Weekend Roundup

October 30
Real Betis 0 - 2 Real Madrid
Athletic Bilbao 1 - 1 Celta Vigo

October 30
Alaves 0 - 0 Cadiz
Deportivo La Coruna 1 - 0 Getafe
Mallorca 1 - 1 Sevilla
Osasuna 2 - 0 Espanyol
Valencia 1 - 1 Racing Santander
Zaragoza 1 - 1 Malaga
Barcelona 5 - 0 Real Sociedad
Atletico Madrid 1 - 1 Villarreal

Week 11 Results

Week 11 fixtures were brought forward to help Spain in their preperation for the World Cup Qualification games against Slovakia in 2 weeks.

October 26
Mallorca 1 - 0 Celta de Vigo
Osasuna 3 - 2 Athletic Bilbao
Real Betis 2 - 3 Villarreal
Barcelona 2 - 0 Malaga
Deportivo La Coruna 3 - 1 Real Madrid

October 27
Atletico Madrid 3 - 0 Cadiz
Alaves 1 - 1 Espanyol
Real Sociedad 3 - 0 Getafe
Zaragoza 1 - 1 Racing Santander
Valencia 0 - 2 Sevilla

La Liga Weekend roundup (Day 9)

On Saturday Barcelona beat Osasuna 3-0 on Saturday and moved up to 6th place in the league. 2 Goals from Eto'o and a late goal from Giuly sealed the 3-0 win for the Champions. Sevilla also beat Alaves 2-0 on saturday.

Sunday saw suprise outfit Getafe score 4 times in the first half, to beat Zaragoza 5-2 and go back to the top of the league.

Real Madrid took on Valencia in Madrid, where the game was full of incidents. Zidane missed a penalty early on in the game, and Baraja put Valencia in the lead with a freekick. The in form Raúl then equalized but 2 minutes later David Villa scored a penalty to put Valencia back in the lead before half time. Real Madrid ended the game with 9 men, with Graveson getting sent off with 8 minutes to play, and David Beckham continues in his tradition of getting 2 yellow cards in the space of a minute and getting sent off.

Saturday 22nd October
Sevilla 2 - 0 Alaves
Barcelona 3 - 0 Osasuna

Sunday October 23
Cadiz 1 - 0 Athletic Bilbao
Celta de Vigo 1 - 0 Espanyol
Getafe 5 - 2 Zaragoza
Malaga 5 - 0 Real Betis
Real Sociedad 2 - 0 Deportivo La Coruna
Villarreal 3 - 0 Mallorca
Racing Santander 0 - 1 Atletico Madrid
Real Madrid 1 - 2 Valencia

Real Win 4-1 but Betis get a hammering off Chelsea

Despite being 1-0 down at half time, Real Madrid came back to win their game against Rosenborg 4-1. Johnathan Woodgate scored Real's first, this time in the oppositions net!!! The on fire Raúl made it 2 within a few minutes. David "Ping" Beckham had yet another great game, and it was his freekick which was met by the head of Helguera to make it 3-1. Señor Beckham managed to get himself on the scoresheet, with a trademark superb freekick.

Real Betis lost away to Chelsea 4-0. Creating very few chances, their Goalkeaper also dropped a Frank Lampard freekick for Carvalho to score after Drogba's initial goal. The other goals came from Joe Cole, and Hernan Crespo.

Espanyol also got their UEFA Cup campaign off to a winning start, a Raúl Tamudo goal was good enough for a 1-0 win away to Lokomotiv Moscow.

Alaves are out of the Copa Del Rey, losing 1-0 away to Eibar.

Champions League - Group E
AC Milan 0 - 0 PSV Eindhoven
Fenerbahce 3 - 3 Schalke

Champions League - Group F
Lyon 2 - 1 Olympiakos
Real Madrid 4 - 1 Rosenborg

Champions League - Group G
Anderlecht 0 - 1 Liverpool
Chelsea 4 - 0 Real Betis

Champions League - Group H
FC Porto 2 - 0 Inter Milan
Rangers 0 - 0 Petrzalka


UEFA Cup - Group B
Lokomotiv Moscow 0 - 1 Espanyol

Copa Del Rey
Eibar 1 - 0 Alaves

Champions League Wednesday: Real Madrid & Betis

Real Madrid are at home tonight playing against Rosenborg while Real Betis go to Stamford bridge to play English Champions Chelsea.

