

Ream Madrid – Sergio Ramos (53′), Cristiano Ronaldo (62′, 65′, 72′ penalty)

Real Madrid Starting Lineup - Adan, Sergio Ramos, Coentrao, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ozil, Carvalho, Essien, Albiol, Modric, Higuain, Di Maria
Getafe Starting Lineup - Moya, Alexis, M. Torres, Lopo, Sarabia, Gavilan, Colunga, D. Castro, Valera, Borja,Xavi Torres

Watch the highlights below.

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Barca have already started looking for the next-generation Messi’s and while doing that, our attention today is on the 12 year old Japanese player, Takefusa Kubo. Apparently also the first player from Japan ever to sign for Barcelona.

Tekefusa Kubo is in the news as the youngster smashed 6 goals in a youth team game. Picked by Barca’s world famous youth academy or La Masia, Kubo has impressed a lot of scouts around.

Watch his exploits below.

Many of you might also remember, the other Asian Barca youngster Seung Woo Lee, of South Korean descent to be specific. His exploits: scored 4 goals in Barca’s 7-0 win over Tortosa.

 

Mestalla | 20 Jan 2013

The game was over in the first half itself as Real Madrid went mental and scored five goals. Four goals came in 7 minutes in a passage of madness and some unforgivable errors from the Valencia defense. Their were lot of yellow cards dished out as well but the games wasn’t particularly dirty.

Mesut Ozil had a brilliant game with two assists. Coentrao probably had the best game in a Real Madrid shirt. And Ronaldo also managed to miss a very simple chance towards the end. That was one horrible miss. And perhaps the only glitch in the match for Real Madrid.

Valencia, also saw an improved performance from their side in the second half as Banega was running things, but they have got some serious working to do if they want to be beating teams near the top of the table regularly.

Goalscorers

Real Madrid – Gonzalo Higuain (9′), Angel di Maria (34′, 45′), Cristiano Ronaldo (36′, 41′)

Valencia Starting Lineup - Alves; Ricardo Costa, Rami, Ruiz, Guardado; Tino Costa, Banega, Gago; Piatti, Soldado, Jonas
Real Madrid Starting Lineup – Casillas; Arbeloa, Varane, Albiol, Coentrao; Khedira, Alonso; Di Maria, Ozil, Ronaldo; Higuain

Watch the highlights videos below.

Estadio Municipal de Anoeta | 19 Jan 2013

Barcelona have lost a match!!

Yes you read it right, a last minute winner from Agirretxe was the killer. For all of you wondering how, well Sociedad were very tight and Pique was sent off too.

Goalscorers

Real Sociedad – Chory Castro goals vs Barcelona (41′, 63′), Imanol Agirretxe goal vs Barcelona (90′+1)
Barcelona – Lionel Messi (7′), Pedro (25′)

Real Sociedad Starting Lineup - Bravo; C. Martinez, Mikel, I. Martinez, De la Bella; Markel, Illarramendi; Griezmann, Xabi Prieto, Vela; Chory Castro
Barcelona Starting Lineup – Valdes; Alves, Pique, Puyol, Alba; Busquets, Fabregas, Xavi; Pedro, Messi, Iniesta

Watch the highlights below.

Estadio La Rosaleda | 13 Jan 2013 | La Liga

Barca are rolling along nicely towards the La Liga title this season. In a supposedly tough encounter as Malaga are placed on the 5th position but it did not cause any problems to the Tito Vilanova’s side.

Goalscorers

Malaga - Diego Buonanotte (89′)
Barcelona – Lionel Messi (27′), Cesc Fabregas (50′), Thiago Alcantara (82′) 

Malaga Starting Lineup -  Caballero, Sergio Sanchez, Demichelis, Weligton, Monreal, Isco, Camacho, Toulalan, Eliseu, Joaquin,Santa Cruz
Barcelona Starting Lineup - Valdes, Alves, Pique, Mascherano, Alba, Sergio, Xavi, Iniesta, Cesc, Pedro, Messi

Watch the highlights videos below.

 

Shorter Highlights

A bit weird advertisement. Supposedly for the next El Clasico but Real Madrid doesn’t take on Barcelona till March. So, the timing is a little odd too. But, who cares.

Messi did win the Ballon D’or but against Celta Vigo, Ronaldo showed that he is not behind with an impeccable hat trick. We see top two best footballers getting into a cheeky texting battle. The commercial was released by Al Jazeera.

Nice smart phones too.

Watch the ad below.