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Sunday, September 28, 2014

&& Cristiano Ronaldo scores his eighth goal in a week

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Cristiano Ronaldo continued his hot scoring streak for Real Madrid as a Manchester United fan group flew a banner over Villarreal's El Madrigal stadium pleading with the Portuguese star to return to Old Trafford.

Real Madrid moved up to fourth in the La Liga table with Saturday's hard-fought 2-0 win against Villarreal, with Ronaldo scoring in his sixth straight game.

 Real survived an early onslaught from Villarreal and won the game with two goals in eight minutes before the break as Luka Modric drilled home the opener before Ronaldo converted from Karim Benzema's pass to register his eighth goal in a week.

 A third consecutive league victory moves the European champions to within a point of the leaders with Barcelona hosting Granada later on Saturday, whilst Sevilla travel to champions Atletico Madrid.

Messi is the boss of the football

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Lionel Messi netted the 400th goal of his storied career on Saturday as Barcelona trounced Granada 6-0 to maintain the pace at the top of La Liga.

 Messi scored twice and Neymar went one better with a hat-trick in Barca's rout but champions Atletico Madrid are on their tail after a late Raul Jimenez header completed a 4-0 victory over Sevilla that left them two points behind in second.

 Real Madrid are also in hot pursuit, four points behind in fifth, after Cristiano Ronaldo kept up his rich scoring form with the second goal in a 2-0 win at Villarreal where Luka Modric had put them ahead.

 Messi's extraordinary achievement of reaching the career landmark of 400 goals was the highlight of Barca's victory, leading to effusive praise for the great Argentine from manager Luis Enrique.


 "He (Messi) is someone who has been given a real magic and who enjoys playing football. I was thinking about taking him off but I enjoy watching him so much that I left him on for the 90 minutes," Enrique told a news conference.


Messi's second goal, thieving the ball off Jeison Murillo and slotting past the keeper, was the landmark 400th -- his 358th for Barcelona to accompany the 42 he has scored for Argentina.

 


 It illuminated Barca's perfect response following their 0-0 draw at Malaga, which featured not one shot on target and they now have 16 points from six games. Neymar broke Granada's stubborn resistance with a scrappy goal midway through the first half when his shot hit Jean-Sylvain Babin and looped over keeper Roberto Fernandez.

 Then in the run-up to halftime Granada's concentration slipped as Ivan Rakitic headed home a Messi cross and Neymar got his second. A fine move led to Dani Alves volleying a cross for Messi to head home the fourth after 65 minutes before Neymar struck again to complete his treble four minutes later, confidently picking his spot in the corner.

 "The team is looking very efficient at the moment whichever players we are putting out," said Luis Enrique.

FCB Great Win against Granada (6-0)

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Luis Enrique finds himself in a tricky spot as Barcelona host Granada on Saturday. The team are fresh off a disappointing draw against Málaga in which they registered no shots on target – a first in over a decade – from which they must bounce back. On the other end, Barça travel to Paris next Tuesday to play Paris St-Germain in the most important fixture of their Champions League group.


 Luis Enrique must simultaneously deliver a rejuvenated performance and rotate his squad so they will be fresh against PSG. And Granada are no easy proposition. It was the toothless loss away to Granada that ended Barcelona’s winning streak last April and left the team stumbling towards the finish line. From that point on, Barça took only 9 points from their last 6 games and eventually lost the league to Atlético Madrid on the final day of the season. Even at Camp Nou, Granada have managed to cause trouble for the Catalans. A home match to Granada in 2012 was one of Tito Vilanova’s first of many comeback wins. The Andalusians shut up shop and defended for 87 minutes, and it took a last-minute bullet from substitute Xavi Hernandez to break the deadlock. La Liga veteran manager Joaquín Caparrós is leading the visitors in his debut season at Granada. Caparrós’ men have 8 points from their first 5 games, with a solid defensive record but little offense – 4 goals scored, 3 conceded. Barcelona are unlikely to have their clean sheet record broken, but scoring goals will be more of a problem for the blaugrana. In their last game, Barcelona were forced to the wings by Málaga, and with Luis Enrique’s forwards tucked in narrowly, the burden to create play fell to the fullbacks. The most astonishing statistic of the match: all of the forwards combined (Messi/Neymar/Pedro/Munir/Sandro) had a total of 143 touches on the ball; the three full-backs who featured had a whopping 216 touches all match. Luis Enrique’s team is incredibly dependent on full-backs, who are unable to dribble defenders one-on-one and destabilize defenses. Lucho’s diamond midfield has stabilized the defense, but against Granada he may want to involve some touches of the traditional Barcelona 4-3-3 in order to improve creativity in the midfield.

Thursday, September 25, 2014

$$ FCB first draw this seasons against Malaga

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Málaga FC claims the first point against FC Barcelona Wednesday, who loses their 100% in a 0-0 draw Wednesday. Málaga FC was very attentive, playing a strong, defensive game that Barça could not penetrate. “Slow game?” Iniesta said after the final whistle, “We tried but Málaga was very defensive. We knew it, but couldn’t solve it. They did a good job, we’ll take the point.


” "We always aim to get three points but although people take it as given that we’ll always win, today showed that that’s not the case” said tonight’s FC Barcelona captain Andrés Iniesta after the first setback in what has until now been the perfect start to the league season. And he felt that it was Malaga’s defensive tactics that were the main cause of their failure to score at La Rosaleda.

 Both Neymar and Messi were covered vigorously by the defense, while a few mistakes in the defense saw Bravo making several saves. The pitch in Andaluciá has had its share of criticism for being sticky. On the contrary, Neymar seemed to be sliding, unable to get a good handle on the ball in order to execute several chances. Still, Barça was missing the quick rhythm they have shown in the past few games. Meanwhile, Málaga were attentive and energetic throughout the game, constricting Barça’s chances.

 FCB Manager, Luis Enriquez admitted, “It was the hardest game so far because the opposition got things right.” Enriquez had switched the line-up yet again, particularly in the defense where they continue to have trouble spots. Out were Mascherano, Jordi Alba and Mathieu. In came Douglas, who made his debut today playing right fullback, alongside Pique, replacing Matheiu. Bartra and Alba joined them in the back line, while the midfield and front trio remained the same from Sunday.

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Angelina Jolie and Katie Holmes hot news by Times of India

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"This Oscar winner is seen as the epitome of style and grace," it exclaims in regards to Angelina Jolie. "But her skinny arms and legs with bulging elbows and knees defy her style diva image. Her knees, in particular, could surely use some meat." She goes onto describe Katie Holmes as the "Cute and pretty" ex-wife of Tom Cruise, who "may be skinny on top, but has rather thick legs with muscular calves." And then there are the "Bolly Paradoxes". Like former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who "has legs that look better when covered". And actress Aditi Rao Hydari, who is "pretty" but "clearly not comfortable with her wobbly knees".








Louise Court, Editor-in-Chief of British women's magazine Cosmopolitan, was horrified by the piece. "This Times of India article actually made my jaw drop – which I should probably add, in the spirit of things, could do with more definition and was cushioned as it hit the desk by a bit of a double chin," she tells The Independent. "It is like an article from Viz. Women's bodies are not fair game. Creating the ideal of a 'perfect' image that women should look like is vile to the celebrities criticised but also heaps inferred pressure and criticism on the rest of womankind. "I was infuriated by it – but women struggling with their body image are made even more vulnerable.

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