The weekend preview
Spain – La Liga: Champions Barcelona are off to La Mestalla to play Valencia. The Catalan club are sweating on the fitness of midfield playmaker Xavi, who came back injured from the international break. Star striker David Villa is out for the home team.
Real Madrid are at home to Valladolid and are expected to be [...]
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 [...]
The weekend round-up
Spain-La Liga: Real Madrid tonked Espanyol 3-0 away at the host’s new stadium thanks to goals from Granero, Guti and Ronaldo as Manuel Pellegrini rested one or two key players but came up trumps in a win which maintain’s Real’s 100 per cent record.
Ironically it was Granero (pictured), a former Real youth team player who [...]