Jornada 5 - 22nd/23rd/24th/26th September

Week 5

Sat 22/09/12
Real Zaragoza 15 : 00 Osasuna
Celta de Vigo 17 : 00 Getafe
Real Betis 19 : 00 Espanyol
Barcelona 21 : 00 Granada

Sun 23/09/12
Mallorca 11 : 00 Valencia
Levante 15 : 00 Real Sociedad
Atlético Madrid 17 : 00 Real Valladolid
Athletic Club 18 : 50 Málaga

Mon 24/09/12
Rayo Vallecano 19 : 00 Real Madrid
Deportivo La C… 20 : 30 Sevilla

On Saturday League leaders Barcelona are at home against Granada looking for their 5th win in a row.

Real Madrid travel on Monday to their local rivals Rayo Vallecano hoping to get their league campaign back on track.

Real Mallorca who have started the season very well and sit in 3rd place kick off their game against Valencia at 11am.

The pick of this weekends fixtures is the match between Athletic Bilbao and Malaga who won so well in the CL during the week.

Any comments or predictions for this weekends games?

Results

Sat 22/09/12

Real Zaragoza 3 - 1 Osasuna
1-0 Hélder Postiga 4'
1-1 E. Armenteros 29'
2-1 Timor (OG) 45'
3-1 Apoño (PG) 71'

Celta de Vigo 2 - 1 Getafe
1-0 A. Fernández 57'
1-1 A. Barrada 59'
2-1 Chu-Young Park 69'

Real Betis 1-0 Espanyol
1-0 Paulão 19'

Barcelona v Granada

Barcelona

1 Valdés
2 Dani Alves
21 Adriano Correia
14 J. Mascherano
4 Fàbregas
25 A. Song
16 Busquets
11 Thiago Alcântara
10 L. Messi
7 David Villa
9 A. Sánchez

Substitutes
17 Pedro
6 Xavi
37 Tello
13 Pinto
15 Bartra
18 Jordi Alba
28 Sergi Roberto


HT

Barcelona 0-0 Granada

FT

Barcelona 2 - 0 Granada
1-0 Xavi 87'
2-0 Borja Gómez (OG) 90'+2

Granada were very close to earning a point at the Nou Camp
but Xavi who had come on as a sub on in the second half made the
break through on 87' and then an OG in injury time gave Barca a 2-0 win and 5th victory in a row.
At least Lionel Messi didn't score today!

Xavis strike was absolutely brilliant, another good substitution by Tito pays off. The Granada keeper and defence were pretty good last night, really thought we would drop points given the chances we had missed and Granada looked threatening on the counter.

Sun 23/09/12

Mallorca 2 - 0 Valencia - Att 12,000
1-0 Víctor 8'
2-0 Arizmendi 55'

Levante 2 - 1 Real Sociedad - Att 13,000
0-1 Zurutuza 23'
1-1 Barkero (PG) 70'
2-1 O. Martins 87'

Atlético Madrid 2 - 1 Real Valladolid
1-0 D. Godín 31'
2-0 R. Falcao (PG) 45'
2-1 Bueno 55'

Athletic Club 0 - 0 Málaga - Att 35,000

Real Madrid's match away at Rayo Vallecano on Sunday night was abandoned!

Officials claim that the lighting in the stadium was sabotaged with intruders allegedly cutting the cables!

They hope to play the game now on Monday night but as of yet no time has been arranged for the kick off.

Rayo Vallecano 0-2 Real Madrid

Benzema scored in the 13th minute after a nice counter attack before Ronaldo scored a pen mid way through the second half to seal three points for Madrid in this rearranged derby.

Deportivo La C… 0 - 2 Sevilla - Att 30,000

Sevilla earned a decent 3 points away at Deportivo with Negredo and Rakitic scoring in the 2nd half.



Wed 26/09/12 Real Betis 20 : 00 Atlético Madrid

Atletico could go up to 2nd in the table on Wednesday night if they win away at Real Betis.

Wed 26/09/12

Real Betis 2 - 4 Atlético Madrid - Att 37,000
1-0 Salvador Agra 26'
1-1 R. Falcao 28'
2-1 Juanfran (OG) 45'+2
2-2 R. Falcao (PG) 48'
2-3 Diego Costa 55'
2-4 Raúl García 90'+3

Atletico Madrid made it 4 wins in a throw with this 4-2 victory at Real Betis.