Barcelona - NouCamp Faithful

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Huesca 0 - 0 Barcelona : Barcelona held to goalless draw at Huesca as Messi, Suarez and stars rested

Barcelona were held to a 0-0 draw at Huesca but Ernesto Valverde's side, with star players including Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez rested for next week's Champions League game against Manchester United, still moved 12 points clear of Atletico Madrid.

(excerpt from ESPN Soccernet)

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Barcelona 3 - 0 Manchester United : Lionel Messi stars as Barcelona cruise past Manchester United in UCL

(2nd Leg : Barcelona wins 4-0 on agg)

Lionel Messi scored twice and David De Gea was left with egg on his face as Barcelona cruised past Manchester United with a 3-0 win at Camp Nou.

It meant a 4-0 aggregate win for the La Liga side, who barely needed to break sweat to reach the Champions League semifinals.

Barca opening goal came in the 16th minute when poor defending by first Ashley Young and then Fred gave Messi far too much space outside the area, and the Argentine superbly curled an effort past De Gea from the edge of the box.

Moments later, Barca doubled their advantage and it was down to yet more errors. Fred again was caught in possession and the ball fell to Messi, who could only produce a weak effort -- but it was enough to squirm under the body of an embarrassed De Gea.

The match was effectively over at the hour, former Liverpool midfielder Philippe Coutinho got in on the act, beautifully beating De Gea from distance after being set up by Jordi Alba.

(excerpt from ESPN Soccernet)

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Barcelona 2 - 1 Real Sociedad : Barca move closer to La Liga title with win

Barcelona closed in on the La Liga title on Saturday after earning a hard-fought 2-1 win over Real Sociedad at the Nou Camp, with goals from defenders Clement Lenglet and Jordi Alba restoring their nine-point lead at the top of the table.

Sociedad scored through forward Juanmi in the 62nd minute, sliding in to meet an incisive pass from Mikel Merino and diverting it past Barca's Marc-Andre ter Stegen.

(excerpt from ESPN Soccernet)

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Alavés 0 - 2 Barcelona : Barcelona move closer to La Liga title with win at Alaves

Barcelona have one hand firmly on the La Liga title after winning 2-0 at Alaves on Tuesday, leaving them 12 points clear at the top of the table with four games to play.

After a turgid first half, Barcelona stepped up a gear in the second and midfielder Carles Alena sent the Catalans ahead at Mendizorroza after 54 minutes.

Arturo Vidal and Sergio Roberto combined well, the latter threading a pass through to Alena which Luis Suarez cleverly stepped over, allowing the 21-year-old to coolly slot home.

Suarez added the second from the penalty spot after Tomas Pina's handball was spotted by VAR, putting Barcelona in touching distance of their 26th league title.

(excerpt from ESPN Soccernet)

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Barcelona 1 - 0 Levante : Barcelona clinch back-to-back La Liga titles on Messi goal

Lionel Messi fittingly sealed Barcelona's 26th La Liga title on Saturday by coming off the bench to score the goal in a 1-0 win over Levante in front of a jubilant Nou Camp crowd, who celebrated a remarkable eighth league crown in 11 years.

Barca's captain decided the game and the title in the 61st minute as he received a header from Arturo Vidal, effortlessly freeing himself from two defenders with his right foot before using his left to plant the ball into the far bottom corner.



(excerpt from ESPN Soccernet)

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Barcelona 3 - 0 Liverpool : Messi reaches 600 club-goal mark in Barcelona's win over Liverpool

(1st Leg)

Lionel Messi put Barcelona on the verge of the Champions League final by scoring twice in a 3-0 home win over Liverpool in the first leg of their last-four clash on Wednesday, taking his goal tally for the Catalans to a remarkable 600 in the process.

Former Liverpool striker Luis Suarez reminded the visitors of his clinical finishing by opening the scoring in the 26th minute of a tense and finely-balanced first half at the Nou Camp, darting between two Liverpool defenders to divert Jordi Alba's cross into the net.

Barca captain Messi scored the all-important second goal of the night in the 75th minute, chesting the ball down on the rebound and dribbling it over the line after Suarez had hammered the crossbar with a shot with his knee.

The Argentine then added to Barca's already huge advantage to take into next Tuesday's second leg at Anfield by scoring his milestone goal in style, smashing into the top corner with a sizzling free kick in the 82nd minute.

(excerpt from ESPN Soccernet)

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Celta Vigo 2 - 0 Barcelona : Makeshift Barcelona side beaten at Celta and lose Dembele to injury

Barcelona fell to their first La Liga defeat since November as the champions were beaten 2-0 at struggling Celta Vigo after making 11 changes but forward Ousmane Dembele suffered an injury setback ahead of Tuesday's Champions League game at Liverpool.

