El Fluminense, lider del campeonato brasileño, perdio la oportunidad de ampliar su ventaja como puntero de la clasificacion al perder 2-1 contra el Atletico Goianiense.
Fuente: FIFA Oficial
sábado, 11 de septiembre de 2010
Monterrey gana el Clasico
El Monterrey se llevo esta edicion del 'Clasico del Norte' al vencer en cancha de Tigres 1-0. Queretaro logro hacer valer su calidad de local y vencio 5-2 a Santos Laguna.
Fuente: FIFA Oficial
Clasico sin goles
En un clasico sin mayores emociones, Millonarios e Independiente Santa Fe terminaron empatados sin goles en compromiso de la novena jornada del Torneo Finalizacion Colombiano.
Fuente: FIFA Oficial
Velez y Estudiantes lideres
Velez Sarsfield, que empato 0-0 con San Lorenzo, y Estudiantes, vencedor de Racing Club por 2-0, quedaron en forma temporal al frente del Torneo Apertura-2010 del futbol argentino.
Fuente: FIFA Oficial
Bobo da el triunfo al Besiktas de Guti
El Oporto se consolida en el liderato tras vencer al Braga
El Toulose se estrella en casa frente al St. Etienne
Paris Saint Germain goleo
El Paris Saint Germain goleo 4-0 al recien ascendido Arles Avignon. El Lyon no pudo ganarle a Valenciennes y se conformo con un empate a un gol. Rennes acecha el liderato.
Fuente: FIFA Oficial
Luis Suarez da triunfo a Ajax
Dos penaltis transformados por el delantero uruguayo Luis Suarez proporcionaron la victoria del Ajax ante el Willem II, en la quinta jornada de la Liga de Holanda.
Fuente: FIFA Oficial
Inter logra dificil victoria
En la segunda jornada del futbol italiano, el campeon Inter de Milan derroto 2-1 al Udinese. El Milan (2-0) y la Roma (5-0) no corrieron con suerte de visitantes y perdieron sus respectivos encuentros.
Fuente: FIFA Oficial
Un recien ascendido ridiculiza la superproduccion del Milan
Barcelona tropieza en casa
El club catalan fue sorprendido (0-2) en el Camp Nou por un Hercules que gano de la mano de Nelson Haedo Valdez. Por su parte, el Real Madrid gano en casa por la minima diferencia a Osasuna.
Fuente: FIFA Oficial
Bobby Zamora se rompe la pierna y estara de baja minimo cuatro meses
El Chelsea sigue con el pleno de victorias
El Panathinaikos vence al Aris antes de visitar el Camp Nou
El Ajax vence de la mano de Luis Suarez
Arsenal golea y VdV hace buen debut con el Tottenham
El Arsenal continua su persecucion del Chelsea despues de que los 'gunners' consiguieran la victoria (4-1) en el Ermiratres Stadium frente al Bolton. El equipo que capitanea Cesc Fabergras se impuso con mas problemas de los previstos ante un rival a priori sencillo. Koscielny adelantaba a los locales a los veinticinco minutos pero a un minuto del descanso Elmander aprovechaba un gran fallo de la zaga del Arsenal para poner tablas en el luminoso y sembrar las dudas en las gradas del Emirates. Leer
Fuente: Marca
El United se deja dos puntos en Goodison Park
El Manchester United perdio una buena oportunidad de seguir enganchado en el tren de cabeza tras protagonizar un sorprendente empate (3-3) en Goodison Park frente al Everton del español Mikel Arteta, que fue el artifice final de la remontada local, despues de que el equipo de Liverpool consiguiera empatar cuando perdia en el descuento por 1-3. Leer
Fuente: Marca
El Bayern no mejora y empata sin goles ante el Bremen
El Bayern Munich y el Werder Bremen empataron (0-0) en el partido mas destacado de la tercera jornada de la Bundesliga, por lo que ambos conjuntos se quedan en mitad de la tabla, lejos del Hoffenheim, que tras su victoria ante el Schalke 04 del viernes es lider en solitario con nueve puntos. Leer
Fuente: Marca
Etoo da el primer triunfo liguero a Benitez
Tigre beat Gimnasia, and Colon still can’t win at home…
Colon de Santa Fe might have finally managed their first win of the season away to Racing last week, but on Friday evening they found they’re still unable to win in front of their own fans, with a 1-1 draw … Continue reading 
Fuente: Hasta el Gol Siempre
Minnows Hercules Humiliates Champions Barca; FC Barcelona - 0, Hercules - 2
Newly promoted Hercules made a mockery of the attacking talent Barca possessed by dominating a match and winning it quite comfortably. This was suppposed to be a cake walk and I myself predicted a 5-0 drubbing tonight at the Camp Nou. Instead Hercules gave an astonishing drubbing to the defending champions. In my preview I did wrote about the usual troubles we face adter an international break. But don't blame FIFA for this defeat, it is all made by one man - Pep Guardiola. In a way this is not a surprise defeat, as Hercules has done this to Barca when last time they were in the top flight. Barca B, who played at the same time went down at Cartegena 4-1, but that could never be considered as a humiliation. In my preview I argued heavily on not using Abidal as a Centre-Back and giving Mascherano the start. My fears were proved right with some awful performance. I will come back to that later.
