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what time is the game!!!!! 12 or 1 ?

Ramzi's sensible.

REALLY Higuain is going to start over Ronaldo, i am just the happiest person right now. We have to play wide though, if Ronaldo/Higuain/Kaka stay wide left and right then we can really counter them. Alves vs Ronaldo would be good to watch, dunno who's faster, both fags though.

o yea true Tajh last week though i signed on twice and looked for you but you werent online , we'll definitly play next week if you're on !

Or BTW Andres i have yet to play u online on fifa 10...wanted to run an online classico...

o and what time does the game actually start ? gol tv's schedule says it starts at 12 but every other website say 1

hahaha bassam

Museu we dont need catalunya to achieve international glory but ramzi is right we should leave the politics aside and get back to footy :-)

Ramzi when i said that people were attacking i wasnt necessarily speaking about you , and when CR looks to the sky today it'll only be to thank god for allowing him to score an hat trick :-)

labomba true

tajh we havent conceded anymore than you my friend if our defense is so bad what does that say about yours ? besides i think this video will better used in pep guardiola's hands so maybe you should sent it to him :-)

A good video b4 the game so real madrid fans can see their defensive lapse over the season......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Funnily enough Bassam, pressure is the last thing that worries me about tonight's game. All the players have been in big pressure games lots of times and I'm hoping it will fuel their concentration and physical levels to take them beyond their 30 minutes play span.
The 4 - 2 - 2 -2 seems suicide, but I wouldn't pay much attention to that as it's all the typical disinformation peddled out by the sports raga before the match.
If they could string more than 3 passes together and think about the pass BEFORE they receive the ball rather than allow Barca the time to recover positions they might do something but this will only work if the pressure works in their favour as they haven't managed it yet against minor teams.
Andrés, Valencia did well as a) they do the above and b) they are fast on the counter which is what we need to do.

Alright…Can we keep it within the football boundaries guys? My notation for Andres was a "Remark" not an "Attack". We really don’t need to pick one thing and keep on punching and punching back senselessly. There are enough meaningfull things to discuss about this game. Like Ibra scoring and waving his big nose celebrating his goal, and Ronaldo staring to the sky:"Why God why?You know I am the best first, second and third!If you dont know, here I am telling you!"

AS reports that Ronaldo will be used as a sub in the 2nd half. His place will take Higuain in Pellegrini's favourite system 4-2-2-2.

Huge mistake imo. It could be too late by then.

awww Andres misses me :P lol

Just got back from LA (i live in sacramento) and i have been away from the internet for a while. I'm back in time though to watch the game!

Because of what happened last year, i really do fear this game. Barcalona are a great team and in great form right now, we are a team being built right now and under a lot of pressure. Pressure last year got to us, and i fear that it will do the same this year. Especially in this game. I'm confident in the team though, and i hope they can get a result from this game.

Will Corey be doing a liveblog or something? Although to be honest, o avoid my laptop when watching the game, i seriously would break it apart regardless of score :D

Marca is saying we'll play a 4-4-2

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04-03-18-02
09-10-22-08
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I know you told me not to, but I keep reading that post over and over. Searching for a comeback.

"CATALUNYA IS PART OF SPAIN!"
- only when Catalunya feels like helping Spain be competitive in international football.

correction *so you DONT have to read this post over and over again*
good night now

Museu yea it was very difficult for me , i actually had to call 1-800-help so they would help me out .......

and may i just point out that at first you were making a tiny bit of sense in your posts and that now you're just talking out of your ass :-) ?

anyways im gonna do you a favor and go to bed so you have to read this post over and over again for an hr or so in order to have a come back for it , good night ill see you here tomorrow game time!

HALA MADRID And CATALUNYA IS PART OF SPAIN!

"I hang and spit fire on them , or run over them when I’m driving." You wrote it man, this shouldn't be that difficult.

Actually, my other name didn't work (presumably I got banned), so I dropped a letter. I know this must have been difficult to figure out for yourself, but "museu" is Catalan for "museum,:" so there you go. Drastically different from the Castilian "museo." I should've mentioned that upfront for your benefit, I know how it is.

