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[slaman29]

What a terrible performance from Barcelona. 3 points is only positive thing from this game, but we didn't deserved it. It's unbeleavable that Celta failed to score with so many chances. Lewa was invisible like against Inter. Our recent performance in few last games is really concerning before crucial game with Inter and El Clasico next week.

As much as I like to get points, I do agree, this time we didn't deserve to win, and I can say this because I felt we did play better in Champions League and yet didn't take any points. Now we have to win the next game before El Clasico... everything suddenly becomes must win. We did so well in the last one, but we have a lot of wins to record to improve our record in past years.

Am I the only one here who belives Sevilla are gonna bounce back and start winning games under the new coach Jorge Sampaoli? oh i'm the only one? really? ok then  ):

Well, I believed too and put money on it. Wasted taking a nice Valencia win in the end, took the lead but didn't win. Now they are also tempting me as their next match is in Champions League but away playing for revenge against Dortmund. Do you guys think this is it for Sampaoli?

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[casperBGD]

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Now they are also tempting me as their next match is in Champions League but away playing for revenge against Dortmund. Do you guys think this is it for Sampaoli?

I do not think that Sevilla is worth playing in CL, Dortmund struck a late equalizer against Bayern, but they were good enough to beat Sevilla on any day
Sevilla could not worked out clean sheet against Bilbao, after taking an early lead, and that is a real disappointing performance, IMO, last year Sevilla would done it easily

nevertheless, Sevilla is still most serious candidate for top4, and any point lost is good for Valencia, if we end up fighting for 4th place

[Trofo]

I see lots of comments on how poor Barca was yesterday, but who cares, in few weeks time nobody would remember and points are there to stay
Celta really should have scored a couple against Barca in second half. But as somebody said it already, Barca was good in parts of the games in Champions League and got nothing for effort as well.

Can't wait for Clasico now, we should get a good one this year.

[LTU_btc]

I see lots of comments on how poor Barca was yesterday, but who cares, in few weeks time nobody would remember and points are there to stay
Celta really should have scored a couple against Barca in second half. But as somebody said it already, Barca was good in parts of the games in Champions League and got nothing for effort as well.

Can't wait for Clasico now, we should get a good one this year.

If we will beat Inter and at least not will lose against Real, yeah, everyone will forget Barca performance against Celta. 3 points is only positive thing from this game. They can use injuries as excuse, but even without many players Barca at simply can't let Celta to dominate whole 2nd half.
@Harkorede, I agree that's not Lewandowski fault only that he was invisible, it's rather consequence how Barca played. Like against Bayern, they made so many crosses from wings like we would have not Lewandowski but Peter Crouch in attack.

Back to predictor, I can't beleive how much I'm struggling in La Liga pool and how good I'm doing in Serie A, what should be opposite. Fortunately Elche - Mallorca game ended 1:1 as I predicted and it let me to go by 3 places on the table.

[Harkorede]

I see lots of comments on how poor Barca was yesterday, but who cares, in few weeks time nobody would remember and points are there to stay
Celta really should have scored a couple against Barca in second half. But as somebody said it already, Barca was good in parts of the games in Champions League and got nothing for effort as well.

Can't wait for Clasico now, we should get a good one this year.

If we will beat Inter and at least not will lose against Real, yeah, everyone will forget Barca performance against Celta. 3 points is only positive thing from this game. They can use injuries as excuse, but even without many players Barca at simply can't let Celta to dominate whole 2nd half.
@Harkorede, I agree that's not Lewandowski fault only that he was invisible, it's rather consequence how Barca played. Like against Bayern, they made so many crosses from wings like we would have not Lewandowski but Peter Crouch in attack.

My first half of the season as Barcelona would have been made already if we're able to win both against Inter and Real Madrid, I'm more worried about against Inter due to what's at stake, we can't just draw or lose then have all our hopes on having to beat Bayern just like it happened last season, Real Madrid seemed to be doing just fair enough, but I don't perceive them to be any better than Barcelona for this season, tbvh. I'll have my money on Barcelona to score Over 1.5 goals against them.

