The Barcelona v Real Madrid thread

[Chris]

Only annoying thing about tonight is its a bit of a shame Barca didnt go for utter humiliation and smash them. The damage they could do at will was evident when they upped it for a 10minute spell in the first half and created 5 amazing chances.

Can understand the coasting though, a league to tie up and a final to come on the back of a world cup summer.

[Fosterbloke]

Mourinho is truly anti-football. FootballCunt extreme.

Shame that Alonso could have been sent off.

Can we sign Marcelo?

[Exiled_red]

Xabi Alonso and Real Madrid assistant Aitor Karanka are blaming the officials

They finished the game with 11 men which is amazing given the fouls Carvalho and Adebayor (amongst others). Adebayor in particular was a disgrace, half the time he didn't even attempt to play the ball, I thinked he kicked a Barcelona player more times than he kicked the ball.

As for the disallowed goal, if Ronaldo hadn't been trying to cheat, it would have stood.

Thankfully there wasn't much rolling around on the floor this week, aside from Mascherano this is nothing new to him I can recall him doing something similar when he was here, but I think when he was our player we were more inclined to look the other way.

[Red_Polo]

Mourinho drags other, good people, into this **** everywhere he goes. This whole affair has reminded me why I absolutely detested him in the first place. Wouldn't want him anywhere ****ing near this club.

[Bender]

Mascaherano you cheating diving ******

[Arn]

Mourinho drags other, good people, into this **** everywhere he goes. This whole affair has reminded me why I absolutely detested him in the first place. Wouldn't want him anywhere ****ing near this club.

I think the Real board will get tired of that **** and sack him. He is making Real look like idiots.

Mourinho is a great manager but the club that hire him also will have to expect that he will drag the club through the mud. Happens at every club. The moaning and play acting from all his players in every club is a disgrace. It is a part of his tactic. Barcelona showed the world how ugly that tactic is in one game when they played in the same way. He is even making Xabi look like an idiot. Arbeloa didn't stamp and kicked players when he played for us. The list can go on and on.

As I said. Real could easily have had 15 red cards in the four games. 15 is a lot but not over the top.

I think that Mourinho will soon be finished. The top clubs will look at what he is doing and say, thanks but no thanks. We don't want to look like idiots. We don't want to be dragged through the mud.

[Shaggy]

Mourinho drags other, good people, into this **** everywhere he goes. This whole affair has reminded me why I absolutely detested him in the first place. Wouldn't want him anywhere ****ing near this club.

[Reece]

I don't like what Xabi has become

[the rev leeroy brown]

both games of the el classico semi final were utter ****.

if it wasnt for messi's brilliance in the first leg to score the second goal then this would have to go down as the worst semi final of all time!!

the real madrid players just seem to want to stop messi by kicking the **** out of him which is piss poor but every other player in that barca team (especially that little gob****e mascherano) should be embarrassed at how easily they will go to the floor under any sort of tackle.

i've not as much play acting or continous "rolling around " by players as barca have done in the 2 legs of this game.

hopefully they cut that **** out for the final and play the way they did for the 1st part of this season - amazing attacking football - and rip manure united a new asshole!!!

[Reece]

Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo claims Barcelona get a lot of 'outside help' and has accused Javier Mascherano of 'cheating'.

The Portuguese winger was left in a foul mood following Real's UEFA Champions League exit at the hands of Barca on Tuesday night.

A 1-1 draw at Camp Nou was not enough for Jose Mourinho's men, as they crashed out of Europe's premier club competition 3-1 on aggregate.

A 2-0 defeat in the first leg of an eagerly-anticipated continental clash proved to be Real's undoing, with the fall out from a fiery encounter at Santiago Bernabeu still ongoing.

Real raised countless complaints after that encounter over what they considered to be unfair officiating.

Preferential

The capital giants saw their pleas fall on deaf ears, as Uefa made it clear that no action would be taken, and their sense of injustice was heightened following their midweek trip to Catalunya.

Ronaldo believes favouritism towards Barca once again cost Real dear, with the game having been taken away from Mourinho's side before it had even begun.

"We knew we could beat Barca, but the referee didn't let us," he said.

"Once again it was the referee that didn't allow us to dictate the outcome.

"The referee in the first match (Wolfgang Stark) took away our chances of playing the final. Whoever knows anything about football knows that Barcelona get preferential treatment.

"Barcelona are a difficult team to beat because they get outside help. Next year they should give the cup directly to them."