No, not looking to be a Barca superhero. It's just fun to stir stuff up with Madridistas 2 weekends a year, and since I don't know any where I am, this will have to do. But I really do think you're a dumbass, don't worry. I wasn't wasting your time.

CATALUNYA IS NOT SPAIN.

Eddie I'm not sure where I read that but I could have sworn you guys have conceded more goals than us in the league

Zizou nah never buddy I was just wondering what they were up to since they didn't post on this article at all

Museu? I see you couldn't even get your screen name right and shit ahaha 3 legged idiot ,
just so you know I feel comfortable enough to act here the way I do with my friends because I could give a shit about what a dumb ass on the net like you thinks about me
I give Madridistas a bad name ? Please , do you think you're giving cules a good name by coming here to argue with a madridista because he talked shit about them on a Real madrid BLOG ? Maybe you do , you must think that makes you some kinda barca superhero ......." catalunya man " fuck outta here
The majority of barca fans are class acts ? Maybe but I haven't came accross that much and you definitely aren't one of them :-)

And where the hell did that bit about me in my car come from ??

I bet you really do run all sorts of things over with your car, it must be extremely difficult driving with your head up your ass. Seeing as you are aware what year it is, you should know that broadcasting dumb opinions you hold publicly is different than joking around with friends that you have an understanding with. The internet and your Catalan boys are different entities. Go ahead, look closer. It's true! I know many Madridistas are class acts, like the vast majority of Barca fans, but you give them a bad name.

yer and Bobby aint seen him for ages, did he just get bored of talking to me or something..

today is going to be a good day of footie, Everton vs Liverpool at 12.30, Arsenal vs Chelsea at 3.30 then the big 1, how goods that.

Andres, what stats are you talking about? We have conceded less in all competitions, and have conceded the same in the league.

Damn right we do I'm hoping this match will be the turning point for us the day everything start clicking like it happened when we faced under don capello every one had written us off before that match as well but we we almost beat them only an individual brilliance from messi in injury time saved them

I just thought of something , we are league leaders and leaders of champions league group yet we feel like we're in a crisis only with Madrid do you see stuff like that
Also people said that our defense blows yet according to the stats we have a better defense than barcelona

Anyways where is bassam , cesar and everyone else this is the night before clasicoooo !

na not them personaly just the whole arguement in general.

yer i hope Vdv gets time like i every week, but i think Marcelo would be better then Ronaldo to start with because at least he will track back and Ronaldo coming on would make an impact. We need to play so much better then we have this season to have any hope..

Just read a pep guardiola interview the man is such class act , if every cule was like him the world would be a better place !

I'm sooo pumped up for this game !! 2morrow cannot come soon enough!1

Zizou you find them fun huh ? i hope you dont work at a day care or anywhere near kids haha
anyways i think either one of them ( granero or VDV) will have a role 2morrow they wont start though

quite

ok well carry on, it quiet fun to watch lolz

does anyone think we should have Granero or Vdv or someone with energy to help out Xabi and Lass because i jut can't see us winning with 4231 formation?

Zizou that's because they keep coming out of nowhere and attack me because I called the catalan barca fans "dirty" haha , just explaining to them what I meant by that but some of them are having quite a hard time to get it

Museum the deal between me and my catalan boys is that we know this is 2009 we don't take everything as seriously as narrow minded jack asses like you do , you'd be amazed at the kinda jokes we crack between us or the kinda jokes people from different ethnic backgrounds crack between them in general these days
You're thinking you pointed out the ridicule in what I said all you did is waste a couple of minutes (or should I say an hr or so because you don't seem to be very bright) of your life to make a fool out of yourself ,

Final note castilians and catalans are from the same "race" you could say they are from different etnic backgrounds but that's about it just thought i'd throw that out there

shesh thats what 5 people you have had arguements with now Andres, just on this post lolz

That is what you said, I wasn't putting words in your mouth. I'm not mad or anything, I'm just amazed that people can say things like that and think they're making some kind of solid, valid point. You're an internet clown, and I can't say what the deal is between you and your Catalan friends, but on this planet, when people call an entire race of people "sneaky, don't play fair," those of us who aren't drowning in a pool of our own urine and drool (i.e., not you) try to point out the ridiculousness of your ways. I'll run along now, enjoy the game, moron.

