La Liga Team of the Week 33

La Liga's star team of the weekend 33 from Yahoo Fantasy Football.

3-4-3 formation

Forwards
Higuain (Real) 35
Spearheading Real's reserve side, bags a hattrick in 6-3 defeat of Valencia.

Aguero (Atleti) 22.5
Brace in 4-1 defeat over Levante makes it 8 goals in 6 for Atleti wunderkid.

Jonas (Val) 19.5
Valencia's Brazilian forward got a goal, an assist and 3 SOTs in just 31 minutes of play.

Mids
Kaka (Real) 29.5
2 goals, 2 assists: emphatic display

Elias (Atleti) 18
Another Brazilian, priced just 4.38!, filled his boots with superb free kick goal.

Tiago Gomes (Hercules) 16.5
Portugease, scored his first of the season, and a match winning goal to boot.

Cazorla (Villarreal) 15.5
His 4th highest score of the year, dominant display from the wing wizard without scoring a goal.

Defs
Nunes (Mallorca) 25
1st goal of season for Mallorca in islanders 2-0 defeat of Getafe

Jose Angel (Sporting Gijon) 14.5
Jose with another excellent display as Gijon scored another tight 1-0 win, this time over Espanyol.

A.Paz (Hercules) 12.5
Paz helps Hercules secure vital win but his side still lie 19th.

V.Valdes (Barca) 20
Keeper had to be at his best, making 5 saves to keep Osasuna at bay.

 Total = 228.5



Spiegelhalter had a better time of it this week with 8 correct results and 5 perfect scores. Coo. (Actual results in bold if different.)

Valencia CF 0 - 1 Real Madrid (3-6)
FC Barcelona 2-0 Osasuna
Athletic Bilbao 2-1 Real Sociedad
Racing Santander 2-1 Málaga CF (1-2)
RCD Mallorca 1-0 Getafe CF (2-0)
Sporting Gijón 1-0 RCD Espanyol
Hércules CF 1-0 Deportivo La Coruña
Atlético Madrid 1-0 Levante UD (4-1)
Sevilla FC 1-1 Villarreal CF (3-2)
Real Zaragoza 1-0 UD Almería

Team of the Saturday night:33

Higuain - (Rea) - 35
Jonas - (Val) - 19
Benzema - (Real) - 19

Kaka (Real) 29.5
Alba (Val) 11
Banega (Val) 8.5
D. Lopez (Bil) 8

Dani Alves (Barca) 8.5
Maxwell (Barca) 7
Damia (Osasuna) 5

V.Valdes (Barca) 20

Spain's Squad to face the Czech Republic and Lithuania

Week 24 Liga preview: Goalkeepers

Gustavo Munua - great form

• Levante's Munua is the second most valuable keeper (valued 15.17) and has been on an excellent run of form since returning to the first team fold in week 21: 10, 18, 16.5
• But Levante come up against Real at the Bernabaeu this week for whom Antonio Adan will be making his first league start. Adan registered a week high of 20 pts at Espanyol last weekend. Good value at 13.65
• Of last week's losers, several high flying keepers are now representing tempting value. Seville's Palop had a mare at Santander and is now 7.58, Valdes dropped to 18.96, and Atletico's De Gea dropped to 11.45. Palop has a relatively straight forward home tie against Hercules, while De Gea's out of form side travels to Zaragoza.
• Reliable home picks include Ricardo at home for Osasuna against Espanyol, Diego Lopez
  at home for Villarreal and Sociedad's Bravo at home to Mallorca.

Week23: Gijon break Barca's record

Sporting Gijon 1-1 Barcelona
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Sporting Gijon 1 - 1 Barcelona

Last night, Gijon did the unthinkable and had the audacity to not lose to Barcelona. The game, which included two exquisite goals, ended Barca's 16 game winning streak. Forzafutbal have a great follow up piece telling us that we should not be all that surprised as Gijon have a wonderful ability to stick such spanners in the works. Of course, before their 3-0 defeat at Bilbao last week, they had previously thrashed Mallorca 4-0 in their own back yard and gave Atletico a surprise defeat courtesy of David Barral (see week 20). It was Barral again who gave Gijon the lead in this game, only for Villa to restore parity 10 minutes before time.

The fantasy stats from the game suggest Gijon truly snuffed out the Barca threat with the champions barely mustering a shot on target. It is a rare occasion where no Barcelona player scores more than 15 pts and a  few negative Fantasy Points records were broken for Barca:

Dropping Pedro a big mistake

• Victor Valdes (-5.5) and Pedro (eulogised by Sid Lowe this weekend) (-1.5) scored negative points for the first time of the season. 

It was the first time since week 15 that Pedro didn't manage a shot on target. Pedro started the game on the bench in the place of new signing Ibrahim Affellay. The dutch winger posted a negative return of -3. Pedro replaced Affellay at half time, but didn't manage any better. Dani Alves also scored a dismal 2.5, his worst score of the season.

All in all, the stats suggest Gijon did something tactically excellent in nullifying Barca's wing attack: something Arsenal will need to look at if they have any hope of overcoming Barca in their upcoming Champions League meetings.

• Messi scored 13 points. His lowest total in a game he's started since week 13.

• Also, despite scoring a goal, David Villa only got 10.5 points, on a return for a player worth 25. He's only scored more than 15 pts once since week 16.