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  • July 27, 2007 05:24 PM ET

True Soccer Fans Semi-Final #2- Who will win next year's La Liga title?

Keeper (17-10-1) vs CDH (33-12-3)
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I have to go with Barcelona. Barca are retaining most of their lineup and they have brought in Thierry Henry. With Messi getting only better and Ronaldihno still with Barca they have to be the favorites to win the Spanish Primera.


yes Barelona should have a good team but im going to take real madrid to win la liga. They have a great team and should be a contender for the title once again. Yes Barcelona did get henry but rohaldino's stats have also been dropping over the years.. lets look at some of the madrid players stats:

Rutgerus Van Nistelrooy : was a 25 goal scorer last year in the spanish premier and 41 goals in total

Robinho: a great player help his team mates to play better. he had 10 goals and 7 assists total last year

they also have Raul, Pepe and other talented players.even though they lost some key players they still have a shot at winning it all,


The problem with Madrid is that they have lost a lot of players and they have a lot of older players. Raul is aging and so is Ruud Van Nistelrooy. Barca are still very young. They have Messi, Henry, Deco, Eto'o, and Ronalhino leading the attack among others. I think the Eto'o/Henry combination will score more goals than the Robinho/Van Nistelrooy and this will propel them to the title.


true we did lose alot of players but i still believe the players that we have can get the job done. Yes henry was a big signing for Barcelona and he should score some goals.. I still think that nistelroy and robinho will be the better combination and score most of the goals and get Real Madrid another title.


I think the real key to the La Liga season next year will be the midfield. Barcelona's midfield is much better than Madrid's. Deco, Ronaldhino, and Messi should be the combination that wins Barca the title. Plus Real have lost their two best free-kick takers in David Beckham (finesse) and Roberto Carlos (power). On set pieces, Barca will be better on free kicks and the Barca defense should be better than Real's. I think this season belongs to Barca just because of the star power they have.


yes we lost beckham and carlos but they were getting older and we need to bring in some new guys.. Sure Barca has star power no doubt about that but rohaldino (questionably there biggest star) had had his numbers decline with age, he has put on more wait , and has not been what Barca expected out of the number 1 player in the world. I still think Madrid will defend there title and win La liga they will have some returning veterans along with new talented players and they should go far with them.

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July 27, 2007  05:42 PM ET
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July 27, 2007  06:43 PM ET
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The Savages from Oompa Loompa land.

July 28, 2007  11:56 AM ET
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the thing is real madrid lost beckham. Ronaldinho, henry and messi will te. If you put one of each on a really bad team they could make the team amazing never mind having them on one team

July 28, 2007  02:15 PM ET
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Lionel Messi, Ronaldinho Gaucco, Thierry Henry, Eto'o, and Deco are too strong. Vote for keeper. Also, he's completely right. Losing two of your best free-kick takers is tough (Carlos and Beckham).

July 28, 2007  02:40 PM ET
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real madrid might have lost beckham and roberto carlos , but they are signing jose reyes who is good in free kicks , they are also in the talk to sigh robbin from chelsea , they have raul , rud , robinho , cannavaro (defender) they also signed metzelder who is a god defender , they have guti and emerson and diarra in the midfield , they have iker casillas one of the best goalkeepers in the world and they signed dudek last week , who is a great goalkeeper too . barcelona has the star power but not everystar power team wins , as an example real madrid 3 years ago they had :zidane ronaldo figo beckham roberto carlos raul and they still did not win . btw keeper i dont like ur tds you choose the ebst team so you dont have to argue i am going with cdh

 
July 28, 2007  03:50 PM ET
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I'm not picking the best team. I feel that our throwdown was fair. Chelsea and Man. U are even, I didn't cheat you out of anything. I don't see the problem with this one, it's fair. The two teams are very even. Just because you lost, doesn't mean you have to complain about it. No hard feelings.

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