Champions League - Group E
AC Milan VS PSV Eindhoven
Fenerbahce VS Schalke

Champions League - Group F
Lyon VS Olympiakos
Real Madrid VS Rosenborg

Champions League - Group G
Anderlecht VS Liverpool
Chelsea VS Real Betis

Champions League - Group H
FC Porto VS Inter Milan
Rangers VS Petrzalka

Barca & Villarreal both draw

Barcelona and Villarreal both drew in Last nights Champions League games. Barca came away from Greece with a 0-0 draw, while Villarreal drew 1-1 with Benfica; Old Barca boy Riquelme scored a penalty but 5 minutes later Fernandes equalized.


Champions League - Group A

Bayern Munich 2 - 1 Juventus
Rapid Vienna 0 - 1 Club Brugge

Champions League - Group B
Ajax Amsterd. 2 - 0 Thun
Sparta Prague 0 - 2 Arsenal

Champions League - Group C
Panathinaikos 0 - 0 Barcelona
Udinese 1 - 1 Werder Bremen

Champions League - Group D
Manchester U. 0 - 0 Lille
Villarreal 1 - 1 Benfica

Vicente VS Puyol: I do not have a good relationship with puyol

Vicente has admitted that he does not have a good relationship with Carles Puyol after their training ground bust up last week.
He said:

"We do not speak to each other any more," Vicente said.
"I do not have a goo relationship with him."
"We do greet each other, but nothing more. Some people just like certain people more than others now."

This came after Puyol came in with a late challenge on Puyol, kicking him in the back of the leg.

"He came across and kicked me in the back of the legs and I had released the ball, that is what hurts," Vicente continued.
"I saw that he going for my leg and that is not something that should happen between professionals of team-mates.
"If they kick when I have the ball then I think nothing of it, but it is not good when they do it when I do not have it. "

Lets hope they can make up or hope it will not effect their football playing for the national team.

RFEF and LFP change fixture dates for Spain VS Slovakia

The Spanish Football League (LFP) and FA (RFEF) have confirmed a change in the La Liga calendar.
The games due to be played on November 9 have been moved to allow national team coach Luis Aragones more time to prepare for Spain's World Cup qualifying play-off against Slovakia.
With the play-off due to be played on November 12 and 16, Aragones is entitled to have the players from November 7 and that would have caused problems with the games on the 9th with teams missing top spanish internationals.
The November 9 games will now be played on October 26, swapping positions with the Copa del Rey games scheduled for that date.
Any side in the Copa del Rey affected by having players on international duty will play their cup games on November 30.

Champions League: Villarreal & Barcelona

Tonight Barcelona and Villarreal are in champions League action. Barcelona travel to Greece to play Panathinaikos in Group C and Villarreal host Benfica in Group D.

ALL games kick off at 19:45 (20:45 CET)


Champions League - Group A
Bayern Munich VS Juventus
Rapid Vienna VS Club Brugge

Champions League - Group B
Ajax VS Thun
Sparta Prague VS Arsenal (live ITV2, C+ Deporte 2, Sport TV)

Champions League - Group C
Panathinaikos VS Barcelona (Live: C+ España, SportTV)
Udinese VS Werder Bremen

Champions League - Group D
Manchester U. VS Lille (Live ITV1, Taquilla1)
Villarreal VS Benfica (Live: TVE "La 2", SportTV)

TV Coverage
As usual, all games are available on Sky Sports apart from the English teams, On Tuesdays these games can be seen on ITV and ITV2 Available on Sky Digital and Freeview in the UK.

La Liga Day 7: Barca Slip Up, Real Continue to Win

Barcelona came back from a goal down to score 3 times, only to come away from the Riazor with a point after their 3-3 draw with Deportivo La Coruña. Valerón put the home side in the lead, only for Samuel Eto'o to equalize with Ronaldinho scoring twice (1 penalty). Ex-Spanish International Pedro Munitis scored to make it 3-2, then Rubén Castro leveled the game with only 5 minutes to play.