Museum first of all when you quote people you're supposed to type everything they said/typed word by words just thought i'd tell you that for future references
Second , I don't know whatever planet you're from but here on earth we call people that are sneaky , don't play fair and stuff "dirty" and its not a big deal , certainly not to my catalan friends when I say it to them so I don't really see how what I said is ridiculous
3rd I'm getting kinda sorta tired of this discussion so ill just that I'm the biggest biggot on the face of earth I'm so racist that when I'm walking in the streets and sees someone from a different race I hang and spit fire on them , or run over them when I'm driving :-)
Happy ? Now run along please

Well labomba seeing valencia outplay them gave me hope for this game , yea yea I know we aren't valencia but I'm keeping faith lol

ha ha, "i'm not racist, i'm just saying they're a dirty ethnic group because you can't trust any of them." unbelievably ridiculous.

Albiol is on the squad list!!

yes spain is cool, in england however its more like " why would we want to watch a bunch of foreigners falling over all the time?" if you ask to put on a spanish game. Having the game in cinema' is an AWESOME idea, wish they did it here.

Every bar will be packed to the rafters here, nobody misses the clásico.
I remember my desolate walk home last season not able to watch till the end, passing all the bars, listening to the cheering as goals no. 5 and 6 went in, to cheers and screams.

you at least have the choice to watch it labomba, i have had to ask a pub near me if they would show the game lolz i'm not trusting some shity stream tomorrow.

Well if Higuain doesn't start i'm going to pissed off with Pellegrini, Ronaldo better do some tracking back this game to becaue if he decide's to play like he did for Man u against Barca and try to outshine Messi, he and us are fucked.

Well Andrés I'm no advocate of parking the bus although if Drenthe had scored last season we may have got away with it. I agree that a 5 man midfield is good but trying to play a possession game against the authors of the Possession Game rule book when we still haven't developed a style would be foolish.
Also pressing high up the pitch would be a first for us as the times that the likes of Ronaldo, Kaká and Benzema have robbed the ball high up have been rare although admittedly Higuaín has made more effort.
I still think that many of our players are more suited to counterattacking style and have speed on the break.
Not sure if I can watch the match or not watch the match, what a dilemma!

Labomba lol
Well I think if pellegrini goes to the camp nou , parked the bus and we still lose then his days will be numbered , so playing with 5 in midfield and hope they will win the midfield battle is his best bet

O and just so you know against united I said that they had no answer for you guys and in most of your wins I admitted that you were superior to your opponents hell even in some of your losses I said that the other team was lucky to come away with maximum points , inter though WAS pathetic being outplayed is one thing but they weren't even Running or putting any pressure on your midfield , anyways its like barcelona fans expect people to blow sunshine up their ass everywhere they go you're not perfect , you have some very irritating fans , so do other teams Granted

Anyways I'm done with this argument , Corey didn't write this post so we come and argue on it so let's talk Clasico! Shall we

Eladir you never know remember back in 06/07 we weren't really up to par until we faced barcelona at the camp nou everything started to click that night and it was the turning point for us

in no postition

Gosh you guys have got your boxers in a bunch and it's no where near kick off!!
Personally, I love the way Barsa plays and also like Pep as a coach and the more humble approach their making to the game. That rear view mirror comment from Casillas, however was uncharacteristic.
But you can't change your team even though you can change your partner or religion, so I'm hoping that we can squeeze a draw or at least not a drubbing.
I still hear the word 'Alcorcón' on a daily basis and the stick coming after the big summer spend is mind blowing.
The formation above is scary I hope that's not the case as we are in position right now to exert a style on Barcelona as we don't know what that 'style' is.

Jose47 and Ramzi I think you guys have gotten me all messed up , we have this saying among castilians that says " Never ever trust a catalan " that's why I call them "dirty" I'm not calling them so because I think they don't take showers or whatever you're thinking , its like when you call a player dirty you do so meaning that he is sneaky and such and such ! Besides they call us a lot of names as well it has nothing to do with "racism" for me so relax ?