Back to predictor, I can't beleive how much I'm struggling in La Liga pool and how good I'm doing in Serie A, what should be opposite. Fortunately Elche - Mallorca game ended 1:1 as I predicted and it let me to go by 3 places on the table.

Too bad for me, I was one of the naive ones that went for the visitors to win. 

[casperBGD]

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 Fortunately Elche - Mallorca game ended 1:1 as I predicted and it let me to go by 3 places on the table.

Muriqi has done everything last night, missed a penalty, scored a goal from penalty spot hour later and got red card in the end, there are players that do not have that much done in half season

Elche is drawing into Segunda fast, they will need real miracle after WC to get back into fight, since I cannot see them in winning strike

[slaman29]

I see lots of comments on how poor Barca was yesterday, but who cares, in few weeks time nobody would remember and points are there to stay
Celta really should have scored a couple against Barca in second half. But as somebody said it already, Barca was good in parts of the games in Champions League and got nothing for effort as well.

Can't wait for Clasico now, we should get a good one this year.

This is exactly how it is.

Nobody remembers Real was 80% bad for almost every Champions League game last season, just they remember how they won it. OTOH nobody remembers Liverpool lost only 3 games the whole of last season playing almost 60 games, yet lost the final to Real Madrid.

I know personally I always said we have to play good football over long term, or people get very angry even if you keep winning. At least for Barca this is the case, but in the short term, if you play half the games great and half shit but you win, nobody gives shits

[Trofo]

I see lots of comments on how poor Barca was yesterday, but who cares, in few weeks time nobody would remember and points are there to stay
Celta really should have scored a couple against Barca in second half. But as somebody said it already, Barca was good in parts of the games in Champions League and got nothing for effort as well.

Can't wait for Clasico now, we should get a good one this year.

This is exactly how it is.

Nobody remembers Real was 80% bad for almost every Champions League game last season, just they remember how they won it. OTOH nobody remembers Liverpool lost only 3 games the whole of last season playing almost 60 games, yet lost the final to Real Madrid.

I know personally I always said we have to play good football over long term, or people get very angry even if you keep winning. At least for Barca this is the case, but in the short term, if you play half the games great and half shit but you win, nobody gives shits

That run from Real in Champions League is memorable. They weren't just bad, they were outright playing football for just 10 minutes and turning the tables on top teams. They should have lost against PSG, against City and against Chelsea.

But CL is their playground and they just belived in wins and they came.

[buwaytress]

That run from Real in Champions League is memorable. They weren't just bad, they were outright playing football for just 10 minutes and turning the tables on top teams. They should have lost against PSG, against City and against Chelsea.

But CL is their playground and they just belived in wins and they came.

Can't argue really. I did have things to say about how we lose the 2019 final but we were so, so naive, and frankly we were at the peak of overperformance that eventually came undone.

But last year Real won it all fair and square, they knew how to weave their magic, and we didn't. I also got what I asked for, which was a rematch, but it wasn't to be.

It is definitely painful to lose 4 games all of last season and walk away only with 2 domestic cups. But that's how football is.

El Clasico, I'm really looking forward (too bad Barca won't get great odds), but the biggest shame is I'll only be watching first half, as City comes to visit Anfield an hour later...

[slaman29]

That run from Real in Champions League is memorable. They weren't just bad, they were outright playing football for just 10 minutes and turning the tables on top teams. They should have lost against PSG, against City and against Chelsea.

But CL is their playground and they just belived in wins and they came.

El Clasico, I'm really looking forward (too bad Barca won't get great odds), but the biggest shame is I'll only be watching first half, as City comes to visit Anfield an hour later...

