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Wednesday September 24, 2008 Finished

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Barcelona

  • Eto'o 16’, 22’
  • Gudjohnsen 80’

Real Betis Balompié

  • Monzon 59’
  • Romero 62’

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  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Barcelona
    • Real Betis Balompié
    • 90+3 AND THAT'S IT!! Barca win their second match in succession and Guardiola will be breathing a huge sigh of relief. The home side dominated the first half, but as it so often the case they took their foot off the pedal and allowed the opposition to come into the match.
    • 89' There will be three minutes of added time...
    • 85' The tackles are flying in now. Marco Aurelio wipes out Messi and deservedly goes in the notebook.
    • 84' Busquets picks up a booking for a foul on the dangerous Garcia.
    • 81' GOOOAAAAALLLLL!!!!!!! Alvarez crosses to Gudjohnsen and the former Chelsea striker stretches out a leg to bring huge relief to the Barca faithful!!
    • 78' Final change from Pep Guardiola, who brings in the youngster Bojan for two-goal Eto'o. Thierry Henry is also on the bench, but won't see action tonight.
    • 74' Iniesta tees up XAVI...whose shot is wild and wide.
    • 72' Double change from Barca - Sergi Busquets and Eidar Gudjohnsen replace Toure and Keita.
    • 71' GOOOOAAAALLLLL!!!!! BETIS ARE LEVEL!!!! JOSE MARI gets the goal, with a fine shot after lovely work from Garcia in the Barca box.
    • 68' Sergio Garcia (not that one, the footballer) bursts into the Barca box dangerously, but can't find the finish. Betis are threatening to steal something here.
    • 61 GOOOAAAALLLLLLL!!!!! Betis win a free-kick and Monzon cracks it under the wall and past Valdes. Betis are back in this!!
    • 59' CAPI!!!! What a strike from the midfielder, and Victor Valdes is forced to push it behind for a corner.
    • 58' Xavi loses possession and JOSE MARI MARI HAS AS CHANCE FOR BETIS...just wide!! That was warning shot for Barca, the visitors are slowly coming into this.
    • 55' Barcelona are misfiring in the second period thus far. The exhibition we expected has not arrived.
    • 52' Vega is up and on the field. He seems to have shaken off the injury...for now at least.
    • 51' Betis full-back Fernando Vega is having his ankle strapped and seems to be in real pain. It looks unlikely he'll continue.
    • 48' And Damia is immediately involved, getting in a good position to threaten, before Abidal makes a well-timed tackle.
    • 47' Second change for Betis. Ex-Barca man Damia replaces Emana.
    • 46' And away we go!! The Camp Nou is in fine voice, and there's no sign of a white handkerchief anywhere!
    • 45+2 That's half time folks!! Barca have been dominant and will be on the hunt for a goal supper in the second period.
    • 45+1 ALVAREZ!!!! The Brazilian cracks an absolute humdinger from long-range but Casto saves!!
    • 42' Betis make the first substitution of the evening. Luciano Monzon enters the fray to replace Mark Gonzalez.
    • 41' Eto'o sets up Alvarez, but he can't find the finish!!
    • 38' Messi does well to play in Iniesta, but the La Mancha man is offside!!
    • 35' Betis are trying the occasional counter, but Barca remain untroubled and look solid defensively - which should please he of the suave jumpers muchly.
    • 31' In the words of Harry Potter that Messi fellow really is WIZARD!!! He beats a couple of men, jinks in, jinks out and hits one that draws a fine save from Casto.
    • 27' Marquez is next to line one up...he shoots high, wide and handsome!!
    • 26' Xavi hits one...WIDE!!!
    • 23' GOOOOOAAALLLL!!! ANOTHER ONE FOR ETO'O!! This time Messi lends his creative brilliance to the cause, but it's Cameroon international Eto'o who finishes with aplomb to put the home side two up.
    • 19' GOOOOOAAALLLLL!!!!! Samuel Eto'o cracks a low shot from distance past Espinosa Casto in the Betis goal and the home side lead. It's been coming!!
    • 17' It's all Barca so far, they've had 62.3% of possession and have already completed 95 passes. How's that for a stat-attack!!
    • 17' Yaya Toure picks up the night's first booking after a clumsy tackle on Marcos Nelson.
    • 14' CLOSE AGAIN!! This time Iniesta sends over a wonderful back-post cross but Xavi couldn't make decisive contact. .
    • 11' Iniesta is having a cracking match so far, he's everywhere -demanding the ball and making runs all over the place. Barca are seriously up for this one.
    • 10' Oooooooohhhh!!! Lovely stuff from Messi, who weaves his magic in the Betis box but can't quite find Seydou Keita with his cross.
    • 6' Xavi drives forward to the byline, and wins his side a corner. Messi swings it over, Betis clear.
    • 3' Barca attack, but Betis gain possession and mount a rapid counter through Achille Emana, who passes to Mark Gonzalez out right...Eric Abidal clears the danger for the home side.
    • 1' We're under way in Catalonia, with the pitch in beautiful condition and Barca straight on the attack.
    • - Good evening all and welcome to our LIVE!! coverage of Barcelona v Betis in La Liga.

