Anoeta Nightmare Continues....

Real Sociedad with a dominant performance and were  unlucky to just get a draw against the catalan giants, extending their unbeaten streak at home to nine (9) years and counting against Barcelona.

Even with El Classico around the corner, Lucho fielded his strongest eleven to try to break the Anoeta curse and reduce the point gap significantly before facing Real Madrid at home on Saturday. Real Sociedad started the game strongly pushing Barcelona back, winning possession and forcing mistakes but they just couldn’t get the break through at half time. A brilliant game by Vela bossing Barcelona weak defence and creating numerous chances during the game and was by far the Man of the match.

Willian Jose opened the scoring in the 53^rd minute of the game after the Barcelona defence was split opened and pique, in an attempt to clear the ball just helped it into the net. Lionel Messi came to Barcelona rescue just six (6) minute later scoring a brilliant gaol after an impressive run by Neymar who set up the goal.

The Barcelona Trident was silent all through the game and was giving away possession cheaply. Barcelona will be thanking the linesman after he made a horrendous error by disallowing Juami goal which he claimed was offside but he was clearly not. Real Madrid outcast Granero came on and could have gotten a hattrick but his poor finishing let him down and he will definitely rue his misses. The game ended 1-1 but no doubt Sociedad deserved to win the game. Real Sociedad beat Barcelona in possession to prove their dominance all through the game.

"If I look at the result, it's the most positive assessment I can give from this season," Lucho told Barca TV. "To finish 1-1 is almost a miracle. Winning would have been unfair and I have to congratulate Real. We couldn't even string five passes together. Without the ball, we were disastrous. "He continued in his media conference: "They pressed us with six players and we didn't find the middle-range and long-range passes, We didn't even win five per cent of the duels. If you don't match up in this type of duel and you concede the advantage, there's little you can do. "In the second half we improved a little but nowhere near enough. We drew the game because of an isolated bit of play between Messi and Neymar, but little else’.

Barcelona will be glad that Neymar didn’t get his fifth yellow card of the game and will play against Real Madrid on Saturday, Barcelona will hope on the return of their captain Iniesta and Umtiti to boost their squad going into a must win weekend clash.

Player Ratings:

Real Sociedad:  Rulli 6, Navas 7, I.Martinez 7, C.Martinez 6, Yuri 6, Illarramendi 6, Zurutuza 7, Prieto 7, Willian Jose 8, Vela 9, Subs: Juanmi 6, Canales 7, Granero 5.

Barcelona: Stegen 6, Roberto 5, Pique 6, Marscherano 5, Alba 5, Busquet 6, Gomes 4, Rakitic 4, Neymar 6, Messi 6, Suarez 4, Subs: Denis 6.

Barcelona will look to end the Anoeta curse when they face each other next season.

Real Madrid Call up the 16-Year Old keeper as possibly 'The Next Donnarumma'

Real Madrid have came up with the rare talent 16-year-old keeper Mohamed Airam Ramos right to first-team training and the young Spaniard has made quite the impression with his Qualities, reports Marca

Manager Zinedine Zidane personally went forward for him to call up to the training he had been under development with the U17s, but the Frenchman thought he would let him get familiar with first-team surroundings and gave him chance to train among the likes of Cristiano, Modric, Navas and others.

The club has already labelled the 16-year-old as the 'next Donnarumma' with the keeper aspiring to replicate the reputation of the Italian shot-stopper. Donnarumma, despite being just 17, has already established himself as number one at the San Siro with a strong first-class performances for the Milan side.

The keeper, better known as 'Moha', stands at 1.88m and has been called into the first-team as a potential competition for the likes of Keylor Navas, Kiko Casilla and Ruben Yanez.

Navas currently occupies the Los Blancos number one shirt but has not been on the level he was in his last season. He conceded three goals in as Real Madrid squandered a two-goal lead away at Polish side Legia Warsaw and needed a late goal to rescue a point.



Zidane's side are letting in a goal a game on average in La Liga but still sit top of the league with two points clear off Barcelona and are unbeaten in their 11 games so far.

The right back problem at Barcelona.

Barcelona players are on their way to join with their national teams after a tricky fixture against a highly motivated side of Sevilla.

The Champions League match against City notably the second half and the first half against Sevilla nearly ripped apart the Pique less defence. Injuries and excuses aside there is one player that was victim of bursts of speed in passes and counters used by City and Sevilla respectively.

The midfielder turned right back is the revealing of the season for Barca. Having played tremendously in his new position until Barça were cooled down by City in Champions League.
It was clear how increase in intensity took good of Roberto. He was often found in a wrong place missing out on counters and not being able to cut off balls toward David Silva.
It was clear that he was struggling in keeping hold of the ball for long often committing mistakes including the one that led to City's first goal straight from the middle of the field position.
The same story was repeated in the Sevilla first half where Sergi Roberto went invisible.
Individual picking isn't good but it is clear Roberto lacks physique and stamina to be able to perform as the perfect right back in the defence that normally does well in presence of Pique.
Problem is that Aleix Vidal has been ousted from Barça squad by Lucho and if Barça fails to sign Aurier from PSG or Jao Cancelo from Valencia such mishaps against counter attacking teams like Madrid,City,Sevilla can be repeated.