Unfortunately, the only runs for me that are memorable about Barca in the Champions Leagues are all about winning first leg big time, losing second leg even bigger time. You guys should also thank teams who give that kinds of memories lol

Oh Sunday is going to be amazing, the best part is both those games happen not too late for me (10 and 11pm +) so I can at least watch first half of Clasico and decide if it's worth it to sleep late  

[slaman29]

Mixed up my draw and surprise home win in Premier League and La Liga. I was so 100% sure I picked Brentford, and then 1-1 draw in La Liga so when I saw the results, was happy.

Then checked Superbru and found out I got 0 from both lol. I saw CLS63 picked Getafe

[tomahawk9]

Then checked Superbru and found out I got 0 from both lol.

Terrible start of weekend for everyone in this pool. I barely got 1.5 pts today and it was thanks to Sevilla. Depressing.

There's no consistency in La liga right now, the fact that bottom of the league sides like Getafe, Cadiz and Elche are getting points says it all. League table positions are irrelevant, every game is 50/50 and hate it :/

At least i know i will get 3 points tomorrow because Real madrid are going to smash Fc Barcelona 

[casperBGD]

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There's no consistency in La liga right now, the fact that bottom of the league sides like Getafe, Cadiz and Elche are getting points says it all. League table positions are irrelevant, every game is 50/50 and hate it :/

At least i know i will get 3 points tomorrow because Real madrid are going to smash Fc Barcelona 

yeah, it was our chance to reach top6, Cavani scored two in few minutes, but in the end, we could not beat Elche at home, miserable

Atletico is up against Bilbao, and that proves it all, Barca, Real and Atletico are only teams in La Liga that can connect five or more wins in a row, all the others are really close, some a bit better, some bit worst, but cannot expect from them to win in series, just to lose matches in series

[Harkorede]

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There's no consistency in La liga right now, the fact that bottom of the league sides like Getafe, Cadiz and Elche are getting points says it all. League table positions are irrelevant, every game is 50/50 and hate it :/

At least i know i will get 3 points tomorrow because Real madrid are going to smash Fc Barcelona  

yeah, it was our chance to reach top6, Cavani scored two in few minutes, but in the end, we could not beat Elche at home, miserable

Atletico is up against Bilbao, and that proves it all, Barca, Real and Atletico are only teams in La Liga that can connect five or more wins in a row, all the others are really close, some a bit better, some bit worst, but cannot expect from them to win in series, just to lose matches in series

I think I played myself big time today and I lost 6 points for that, I literally had 1-0 win for both Sevilla and Atletico Madrid, but I changed them both to 1-1 draw each just before saving my picks, I couldn't fucked up any worse, knowing fully well that I needed those points, getting just one exact between both games would have at least been somewhat consoling for me, but I'm just likely going to fall down further below in the leaderboard, damn!

Zero points from 5 fixtures so far for me!, and it was like the only chance to reduce the gap that saint-loup currently holds at the top of the table, but that's not even happening for me, but the fact the highest point so far this round is a joint currently 4.5 shows it's a very tough one.

[slaman29]

We all hate Valencia, Sevilla, Atletico. I guess we hate all of them. Shit round for everyone, but why oh why did I go and pick Atletico to lose?

At least i know i will get 3 points tomorrow because Real madrid are going to smash Fc Barcelona 

I really hope you are wrong, but let us both agree that we should both play loads of exciting energetic football and loads of goals and loads of drama, worthy of El Clasico right?

[tomahawk9]

I think I played myself big time today and I lost 6 points for that, I literally had 1-0 win for both Sevilla and Atletico Madrid, but I changed them both to 1-1 draw each just before saving my picks, I couldn't fucked up any worse

I used to do this a lot a few seasons ago, but i quickly realized that changing picks in the last minute never paid off, that's when i started locking my picks. After a while you kinda forget about locking picks or changing them. You should try that

I really hope you are wrong, but let us both agree that we should both play loads of exciting energetic football and loads of goals and loads of drama, worthy of El Clasico right?

