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Real Madrid visited the Nou Camp last night in the return leg of the Copa del Rey. Despite the criticisms levelled at the after last week’s defeat – or perhaps because of them – Madrid came on fighting and for much of the match it looked like they might be able to make up for their first leg loss and beat Barça at the Nou Camp. In the end it was Jose Mourinho’s best result against Barcelona.

Naturally Barça’s players were delighted. According to Goal.com:

Barcelona midfielder Xavi has expressed his delight with his side’s Copa del Rey Rey quarter-final victory over Real Madrid, and admitted the Blaugrana really suffered against the Santiago Bernabeu outfit.

Read “Barcelona’s Xavi: Real Madrid are a superb team but we won the tie” at Goal.com

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After Wednesday’s win against Real Madrid and another clasico coming up this week, Pep Guardiola rested some of his star players in this league match against Malaga. The hosts seemed keen to score early on, but Victor Valdes made sure it didn’t happen. According to The Offside:
A nouveau riche Malaga side that is slowly coming [...]

FC Barcelona once again beat Real Madrid at the Bernabeu in their Copa del Rey tie at the Bernabeu last night. Despite going 1-0 down thanks to a goal from Cristiano Ronaldo and ending the first half without a goal, the Catalans bounced back after the break, with an equaliser from carles Puyol off a [...]

Currently five points behind arch-rival Real Madrid, FC Barcelona needs to do everything it can to ensure no more points are lost in the league. With Real Madrid winning their match against Mallorca on Saturday, Betis looked like it would be a straightforward win. However:
Barcelona squandered a two-goal lead before seeing off 10-man Real Betis [...]

Barcelona played an uninspired match against Osasuna in the second leg of the Copa del Rey last 16, eventually winning 2-1. As UEFA says:
Having won the Camp Nou leg 4-0, the second leg was set to be a formality, but Osasuna gave an unfamiliar-looking Barcelona side a tough ride in the first half, taking the [...]

Lionel Messi was voted the Player of the Year for the third year running after receiving 48 percent of the votes, ahead of of Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo and teammate Xavi Hernandez. This is the second year of existance for the FIFA Ballon d’Or after the FIFA Player of the Year and France Football magazine Ballon [...]

Barcelona played Espanyl in the local derby last night to come away with a single point and to find them five points behind the league leader, Real Madrid. According to ABS-CBN News:
It was far from a vintage performance from Barcelona but they looked in control and they could have had a second from Messi who [...]

Barcelona beat Osasuna 4-0 last night in their first game of 2012. The match, which took place at the Nou Camp, was without David Villa due to his broken leg and Lionel Messi made an unexpected appearance after being expected to sit the match out due to flu. According to IBNLive:
Despite some notable absentees in [...]

January 2012 starts out with the following matches.
Sat 07 Espanyol – FC Barcelona (La Liga)
Sat 14 FC Barcelona – Betis (La Liga)
Sun 22 Málaga – FC Barcelona (La Liga)
Sun 29 Villarreal – FC Barcelona (La Liga)
We’d like to wish all our readers a very happy New Year!

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Barcelona soundly beat Hospitalet last night with a total of nine goals to go through to the next round of the Copa del Rey with a 10-0 aggregate score. According to Firstpost:
Pep Guardiola showed Hospitalet no mercy as the Barcelona coach fielded a full-strength side that demolished the third-tier team 9-0 to reach the last [...]