Saturday February 14, 2009 Finished
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Round-up: Betis hold Barcelona
Liga leaders Barcelona came from two goals down to draw 2-2 with Real Betis in an entertaining clash at the Manuel Ruiz de Lopera. More
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Live Commentary
Time:90'- Real Betis Balompié
- Barcelona
90+4 And that is the final whistle! Barcelona are held, but they are still 13 points clear. Madrid can cut it to 10, but Los Cules are very much in control of La Liga and can afford an entertaining slip-up like this. Follow Valencia v Malaga, LIVE from 21:00 UK time!- 90+3 Xavi sends a shot whistling wide but a free-kick has been awarded after Pique accidentally head-butted Melli.
- 90' Bojan on the right, he drills a low cross in which Xavi almost gets on to but Ricardo dives on to it.
- 86' Messi with a shot which Ricardo spills and Eto'o is on to it but the keeper dives over the ball and holds on.
84' Barca come forward, it's with Eto'o on the edge of the box, he's surrounded by defenders but turns to get a shot away AND ETO'O HAMMERS IT ON GOAL IT TAKES A DEFLECTION AND SPINS PAST RICARDO FOR 2-2! It was bound to come, Barca are level and can they go on to win it?
81' Barca come forward again, Alves on the right, he sends a low cross in AND PIQUE WITH THE VOLLEY BUT ANOTHER BRILLIANT SAVE BY RICARDO! The loose ball drops to Henry but his low centre is blocked and out for a corner! Ricardo just will not he beaten! Great effort by Pique though.- 79' Barca come forward and Eto'o is in the box, he's crowded out but it breaks to Henry who drives it low and a great save again by Ricardo!
76' Busquets with a late tackle on Oliveira, yellow card.- 73' Betis on the counter, Sergio Garcia on the right, he plays a quite brilliant curling ball with the outside of his boot that takes Pique out and sends Oliveira through, he is onside and one-on-one and must score but Valdes comes out and makes an awesome stop! Great keeping but Oliveira should have scored.
- 72' Great touch back to Iniesta by Messi and Iniesta with a low drive but tipped wide by Ricardo!
- 70' Good ball again from Henry on the left but Iniesta is too little to get on to that.
- 67' Henry wide to Abidal on the overlap, he hits the byline and clips a superb cross to MESSI WITH THE HEADER but wide!!
- 63' Great play by Barca as Xavi and Messi combine but Xavi's finish is deflected wide for a corner!
- 59' Good save by Ricardo after a deflection almost sent Henry's cross past him going the other way!
56' BARCA SUB: Henry and Messi are on for Barca now.- 54' Betis are through again after a great touch by Oliveira off the chest and Emana is in the box with the finish but saved by Valdes!!
- 51' Barca break after almost conceding and Eto'o is clean through and he must level but he puts it wide! What a miss!
50' Betis on the counter attack, Emana in the middle, they have men over, he spreads it to Gonzalez on the left and Oliveira is totally free and he lashes it into the roof of the net! But the flag is up! Offside!
46' Second half underway.- 45+4 And there it is! Barca pull one back just before half-time, a controversial penalty in that it was hotly disputed but to be honest it looked like a clumsy one from Juande. 2-1!
- 45+3 Eventually Eto'o can step up to take the penalty BUT RICARDO SAVES IT but it lands straight at Eto'o who finishes at the second time of asking! 2-1! Barca right back in this!
- 45+1 Emana is booked for protesting... A Betis player is down injured and is being stretchered off... Is that Juande who landed awkwardly after tripping Iniesta? No, it's Lima, bizarrely, who came on earlier for the injured Juanito.
- 45' Iniesta with the ball on the left, he runs at the home defence again, beats one man, then another and he's in but Juande trips him and it's a penalty! Clumsy more than anything from Juande but the correct decision.
- 44' Really harsh from the ref to penalise a fair challenge from Emana, Barca take it quickly and Xavi can shoot but well wide.
- 43' Emana gives away a free-kick on the Barca left but it is wasted, poorly driven-in low and cleared with ease.
- 42' Iniesta on the left again, he cuts inside and surges past the full-back, another good run and this time he wins a corner, which is taken short and wasted.
- 41' Keita surges forward and has men with him but opts to shoot with his left and forces a parry from Ricardo, with the loose ball hoofed away for a Barca throw. Abidal now on the left but his cross is blocked by Garcia back defending. Still with Barca though, who are pounding the Betis area but to little effect.
