Barcelona Blog

As Real Madrid are seemingly attempting to repeat their Galactio era with record breaking money signings, close rivals Barcelona have been somewhat overshadowed when it comes to talking about potential transfers. Nevertheless, that’s hardly surprising as why would you want to make mass changes to a team that has just won La Liga, the Copa Del Rey and the [...]

Real Madrid v FC Barcelona
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Estadio Santiago Bernabéu
Kick Off - 20.00 CET

Barcelona visit the Bernabéu on Saturday evening, 360 days since last season’s humiliating 4-1 defeat when they had to applaud Real on to the pitch in the traditional tribute to the newly-crowned league champions.
A year ago at this stage of the season, [...]

Negative Chelsea Earn Goalless Draw
Chelsea arrived for the game with  Barcelona with Guss Hiddink ordering his team to attack the Catalan’s and go for the throat and also the promise of an explosive battle. Instead it was a negative ultra-defensive performance from the Blues as they became the first team this season to stop Barca [...]

FC Barcelona v Chelsea
UEFA Champions League
Semi-Final 1st Leg
Camp Nou, Barcelona
Kick 0ff - 20.45 CET

Barcelona welcome Chelsea to the Camp Nou tonight for the Champions League semi-final 1st leg and will be hoping to produce another performance like the quarter-final 1st leg  display against Bayern Munich, which saw the Catalan’s score four first half goals against [...]

Barcelona 4 Bayern Munich 0

Barcelona have one foot in the semi finals of the Champions League following a hugely impressive 4-0 victory over Bayern Munich in  the  quarter final first leg on Wednesday night.
In front of a crowd of over 93,000, Barcelona gave a masterclass in technique and attacking football and in the fifth [...]

Barcelona v Bayern Munich

Champions League 1/4 Final - 1st Leg
Camp Nou, Barcelona

Kick Off - 20.45 CET
Bayern Munich face Barcelona tonight in the knowledge that they have never lost to the Catalans. Tonight however they return to the scene of their heartbreaking Champions League Final defeat against Manchester United 10 years ago without two of their [...]

Barcelona continued their pursuit of three trophies with a 1-0 win over Real Valladolid, thanks to a sublime goal by Samuel Eto’o, his 26th of the season.

The Catalan’s, having lost three out of four matches following FIFA World Cup and international breaks this season, knew they could not afford to drop points and with this in [...]

Real Valladolid v Barcelona

Saturday, April 4, 2009
Nuevo Zorilla
Kick Off: 20:00 CET
Captain Carles Puyol and Andrés Iniesta have both recovered from injury and are named in Pep Guardiola’s 18 man squad for Saturday nights visit to Real Valladolid. The Barcelona coach is expected to rotate his squad and Messi, having played in Argentina’s two matches, is expected [...]

Barcelona had nine players on International duty last weekend and apart from Sergi Busquets, who was an unused substitute for Spain, all featured for their respective countries.
Pique and  Xavi were key players in Spain’s 1-0 victory over Turkey with Pique scoring the only goal of the game in the 60th minute, scoring from close range [...]

Another magical display ensured Barcelona would stay six points clear of Real Madrid, who had defeated Almeria 3-0 earlier in the day.
High flying Malaga, the surprise team of the season, were cut to shreds by the attacking power of the Catalan’s. From the kick off Barca went on the offensive and in the first fifteen [...]