The match was preceded by Celebration of Catalunya day. There was a big chance of players losing their focus in such high profile atmosphere. But nobody expected the bloody club staffs to lose their focus. They forgot to wet the pitch and it was pretty dry throughout the first half. This cannot be used as an excuse for the absolutely shameful performance but still throughout the first half we saw Barca players struggling to run with the ball. Now coming to the line-up. Guardiola for me has started to think that he is some super coach and can make thing happen the way he wanted. Otherwise which sane person will still continue using Abidal as a centre back when he have the absolutely brilliant Milito available. For the record Puyol was included in the squad after being declared fit before the match. The back line lined up with Adriano, Pique, Abidal and Maxwell. The midfield had Mascherano, who was making his debut with Keita and Iniesta. The front line had Messi on the right, Villa on the left and Bojan in the centre. From teh line-up it looked like a 4-3-3 formation but throughout the match there was no formation.
First half started as expected Barca parking almost the entire team in Hercules half. For the first 20 minutes I was struggling to find out what kind of formation we were employing, after that I stopped bothering. The bottom line was that we had no specific formation and the entire team was all over the pitch. Abidal as the Centre Back was having a great night putting all his team mates in unnecessary risk. In the ninth minute Bojan should have put us ahead but he missed he easiest of all chances. Villa set Maxwell free on the left with a beautiful flick, Maxwell continued his run before sending an absolutely perfect cross in the middle. The only thing Bojan had to do was to get a touch, which he failed to do. After that our players were wandering all over the pitch with not much of purpose. In the 20th minute Mascherano celebrated his debut by picking up his first yellow card in the blaugrana jersey. To be fair, Mascherano had no other choice after the brilliant Abidal put exposed him completely. In the 26th minute Mascherano pulled down Drenthe and was pretty much lucky not to see the second yellow card. But Barca was not that much lucky as the resulting free kick ended in the back of net. Royson Drenthe's freekick was headed on to the centre with the defense completely exposing the poor Victor Valdes. Valdes blocked the first attempt but was helpless when ValdeZ of Hercules struck. The goal did wake us a bit especially the crowd. In the 28th minute Iniesta send in a great cross but Pique missed it by a whisker. Pique had to great chances in the half from header but failed to find any proper direction on both of them.
Pep Guardiola took off Mascherano and Bojan and brought in Xavi and Pedro from the start of second half. It added a bit of speed in the begining but pretty soon it was all back to normal. Everytime the ball goes through the middle, the defense which hold an unusually high line was exposed. In the 59th minute Hercules doubled the lead with an absolutely brilliant counter attack. Guardiola reacted by taking off the poor Adirano off and bringing in Alves. In the 63rd mminute Messi saw his effort saved by the goal keeper. For all our efforts Hercules had an excellent chance of extending their lead but Victor Valdes mad an absoluetly brilliant save. Villa and Pedro had both shot saved by goal keepr, but to be honest none of them posed any serious danger. Towards the end of the match Valdes made a brilliant double save to deny Hercules taking a 3-0 lead.
Putting blame is pretty much easy in this match. I will write a extended post later with my rating of each player. We host Panathanaikos on Tuesday and a repeat of the same performance is not accepeted. every player bar Valdes was poor and the international break is not an excuse for such shameful performance. I am no big fan of Guardiola, but don't see me as a biased person when I put the blame of this humiliation on him. It looks like the recent success is getting into his head otherwise please someone expalin his insistence to use Abidal as a Centre Back. Abidal is a very good full back but his positional sense is absolutely poor and is a not an option at Centre Back, especially at Barca. Continuing this policy will only help in destroying his confidence, maybve thats what Guardiola wants? Even with the technological advances of recennt years, the game is plain simple. Every new season is a new start and you start from zero. So you probably would do better by getting the team settled and then improvising a bit. Machesrano was never ready to make his debut and looked pretty slow by the way he played. In all the euphoria about the Racing win, I have highlighted about the problems we are facing in defense. It is all made by some stupid decision at managerial level. Guardiola has to get back to the basics and stop the team from being complacent like this.
It will be a criminal offence if I failed to appreciate the wonderful effort put by Hercules team at Camp Nou. They had the determination to take something out of this game. When their coach said that they came for a victory to Camp Nou, nobody took him seriously. Now things will change. Drenthe has been much maligned after missing that great one to one chance against Valdes two seasons ago. He finally made ammends for that mistake. The team worked really ahrd in closing down any small oppurtunity and the fact that the goal keeper never had to make any difficult save is a testimony to that. They were organised and determined, both were missing from the defending Champions.
