Stinky Dad Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Lille, Dortmund, PSG and Sevilla - Fiorentina wil be about tomorrow....any good times for you guys to play our fixtures? (Apart from PSG the other three are next weeks fixtures but seeing as I've got a free Sunday we may as well see if we can box em off.) Â Â Anyone about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUFCfan Posted December 11, 2011 Author Share Posted December 11, 2011 Malaga 1 - 5 Valencia  Valencia exposed Malaga's defensive frailties as they romped to a convincing victory over their fellow Spaniards. Valencia opened the scoring early after Malaga lost possession soon after kickoff and the ball was squared to Tino Costa on the edge of the box, whose powerful shot was out of the reach of Willy Caballero in the Malaga goal. Valencia could have been two up soon after when Roberto Soldado's one-on-one effort was saved by Caballero. Pablo Hernandez had another decent chance to put Valencia two up, but his shot was saved by the impressive Caballero. Malaga took some control of the game midway through the first half and could/should have scored an equaliser and taken the lead. Julio Baptista had Malaga's first decent effort when his turn and shot on the edge of the box was well saved by Diego Alves. Soon after came Malaga's best two chances of the game up to that point. Some neat passing created an opening for Diego Buonanotte who curled his shot wide when through on goal. Malaga's top scorer Santi Cazorla wasted Malaga's second best chance to score as he cut into the box from the wing and lost his man, but panicked and blasted a shot straight at Diego Alves when a finesse shot would have surely found the corner of the net. Not for the first time this season Malaga were made to pay for their missed chances as Valencia countered after the Santi Cazorla chance and Roberto Soldado scored Valencia's second.  Valencia put the game beyond doubt in the first twenty minutes or so of the second half. Firstly, a shot from the edge of the box was well saved by Willy Cabellero, but the ball fell to Pablo Piatti whose shot was again saved by Cabellero but the ball fell back to Piatti who made no mistake at the second time of asking and scored from close range. Just over ten minutes later Roberto Soldado was put through on goal for Valencia's fourth. For the second game in a row Malaga decided to call on Ruud Van Nistelrooy to try and restore some pride and once again he delivered. In the 78th minute Buonanotte's floated cross found Van Nistelrooy in the centre of the box between the penalty spot and the edge of the area, and the Dutchman scored with a fantastic overhead kick into the corner of the net. It was a goal worthy of winning any game, it was just a shame that it was actually just a consolation goal for a team already four down. Malaga were soon four goals behind again when Soldado took advantage of some poor defending to waltz through the Malaga defence and scored with a neat finish to complete his hat-trick.  Overall a good game, Malaga weren't always as bad as the scoreline suggests but Valencia were much the better side. Van Nistelrooy may earn a recall to the starting XI after two goals in two games from the bench, including an super goal tonight, and his link up play with the two wingers created a couple of decent chances. At the moment though I think I'm suffering from 'Stunstone Syndrome', i.e. for the most part I can't wait to get rid of Malaga and be another team.  Malaga goal: Van Nistelrooy (78')  Valencia goals: T. Costa (3'), Soldado (43', 67', 83'), Piatti (54')   Highlights:  Van Nistelrooy's overhead kick goal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmxxx Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Lille, Dortmund, PSG and Sevilla - Fiorentina wil be about tomorrow....any good times for you guys to play our fixtures? (Apart from PSG the other three are next weeks fixtures but seeing as I've got a free Sunday we may as well see if we can box em off.)Anyone about?Will be about in an hour if you are still up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinky Dad Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Sorry mate, just got into bed. Up early tomorrow. What about tomorrow evening? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmxxx Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Sorry mate, just got into bed. Up early tomorrow. What about tomorrow evening?Ye thats good for me. Will be on after the city/chelsea game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinky Dad Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Cool... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C/WMark Please! Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Porto/Lyon - Can we play the games on Tuesday? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanhalen2007 Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Yeah sure mate, can do them back to back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUFCfan Posted December 12, 2011 Author Share Posted December 12, 2011 Week 10 (Monday 12th December -> Sunday 18th December)  Atletico Madrid v Napoli Borussia Dortmund v Lyon CSKA v Villarreal Lazio v Benfica Lille v Roma PSG v Porto Sevilla v Fiorentina Sporting v Malaga Valencia v Bayer Leverkusen Zenit v Marseille  Bayer Leverkusen v Sevilla Benfica v Zenit Fiorentina v Borussia Dortmund Lyon v Lille Malaga v Valencia Marseille v CSKA Napoli v Lazio Porto v Sporting Roma v Juventus Villarreal v PSG  Borussia Dortmund v Bayer Leverkusen CSKA v Benfica Juventus v Lyon Lazio v Atletico Madrid Lille v Fiorentina PSG v Marseille Sevilla v Malaga Sporting v Villarreal Valencia v Porto Zenit v Napoli  Week 9 remainders:  Bayer Leverkusen v CSKA Fiorentina v PSG Juventus v Sevilla Lille v Borussia Dortmund Malaga v Zenit Porto v Lazio Villarreal v Atletico Madrid  Bayer Leverkusen v Sporting Benfica v Atletico Madrid Juventus v Lille Lyon v Sevilla Malaga v PSG Marseille v Lazio Porto v CSKA Villarreal v Zenit  Week 8 remainders (last week for these):  Atletico Madrid v Porto Benfica v Marseille Napoli v Villarreal PSG v Lyon Sevilla v Lille  CSKA v Malaga Lazio v Villarreal Napoli v Benfica PSG v Bayer Leverkusen   Notes:  The updated table is up and is on the first post.  As we enter the last set of fixtures, Marseille are still top but on goal difference over Valencia, who have now completed all of their games. Roma drop to third but can still finish above Valencia, and although they can also finish above Marseille it does seem unlikely. PSG remain fourth and the seemingly inactive Benfica remain fifth. The bottom two stay the same and Sporting have continued their decent end of season run by climbing further away from some of the teams near the bottom.  There are three sets of games in this final week due to the end of next week being Christmas, so I wanted to keep it away from then to avoid people having to play a scheduled round of fixtures on Christmas week. Because of the extra fixtures I've decided just to be strict on the three week rule to prevent major fixture pile up that was starting to happen. As far as a deadline for week ten fixtures to be played, I know it's a day early but midnight on 31st Dec/1st Jan seems like a good natural end point for this season. Hopefully we'll be finished before then.  The big match in this final week is the fixture between defending champion wmxxx's PSG and favourite for the current title Marseille. PSG will have to take Marseille's unbeaten record away from them to give themselves a great chance of retaining their title. Near the bottom of the table, Leverkusen face Sevilla in a battle to avoid last place, and Porto face former strugglers Sporting in their bid to get out of the bottom two.  Villarreal are now no longer part of the league. Anyone want to take them over? I'll check with Benfica to see if they're still around. Doesn't look likely though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackcountrywwfc Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Lille and Juventus just let me know on here or PSN whens the best time,day to play our fixtures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanhalen2007 Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Ive got a lot of games to get through this week, is anyone up for doing a stash of them tonight? Either Porto or Lyon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinky Dad Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Fiorentina are about tonight....Sevilla, Lille and Dortmund..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmellaisagoddess Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Marseille will be about just after 11pm to give *deep breath* Lazio, Benfica, PSG, Zenit and CSKA a heads up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinky Dad Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Who's mate is Sevilla? Not getting a response on PSN when sending messages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carbs Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Who's mate is Sevilla? Not getting a response on PSN when sending messagesI'll give him a heads up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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