Write it down people: It’s Week 10 of La Liga and the standings are 1) Levante 2) Real Madrid 3) Barcelona.
Spanish La Liga 2011, Week 10: Barcelona, Lionel Messi Obliterate Mallorca; Real Madrid Edge Real Sociedad
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Barcelona Vs. Mallorca, 2011 La Liga: Surprise! Barcelona Win
What the hell, I’ll do it anyway: Lionel Messi is kind of amazing. A penalty got him on the board, but his other two goals were pretty good, especially the lovely left footed finish from Dani Alves’s 30th minute cross. Messi scored more goals today than Mallorca had shots, although the visitors did manage not to drop below 30% posession. The non-Messi goals were fun too - Isaac Cuenca scored a typical Barcelona goal on his Camp Nou debut and Dani Alves capped off the evening with an amazing long-range strike to make it 5-0 in the last minute of injury time.
Yeah, it’s boring when Barcelona do this. It’s also breathtakingly pretty.
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