Samuel Eto'o missed a penalty with the last kick of the game which meant that Barça 2-1 lost tonight at Mallorca. Having won the league last night Pep Guardiola fielded a weakened team, so perhaps a defeat was to be expected. However, Barça had plenty of chances to win the game, nearly all of them for Eto'o, but it was not the Cameroonian's day. He took his first chance well to put Barça ahead after ten minutes but second half goals from Arengo and Cleber Santana turned the game in Mallorca's favour.   

As neither team had anything to play for it was to be expected that the intensity of the game was not high. Barça seemed concerned with simply trying to help Eto'o,...

Only Manchester United stand in the way of a historic treble for Football Club Barcelona. Despite going a goal down in the ninth minute, Barça hit back through Toure Yaya and then blew Athletic away with three second half goals in the space of ten minutes. It is three years since we last won a trophy, it is the first that we can celebrate on this blog on the second anniversary of its beginning. May it be the first of many.

Barça started the game slowly, with Atletic showing more aggression and winning the midfield battle. In the 8th minute a build up on the right ended with Javi Martinez whipping in a shot that Pinto did well to tip round the post. From the corner Toquero rose at the far post...

Football Club Barcelona will have to wait another week to be crowned champions of La Liga. With the fireworks and cava prepared for the celebrations, Joseba Llorente equalized for Villarreal in the 92nd minute to spoil the party which had seemed certain with just 13 minutes to go when Barça were leading 3-1, but then Eric Abidal gave away a penalty and was sent off which gave Villarreal the chance for their comeback. However, the worst news from today is that Andres Iniesta ended the game with a torn muscle and he will have to wait until tomorrow to find out the seriousness of the injury, and for now we will have to pray he is ok for the Champions League final on May...

Andres Iniesta will go down in Football Club Barcelona's history. Andres Iniesta tonight made Catalunya rock. In the 93rd minute, with Barça's first shot on goal in the entire game Andres Iniesta scored a goal to book a place in the Champions League Final in Rome on May 27 against Manchester United. With the team down to ten men due to the sending off of Eric Abidal in the 66th minute the game was looking lost, but Barça kept trying to go forward and finally got the break we had all been waiting for.

Chelsea will no doubt feel robbed. A clear handball from Gerard Piqué in the 82nd minute could well have ended our dream but the referee waved play on. To rub salt in the wound in the 95th minute Ballack volleyed against Samuel Eto'o's...

Football Club Barcelona made history tonight destroying Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu. Despite an early Madrid goal from Gonzalo Higuain, Barça controlled the game from start to finish and with a seven point lead now with just four games to go it is almost impossible now that Barça will not end the season as champions of La Liga. Leo Messi and Thierry Henry both scored twice and centre backs Carles Puyol and Gerard Piqué chipped in with a goal apiece, but it was the midfield performance of Xavi, Iniesta and Toure Yaya that really made the difference between the two teams. Real Madrid coach Juande Ramos claimed before the match that he had a "plan anti-Barça", but it didn't matter how...

For the second season running an English team came to Camp Nou for a Champions League semi-final and managed to frustrate us completely. Chelsea rarely looked to attack but they defended well and generally limited Barça to shots from outside the area which rarely troubled Petr Cech. Barça's substitutes Bojan Krkic and Alexandr Hleb both had chances to score a vital goal near the end but without luck. The tie will now be decided at Stamford Bridge where Barça will have to make do without Carles Puyol who will be suspended and Rafa Marquez who looks like missing the rest of the season with a knee injury. 

Chelsea started the game well and even put a good move together after...

A goal from Thierry Henry five minutes from the end earned Barça a point tonight in Mestalla which could turn out to be vital in our quest to win our 19th La Liga title. Leo Messi gave us an early lead but after 675 minutes without conceding a goal in the league we conceded twice in three minutes just before half time and we came close to paying dearly for this lapsus.

Pep Guardiola made three changes to the team that hammered Sevilla 4-0 at Camp Nou on Wednesday. Carles Puyol, Sergio Busquets and Leo Messi came in for Rafa Marquez, Toure Yaya and Thierry Henry. The three who were left out can content themselves with the thought that they will almost definitely be in the starting line-up against Chelsea...

Barça gave us yet another exhibition of football tonight, steamrollering third-placed Sevilla with four goals in 54 minutes to win 4-0. Those who believe that Barça depend on Leo Messi were shown tonight that we have another player who is pushing for the crown of the world's best player. Andres Iniesta played in Messi's position in attack and gave a magnificent display, scoring one and setting up the other three goals, earning himself an ovation from the Camp Nou crowd when he was substituted after 60 minutes. 

There were three changes to the team that won 0-1 at Getafe,

A goal from Leo Messi after 19 minutes was enough to earn Barça a 0-1 win over Getafe tonight to take us just a little bit closer to our 19th La Liga title. The three points are vital but the effort we had to put in was greater than it should have been but for some detrimental refereeing decisions especially in the first half. Pep Guardiola chose to go with more or less his strongest team with only Toure Yaya being rested in favour of Sergio Busquets, Rafa Marquez came back into the middle of defence with Carles Puyol moving to left back in place of Eric Abidal, while Thierry Henry returned to the team with Andres Iniesta moving back to midfield in place of Tuesday's goalscorer Seydou Keita.

After just five minutes...

Barça will face Chelsea in the semi final of the Champions League after a goal from Seydou Keita earned us a 1-1 against Bayern Munich in the Allianz Arena stadium. Franck Ribery put the German team in front just after the break but they never looked like overcoming the four goal deficit from the first leg. The negative side was yellow cards for Dani Alves and Carles Puyol who now both have two yellow cards along with Sergio Busquets and these three players run the risk of missing the second leg with Chelsea if they are booked at Camp Nou on April 28. 

There were just two changes to the team that beat Bayern 4-0 at Camp Nou last week, Eric Abidal returned to the team...