- 40' Almost a promising attack by Barca but Xavi strays offside.
- 38' Throw to Betis on the right, flicked on by Oliveira and it drops to EMANA ON THE PENALTY SPOT but he snatches at it and sends the finish over!!
- 35' Pique is booked after flying elbow first into the head of Emana.
- 34' Alves almost gets in on the right but a strong challenge by Vega puts man, ball and advertising hoarding into touch.
- 32' Iniesta on the left, he takes a touch, cuts inside and drills a great low cross AND ETO'O SLIDES IN AND MUST SCORE BUT A BRILLIANT SAVING TACKLE BY LIMA! He timed that perfectly - a second early and it was in and a second later and it was a penalty!
- 29' Iniesta on the ball on the left, great first touch, he wriggles past one defender, then another, this is a brilliant piece of close control, but he runs out of space with Ricardo in his way and puts it into the side netting.
- 28' Ricardo has to fly across goal and get a strong arm to parry a deflected ball that was either going for a corner or to Eto'o...
- 27' Leaving your best player on the bench is always a risk and this one does not seem to have paid off. To be fair poor defending has cost Barca the most - Gonzalez was totally unmarked on the left and had time for the ball to bounce up on to his chest before the shot. It should have been headed clear anyway, Caceres looks a touch out of his depth.
- 25' Garcia on the right, he sends a great ball far post and Mark Gonzalez is unmarked AND HE TAKES IT ON HIS CHEST AND BOOM!!! WHAT A GOAL! The former Liverpool winger drills it low and true past Valdes into the bottom right for 2-0!! Barca stunned!
- 22' Barca have had a good spell of possession since conceding but nothing approaching a final ball. Lionel Messi is not in the starting line-up and boy do they need him.
- 19' Corner to Betis then, Aurelio to take from the left... he swings it to the penalty spot AND MELLI RISES WITH A POWER-HEADER THAT FLIES TO VALDES'S LEFT FOR 1-0!! Valdes could do nothing about that but TERRIBLE marking from Barca and a weak attempt to challenge Melli for the header by Busquets.
- 17' Free-kick to Betis on the right which Aurelio will take... he swings it far post and Melli flies in for the header but flicked away by Abidal just in time!!
- 15' A painful one for Oliveira, who slides groin-first into a camera-man chasing the ball into the corner.
- 13' Great backheel by Oliveira releases Sergio Garcia down the right but it's slightly too heavy for him and Barca clear.
- 12' Barcelona are stroking it about nicely now, after Betis's early attempts to grab a goal with a more direct approach.
- 10' Iniesta is fouled on the left and Barca have a free kick but poor delivery and Betis clear... it drops to Dani Alves some way out and he tries a dipping half volley but wide.
- 7' Eto'o miscontrols it in the box when he should have had a chance and it falls to Busquets who sends a shot whistling wide!
- 4' Aurelio fouls Hleb but wins the free-kick. Weird. Aurelio will take it, he sends it into the area and Barca fail to clear, Gonzalez is free at the far post and he slides it across goal TO OLIVEIRA WHO MUST SCORE WITH THE OPEN GOAL BUT HE SCUFFS THE FINISH FROM TWO YARDS OUT AND KEITA ON THE LINE CLEARS! Shocking miss! Oh, the flag was up and Oliveira saw it.
- 2' Early foul on Hleb just outside the box on the right... Good delivery by Messi but missed by Caceres and claimed by Ricardo. There's a bit of a set-to as Betis think Caceres went in too agressively but they're making something out of nothing.
1' Match underway!!- - Barca are 12 points clear at the top of La Liga and it does not seem that anyone can catch them. They are playing the best football, conceding the fewest goals and scoring the most. Betis are typically mediocre, 14th and five points above the drop zone.
- Hello and welcome to the first of our Liga matches this weekend and it's a goodie - Barcelona, runaway leaders in Spain, travel down south to Seville to face Real Betis: LIVE from 19:00 UK time!
