The weekend preview
Spain – La Liga: Barcelona and Real Madrid are now the only two sides left with perfect records after Athletic Bilbao went down in midweek. Real are at home to Tenerife on Saturday and Barcelona travel to Malaga on the Sunday.
Both Ronaldo for Real and Lionel Messi for Barcelona have started the season in frightening [...]
Goal of the week: Messi
To be fair any of Barcelona’s four goals against Racing on Tuesday night could have made the grade but Messi’s second effort wins the golden letter opener this week.
Watching it back again, the defending does look suspect, but with the little Argentinian it’s not always what he does, but how fast he does it.
Racing know [...]
The weekend round-up
After all the hype and tension, Argentina and Brazil both lived up to expectations on Saturday night in their World Cup qualifier – with the exception of the Albiceleste defence.
Maradona’s side seemed to have two faces – their gallant and persistent attack and their truly woeful and shambolic back line.
Argentina made the better start in [...]