Spanish Primera Division 2006 - 2007

[JaredL]

3 matchdays so far, 3 straight weeks top!

I was a bit nervous today about the derbi as Betis will come out to play Sevilla. It was a tight match, with Sevilla winning 3-2 on a goal in the 85th minute.

[New001]

Not quite relevant for this thread, but Ricardo Oliveira is ridiculously good.

That is all. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[PITTM]

there was just a very hand of god esque goal in the recreativo-atletico madrid game. it was pretty amazing. guy leaned down to head it in, his left arm was out and he ended up punching it in. the only person who noticed was the closest defender, and he was completely ignored.

rj

[ThaSaltCracka]

link?

[JaredL]

Barça - Sevilla at 3 will be a very important match for this time of the year. For Sevilla winning this match will put them top up two points, a draw will put them in a 3 way tie for second just one point back, losing and we´re down four points, not out of the race yet but for a team that only has an outside shot at being in the race being back four points is pretty bad. For Barcelona a win coupled with Valencia and Real Madrid losing means that they will be 3 points clear of Valencia and 5 points clear of Madrid.

Again, we're only 6 matches in after today but Barça were pretty consistent last year, much more so than Real Madrid and Valencia, so losing this many points so early is highly problematic for their rivals.

[PITTM]

it seems like this is like the only game not being shown on fsc/goltv/setanta. v sad [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

rj

[gusmahler]

Yeah, that's annoying. The Barca/Real Madrid match will be on next week, though. The Celta/Valencia match was pretty entertaining, though I know almost nothing about either team.

[xhawks]

is the barca vs. madrid match live on goltv next sunday?

[JaredL]

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it seems like this is like the only game not being shown on fsc/goltv/setanta. v sad [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

rj

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Trust me, it's worse for me than you.

Sevilla have had a huge contract dispute for the TV rights to their matches. They seemed to have resolved them but the new company they signed the rights over to apparently was incapable somehow of showing this match. So other than the European Super Cup final, no Sevilla matches have been shown this year anywhere in the world. For most of their matches, all of them at home including the derby, there weren't even cameras in the stadium to record the match and the clips that were available were crappy local news style.

Hopefully they get this [censored] figured out and soon. Especially if they're playing for a spot in the Champions league I will be pretty upset to have to listen to the radio.

Congrats on the win btw, though I'll take losing this and winning the Supercopa [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[JaredL]

BTW it's early, but I don't see Barcelona being behind Real Madrid at any point this season. I could see Valencia give them a run, but the way Real Madrid played yesterday and the way these things always pile up into a crisis for them, I think they're going to be fighting for second at best.