Uruguay forward Maxi Gomez gave Celta a deserved lead in the 67th minute, sliding to the floor to divert a low pass beyond Barca's reserve goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen, after the home side saw a goal ruled out for a marginal offside after a VAR review.

Celta's captain and talisman Iago Aspas then sealed the win by converting from the penalty spot after another VAR review ruled that Barca's Samuel Umtiti had handled the ball.

(excerpt from ESPN Soccernet)

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How come you don't post after been humiliated by Liverpool in Champions League Semi-Finals.

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Liverpool 4 - 0 Barcelona : Liverpool crush Barcelona to overcome deficit and reach UCL final

(2nd Leg : Liverpool wins 4-3 on agg)

Liverpool produced one of the greatest comebacks in Champions League history to beat Barcelona 4-0 on Tuesday, overturning a three-goal first-leg deficit and advancing to their second successive final with a 4-3 aggregate victory.

Two goals each from stand-in forward Divock Origi and halftime substitute Georginio Wijnaldum left Lionel Messi and Barcelona utterly shell-shocked by a Liverpool performance full of passion, belief and determination.

(excerpt from ESPN Soccernet)

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Originally Posted by PaulMerson

How come you don't post after been humiliated by Liverpool in Champions League Semi-Finals.

sometimes i slow to update, Bro.

but i try to update every match Barca was involved in....be it Win, Lose or Draw.

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Barcelona 2 - 0 Getafe : Barcelona booed in home win against Getafe after UCL flameout

Spanish champions Barcelona beat top-four chasing Getafe 2-0 in front of a subdued and near half-empty Nou Camp on Sunday in their first La Liga game since a humbling defeat by Liverpool sent them crashing out of the Champions League semifinals.

Sunday's result meant little to Barca, who clinched an eighth Liga title in 11 seasons two weeks ago, but it could prove fatal to Getafe's hopes of qualifying for the Champions League for the first time as they dropped one place to fifth.

Barcelona's Chilean Arturo Vidal opened the scoring near the end of the first half, poking a loose ball home after Gerard Pique's flicked header was parried by Getafe keeper David Soria.

Barca's second came in the 90th minute thanks to an own goal after captain Lionel Messi combined with Sergi Roberto and beat two players before his shot got a final touch off Djene Dakonam.

Only 57,000 people turned up at the 99,000 capacity ground for the game, which turned into a forum for fans to vent their frustrations at Barca's 4-0 surrender at Anfield on Tuesday.

(excerpt from ESPN Soccernet)

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Eibar 2 - 2 Barcelona : Messi nets twice as Barca end season with draw

Barcelona captain and La Liga top scorer Lionel Messi rounded off a spectacular season by netting twice in a 2-2 draw away to Eibar in the champions' final game on Sunday, taking his tally to a remarkable 36 league goals.

Eibar went ahead in the 20th minute with a strike from Barca's on-loan midfielder Marc Cucurella which squirmed under keeper Jasper Cillessen but Messi levelled in the 31st after sneaking into the box to meet a pass from Arturo Vidal.

Messi struck again a minute later, racing through the middle unchallenged to latch on to a pass from Ivan Rakitic and calmly chip the outstretched keeper Marko Dmitrovic.

But Eibar's Pablo de Blasis levelled right before halftime with a superb one-touch strike from long range after the ball fell into his path following a desperate header away from Cillessen, who looked in shaky form ahead of next week's Copa del Rey final against Valencia.

(excerpt from ESPN Soccernet)

[countryman]

2019 COPA DEL REY FINAL : Valencia 2 - 1 Barcelona

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Barcelona 1 - 2 Valencia : Barca's double hopes end with Copa del Rey loss

Valencia beat Barcelona 2-1 to win the Copa del Rey on Saturday, ending the Spanish champions' four-year winning streak in the competition and denying them a domestic double.

Kevin Gameiro and Rodrigo Moreno struck first-half goals to give Marcelino's dominant Valencia control of the final in Seville's sweltering Benito Villamarin stadium.

Record 30-time Cup winners Barcelona struggled without injured forwards Luis Suarez and Ousmane Dembele, but Lionel Messi pulled the Catalans back into the game with a close-range finish.

Goncalo Guedes missed a gilt-edged chance in stoppage time for Valencia, but they held on to win their first major trophy since last lifting the Cup in 2008.

(excerpt from ESPN Soccernet)

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Originally Posted by countryman

2019 COPA DEL REY FINAL : Valencia 2 - 1 Barcelona

Thanks, Bro!!