I'm surprised Man City haven't been linked with a £85893493m offer for Messi. They've been linked with outrageous bids for every other quality player.

turned out to be a very ordinary affair... and i was so close to going for the draw!!
performance of the week has to go to either mallorca or getafe.
fingers crossed depor can produce something special tonight but i can't see anything other than a real madrid victory.
i'll go 2-0

completely forgot about raqcing's excellent away win at sevilla!
not many teams will go there and keep a clean sheet.

and look out for malaga's goal and the header that gave recreativo the 1-0 win over betis

I'm so chuffed with that win at Sevilla, which was no thanks to the referee. Oscar Serrano's tackle was bad, I am freely admitting that, but there is absolutely no way it was a red card. If you're going to send players off for that teams will regularly go down to 7 men in matches. Such inconsistency blights the game. If anything though his dismissal galvanised us, and we scored from two set pieces. Sevilla barely turned up and Luis Fabiano looks in wretched form. I thought Jiminez had done a good job up till now but many more performances like that and Sevilla fans will get their wish and he'll be gone.

Almeria 2 Athletic Bilbao 1
Getafe 5 Sporting Gijon 1
Malaga 1 Atletico Madrid 1
Mallorca 3 Valencia 1
Real Madrid 1 Deportivo La Coruna 0
Recreativo Huelva 1 Real Betis 0
Sevilla 0 Racing Santander 2
Valladolid 1 Espanyol 1
Barcelona 4 Numancia 1
Villarreal 1 Osasuna 1

Well that was an interesting weekend. Barca show no signs of letting up eventually breaking down Numancia. Barkero's free kick was brilliant for the visitors but other than that they were simply overwhelmed by another terrific display. Elsewhere on Saturday Osasuna came away from Castellon with a point after Giuseppe Rossi had given Villarreal the lead.

On Sunday, Real Madrid unconvincingly squeezed past Deportivo through a single Raul goal but it still means they are 12 points behind the league leaders. Sevilla's lacklustre display at home to Racing could cost them dear in the race to shore up a top 4 spot, but it proved not to hurt them in the short term as Atletico could only draw in Malaga and Valencia went down 3-1 in Mallorca which must surely go down as the shock of the weekend.

Performance of the weekend comes from Getafe, who won 5-1 at home to Sporting Gijon thanks to a hat-trick from Roberto Soldado. Gijon are simply haemorraging goals and this habit will drag them down to the bottom 3. Elsewhere there were crucial wins for Recreativo (Camunas carrying their arses as usual) and Almeria in the fight to pull away from the drop zone and Espanyol grabbed a morale-boosting point at Valladolid.

id say mallorca for beating valencia after their terrible run. sporting are paff.

I tipped them and Numancia to go down alongside Recreativo and I'd say I'm on track to get 2/3 right.

Surprised about Valencia losing.

They must have heard that you were going to make in game of the round

Instead of emptying my savings account I took in Granada vs Melilla in Segunda B instead - there was some suprisingly good stuff played although it wasn't at much of a tempo, at €10 a ticket it was slightly easier on the pocket too!

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