  • Team Stats

    Barcelona Stats Real Betis Balompié
    64% Possession 35%
    18 Shots 8
    8 Shots on target 3
    0 Saves 2
    6 Corners 5
    18 Fouls 10
    5 Offsides 8
    2 Yellow cards 3
    0 Red cards 0
    19 Tackles 22
    429 Accurate passes 215
    78 Bad passes 54

  • Player Stats

    G =
    Goals
    S =
    Shots
    SoT =
    Shot on Target
    F =
    Fouls
    FW =
    Fouls Won
    O =
    Offsides
    A =
    Assists
    AP =
    Accurate Passes
    BP =
    Bad Passes
    T =
    Tackles
    • Barcelona
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Víctor Valdés 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0
      20 Daniel Alves 0 4 1 0 1 0 1 42 0 3
      4 Rafael Márquez 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 40 3 0
      22 Eric Abidal 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 55 21 2
      2 Martín Cáceres 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 43 8 1
      24 Gnegneri Yaya Toure 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 31 1 2
      15 Seydou Keita 0 0 0 2 5 1 0 34 10 2
      6 Xavi Hernández 0 3 1 0 4 1 0 56 9 1
      8 Andres Iniesta 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 49 17 1
      10 Lionel Messi 0 3 1 2 3 0 2 31 6 1
      9 Samuel Eto'o 2 4 2 0 0 0 0 19 1 1
      7 Eidur Gudjohnsen 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 7 2 2
      28 Sergi Busquets 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 8 0 3
      3 Gerard Pique 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      14 Thierry Henry 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      13 Jose Manuel Pinto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      5 Carles Puyol 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      11 Bojan Krkic 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 3 0 0
    • Real Betis Balompié
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      13 Casto Espinosa Barriga 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 5 0
      3 Fernando Vega 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 20 5 4
      23 Nélson Augusto Tomar Marcos 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 19 1 5
      4 Juan Gutiérrez Moreno 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 19 4 2
      20 Achille Emana 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 12 4 0
      8 Arturo Garcia Muñoz 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 20 1 2
      21 Mehmet Aurelio 0 0 0 5 1 0 0 30 8 4
      14 Jesus Capi 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 30 8 1
      11 Mark Gonzalez 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 2 0
      24 José Maria Romero Poyón 1 2 1 0 0 7 0 21 6 0
      9 Sergio Garcia 0 1 0 1 5 0 1 11 2 2
      16 Mariano Pavone 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      18 Alberto Rivera 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      27 Juan de Dios Prados López 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
      2 Juan Alberto Andreu Alvarado 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      15 Luciano Monzón 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 14 7 1
      1 Ricardo Pereira 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      12 Damia Abella Pérez 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 1 1

  • Summary

    • 81' GOOOAAAAALLLLL!!!!!!! Alvarez crosses to Gudjohnsen and the former Chelsea striker stretches out a leg to bring huge relief to the Barca faithful!!
    • 71' GOOOOAAAALLLLL!!!!! BETIS ARE LEVEL!!!! JOSE MARI gets the goal, with a fine shot after lovely work from Garcia in the Barca box.
    • 61 GOOOAAAALLLLLLL!!!!! Betis win a free-kick and Monzon cracks it under the wall and past Valdes. Betis are back in this!!
    • 48' And Damia is immediately involved, getting in a good position to threaten, before Abidal makes a well-timed tackle.
    • 23' GOOOOOAAALLLL!!! ANOTHER ONE FOR ETO'O!! This time Messi lends his creative brilliance to the cause, but it's Cameroon international Eto'o who finishes with aplomb to put the home side two up.
    • 19' GOOOOOAAALLLLL!!!!! Samuel Eto'o cracks a low shot from distance past Espinosa Casto in the Betis goal and the home side lead. It's been coming!!
    • 14' CLOSE AGAIN!! This time Iniesta sends over a wonderful back-post cross but Xavi couldn't make decisive contact. .
    • - Good evening all and welcome to our LIVE!! coverage of Barcelona v Betis in La Liga.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Arturo Dauden Ibañez

  • Barcelona

    Manager: Josep Guardiola

    Captain: 6. . Xavi

    Starting line-up

    • V. Valdés
    • D. Alves
    • R. Márquez
    • M. Cáceres
    • E. Abidal
    • S. Keita Substitution Out (70′)
    • Y. Touré Yellow Card Substitution Out (70′)
    • .. Xavi
    • A. Iniesta
    • L. Messi
    • S. Eto'o Goals×2 Substitution Out (78′)

    Subs

    • 14. T. Henry
    • 7. E. Gudjohnsen Substitution In70′ Goal
    • 5. C. Puyol
    • 13. J. Pinto
    • C. Busquets Substitution In70′ Yellow Card
    • 3. G. Pique
    • 11. K. Bojan Substitution In78′

    Injured

    None

    Suspended

    None

  • Real Betis Balompié

    Manager: Paco Chaparro

    Captain: 4. . Juanito

    Starting line-up

    • C. Espinosa Garrido
    • -. Nelson
    • A. "Arzu"
    • .. Juanito
    • T. Fernando Vega Yellow Card
    • M. Aurelio Yellow Card
    • J. "Capi" Substitution Out (86′)
    • S. García
    • A. Emana Substitution Out (46′)
    • M. Gonzalez Hoffmann Substitution Out (40′)
    • J. Romero Goal

    Subs

    • 18. A. Rivera
    • 1. .. Ricardo
    • 2. J. Melli
    • 12. A. Damiá Substitution In46′
    • 16. H. Pavone
    • 27. J. Juande Substitution In86′
    • 15. L. Monzon Substitution In40′ Goal

    Injured

    • 19. F. Xisco
    • 10. L. Schmidt "Edú"
    • 7. G. Juanma

    Suspended

    None

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