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Team Stats
Real Betis Balompié Stats Barcelona 25% Possession 75% 7 Shots 23 5 Shots on target 12 6 Saves 2 1 Corners 7 14 Fouls 20 5 Offsides 4 3 Yellow cards 2 0 Red cards 0 23 Tackles 18 109 Accurate passes 475 30 Bad passes 73 -
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
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Real Betis Balompié G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T 1 Ricardo Pereira 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 12 5 0 3 Fernando Vega 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 9 3 3 2 Juan Alberto Andreu Alvarado 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 0 2 4 Juan Gutiérrez Moreno 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 6 Branko Ilic 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 5 0 3 27 Juan de Dios Prados López 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 16 2 2 21 Mehmet Aurelio 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 18 6 2 20 Achille Emana 0 2 1 5 3 0 1 17 2 3 11 Mark Gonzalez 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 7 5 2 9 Sergio Garcia 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 3 0 2 17 Ricardo Oliveira 0 2 2 4 3 3 0 8 1 1 15 Luciano Monzón 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 22 Willian Lanes de Lima 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 1 0 16 Mariano Pavone 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 Juan Manuel Gómez Sánchez 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 3 5 1 18 Alberto Rivera 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 29 Alejandro Zamora Barbero 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 Casto Espinosa Barriga 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -
Barcelona G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T 1 Víctor Valdés 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 2 Martín Cáceres 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 28 9 1 22 Eric Abidal 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 40 10 5 20 Daniel Alves 0 1 0 3 2 1 0 48 3 1 3 Gerard Pique 0 2 1 3 1 0 0 54 2 4 8 Andres Iniesta 0 2 1 1 4 0 0 54 12 1 28 Sergi Busquets 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 33 2 4 15 Seydou Keita 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 37 13 1 6 Xavi Hernández 0 4 1 0 2 1 1 90 13 0 21 Alexander Hleb 0 0 0 2 4 1 0 20 1 0 9 Samuel Eto'o 2 5 4 0 1 0 0 22 1 1 10 Lionel Messi 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 19 5 0 14 Thierry Henry 0 4 3 0 0 1 0 11 2 0 11 Bojan Krkic 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 9 0 0 24 Gnegneri Yaya Toure 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 Rafael Márquez 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 Sylvinho Mendes Campos 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 Jose Manuel Pinto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Summary
- 84' Barca come forward, it's with Eto'o on the edge of the box, he's surrounded by defenders but turns to get a shot away AND ETO'O HAMMERS IT ON GOAL IT TAKES A DEFLECTION AND SPINS PAST RICARDO FOR 2-2! It was bound to come, Barca are level and can they go on to win it?
- 81' Barca come forward again, Alves on the right, he sends a low cross in AND PIQUE WITH THE VOLLEY BUT ANOTHER BRILLIANT SAVE BY RICARDO! The loose ball drops to Henry but his low centre is blocked and out for a corner! Ricardo just will not he beaten! Great effort by Pique though.
- 79' Barca come forward and Eto'o is in the box, he's crowded out but it breaks to Henry who drives it low and a great save again by Ricardo!
- 73' Betis on the counter, Sergio Garcia on the right, he plays a quite brilliant curling ball with the outside of his boot that takes Pique out and sends Oliveira through, he is onside and one-on-one and must score but Valdes comes out and makes an awesome stop! Great keeping but Oliveira should have scored.
- 72' Great touch back to Iniesta by Messi and Iniesta with a low drive but tipped wide by Ricardo!
- 67' Henry wide to Abidal on the overlap, he hits the byline and clips a superb cross to MESSI WITH THE HEADER but wide!!
- 59' Good save by Ricardo after a deflection almost sent Henry's cross past him going the other way!
- 54' Betis are through again after a great touch by Oliveira off the chest and Emana is in the box with the finish but saved by Valdes!!
- 51' Barca break after almost conceding and Eto'o is clean through and he must level but he puts it wide! What a miss!
- 45+3 Eventually Eto'o can step up to take the penalty BUT RICARDO SAVES IT but it lands straight at Eto'o who finishes at the second time of asking! 2-1! Barca right back in this!
- 45' Iniesta with the ball on the left, he runs at the home defence again, beats one man, then another and he's in but Juande trips him and it's a penalty! Clumsy more than anything from Juande but the correct decision.
- 38' Throw to Betis on the right, flicked on by Oliveira and it drops to EMANA ON THE PENALTY SPOT but he snatches at it and sends the finish over!!
