villa4europe Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 and they are helped by Spurs being Spurs. starting tomorrow night away to stoke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 everytime Spurs have been given a foothole into title race they have choked this season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 1-0 Stoke nailed on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 Barcelona 0-2 Valencia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 Barca seem to have run out of steam. Cue massive bid for Pogba to appease the fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YGabbana Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 Messi is quiet as, they need some new blood in defence and mid imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 5 hours ago, CarewsEyebrowDesigner said: Probably a vital point. Swansea at home should be three points to get them to 76. Then they have Manure away, Everton at home, then Chelsea away at the final day of the season. At most I see them getting 4 points out of that to get them to 80. Spurs have Stoke away, West Brom at home, Chelsea away, Southampton at home, then Newcastle away. They would have to win all five to win the title on GD. It would take a complete implosion for Leicester to lose this, and even if that happened they are helped by Spurs being Spurs. There is no way Chelsea will be lifting a leg on the final day if any sort of result will hand Spurs the league title. As soon as it went 1 nil City yesterday Chelsea just gave up, don't think they had one shot at Hart for the last 40 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 4 hours ago, CarewsEyebrowDesigner said: 1-0 Stoke nailed on. Not with Given in goal. Think Spurs will mess up Chelsea away (Chelsea have a brilliant record v them at Stamford Bridge and one of the home games). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 10 minutes ago, Zatman said: Barcelona 0-2 Valencia Neville must be really embarassed watching this, Valencia been excellent all over the pitch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 lot of people at Liverpool said Pako was the brains behind Rafa and well beating Sevilla last week and 2 up at Barcelona this week might suggest they had a point 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 brilliant from Valencia, the Barcelona collapse continues and great to watch on another note Pique agent must be brilliant as he has never been more than an average centre back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YGabbana Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 Woah..another loss. All the MSN hype, they have looked dire recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 Seem lacklustre and they have no options other than their first team that can change a game. Enrique is now paying for not rotating his squad enough earlier in the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 6 minutes ago, PaulC said: Seem lacklustre and they have no options other than their first team that can change a game. Enrique is now paying for not rotating his squad enough earlier in the season. how can you rotate a team when Messi demands to play every week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 14 minutes ago, PaulC said: Seem lacklustre and they have no options other than their first team that can change a game. Enrique is now paying for not rotating his squad enough earlier in the season. I think that's where their transfer ban has held them back and Turan looks a bit of a waste of time. Still fancy their chances to do the double, I thought Messi was a lot brighter and played further upfield. Decent goalkeeping and a fluke own goal cost them tonight, but credit to Pako. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 14 minutes ago, Zatman said: how can you rotate a team when Messi demands to play every week He scored today, you'd rotate him with someone who scores 2+ every week? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 1 hour ago, Zatman said: lot of people at Liverpool said Pako was the brains behind Rafa and well beating Sevilla last week and 2 up at Barcelona this week might suggest they had a point Sign him up. He can be our Karanka. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 The title run in has suddenly got very interesting. Barcelona have collapsed by their standards. When was the last time they lost three league games in a row? Perhaps when they had already mathematically secured the title one year but during the business end of the season? I'd imagine it's been donkeys years. They are level on points with Atleti and a point ahead of Real but hold the head to head advantage over both teams. Can they just start another amazing run of form or is a montg where they have been eliminated from the Champions League and collected one point from four games a slide which cannot be addressed overnight? Just looking at the remaining fixtures of the three clubs. They have all played 33 games. Barcelona (76 points) :- Deportivo (a) Gijon (h) Betis (a) Espanyol (h) Granada (a) All teams in the bottom half, Granada and Gijon fighting for their lives while Deportivo, Betis & Espanyol are flirting with relegation but will probably be ok. Espanyol of course is Barcelona's cross city derby but it's such a one sided affair that I can't see the local nature of the fixture meaning much. Atletico Madrid (76 points) Athletic Bilbao (a) Malaga (h) Rayo (h) Levante (a) Celta Vigo (h) Atleti have the head to head record over Real. They also have the Champions League fixtures against Bayern either side of the Rayo game. Real Madrid (75 points) Villarreal (h) Rayo (a) Sociedad (a) Valencia (h) Deportivo (a) Yep. I'm starting to feel lazy in typing all this now. Can you tell. Real also have the Champions League fixtures against Manchester City, either side of the Sociedad fixture this time. I guess Rayo also being based in the city of Madrid helps a bit with the travelling in a busy week but both Real and Atleti appear to have a tougher run in than Barca. It's just Barca's form which strikes me as being the biggest factor. I quite fancy Atleti to win the league now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 51 minutes ago, Zatman said: how can you rotate a team when Messi demands to play every week True he's the one constant, they have rested the other two occasionally. Thats the problem for them,they have no-one anywhere near as good to come in. Last season they at least had Pedro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 Schlupp was more of a dive than Vardy imo....for that Ogbonna does grab Vardy's hand before he collapses in that sneaky Italian way of defending that the ref can't see. The last minute penalty was just a nonsense decision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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