Barcelona vs Tenerife 4-1 Result Score Goals 04/05/2010 La Liga

Barcelona took another big stride towards a second-straight La Liga triumph when top scorer Lionel Messi struck twice in a 4-1 home win over relegation threatened Tenerife on Tuesday.

Carles Puyol’s howler gifted the visitors an equalizer after Messi had put Barca ahead in the 17th minute before Bojan Krkic and substitute Pedro netted with clinical second-half strikes.

Messi added a fourth in added time at a rain-lashed Nou Camp when he controlled a Daniel Alves pass and lifted the ball high into the net for his 31st league goal of the campaign.

Barca’s points total from 36 matches surpasses the 92 accumulated by Real under Fabio Capello in the 1996-97 campaign when there were 22 teams rather than 20.

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Liverpool vs Atletico Madrid 2-1 Result Score Goals 29/04/2010 Europa league semi-finals

Europa League semi-finals return matches Liverpool – Atletico Madrid 2-1 Thursday April 29th 2010, Anfield Road Liverpool, Despite a 2-1 loss at Anfield Road, Atletico Madrid reached the final of the UEFA Europa League Thursday. After 90 minutes the score was 1-0 for Liverpool, in the prolongation both team scored once, giving the advantage to Atletico on the away goal rule.

Just as last week in Madrid, it was Diego Forlan that made the difference for Atletico. The final will be played on May 12th in Hamburg against English side Fulham, that edged past Hamburger SV with 2-1, enough to reach the final after last week’s 0-0 in the Nordbank Arena.

Liverpool started the game against Atletico furiously, Benayoun missing a chance after only ten seconds of play and the Mersey side forcing three corners in the first two minutes. The twenty minute mark meant the end of Liverpool´s opening-storm, and Atletico was able to control the game a bit better, but in the 44th minute Aquilani scored the well deserved 1-0 for Liverpool.
In the second half play was more balanced and there were some chances for both teams. The score was a difficult one to handle for Liverpool, for Atletico Madrid scoring, meant Liverpool would have to score twice. The end of the game was reached with the same 1-0 on the scoring board as last week in Vicente Calderon, requiring a prolongation.

Liverpool took a 2-0 lead in the 95th minute with a goal by Benayoun, but it was Diego Forlan who put Atletico virtuallay in the the Hamburg final again with a spectacular goal in the 102nd minute. In the second half of the prolongation Liverpool looked exhausted and was not able to create any more chances.

It is Atletico´s first European Final since 1986, when they lost the Cup Winners Final against Dynamo Kiev. They also lost the 1974 European Cup Final to Bayern Munich, their only international trophy being the 1962 Cup Winners Cup.

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Fulham vs Hamburger SV 2-1 Result Score Goals 29/04/2010 Europa league semi-finals

Hamburger SV has not placed itself for the final of the UEFA Europa League, that will be played on May 12th in the Nordbank Arena in Hamburg. English side Fulham beat the Germans 2-1, after trailing 0-1 until the 70th minute of play. In the last twenty minutes Hamburg lost control of the match and saw Davies and Gera (76th minute) score, giving Fulham the edge after the 0-0 of last week in Hamburg.

The sacking of coach Bruno Labadia after a string of bad results thus did not lead Hamburg to the desired final at home, seen by HSV fans and directives alike as a season saving opportunity. But it was not to be. Interim-coach Ricardo Moniz made no changes in the Hamburg line-up, and saw the team fall short, like on so many occasions the last few months.

It is the second year in a row that Hamburg fails in the Europa League semi-final, last year they lost to neighbouring Werder Bremen. Fulham will play current Spanish number ten Atletico Madrid, that lost 2-1 to Liverpool after prolongation, just enough after the 1-0 victory last week in Madrid.

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Villarreal vs Barcelona 1-4 Result Score Goals 01/05/2010 La Liga

Barcelona bounced back in style from their heartbreaking Champions League exit with a 4-1 win at Villarreal on Saturday which put them four points clear at the top of La Liga.

Villarreal striker Nilmar Honorato missed a couple of excellent chances before Barcelona, dumped out of the Champions League semi-finals by Inter Milan in midweek, asserted themselves.

A deflected Lionel Messi shot put the Catalans in the lead and then a Xavi Hernandez free-kick doubled the advantage.

Bojan Krkic, playing instead of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, rounded his marker before beating the keeper for Barça’s third, still before half-time.

Joseba Llorente pulled a goal back but Messi wrapped up the scoring with three minutes to go.