Fingers crossed it won't be one-sided game like the last one at the Bernabeu. I just want a good show, no drama, no VAR bs, just tons of goals and big chances for both sides and ultimately a big win for Madrid (:

Fun fact: the last four Clasicos finished with Over 2.5 goals, and BTTS was correct in 3 out of 4 of those games. Just some stats for those looking to place some bets today

[buwaytress]

Cannot agree more with all of you: no VAR bullshit please, drama okay but not to keep interrupting to ruin the game, I watched at least a couple of these every year for the past 3/4 years and always bet on Barca due to odds, so of course today I also put a single at 3/1, will watch it before switching over to main Sunday event

Meanwhile HT score on Celta/Sociedad suits my picks (2-2)... thanks always for Aspas, who forever will wonder what he has to do to represent Spain.

[Trofo]

I really hope you are wrong, but let us both agree that we should both play loads of exciting energetic football and loads of goals and loads of drama, worthy of El Clasico right?

Fingers crossed it won't be one-sided game like the last one at the Bernabeu. I just want a good show, no drama, no VAR bs, just tons of goals and big chances for both sides and ultimately a big win for Madrid (:

Fun fact: the last four Clasicos finished with Over 2.5 goals, and BTTS was correct in 3 out of 4 of those games. Just some stats for those looking to place some bets today

Just came home from the day in the mountains with my kid and I see Real is already 2:0 up but according to the stats Barca had its chances. Now I need that one Barca goal very much since I have them as BTTS. My default bet for Clasicos except in Mourinho time, he really sucked all the joy out of the derby

Too bad I am not able to watch second half since I have to work a bit and that leaves only one game screen for me and that game can be only Liverpool - City, have much more ridding on that one.

[LTU_btc]

After game against Inter I said that I don't want to see Pique playing again. But who needs Pique when we have Garcia... In this El Clasico we didn't had any chance to think about win. After Torres goal there was hope that we can reach draw, what wouldn't be bad result after all, but penalty closed the game.
Until this game we had only 1 goal conceded in 8 rounds, but we haven't faced serious opponents in general until now. Games with Bayern, Inter and Real returns us to reality.

I think I played myself big time today and I lost 6 points for that, I literally had 1-0 win for both Sevilla and Atletico Madrid, but I changed them both to 1-1 draw each just before saving my picks, I couldn't fucked up any worse, knowing fully well that I needed those points, getting just one exact between both games would have at least been somewhat consoling for me, but I'm just likely going to fall down further below in the leaderboard, damn!

Zero points from 5 fixtures so far for me!, and it was like the only chance to reduce the gap that saint-loup currently holds at the top of the table, but that's not even happening for me, but the fact the highest point so far this round is a joint currently 4.5 shows it's a very tough one.

I can relate. This season my performance in La Liga pool is probably worst in all years of participation. In majority games without clear favorite, things must go wrong for me. I'm not changing my picks right before kick-off, but it doesn't helps. This round I have just 3 points so far.
I hope that Betis now and Villarreal tomorrow will fix things a bit for me, at least in betting. Though, it won't improve my position in pool because 90% of pool will back favorites.

[tomahawk9]

But who needs Pique when we have Garcia...

Tbh, you can hardly blame Garcia for this shitshow. Everyone knows he's an average CB so those kind of blunders from him are pretty common. I would blame Xavi for that awful starting XI.
Busquets got exposed against Inter but he starts today? A backline with Balde, Eric and S.Roberto plus Kounde coming out of anjury? Laughable. Subs (fati and alba) came way too late

I have them as BTTS.

EZ money 

always bet on Barca due to odds, so of course today I also put a single at 3/1, will watch it before switching over to main Sunday event

not EZ money 

Btw, how did you switch to the main Sunday event if you were already watching it from the start?? heh    Congrats for that massive win today. Salah is back!