Big night of SPANISH CUP action with the remaining five games scheduled with goals galore, multiple hat-tricks & a grand way for Spanish Soccer to go on its Xmas break. Here are quick summaries of the games, the results & the scorers.
Benzema hat-trick man
REAL MADRID won 8 - 0 LEVANTE to assure its pass to the next stage of the Spanish Cup & calm the waters at the Club after a tense couple
The Spanish League concluded Round 16 & 2010 with the Monday night game between RACING DE SANTANDER & HERCULES FC with a final result of 0 - 0. Not much to add here except two sides relatively conservative with a balanced spread of chances that both didn´t take adavantage of & take the full 3 points. In fact, the draw was the just result.
Racing - Hercules conclude the Spanish League
for 2010.
The VIDEO of “El Clasico” FC BARCELONA 5 – REAL MADRID 0.29th of November 2010 – Camp Nou (Barcelona)
The video could be taken off due to rights issues. Please excuse if this happens. Full summary with images on the below post!
This is how American TV Sports Channel ESPN promotes the big Spanish League - Liga Round 13 clash next Monday between FC BARCELONA - REAL MADRID, locally termed "El Clasico":
Not bad at all except ( my opinion) the too obvious stereotype use of the Spanish dance "Flamenco". However I won´t be too harsh on them as we here would have used a giant Hot Dog or a Hamburger to promote the Superbowl.
"Spanish League - La Liga" Round 12 Football action continued this Sunday with six 6 games scheduled. Here are the final results & scorers.
Espanyol scores against Hercules
RCD ESPANYOL are having a fantastic start to the 2010 - 2011 season notching up another victory this time 3 - 0 against HERCULES. Two things to note a) the fantastic game by Espanyol goalie Kameni & b) the red card to
The last four games of the SPANISH CUP 2º leg have been played tonight with the following results & scorers.
Usua scores for Mallorca
The first leg ended MALLORCA - SPORTING GIJON 3 - 1. The return match at Gijon gave a 2 -2 draw with Mallorca eliminating Sporting from the Spanish Cup. USUA scored twice for Mallorca in the 10th & 15th min & for Sporting BILIC ( penalty ) in the 25th min &
The political pressures - especially from Catalonia - has finally contributed to set & move the date that "El Clasico" , FC BARCELONA vs REAL MADRID, match will be played. The big Spanish Football event has been set for MONDAY 29th of NOVEMBER at 21.00 HRS.
FC Barcelona - Real Madrid
The reason is that Catalonia holds its Autonomous Parliament Elections on Sunday the 28th Nov. The local
The Groups draw for the upcoming u-21 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS next year in Denmark has matched the SPANISH NATIONAL TEAM with England, Ukraine & Czech Republic.
In the other Group the four teams are Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland & Byelorussia.
Sergio Canales - u-21 Spanish International
The u-21 Euro Championship will take place from the 11th of June until the 25th & only the first 3 places
The big highlight tonight in Round 10 of the Spanish League - La Liga is its last scheduled Sunday match at 21.00 hrs local Spanish time: the REAL MADRID vs ATLETICO DE MADRID clash.
This "Derby" has a greater significance for Atletico than Real because the latter places more importance playing against its historical arch rivel Barça & because they come into tonight´s match undefeated & current