- 32' Iniesta on the left, he takes a touch, cuts inside and drills a great low cross AND ETO'O SLIDES IN AND MUST SCORE BUT A BRILLIANT SAVING TACKLE BY LIMA! He timed that perfectly - a second early and it was in and a second later and it was a penalty!
- 25' Garcia on the right, he sends a great ball far post and Mark Gonzalez is unmarked AND HE TAKES IT ON HIS CHEST AND BOOM!!! WHAT A GOAL! The former Liverpool winger drills it low and true past Valdes into the bottom right for 2-0!! Barca stunned!
- 19' Corner to Betis then, Aurelio to take from the left... he swings it to the penalty spot AND MELLI RISES WITH A POWER-HEADER THAT FLIES TO VALDES'S LEFT FOR 1-0!! Valdes could do nothing about that but TERRIBLE marking from Barca and a weak attempt to challenge Melli for the header by Busquets.
- 7' Eto'o miscontrols it in the box when he should have had a chance and it falls to Busquets who sends a shot whistling wide!
- - Hello and welcome to the first of our Liga matches this weekend and it's a goodie - Barcelona, runaway leaders in Spain, travel down south to Seville to face Real Betis: LIVE from 19:00 UK time!
Live Team Line-Up
- Referee: Eduardo Iturralde González
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Real Betis BalompiéManager: Paco Chaparro
Starting line-up
- .. Ricardo
- B. Ilic
- .. Juanito
- J. Melli
- T. Fernando Vega
- J. Juande
- M. Aurelio
- S. García
- A. Emana
- M. Gonzalez Hoffmann
- R. Oliveira
Subs
- 18. A. Rivera
- 7. G. Juanma
60′ - 13. C. Espinosa Garrido
- 16. H. Pavone
- J. Isidoro
- 22. W. Lima 9′ 44′
- 15. L. Monzon 44′
Injured
None
Suspended
- 8. A. "Arzu"
- 23. -. Nelson
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BarcelonaManager: Josep Guardiola
Starting line-up
- V. Valdés
- D. Alves
- M. Cáceres
- G. Pique
- E. Abidal
- .. Xavi
- C. Busquets
- S. Keita
- A. Iniesta
- A. Hleb
- S. Eto'o ×2
Subs
- 14. T. Henry 59′
- 4. R. Márquez
- 7. E. Gudjohnsen
- 16. S. Sylvinho
- 13. J. Pinto
- 10. L. Messi 59′
- 24. Y. Touré
- 11. K. Bojan 80′
Injured
- 5. C. Puyol
- 18. G. Milito
Suspended
None
La Liga done and dusted would like to see how barca fare against english big guns in champions league
etoo is too good wonder why barca under Ryjkard wanted to sell him, id like to see him play in the premiership
the shocking decision from "Pep" Guardiola, for not plays Messi n Henry from kick off. Ricardo was impressed. eto'o, you are world class striker. for Barca, come on lads. you can secure the title!!!!
unfortunetelly barca draw this matcha.but i hope barca win primera.
Refferee robbed Betis in favour of Barcelona, as usual. It happened during the first round and it has happened last night again. An invented penalty that no-one saw but Iturralde the pick-pocket. It´s impossible for any team to put into danger the two "big ones", Madrid and Barcelona, because the Spanish League is a Mafia, the refferees will favour them in a suspicious manner any time they feel they´re gonna loose. It´s such a shame for football and for sport in general. Musssho Betis.
Iturralde, por qué no te mueres??
Loperistas=Sevillistas.
ricardo is the man of the match he saved betis i wish barca had won this mtach it was so imp. but they weren't lucky and valdes also made a nice game his best game was today
barca weren t lucky .just look at the team stats ;)
it lucky that barca didn't sell eto,cos,if he was sold he would be at man city or something now.anyway,i had a shock when i saw the results,it a draw,nice game played betis.
have to admit Eto'o is a very good.. (i'm not a Barca fan)
no such luck in football.. it's either you get it or lose it.. stop period!i told u guys etoo is the best and i bet you we have yet seen the best of etoo
4 all i care real m still remain my best club 4 dat side but is all about chelsea baca
barca is the best 100%
omg...barca so lucky
Eto thanks very much you just proved ur worth again
ahahahahahaahahahahahahahahah barcelona did draw ahahah S H IT team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
god bless real betis barca u can **** me all the way to madrid
@#$%
Still unbeaten since September!
Barca!
good night sio later
Torres is gey
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