Barca leave Bilbaoin tatters

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HINDUSTAN TIMES, NEW DELHI
TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016
Barca leave Bilbao in tatters
RESULTS
Getafe 3
Leon 29
Sarabia 37
Gomez 90
Espanyol 1
Perez 26
Barcelona 6 Atletico Bilbao 0
Suarez 47, 68, 82
Messi pen-7
Neymar 31
Rakitic 62
STANDINGS
Team
P
Atletico
20 15 2 3 22 47
W D L GD Pts
Barcelona 19 14 3 2 35 45
Real Madrid 20 13 4 3 38 43
Villarreal
20 12 4 4 10 40
Celta Vigo 20 10 4 6 2
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Luis Suarez (second from right) was in superb
form against Athletic Bilbao on Sunday. AP PHOTO
SHOW OF STRENGTH Suarez nets hat-trick, Neymar and Messi score a goal each in 6-0 win
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MADRID: Newly-crowned World
Player of the Year Lionel Messi
had to be withdrawn at halftime with a hamstring problem as Luis Suarez’s hat-trick
led Barcelona to a 6-0 thrashing of 10-man Athletic Bilbao
on Sunday.
Atletico Madrid stay a point
clear at the top thanks to Antoine
Griezmann’s double in a 3-0 victory at Las Palmas. Messi paraded his record fifth Ballon d’Or
before kick-off and the game
at the Camp Nou barely lasted
three minutes as a contest.
Suarez was brought down as
he rounded Gorka Iraizoz and
the Athletic goalkeeper was
shown a red card for denying a
clear goalscoring opportunity.
Messi converted the resulting
spot-kick and Suarez was also
heavily involved for the second as he played in Neymar to
dink his 19th goal of the season
past substitute ‘keeper Iago
Herrerin.
Messi wasn’t risked for
the second-half after feeling
a hamstring strain. However,
the Argentine wasn’t missed
as brilliant play from Neymar
teed up Suarez and Ivan Rakitic
to make it 4-0. Suarez rounded
off the scoring with two more
CATALAN FIRE POWER TO THE FORE
Barcelona’s victory over Athletic Bilbao was an excellent display of their superior attacking
prowess. With the teams to clash again in the Copa del Rey quarterfinals on Wednesday,
HT looks at how Barca have shifted gears in their bid to improve on their successes from last year:
FABULOUS 2015
BIG SQUAD
Luis Enrique’s side started this year
having established themselves as the
world’s best club of 2015.
In spite of Messi bowing out at half
time, Barca’s attack continued
unaffected.
The Catalan giants won five trophies
in the 2015 calendar year, more than
any other top-level professional
football team.
Luis Suarez grabbed a second half hattrick while Neymar and Ivan Rakitic
contributed in either half to complete
a comfortable Catalan victory.
MESSI UPDATE
TITLE RACE
Lionel Messi was substituted at
half time but tests on
Monday ruled out a hamstring strain with manager Luis Enrique insisting
the substitution was
purely a precaution.
The 2015 Fifa Ballon
d’Or recipient had
already opened the scoring for Barcelona in his 45
minutes on the pitch and
set the pace for Barca to
dominate the rest of the game.
to move out in front as La Liga’s
top-scorer with 18.
Real Madrid remain two
points behind Barca as Zinedine
Zidane’s dream start to life as
boss continued as Los Blancos
scored four times in the opening
18 minutes on their way to a 5-1
rout of Sporting Gijon.
However, Zidane’s joy was
In winning the Fifa Club World Cup in
December 2015, Barca were away
from the La Liga and have temporarily
dropped to second spot, two points
behind Atletico Madrid with a
match in hand.
The Blaugrana will most likely take
back the top spot in La Liga soon
while they continue their hunt for
the Copa del Rey, and try to replicate
their Champions League success
when they resume European action
against Arsenal in the Round of 16
on February 23.
also tempered by what looked
like the recurrence of a calf
problem for Bale that kept him
out for a month earlier this season after he scored his 11th goal
in eight games. Atletico maintained their title challenge as a
rock-solid defensive display and
Griezmann’s goals were again the
keys again for Diego Simeone’s
men. Jan Oblak ensured a 14th
clean sheet in 20 games this season with two vital early saves
before Filipe Luis fired home his
first goal since returning to the
club in July to give the visitors
a half-time lead. And with Las
Palmas pushing for an equaliser,
Koke played in Griezmann twice
to finish in the final quarter to
take his tally for the season to 18.
WAITING ON MESSI, SUAREZ
BEFORE CUP CLASH
Holders Barcelona could be missing two thirds of their prolific
attacking trio for Wednesday’s
King’s Cup quarter-final, first
leg at Athletic Bilbao, when they
continue their bid for a fourth
triumph in eight years.
Lionel Messi had to come off at
halftime in Sunday’s 6-0 demolition
of the Basque club in La Liga and
while tests on Monday ruled out a
hamstring strain the Argentina
captain remains a doubt for the
clash at the San Mames. Luis
Suarez may also be absent after
the Uruguay striker was handed
a two-match ban for allegedly provoking a fracas in the tunnel following the first leg of Barca’s last
16 tie against Espanyol this month.
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KOLKATA: One month and five
days after the fracas following the final of ISL2 where
Chennaiyin FC beat FC Goa
3-2, the disciplinary committee of the All India Football
Federation (AIFF) will meet
in New Delhi.
In a meeting scheduled for
January 25, FC Goa co-owner
Dattaraj Salgaocar, team manager Jonathan Sousa and equipment manager Rajesh Malgi
have been asked to be present.
“We must give FC Goa adequate chance to present their
case. I am not ruling out multiple hearings,” said an AIFF
official requesting anonymity.
T he AIFF’s decision on
Monday follows FC Goa replying last week to the federation’s showcause notice. The
showcause asked the team
to explain whether its players and officials had misbehaved with Japanese referee
Yamamoto Yudai, why the team
didn’t attend the post-match
presentation ceremony and
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LONDON: Arsenal manager Arsene
Wenger hopes playmaker Mesut
Ozil (in pic) will be fit to face
Chelsea after the German was
forced to miss Sunday’s goalless
draw at Stoke with a foot injury.
Ozil is well clear at the top of
the Premier League’s ‘assists’
charts with 16. And Wenger
hopes the 27-year-old will overcome the injury in order to face
the struggling Premier League
champions at the Emirates
Stadium next weekend after
conceding he was missed during a stalemate in the Potteries.
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the result of the final was predecided were true. According to
two sources in the federation,
FC Goa haven’t accepted most
of what match commissioner
AK Mamukoya and Yudai have
separately said in their reports.
HT has not seen FC Goa’s reply.
Mamukoya said in his report,
a copy of which is with HT,
that after the final whistle, FC
Goa’s officials and substitute
players led by Malgi “rushed
to the referee, surrounded him
and scared him with physical
gestures…. Referees group were
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It was only around midnight,
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also mentions Chennaiyin FC’s
marquee player Elano Blumer
being surrounded by FC Goa
players and officials who were
“pushing him.”
“Top officials of FC Goa
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down the situation but instead
became part of the undesirable atmosphere…,” wrote
Mamukoya. “In my opinion, the
behavior (sic) of FC Goa after
the final whistle was unreasonable, undisciplined, bullish and
frightening to say the least,”
the match commissioner wrote.
A d ay a f t e r t h e f i n a l ,
Salgaocar alleged that Blumer
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brace from his last seven games
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