La Liga: Osasuna vs FC Barcelona: Live Game Thread

Strange line up by pep…really hope thiago and sergi have a great game

I was wrong :P

he is more dynamic than Thiago or Cesc, good to see Pep giving him a chance

any news on his heath?

Damn mendilibar said he’s going for the win…so i expect a thought game…good thing about playing the young ones is their eagerness to impress…
On the bright side we have some solid forward and defenders starting..and mascherano will be looking to make some crunching tackles and hopefully we will control midfield

Come on!

When you add the freezing wind to the -5°C air temperature I can’t really blame them.

High press, good passing…

It seems every time we have a bad result, I’m not watching. I didn’t see our only loss to Getafe or our last draw against Villareal…

It seems I may be forced to forgo all social and professional commitments haha

Lekic the scorer

doesn’t seem like the world class combination we’re used to

Horrible defending, we haven’t strung together more than three passes and we haven’t even had possession on their half of the pitch.

but Messi can’t punch a hole through 6 defenders.

had it in the opponents area

Alexis wasn’t offside (Osasuna RB played him onside) and he was all alone in front of the keeper

tipped over by the keeper

Fernandez tips it over for a corner.

and they still look like they’re freezing.

Looks like the new boots with more studs aren’t really helping

And it’s Lekic again

Puyol out of position, Pique too passive.

Osasuna player was offside in the build up to the goal

On a serious note…we suck…the weather is terrible..the pitch is terrible and the ref refuses to let us take a free kick quickly…and if we do get thru on goal…obviously offside by the ref:|
if we havent scored 2 by half time..we will need to get xavi or iniesta or both

then why not rest Messi?

Fernandez makes the easy save

At least we’re trying now.

We seriously need Xavi to calm things down

Pedro-Sanchez-Alves
Messi
Sergi – Thiago
Mascherano
Abidal Pique Puyol

Pique with the last second clearance

or cut our losses and rest them for the CL?

in for Pedro? He’s been awful so far.

Could be for handball, could be for a late kick.

Second time alexis scored…lol..need some messi magic…quickly

Should’ve scored from there

I would have preferred it if the RFEF gave Madrid the league before it started and save us all a lot of trouble

Not even a simple pass when no defender is nearby can be on target?

Its like our whole team is asleep…madness

Our passes are skidding out in to touch

but the ref incorrectly called offside on a 1-on-1

Our passes are skidding out in to touch

These guys need to wake up

We can still win this

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were Messi and Alexis. The rest barely had a pulse.

Honestly, even losing is ok with me..but not like this…play with some passion or don’t bother at all..anyways should probably congratulate Madrid for winning the league:|

I feel unusually calm. My guess is our performance cannot get any worse, that’s how bad we’ve been. Second half will be better esp with the changes Pep will make.

I can’t write us off, I just can’t begin to.

Let’s start chanting guys, the boys need us

3-4-3 time if there ever was

Barcelona only won 1 Liga away game in history after being behind with 2 goals at half-time

Let’s see how this plays out

They play VERY bad !! Within 5 min Puyol made 3 bad passes
and Pedro ? Please, get him out of there

Cuenca on for Puyol and Tello on for Pedro

Great…so cuenca and tello..strange starting line up and just as strange subs…id have taken sergi,mascherano and Pedro off for xavi,iniesta and tello…meh…would love to see a historic comeback

We’re now playing a 3-4-3

Nobody seems capable of passing accurately…messi among them…sigh

shot tipped over for a corner

Mascherano has moved into the defense to make it a 4-man backline

Alexis!!!

let’s do it twice more

I love it

Finally!! He deserved one

was about to say Barca was throwing everything at Osasuna, they were looking a bit rocked there.

All three goals have been scored on this side.

Real could still lose and we’d be a point closer… yea not likely but still

Needed just another inch to direct the header on goal

It’s 3-1

Osasuna may have been offside again

All three yellow card today were for Barcelona players

nice finish. I didn’t think it was offside ….

fuck it, 2-4-4

This time he actually was offside

Well done boy

Alves is suspended for the game against Valencia; he received his fifth yellow card a few minutes ago.

Some very nice blocking by Osasuna today

Tello invisible

Saved by Fernandez

And i really hope pep takes sergi out

And i really hope pep takes sergi out

He’s everywhere in defense, his passing is pinpoint and I think he has won every header.

may as well put in Cesc for him, I think

His boots don’t react at all.

Ibrahima replaces Lekic

Tello!!!

ref let it go or he would have gotten a second yellow

Cesc with the assist

This kid is brilliant

Cuenca with an assist, and Cesc with an assist to Tello

but he’ll keep playing

osasuna is going to find it very hard to hold on I think

Could’ve been all over if Osasuna scored

goes way wide in the end

Well i don’t mind losing as much now..atleast some kinda fight put up…still, terrible starting line up…and we look horrible in the back

Tello had the chance to tie it

Messi had too many passing choices I think!!

ruled out YET AGAIN

They call it offside

When Sergi flicked the ball on Messi was offside

Somebody kill the flicking refs…they have lost us the league

if a Barca head, he was offside; if Osasuna, clearly not

too bad, a great FK

Only one of them actually counted. That has to be some kind of record, right?

but wouldnt have counted

would be a travesty

A time wasting substitution

makes sense to me

Not the best header by Cesc

saved…

Despite a good effort in the second half we lose 3-2

wow.

We get a bunch of goals disallowed (some correctly) and the goalkeeper has the game of his life. Oh, and the man (woman?) above hates us and throws some nice weather at us. Did we really expect anything else?

-Horrible defending
-Inability to keep the ball in the first half
-Absolutely abysmal game from Pedro
-Worst game Puyol has ever played
-Pique with probably the worst game he’s ever played, too
-Osasuna keeper with a great performance
-Osasuna get a goal offside
-Three Barcelona goals ruled out

Two draws and a loss. And they say the Basques like the Catalans.

Terrible …so 10 pts diff..don’t see Madrid losing..if anything ill go for a huge loss for levante

Terrible …so 10 pts diff..don’t see Madrid losing..if anything ill go for a huge loss for levante

Terrible …so 10 pts diff..don’t see Madrid losing..if anything ill go for a huge loss for levante

Terrible …so 10 pts diff..don’t see Madrid losing..if anything ill go for a huge loss for levante

but doubtful

and defended BETTER for it?

Mascherano picked up a second yellow (red card) in the tunnel after the game and he will miss the game against Valencia.
Joy to the world …

this game ended Barca 4-1 Osasuna