El Clásico

Seydou Keita

“Juande Ramos is a good coach and a great person and he will bring extra motivation to the [Madrid] players, although it is too soon to say what changes he will make to their team.”
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“I do not know him personally, but he looks to me like a good coach with an extensive résumé.

“But it will not make Saturday’s game any harder or any easier for us because it will be a very complicated match anyway.”
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One more day to go then its El Clasico day.

Will Barca's AMAZING form this season be stopped by Real Madrid?
 
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Xavi: Casillas And Raul Are Key For Madrid​

Barcelona will head into Saturday’s El Clasico showdown with Real Madrid in their best form in years. Based on recent results and performances, it would seem that the Catalans are clear favourites to run away with the three points.

But Barca midfielder Xavi does not subscribe to the notion that the match is a foregone conclusion.

“It’s true that we are in better form but it’s impossible to predict the result in games like these because you never know what is going to happen,” he told reporters during a promotional outing with Adidas.

When asked which players will pose the biggest threat from the opposing team, Xavi did not hesitate to reply.

“There are two players who always stand out in these big encounters and they are like [Iker] Casillas and Raul.

“Raul always scores the important goals and Iker always has great games. In addition, they are also good friends of mine, so it is necessary to keep an eye on them,” he added.

Finally, the 28-year-old played down the favourites tag slapped on the Blaugrana in almost every match and every competition at present.

“We are playing attractive football and we are doing very well and that’s why people say we are the favourites.

“But I believe that Madrid, Valencia, Sevilla or Villarreal have their chances to win La Liga while teams like Manchester United, Inter Milan as well as Madrid are equal favourites to win the Champions League,” he ended.
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Looking forward to the match but why oh why do they have to schedule the damn thing so late....I'm not too clued up on starting times but 10pm seems awfully late for a football game to kick off.

This means that I'll have to get out of bed at just before 5am to watch the game live on this side of the world.

Barca will probably win it although somthing tells me it will be narrow. They seem to playing the football of two years ago.
 
brixton tower said:
Looking forward to the match but why oh why do they have to schedule the damn thing so late....I'm not too clued up on starting times but 10pm seems awfully late for a football game to kick off.

This means that I'll have to get out of bed at just before 5am to watch the game live on this side of the world.

Barca will probably win it although somthing tells me it will be narrow. They seem to playing the football of two years ago.
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Why would you get out of bed at 5am to watch it? The game is on at 11pm SA time on Supersport 7.

The reason for the late schedule is that all football matches in Spain are played in the evening. In Spain they have Siesta, they normally stay up late to watch football or attend football matches. Its part of the culture.

Siest explained: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siesta

Barca has never played matches at 5pm or 6pm on a Saturday. All thier matches are scheduled late on saturday nights or Sunday nights.
 
milan vs juve this weekend too
great weekend for football (not so much on the premiership side tho)
 
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