Barca Hammers :9 Goals - In the Net!

FC Barcelona secured their place in the next round of the Spanish Cup with a tremendous 9-0 rout of Hospitalet, with Pedro opening the scoring on 10 minutes and Iniesta, Thiago (2), Xavi, Tello (2) and Cuenca getting the rest. The victory, added to the 0-1 win at Hospitalet was only overshadowed by an injury to Iniesta, who will now be out for the next 15 days.

Guardiola's team go into the next round, alongside Valencia, Mallorca, Espanyol, Seville, Madrid, Malaga, Llevant, Osasuna, Real Sociedad, Racing, Athletic Club, Albacete, Alcorcón, Mirandés and Cordoba.

Stunning start

Guardiola fielded 10 home grown players, only Pinto had not come up through the academy system, and the team showed how serious they were about the game from the off, going 3-0 up within the first 22 minutes: the first was a Pedro penalty, the next an Iniesta effort after Xavi had brilliantly put Cesc through and the third a lovely goal from Thiago after he won back a ball in midfield and shimmied through the visitors'' defence.

Five in the first half

By half time it was five, but also by then Iniesta had had to call for a substitution after he'd knocked into the Hospitalet keeper and tests later revealed he'd be out for up to 15 days. He was replaced by Sergi Roberto, who came close to making it four almost immediately, but in the end it was Xavi who did just that, rounding off a lovely reverse pass from Cesc. And that was that for the Catalan midfielder who soon after his goal was replaced by Tello, who then went on to make it five, charging through from the midfield just a couple of minutes after coming on.

Cuenca claims the sixth

The 56.480 fans who had turned up at the Camp Nou were no doubt wondering just how many goals their team were going to end up putting past Hospitalet and soon after the break, Cuenca made it a half dozen, finishing off some great work from Tello out on the left. Curiously enough the Barça attack was made up of three conventional wingers now -Tello, Pedro and Cuenca.

Thiago, Tello and Cuenca make it nine

However, the team weren't prepared to settle for six! Thiago was brought down by Viale and again handed penalty taking duties to Pedro , whilst Tello scored his second soon after to make it 8-0. Could Barça now beat their 8-0 win over Osasuna? Well yes, of course - Cuenca got his second latching on to yet another great ball form Cesc and the players wrapped up a great night and an even greater 2011 with a stunning nine goal haul – here's to a Happy New Year!

Barca Wash Levante!

F.C.Barcelona 5-0 vs Levante! Great game Even from the stands of campnou! barcelona might be ona great run to win la liga. Fabregas Yet again hit the target:He hit the target agin for the 6th time, in 11 appearences for the club. it is quite impressive alos by the fact that for 212 appearances for arsenal he scored only 35 goals. He might well be on the path to break that record.He hit the trget again tin the 32 minute, followed by Issac Cucena hitting the target from the left after had work from Ineista and Messi. Messi got his target again at the 53rd minute and then Alexis sanchez finished a text book counter attack.

Scoring Summary

Barcelona	Levante
Cesc Fábregas (4')
Cesc Fábregas (33')
Isaac Cuenca (37')
Lionel Messi (55')
Alexis Sánchez (61')

Match Stats

Barcelona

Levante

18(9)	Shots (on Goal)	6(3)
12	Fouls	10
10	Corner Kicks	4
2	Offsides	2
74%	Time of Possession	27%
2	Yellow Cards	3
0	Red Cards	0
3	Saves	4

Teams

Barcelona	Levante
1 Victor Valdés	1 Gustavo Munua
5 Carles Puyol	15 Asier Del Horno
22 Eric Abidal	18 Sergio Ballesteros
14 Javier Mascherano	12 Juanfran
4 Cesc Fábregas	17 Javi Venta
16 Sergio Busquets	10 Vicente Iborra de la Fuente
8 Andrés Iniesta	14 Xavi Torres
6 Xavi	4 Francisco Farinos
10 Lionel Messi	19 Pedro López
9 Alexis Sánchez	23 Valdo
39 Isaac Cuenca	2 Arouna Koné
Substitutes
15 Seydou Keita	Gustavo Cabral 22
13 José Manuel Pinto	Miguel Pallardó 6
7 David Villa	Nabil El Zhar 25
2 Dani Alves	K Navas 13
19 Maxwell	Rodas Ramirez Hector 5
17 Pedro	Rubén Suárez Estrada 21
11 Thiago	Wellington 11
Substitutions
Dani Alves for Carles Puyol (36)	Nabil El Zhar for Vicente Iborra de la Fuente (58)
Seydou Keita for Sergio Busquets (45)	Rubén Suárez Estrada for Javi Venta (65)
Pedro for Cesc Fábregas (72)	Gustavo Cabral for Asier Del Horno (75)
Yellow Cards
Cesc Fábregas (45)	Javi Venta (26)
Victor Valdés (90)	Sergio Ballesteros (32)
	Asier Del Horno (42)

Barcelona responded to Real Madrid's win at Sporting Gijon earlier today by hitting Levante for five at the Nou Camp.