Tricks

Real's blood was boiling again on Tuesday after they saw a Gonzalo Higuain goal disallowed for an apparent foul by Ronaldo on Barca midfielder Mascherano.
Ronaldo, who was pulled up for a trip, maintains that he did nothing wrong and has questioned the tactics employed by Barca and their Argentine enforcer.

"Javier Mascherano wasn't like this at Liverpool," added the former Manchester United playmaker.

"He must have learned all these cheating tricks at Barcelona."

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11833_6912466,00.html

Ronaldo having a go at another play for cheating, is just brilliant

[PTP]

I think the Real board will get tired of that **** and sack him. He is making Real look like idiots.

Mourinho is a great manager but the club that hire him also will have to expect that he will drag the club through the mud. Happens at every club. The moaning and play acting from all his players in every club is a disgrace. It is a part of his tactic. Barcelona showed the world how ugly that tactic is in one game when they played in the same way. He is even making Xabi look like an idiot. Arbeloa didn't stamp and kicked players when he played for us. The list can go on and on.

As I said. Real could easily have had 15 red cards in the four games. 15 is a lot but not over the top.

I think that Mourinho will soon be finished. The top clubs will look at what he is doing and say, thanks but no thanks. We don't want to look like idiots. We don't want to be dragged through the mud.

- i think thats something that pissed off Abramovich - ROman probably didn't understand why his chelsea were all of a sudden hated - The spending silly money didn't help but mourinho turned them into cunts - i remember, i think it may have been roman's first season actually supporting Ranieri's Chelsea against Arsenal in the Champions League i think when Wayne Bridge scored...



Anyway - back on topic, i thought it was a better game last night - a bit more open, very strange decision to play Kaka who really looks shot which is a shame because he was a majestic player

Real, were trying their rough antics again and could easily have had someone sent off - on the whole barca didn't rise to it - until a bit later on when mascherano made a complete and utter cunt of himself.

The disallowed goal was very very controversial - probably should have stood however the ref did at least blow his whistle straight away, you could tell because higuin knew it'd had gone before he shot and didn't even look to celebrate - but that said, the goal should have stood, but then real could have had at least one player sent off - and also, Barca were clearly the better said and looked like they could up the ante at any time - so all this complaing from real just makes them look more bitter...for all anyone knows, had that goal stood, it doesn't automatically mean that Real would have gone on too score another 2 and win...in fact, it's more likely had the goal stood, barca would have cranked it up a notch and scored 4

Very sad how real have been turned into a bunch of whiny bad losers - however - someone really needs to have a word with a few of the Barca players - but on the night, Pique, Xavi, Iniesta and Messi just ran the game

[Vermilion]

Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo claims Barcelona get a lot of 'outside help' and has accused Javier Mascherano of 'cheating'.

oh the hypocrisy.

While he is obvioulsy correct on Mascher, coming from him it just sounds daft.

[Shaggy]

"We knew we could beat Barca, but the referee didn't let us"

[Rich]

- i think thats something that pissed off Abramovich - ROman probably didn't understand why his chelsea were all of a sudden hated - The spending silly money didn't help but mourinho turned them into cunts - i remember, i think it may have been roman's first season actually supporting Ranieri's Chelsea against Arsenal in the Champions League i think when Wayne Bridge scored...



Anyway - back on topic, i thought it was a better game last night - a bit more open, very strange decision to play Kaka who really looks shot which is a shame because he was a majestic player

Real, were trying their rough antics again and could easily have had someone sent off - on the whole barca didn't rise to it - until a bit later on when mascherano made a complete and utter cunt of himself.

The disallowed goal was very very controversial - probably should have stood however the ref did at least blow his whistle straight away, you could tell because higuin knew it'd had gone before he shot and didn't even look to celebrate - but that said, the goal should have stood, but then real could have had at least one player sent off - and also, Barca were clearly the better said and looked like they could up the ante at any time - so all this complaing from real just makes them look more bitter...for all anyone knows, had that goal stood, it doesn't automatically mean that Real would have gone on too score another 2 and win...in fact, it's more likely had the goal stood, barca would have cranked it up a notch and scored 4

Very sad how real have been turned into a bunch of whiny bad losers - however - someone really needs to have a word with a few of the Barca players - but on the night, Pique, Xavi, Iniesta and Messi just ran the game

Kaka needs to leave Real Madrid and quick. They don't play in a system which remotely gets the best out of him.

He needs space to work in between the opposition defence and midfield. He's awesome then.

He's so one dimensional though that he shouldn't be considered a modern great.

[Shaggy]

Alves: "You need to know how to both win and lose, but Real Madrid are particularly bad at losing. They just won't accept it. They're also totally obsessed with Barcelona."