Meanwhile, Real Madrid coach Manuel Pellegrini believes there is still a long way to go in the championship race.

“The team which is leading obviously has more chances of winning the league but from now on all the games are going to be difficult as teams are fighting for European places or against relegation,” he said.

“The key now is to keep playing at a high level in the games left.”

A brace from substitute Nicola Zigic saw Valencia beat Espanyol 2-0 and consolidate third place.

Espanyol suffered their first defeat at home since last December having appeared in control of the game until Zigic struck.

After just three minutes Moises Hurtado grazed a post and then early in the second half Jose Callejon missed the target with just the keeper to beat.

Valencia coach Unai Emery replaced David Villa with Zigic on the hour mark and it had almost immediate reward with the beanpole striker slotting home a Vicente Rodriguez cross.

After having another goal wrongly called off-side, Zigic was on target again to ensure the victory.

Meanwhile, Getafe’s Europa League hopes suffered a blow after they were held 0-0 away to relegation threatened Valladolid.

The home side have discovered a new steel under coach Javier Clemente and stretched their unbeaten run in the league to five games.

Valladolid could have won the match with a second-half strike from Pele which came back off the post.

Tenerife beat Racing Santander 2-1 but remain in the bottom three on goal difference after Malaga drew 1-1 with Sporting Gijon.

A fine header from Roman Martinez put Tenerife in front and Ayoze Garcia added to the lead from the penalty spot before Xisco Jimenez pulled a goal back.

Meanwhile, a strike from Salvador Caicedo earned Malaga a point after an own-goal from Antonio Apono had earlier put Sporting in front.

A late injury time header from Mario Bermejo saw bottom side Xerez beat Almeria 2-1 but they are still five points from safety.

Emiliano Armenteros put Xerez ahead with Fernando Soriano equalising before Bermejo’s late show.

Deportivo la Coruna’s dismal run continued as they were beaten 1-0 at home with Adrian Colunga scoring the only goal of the game.

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Barcelona vs Inter Milan 1-0 Result Score Goals 28/04/2010 Barca Out Champions League final

FC Barcelona – Inter Milan 1-0 aggregate by 3-2 Wednesday April 28th, Estadio Camp Nou Barcelona , Inter Milan has reached the final of the UEFA Champions League Wednesday, losing 1-0 to Barcelona in Camp Nou, but winning on aggregate by 3-2.

Too little too late could be the summary describing Barcelona´s efforts against an extremely defensive Internazionale. As expected Barcelona had possession of the ball virtually all game, but it created too few chances against the defensive wall Inter coach Mourinho had erected in front of goalkeeper Julio Cesar. In the first half only Messi came close to scoring for Barcelona, but the Argentinean missed, confirming he no longer is in the top form he was in during the greater part of the season. Inter reached halftime with 0-0, but saw Thiago Motta sent off after a foul on Busquets, giving Barcelona some hope of a spectacular ´remontada´.

But it wasn’t until the latter part of the second half that the sparks started flying in Camp Nou. Barcelona coach Guardiola again sent striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic to the showers early, as the Swede could not untie himself of his two and sometimes three defenders. Betting on the fast and technical home-grown attackers Bojan and Jeffren, Guardiola hoped to unsettle the ´Milan wall´, but it wasn’t until the 84th minute that Piqué scored for a by now fervently attacking Barca, leading to a hectic finish of the game. The last few minutes saw a goal by Bojan disallowed and Messi miss another big chance.

Where the referee was Barcelona´s black sheep a week ago in Milan, the Catalans could not complain about Belgian De Bleeckere, who missed Piqué being offside when scoring the 1-0 and sent off  Motta, leaving Inter a man down for most of the game. A few strange corner decisions in Inter´s favor did not compensate for those two moments.

Inter will play the final of the Champions League against Bayern Munich on May 22nd in Real Madrid´s Estadio Santiago Bernabeu. The game will pitch Bayern´s Louis van Gaal against his former interpreter and team assistant at Barcelona, José Mourinho. Both coaches have won the Champions League once before, van Gaal in 1995 with Ajax and Mourinho in 2004 with FC Porto. The winning manager will enter a select trio of trainers who have won Europe’s biggest club trophy with two different teams, now consisting of Austrian Ernst Happel and German coach Ottmar Hitzfeld. It will be Inter´s first European Cup final since 1972. The Italians won the trophy in 1964 and 1965. Bayern won the ´Cup with the Big Ears´ a total of four times, the last time in 2001.

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