Guardiola sent-off as Barcelona lose leadership
Barcelona rescued a point at Almeria, but surrendered their Primera leadership to Real Madrid last night.
Ref Clos Gomez delayed the start of the match for almost a quarter of an hour, harshly sent off coach Pep Guardiola and striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic and incorrectly awarded a free-kick to Barcelona which led to their first equaliser.
Domingo Cisma had put Almeria ahead after 12 minutes, with the home side's second coming 12 minutes into the second period via a Carles Puyol own-goal.
But Lionel Messi's double gave 10-man Barca a point.
On his dismissal, Guardiola said, "Ask the referee why.
"It was an entertaining game. We created chances, and I should congratulate the team because they never gave up.
"At times when you have ten men, the opponent tries to go for the win. In general, we found it difficult to play against a well organized and motivated team.
"They had chances with Piatti and Crusat.
"I am not unhappy."
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Results & Fixtures
Matches
| Home | Away | Score | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sat May 12th | |||
| Real Sociedad | Valencia | 18:00 | |
| Real Betis | Barcelona | 2 - 2 | 20:00 |
| Sun May 13th | |||
| Levante | Athletic Club | 18:00 | |
| Racing Santander | Osasuna | 2 - 4 | 18:00 |
| Real Madrid | Mallorca | 4 - 1 | 18:00 |
| Málaga | Sporting Gijón | 18:00 | |
| Rayo Vallecano | Granada | 18:00 | |
| Villarreal | Atlético Madrid | - 1 | 18:00 |
| Getafe | Real Zaragoza | - 2 | 18:00 |
| Espanyol | Sevilla | 1 - 1 | 18:00 |
Tables
| Team | P | W | D | L | GD | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Real Madrid | 38 | 32 | 4 | 2 | 89 | 100 |
| Barcelona | 38 | 28 | 7 | 3 | 85 | 91 |
| Valencia | 38 | 17 | 10 | 11 | 15 | 61 |
| Malaga | 38 | 17 | 7 | 14 | 1 | 58 |
| Atletico Madrid | 38 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 56 |
| Levante | 38 | 16 | 7 | 15 | 4 | 55 |
| Osasuna | 38 | 13 | 15 | 10 | -17 | 54 |
| Mallorca | 38 | 14 | 10 | 14 | -4 | 52 |
| Sevilla | 38 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 1 | 50 |
| Athletic Club | 38 | 12 | 13 | 13 | -3 | 49 |
| Getafe | 38 | 12 | 11 | 15 | -11 | 47 |
| Real Sociedad | 38 | 12 | 11 | 15 | -6 | 47 |
| Real Betis | 38 | 13 | 8 | 17 | -9 | 47 |
| Espanyol | 38 | 12 | 10 | 16 | -10 | 46 |
| Rayo Vallecano | 38 | 13 | 4 | 21 | -20 | 43 |
| Real Zaragoza | 38 | 12 | 7 | 19 | -25 | 43 |
| Granada | 38 | 12 | 6 | 20 | -21 | 42 |
| Villarreal | 38 | 9 | 14 | 15 | -14 | 41 |
| Sporting Gijon | 38 | 10 | 7 | 21 | -27 | 37 |
| Racing Santander | 38 | 4 | 15 | 19 | -35 | 27 |
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Comments (18)
The coach should do something about the team. Ibra is too slow he should not ve sold eto.We are sufferin from it now. Pls buy a better striker next season. i know we are still in this race. Barca 4 life
RM is "on top" of the table for the first time in months because of a two-goal differential lead. Barca still holds the head-to-head lead (which actually decides a league title in the event of a tie). You can promise a win at the Bernabeu, but I'm sure you also promised a win last year....
It will be a good race, but neither side has won anything yet.
hahaaaa ! it looks like I've got my hands on some catalan dwarfs.. seems there are too many over here...
fact is that we're top of the table now, so you can explode all of you.. you dirty hickies ! hehe!
and actually you can still be happy with your current position cause the worse is still to come for you, I promise you, when you come to pop at the Bernabeu. that's to say... we're gonna eat some catalan kunt next month... :p
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