Gerard Piqué Bernabeu born 2nd February 1987 in Barcelona, is a Spanish footballer, currently playing as a centre back for Barcelona. A product of Barça's cantera (La Masia), he initially left the club for Manchester United in 2004, where he remained for four years, before returning to ...
Barcelona finished the 2007-08 season third in La Liga and reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League and Copa del Rey, both times losing to the eventual champions, Manchester United and Valencia, respectively. The day after a 4-1 defeat to Real Madrid, Joan Laporta announced that...
United 3 Barcelona 0 Date: 21 March 1984 Competition: European Cup Winners’ Cup, quarter-final second leg Pre-match context:A two-goal defeat in the Nou Camp, during which presentable chances came and went for the Reds, left Barcelona in full control of the tie ahead of their mid-March ...
Which kit will Manchester United wear against Barcelona on Thursday? Many fans have been asking that question ahead of the Europa League play-off first leg at the Nou Camp, where up to 99,000 fans are expected to attend. The hosts will naturally wear their iconic blue-and-red home sh...
His historic, treble-winning first season culminated in a famous win over Manchester United in Rome, and Barcelona embarked on an era of unprecedented success with a starting line-up that included seven academy graduates. Guardiola's debut Champions League campaign as a...
A structural analysis of a game: The Liverpool vs manchester united cup final of 1977. Soc. Netw. 2, 253–273 (1979). Article Google Scholar Duch, J., Waitzman, J. S. & Amaral, L. A. N. Quantifying the Performance of Individual Players in a Team Activity. PLoS ONE 5, e10937 ...
The only thing more incredible might be that Manchester United let Pogba leave for a measly £800,000 fee (set by a tribunal) back in 2012, then bought him back for a then-world record four years later. The France midfielder isn't everyone's favourite player, but he's ...
suited for theBlaugranadespite only making his third appearance: Memphis Depay. There understandably wasn’t a lot of fanfare for a 27-year-old arriving on a free transfer from Lyon, particularly in the English-speaking world, where he still unfairly carries the tag of “Manchester United flop...
Messi’s play continued to rapidly improve over the years, and by 2008 he was one of the most dominant players in the world, finishing second toManchester United’sCristiano Ronaldoin the voting for the 2008 Ballon d’Or. In early 2009 Messi capped off a spectacular 2008–09 season by hel...
Why on earth did Messi get MotM for this match? Apart from scoring and winning the penalty (which was very good play, I admit), but for the rest of the match he was really quiet. Kompany and co bossed him for most of the match, and he didn't trouble Hart (apart from the pen) ...