Real losing 2-1 at home to Girona at the moment.
12 mins left.
12 mins left.
La Liga 2018/19
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Girona take the lead against Real Madrid
This is a great game.
Varane and Marcelo have been pretty bad.
Courtois was very poor on the goal.
Girona are on a 13 game streak without a win, lost the last 6 games.
Ramos gets his customary red card.
Ramos Red.
Nice.
Nice.
25 Real Madrid red cards. 25!!!
Ramos is such a weird player, has 10 amazing games a season, usually in the bigger games but games like this he's a total liability and always has been.
Harsh 2nd yellow as it wasn't intentional, but dangerous play so correct by the letter of the law.
25th red for Real, was harsh like.
How many does Ramos now have?
Madrid 
Always nice to see a dirty player get sent off.
Real lost. Barca say a big "thanks you" to them. Ramos is such a fecker. Yeah, he scores a lot of important goals, but he is just a headless chicken most of the time.
is that Ramos out for the Barcelona game?
25 mate
La Liga refereeing is so shit it’s incredible.
That is amazing. You wonder if he didn't score so many important goals for them he would be long gone. He is a menace.25 mate
So is that 75 matches he's missed purely through suspensions? That's almost 2 seasons
The should build him a statue for that.So is that 75 matches he's missed purely through suspensions? That's almost 2 seasons
After a quick Google search it now looks like Ramos is joint 2nd for most red cards during a players career
Whose the worst? I am struggling to imagine a worse record.
Gerardo Bedoya (46 red cards)
Just looked at his wiki page. Looks like a was a bit of a thug.
Not all his reds carried a 3 match ban.So is that 75 matches he's missed purely through suspensions? That's almost 2 seasons
On another note, Barca are going to win the league despite being shit for most of it. La Liga this season feels like the 2010/11 EPL season. The least shit team wins.
also got sent off 21 minutes into his senior coaching debutJust looked at his wiki page. Looks like a was a bit of a thug.
Last night's performance is why lots of Barca fans want Valverde out, although in this particular instance I'd try to give him a shred of doubt that the players weren't putting in 100% due to having 4 really tough away games coming within 2 weeks. That Girona result is a Godsend for Barca. 3 games clear of both our rivals gives us some leeway.
There may be something to the tiredness aspect. It certainly caught Luis Enrique out in his second season, where Barca were coasting through all tournaments but his poor squad management led to a period where the players were dog tired. Going from 2 up at Villareal to clinging on for a point, then dropping points in something like 4 games in a row AND going out the CL all in a short period. It wasn't a surprise that when the fixtures went back to one a week, Barca went back to strolling to a league title. But I think it's more that Valverde simply isn't the right type of coach for Barca. If Pep was in charge, this squad would be doing infinitely better in terms of performing, I have no doubts about that. It's true that a lot of his successes so far have been due to Messi carrying the attack (again) and Ter Stegen being a wall at the back.
To be honest, I wouldn't be hugely surprised if it's yet another Doblete but another one off poor game in the CL which puts Barca out. Which would of course to any reasonable person constitute massive success since winning trophies is what it's all about and would keep Valverde in a job. But the performances aren't what they should be. A better coach could do much more with this squad, I feel.
There may be something to the tiredness aspect. It certainly caught Luis Enrique out in his second season, where Barca were coasting through all tournaments but his poor squad management led to a period where the players were dog tired. Going from 2 up at Villareal to clinging on for a point, then dropping points in something like 4 games in a row AND going out the CL all in a short period. It wasn't a surprise that when the fixtures went back to one a week, Barca went back to strolling to a league title. But I think it's more that Valverde simply isn't the right type of coach for Barca. If Pep was in charge, this squad would be doing infinitely better in terms of performing, I have no doubts about that. It's true that a lot of his successes so far have been due to Messi carrying the attack (again) and Ter Stegen being a wall at the back.
To be honest, I wouldn't be hugely surprised if it's yet another Doblete but another one off poor game in the CL which puts Barca out. Which would of course to any reasonable person constitute massive success since winning trophies is what it's all about and would keep Valverde in a job. But the performances aren't what they should be. A better coach could do much more with this squad, I feel.
One day I will understand it. One day.
To be fair Valverde has rested a lot of players sufficiently this year. All of his top players have played lesser minutes this Jan as opposed to previous years and he's been resting players in one legs of most CDR ties as well. He doesn't rotate Suarez enough though but that's also due to a lack of options.
Are Valencia ever going to wake up this season, yet another draw, their 14th of the league season.
Valencia 0-0 Espanyol
Valencia with their 14th draw of the season
Valencia with their 14th draw of the season
The Anti-spurs.. maintaining balance in the football universe.
Sevilla seem to be in real slump now.....losing 1-0 to Villareal now. Seems goals have dried up for Andre Silva.
Would watch out for Real Sociedad, been in great form recently with their attacking players finally turning up this season. Can see them getting 4th.
Would watch out for Real Sociedad, been in great form recently with their attacking players finally turning up this season. Can see them getting 4th.
Tbf the only shocking thing about that was that he was actually scoring them for a while.
Valencia have been so shit this season but somehow they’re still with a chance of getting CL football. I’d love to see Getafe or Alaves getting it ahead of Sevilla and Valencia.
Wow Villareal wins a game in La Liga for first time since about 2016. 3-0 aswell. 
Sevilla can't even use the playing on Thursday excuse as Villarreal did as well. Sevilla always flatter to deceive. I would not put it past them going all out to win the EL again.Wow Villareal wins a game in La Liga for first time since about 2016. 3-0 aswell.