Heynow I'm seriously tired of having to explain to you everytime I say something about farcelona, now do I get an award of some sort for being the "worse type of fan " by any chance ? :-)

Andres, knowing a bit about you through comments sessions, I would have felt better if you were using the "dirty" expression toward all Barcelona fans rather than “dirty is for the Catalans only”. Even though it’s an inappropriate expression, but it sounds less offending when it’s an immature rivalry expression rather than being a racism statement.

Andres, I really am disappointed in your Catalan bigotry. You're the kind of fans real Real Madrid and La Liga fans apologize for.

Btw, keep up the solid work, Corey. Im a Barca fan but I like to pop in here and your perspective is always interesting even as I often disagree with it.

Now back to the Barca blog :p

AS has a report today about Madrid tactics. First of all the line-up will be 4-2-3-1:

----Casillas----
Ramos-Pepe-Garay/Albiol-Arbelo
----Lass-Alonso----
--Ronaldo-Kaka-Marcelo--
----Benzema----

Pellegrini's plan is not to hit in the counter, that's Plan B. The first plan is to win the mildfield and that's why Marcelo plays instead of a second striker, to create a numerical advantage. The aim is for Madrid to play their style and not allow Barcelona do their usual game. There have been special orders (Benzema) to pressure as much as they can when they lose the ball.

If you ask me, I think it's the wrong strategy. It's too early to challenge Barcelona in their game, specially if Iniesta plays in the mildfield.

Andres, you forget that everytime we crush a team, people like you say "oh Inter were pathetic... oh Sevilla were pathetic.... oh United were pathetic" it is always the same with people like you. you dismiss those wins as the other team not showing up and performing and fail to give credit where credit is due. you are the worst type of fan.

Junaid, did I say ALL Barca fans to be glory hunters?

And Andres, you covered all the points about the new "faithful" of Barca that irritate me!

Junaid well if you were such a saint you wouldn't have replied to him and call him names at that ......just saying :-)

And last time I checked I was a man not a woman , I guess you wouldn't know the difference now would you ? No wonder you like benzema so much , you think he is a woman , a hot one huh ?

I know just how you feel Deepak lol !
I'd love nothing more than to see barca not winning jack this season to see what they're going to say
And you're totally right about their ignorance about Madrid according to most of them we 're not a club thats accustomed to playing good football we've always been a boring team , we've never produced world class canteranos ,
They've never spend loads of money to buy superstars they always made them , they created the 4 3 3 and anybody that uses that formation wanna be barcelona , when they lose its never because the other was good its because they didn't show up , or the referee or the black cat that walked in front of the camp nou before the game kicked off

Again I'm not saying its every cule , but the kinda I described is the kinda I've came accross recently and its irritates the hell out of me
Rant over now

The number of Barca fans have increased because they are fuckin glory hunters!! Expect that number to drop down soon! The most arrogant of the fans are the glory hunters who don't know squat about the history and even go to say our Cantera doesn't produce anything, those who have been fans of Barca for a long time aren't that ignorant or arrogant!

But fyi if we win I would love to rub it in the face of every cule just because of these glory hunters have irritated me a lot!

Heynow let me explain something to you you jack ass , when I say "recently" I could be speaking about the last 3 , 4 or 5 years , recent doesn't only apply to today or yesterday you know ..before you call people out make sure you know what the hell you're talking about

Yeah Andres, in the last 5 years we have won 3 Ligas, and 2 CLs but I guess that's not winning anything. You're seriously one of the most clueless Madrid fans on this blog.

Heynow ignorant or not I call cules "dirty"
And I really really don't give a shit about whether you believe me or not when I say that wasn't as arrogant as the barca "fans" when we were winning left and right but its true
btw I'm hushing up now ...........Mom :-)

Eddie that's very true but until recently I hadn't seen so many arrogant blaugrana and that's all I was pointing out , barcelona fans used to be one of most humble bunch but I guess that was because they weren't winning jack shit

ok Junaid, there are people who sleep hungry every day.

So are you saying not arguing will help those people? Idiot.