With Madrid having taken control of the title race over recent weeks, Barca kicked off this clash six points behind their bitter rivals having played the same number of games.

But, with El Clasico on the horizon next weekend, they put on a show that suggested they are ready to fight to retain their title.

Cesc Fabregas got them going with a first-half brace, while Isaac Cuenca, Lionel Messi and Alexis Sanchez also found the net.

Having watched on as Madrid notched up another routine win earlier in the day, Pep Guardiola's men knew a strong start was needed if they were to get on top of a Levante side still riding high after a surprise start to the season.

They got it too, taking the lead with just four minutes gone.

Andres Iniesta played a short ball into the feet of Fabregas and, after advancing a pace to the edge of the box, he drilled a precise right-footed shot beyond the reach of Gustavo Munua and into the bottom corner.

Iniesta and Messi both took aim in a bid to extend the lead, with the latter forcing Munua into a smart save, before Fabregas did make it two with 33 minutes gone.

This time he did the damage with his head, rising highest to glance a Xavi free-kick over Munua.

Two quickly became three, with rising star Cuenca doing the damage eight minutes before the half-time whistle.

Having impressed so much in the 4-0 win over Rayo Vallecano in midweek, the 20-year-old added further momentum to his growing reputation by curling in after Messi and Iniesta had fashioned an overlap for him.

Any fanciful hopes Levante had of starting a comeback were ended within 10 minutes of the restart.

Dani Alves ran at their defence and, after his slide-rule pass found Messi, the Argentinian did the rest with a neat finish from eight yards that brought him his 27th goal of the season.

Sanchez then made it five, although his 61st-minute strike did carry a touch of fortune.

Messi worked an opening for him on the left of the area and his chipped effort clipped the head of Sergio Ballesteros and dipped over the reach of Munua.

Messi planted a simple chance wide from two yards with 12 minutes remaining and Pedro also fluffed his lines when presented with the chance of a sixth, while Iniesta had a sweet volley wrongly ruled out for offside but it mattered little.

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Fifafif Pro World XI 2011:11 Barca players!!

In the FIFA FIFPro XI, 11 barca players are on the shortlist, making FCB the club with most no. of players in any club. 4 defenders, 3 Midfielders, 3 fowardsin the FIFA Golden ball 2012.
The 55 players in shortlist;

Goalkeepers: Buffon (Juventus), Casillas (Madrid), Neuer (Bayern), Van der Sar (retired, Man United) and Víctor Valdés (Barça)

Defenders: Abidal (Barça), Alves (Barça), Carvalho (Madrid), Cole (Chelsea), Evra (Man United), Ferdinand (Man United), Kompany (Man City), Lahm (Bayern), Lucio (Inter), David Luiz (Chelsea ), Maicon (Inter), Marcelo (Madrid), Nesta (AC Milan), Pepe (Madrid), Piqué (Barça), Puyol (Barça), Sergio Ramos (Madrid), Thiago Silva (AC Milan), Terry (Chelsea) and Vidic (Man United)

Midfielders: Xabi Alonso (Madrid), Bale (Tottenham), Busquets (Barça), Cesc Fabregas (Barça), Iniesta (Barça), Kaka (Madrid), Lampard (Chelsea), Nani (Man United), Özil (Madrid), Pirlo (Juventus), Schweinsteiger (Bayern), David Silva (Man City), Sneijder (Inter), Yaya Toure (Man City) and Xavi (Barça)

Forwards: Aguero (Man City), Benzema (Madrid), Cavani (Naples), Drogba (Chelsea), Eto'o (Anzhi), Falcao (Athletico), Mario Gomez (Bayern), Ibrahimovic (AC Milan), Messi (Barça), Neymar (Santos), Van Persie (Arsenal), Cristiano Ronaldo (Madrid), Rooney (Man United), Luis Suarez (Liverpool) and David Villa (Barça)
BEST OF LUCK BARCA!{source FCB webite )