Real Madrid continue in their winning ways and now are top of La Liga, following their win in Saturday's Madrid derby. Ronaldo netted a penalty before scoring his 2nd of the game, and a Perea own goal sealed a 3-0 for Los Galacticos

Osasuna 2-0 Celta
Espanyol 0-2 Cádiz
Athletic 0-1 Sevilla
Alavés 1-1 Villarreal
Mallorca 0-0 Racing
Atlético 0-3 R Madrid
Valencia 2-1 Málaga
Betis 1-0 Getafe
Zaragoza 0-1 R Sociedad
Deportivo 3-3 Barcelona

Spain get Slovakia in Playoff Draw

The Draw has just taken place and Spain have been drawn with Slovakia for their playoff game for the World cup finals in Germany Next year.
Spain were seeded along with Czech Rep. and Turkey, and were in pot 1. Unseeded teams Switzerland, Norway and Slovakia were in pot 2.
The teams were then drwan to see who would be at home first, Spain have been confirmed to play the 1st leg at home.

The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) have already announced yesturday the game would be played at the Vicente Calderón, the home of Atletico Madrid.
The Spanish FA have also said they are considering moving the midweek round of matches in La Liga to help the national team prepare.

The first-leg ties will be played on Saturday 12 November, with the return matches following on Wednesday 16 November.

The Draw
Spain v Slovakia
Switzerland v Turkey
Norway v Czech Republic

Spain in tomorrow's Playoff Draw

Spain will learn tomorrow who they will playoff against in a 2 legged match to qualify for next Years World Cup in Germany. Spain already know they will probably be seeded if they qualify, however there are some tricky teams in the playoffs who Spain could come up against.

Teams in the Playoffs

Spain
Czech Rep
Turkey
Slovakia
Norway
Switzerland

Spain 6 - 0 San Marino

A Hattrick from Fernando Torres was not enogh for Spain to top Group 7 after Serbia beat Bosnia 1-0.
spain were always in control of the game, scoring in the first minute with Raúl. Fernando was next on the scoresheet, followed by a double from Sergio Ramos. Fernando Torres then scored 2 more to complete his hattrick and a 6-0 win for Spain.

In the other maych, Serbia scored an early goal with Atletico Madrid's Kezman scoring in the 7th Minute. Serbia had to play the last 5 minutes with 10 men after Vidic was sent off.

France Also won, which gives them top spot and they avoid the playoffs.

Group 7
Lithuania 1 - 1 Belgium
San Marino 0 - 6 Spain
Serbia & Montenegro 1 - 0 Bosnia-Herzegovina

Bosnia can still qualify! France can still go out!

All Bosnia need to do is beat Serbia in tonight's game to ensure a playoff place to reach the finals of the world cup in Germany. France can also go out, should they loose to cyprus.

So Good luck to Bosnia and Cyprus in tonights games!!! Lets hope they can both get maximum points against Serbia and France.

Under 21's: San Marino 1 - 10 Spain

Spain U21's hammered San Marino U21 10-1 Last night, however with Serbia beating Bosnia the Spanish U21 side fail to qualify for the U21 European Championships next year.
2 Hattrick's from Llorente and Soldado was not good enough for Iñaki Saez team, who end the campaign in 3rd.

Lets hope the Full National side of Bosnia do better against Serbia tonight, where they meet in Belgrade for the final game of the World cup qualifiers.

Spain Confident for San Marino Trip

Wednesday see's the final game for World Cup qualification when Spain travel to the worst team in group 7, San Marino.
Luis Aragones is set to shuffle his pack, Salgado and Xavi are suspended after picking up Yellow Cards against Belgium; They could make way for Sergio Ramos of Real Madrid, and Ex-Barca Favourite, Ivan De La Peña.

It could also see Vicente and Joaquin dropped, after a disappointing performance against Belgium, with David Villa and Reyes to replace them. That would mean Spain starting the game with 4 very attacking players; Fernando Torres, Raúl, Reyes and David Villa.

Spain still have a glimmer of a chance of automatically qualifying, however Serbia must slip up at home to Bosnia which is unlikely considering they have only conceded 1 goal (which was against Spain!)

Spain still have a Chance

As the penultimate World cup qualifiers came to an end, Spain are still in contention of qualifying for the World cup as group winners, although it is out of their hands.

Belgium dominated the first half, being the home team chasing the prospect of overcoming the odds and scraping into the world cup you would expect no less.
However they become tired, and when Luis Aragones made his "genius" double substitution the game turned around.

David Villa and José Antonio Reyes came on for ineffective wingers Joaquin and Vicente, and within minutes Reyes setup wonderkid Fernando Torres for the first goal for spain. In no time at all it was 2-0; Again Reyes the provider for the now on fire Fernando Torres.

The 2 goals settled Spain, and deserved all 3 points. Wednesday is coming and see's the National team go to San Marino, still in need of a win to ensure at least a playoff place for next summer's world cup.