Racing Santander v Barcelona

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Racing Santander will take on the might of Barcelona in their first game of the 2010/11 La Liga season. You can watch it with live streaming La Liga action from oleolefootball.watchlive.net. The Catalan Giants will be confident of a comfortable win over a team that finished in sixteenth place last year. Having said that, Santander will try hard to improve and in front of a largely partisan crowd they could have a surprise up their sleeve.

The game at El Sardinero will be manager Miguel Ángel Portugal’s first challenge of the season. He will be glad though that Barcelona has agreed to loan his team Henrique ahead of the game for a second season at the club. Pablo Pinillos Caro at 36 will continue to captain the team this year as the defender still commands a respectable presence at the back. Kennedy Bakircioglu who arrived from Ajax and Papa Kouli Diop will have a tough job to handle Xavi and Iniesta in the middle of the park.

Barca manager Josep Guardiola has plenty to look forward to again this year although financial problems behind the scenes could prove a distraction. It is Rumoured that striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic could be on his way to Italy which could ease the Catalan team’s wage bill. Rumours that Argentina captain Javier Mascherano is on his way to the Camp Nou grow stronger by the day and many at the club believe it could happen before the weekend. If it does happen then Barcelona would once again have by far the most formidable midfield in Europe. See how they perform in their first game together for the new season with live streaming football at oleolefootball.watchlive.net.