Fuente: All About FC Barcelona
FC Barcelona vs Hercules Player Rating
FC Barcelona suffered their first defeat of this years La Liag season at Camp Nou infront of an almost packed house. Let's just hope they don't do this often as we may not be able to afford the same. The team can be rated as a 5 out of a scale of 10. So let's get to the business straight away.
Victor Valdes - 8 - The Barca player on the pitch. He would have been hoping to have a quite laid off night, but ended having a pretty busy one. Couldn't have done anything on the two goals. Made quite a number of unbeleivable saves and he was the reason why the socreline was kept at 2-0.
Adriano - 5 - He looks like a one dimensional player to me. he always cut outside. there were some decent crosses but overall had a average night. Looked absolutely clueless inside the box and always looks low on confidence in cutting inside.
Pique - 6 - Was woefully exposed by his partner throughout the match. Would have been cursing himself for not taking a couple of decent chances he had. He lloks like a pale shadow of himself of last season. Hope that he will improve with each game.
Abidal - 1 - Woeful, awful, shameful, horrible throughout the match. Helped Machesrano in getting the yellow card. Looked clueless with his positioning sense and gave the feeling that Barca was playing with a one man central defense.
Maxwell - 5.5 - Nothing special. Looked terrible in defense but showed a bit more flair while go forward. Send in a great cross for Bojan early in the game.
Mascherano - 5 - Not a debut he would have hoped for. Looked pretty slow and was completely out of rhythm with his teammates. He will take more time to settle down and shouldn't have rushed in.
Iniesta - 6 - Agains yet another poor performance. there were some flashes of brilliance but nowhere near what he is capable of. Looked poor with anticipation and I thought for the majority of match he was not much interested.
Keita - 5 - Another poor performer of the night. Didn't know what was exacty his role, but whatever it maybe he totally failed. Luckily for him it's not only him who failed to make an impression.
Messi - 6 - There were some flashes of brilliance, but they were very few and very far in between. The match reminded of the performance against Inter Milan.
Bojan - 4 - It was criminal to miss such a great chance. But throughout the first half he didn't bother to drop back and link with the midfield. Was good to see Guardiola starting with him, but he needs to put a bit more effort to make an impact.
Villa - 6 - Not a great night by any means. Tried a bit but the Hercules defense had him in control throughout the match.
Fuente: All About FC Barcelona
El Leverkusen logra empate, Dortmund gana
El Bayer Leverkusen logro un empate agonico por 2-2 ante el Hannover 96, mientras que el Borussia Dortmund derroto 2-0 al Wolfsburgo. Stuttgart volvio a perder.
Fuente: FIFA Oficial
Chelsea lider; Manchester empata
El Chelsea derroto 3-1 al West Ham, mantiendose como puntero de la Liga Premier. Manchester United empato 3-3 en el campo del Everton. Arsenal golea 4-1 al Bolton.
Fuente: FIFA Oficial
Nigeria, a por todas
Las Flamencas ya estan en cuartos de final y no piensan detenerse ahi. Su delantera Francisca Ordega lo tiene claro: “¡Somos las favoritas!”, dijo a FIFA.com.
Fuente: FIFA Oficial
Fallecio el joven Diego Rodriguez
El jugador del Nacional Diego Rodriguez fallecio a causa de las graves heridas. Debido a ello, la Asociacion Uruguaya de Futbol (AUF) decidio suspender la cuarta jornada del campeonato.
Fuente: FIFA Oficial
Ballack lesionado
Ausente en el Copa Mundial de la FIFA Sudafrica 2010 por lesion, Michael Ballack sufrio otro duro reves al abandonar el campo de juego a la media hora tras un golpe en la rodilla izquierda.
Fuente: FIFA Oficial
Fernandinho se perdera lo que resta de temporada
Un hermano de Tevez ha sido condenado a 16 años de carcel
Fallece Diego Rodriguez tras un grave accidente de trafico
Campeonas y anfitrionas, por un boleto
La ultima jornada de los Grupos A y B sera bastante relajada. Tan solo queda una incognita por desvelar: un billete para cuartos que se jugaran cara a cara las vigentes campeonas y las anfitrionas.
Fuente: FIFA Oficial
Dos porteras y cuatro incondicionales
La portera irlandesa Grace Moloney y su homologa canadiense Sabrina D'Angelo rivalizaron con sus brillantes actuaciones en la cancha del estadio Larry Gomes mientras sus padres las seguian desde la grada.
Fuente: FIFA Oficial
Un equipo australiano quiere a Ronaldo
Tabarez renueva como seleccionador de Uruguay
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