Who is this guy fooling? There arrogant fans in every team. Maybe there are a lot arrogant barca fans because there are a lot of barca fans in general.

And Meri brings up a clasico over 70 years ago..lol..wow..

Oh hush up Andres, if you played the way Barça played last season and won a treble you would be "arrogant" as well. Let's be real with ourselves. Don't play that innocent card. And calling cules "dirty" is ignorant.

Ramzi the "dirty" is for the catalans only not you the fans from abroad
Anyways I can't speak for every madridista but even during our glory days ( days we have had a LOT more than barca did :-) ) I was never as arrogant as I've seen barcelona's be , they have no respect whatsoever for us or any team for that matter don't get me wrong though its not every cule but I'm speaking of the ones I have come accross recently

@Andres, I remember the time when it was RM cycle of success. Arrogance would have been a very gentle word to use about RM fans back then. This old guy had to live the FC-Nethelrands-Barcelona period when we paid A zellion Dollar to buy Overmars. So I know what I suffered from the RM Fans (I willnot use the "dirty" terminology that u used).

Meri I wonder how come you survived since then. Not only that, but you still have a strong memory! :D

I can understand Corey when he says Ronaldo must not start if he is not completely fit. But keeping the Billion Euros man on the bench in the Classico? Perez may not like it.

This game is going to be fun. I hope you lose, so Andres do not see the other side of the RM fans.

Lets hope this game will meet the expectations and show a bright face about the Liga.

and I don't even know if he will let me watch it live so i might have to record it and go over another day to see it arghhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

for this game on sunday i can't watch it on tv because i don't have sky interactive thing, so i might have to pay my neighborour to install the sport package for this month just so i can go interactive and watch it!!

ok then Andres we'll see if we win :)

It seems that those catalans have forgot about 11-1 in 1943.But it'll never be forgotten, will it?!!

Not really zizou lol I don't post on the enemies blog doesn't matter if we're on fire or not

I really don't think we should leave Xabi and Lass on their own, unless Kaka tracks back well otherwise they will rip us apart. Ronaldo will start i'm sure of it, hopefully Iker will play jut like he did last year in this fixture.
They have a right to Andres atm, if we win la liga and champions league this year, i'm sure especially you would have some bragging to do over in their blog :)

I also suggested on the previous post that we should play with 5 midfielders in a 4 5 1 or withdraw higuain to the right hand side of the midfield that way we should be able to win the possession battle

Haha fernando so true

Seems like like everyone and their mamas have written us off in this week end showdown , people are already talking about another 6 - 2 in the dirty cules favor , when has barcelona "fans" become so arrogant ? Funny what a little bit of success could do a team and its followers , its mostly the glory hunters that are talking shit though

With that said they're favorite this week end , because A ) we're playing away from home , B) we haven't fully gelled yet and they have since they've been playing together for years ,

But if we play anywhere close to our potential we could go back home with the 3 pts

There are many non-Spanish people in this world who hate Catalans. Feel free to join them...

Hala Madrid!

Cyruff is really a twat, I really don't like reading his interviews, I always skip them!

"Ive lamented the lack of chance creation for the strikers before, and it hurts Raul the most in terms of his performance." — It's all because of Lass (or Pellegrini if you don't like him benching Raul, that's what Marca are doing), if Lass knew his position and sat back and left the creation work for Xabi Alonso, we won't have any trouble at all! And to make it clear I <3 Lass for his work rate but that guy is seriously not good in attacking!

I have a feeling Cristiano will start, he was saying he has a feeling he will score 10 to 20 goals against them! :D

Toure recovered from swine flu and joined training yesterday.

Toure has swine flu and wil probably be absent.I hope the players(esp Garay and Arbeloa)do not lose their concentration during the match and we atleast get 1point.
Hala Madrid!

Its a fair enough preview Corey. Happy thanksgiving. I don't still understand this festival :P but ill wish you anyways :)

Barcelona are a great team. We have to slog it out at this moment to come away with something. I just love the Clasico and the football fever associated with it even though I am really far away from Spain. Here's to a great Clasico! Hala Madrid!!