Jornada 8 - 20th/21st/22nd October

Week 8

Sat 20/10/12
Málaga 15 : 00 Real Valladolid
Real Madrid 17 : 00 Celta de Vigo
Valencia 19 : 00 Athletic Club
Deportivo La C… 21 : 00 Barcelona

Sun 21/10/12
Getafe 11 : 00 Levante
Espanyol 15 : 00 Rayo Vallecano
Granada 16 : 50 Real Zaragoza
Osasuna 18 : 45 Real Betis
Real Sociedad 20 : 30 Atlético Madrid

Mon 22/10/12
Sevilla 20 : 30 Mallorca

League leaders Barcelona travel to La Coruna on Saturday to take on newly promoted Deportivo.
The Galicians have failed to win any of their last 5 fixtures and have recently dropped down into the relegation zone.

Real Madrid also have opponents from the region of Galicia and welcome Celta de vigo to the Bernabeu.
Jose Mourinho's side will be hoping to at least keep 8 points behind Tito Vilanova's team so a home win will be vital.

Atletico Madrid the current inform team of the moment travel North to the Basque country to play against Real Sociedad.
The final match in round 8 is on Monday night between Sevilla who have lost their last 2 games and Real Mallorca.

Any comments or predictions?

Sat 20/10/12

Málaga 2 - 1 Real Valladolid - Att 30,000
0-1 Manucho Gonçalves 9'
1-1 Isco 37'
2-1 Joaquín 87'

Real Madrid v Celta Vigo

Real Madrid
1 Casillas
4 Sergio Ramos
3 Pepe
2 R. Varane
8 Kaká
14 Xabi Alonso
19 L. Modrić
15 M. Essien
10 M. Özil
7 Cristiano Ronaldo
20 G. Higuaín

Subs
22 A. di María
9 K. Benzema
13 Adán
16 Ricardo Carvalho
18 Albiol
21 José Callejón
27 Nacho

HT

Real Madrid 1-0 Celta Vigo

Higuain 11'

Result

Real Madrid 2-0 Celta Vigo - Att 75,000
1-0 Higuain 11'
2-0 Ronaldo PG 67'

Valencia 3 - 2 Athletic Club - Att 35,000
0-1 Aduriz 19'
1-1 Soldado (PG) 26'
1-2 Aduriz 30'
2-2 A. Costa 88'
3-2 N. Valdéz 90'

Deportivo v Barcelona

Barcelona
1 Valdés
18 Jordi Alba
19 Montoya
14 J. Mascherano
4 Fàbregas
8 Iniesta
25 A. Song
16 Busquets
10 L. Messi
7 David Villa
37 Tello

Subs
21 Adriano Correia
17 Pedro
6 Xavi
9 A. Sánchez
12 J. dos Santos
13 Pinto
15 Bartra

Result

Saturday 20th October

Deportivo 4-5 Barcelona - Att 32,000
0-1 Jordi Alba 3'
0-2 Tello 8'
0-3 L. Messi 18'
1-3 Pizzi (PG) 26'
2-3 Álex Bergantiños 37'
2-4 L. Messi 43'
3-4 Pizzi 47'
3-5 L.Messi 77'
4-5 Jordi Alba OG 79'

What an incredible match at the Riazor on Saturday night!
Barcelona were 3-0 ahead after just 18 minutes but Deportivo fought to get back into the game.
The Catalans still went in 4-2 up at half time and another hat trick from Messi helped Barca to win the match 5-4 in the end!
Javier Mascherano was also sent off in the 49th minute for picking up 2 yellow cards.

Any comments?

Sun 21/10/12

Getafe 0 - 1 Levante - Att 9.500
0-1 Míchel 87'

Espanyol 3 - 2 Rayo Vallecano - Att 22,000
0-1 Léo Baptistão 12'
1-1 Verdú 37'
2-1 Verdú 48'
2-2 Léo Baptistão 63'
3-2 C. Stuani 90'+2

Granada 1 - 2 Real Zaragoza - Att 21,000
0-1 Hélder Postiga 3'
0-2 Víctor Rodríguez 27'
1-2 Y. El-Arabi 77'

Osasuna 0 - 0 Real Betis - Att 15,000

Real Sociedad 0 - 1 Atlético Madrid - Att 27,000
0-1 R. Falcao 90'

A goal from Falcao in the 90th minute gave Atletico all 3 points away at Real Socidedad to keep us level on points with Barcelona.

Mon 22/10/12
Sevilla 3 - 2 Mallorca - Att 35,000
0-1 Pedro Bigas 26'
1-1 Negredo 29'
1-2 T.Hemed 30'
2-2 Negredo 56'
3-2 Cicinho 74'

Negredo scored twice to help moved Michel's Sevilla up to 5th in the table.

Only just seen the Barca game. Madness, cant believe we still concede such sloppy goals. Thankfully Messi is on form and his partnership with Cesc is getting good now. Tito seems to be getting is selections right at the minute and is resting players at good times. Not sure it was a pen against Mascherano but he needs to stop throwing himself in at the minute.