輸了呢,不過文章還是要貼的
就像標題說的,太戲劇性了
連球迷在前半賽季應該都認定這隊伍會降級
踢了20輪積分才17,排名19
現在已經大幅脫離降級區了

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=529869&root=europe&cc=4716

Stranger than fiction

Phil Ball

It goes to show you never can tell.

Having predicted that Deportivo would go down this season after a wretched first twenty games and seventeen measly points, scrapping goalkeepers and an anonymous looking line-up, four months down the line they beat Barcelona to record their 32nd point from the 45 disputed since this column condemned them to the drop. Statistics proclaim them the best side of the second half of the season, still anonymous looking but a lot more effective.

 

 

Xisco's beginning to look vaguely useful at last, the Swede Wilhelmsson (who?) - on loan from Nantes since January was their best player against Barça, and the much-travelled Coloccini looks the part at last, despite his stubbornly dodgy haircut. Apart from that I'm not particularly sure why they're so improved, but half-hearted teams like Barcelona can only help their UEFA-chasing cause.

 

 

All power to the Galicians. Their manager, Miguel Angel Lotina, is one of the nicest blokes ever to sit on a dug-out bench, and deserves more from life than he has habitually been given - the reason, one assumes, for his permanent basset-hound expression. He'll be getting a nosebleed if Deportivo climb any further, so accustomed has he become to struggling around in the basement of life. Next week's game at Zaragoza looks full of possibilities, especially given Sevilla's crippling inconsistency this season. Then again, Zaragoza need to win, and badly.

 

 

It's an old canard, I know, but the prioritising of the Champions League by Barcelona (they rested Messi, Eto'o and Xavi, left Deco on the bench, and conveniently had Milito and Iniesta out suspended) would probably have been copied by Manchester United had they not suffered the inconvenience of having to travel to Chelsea.

 

 

Of course, the Barça 'B' team is hardly a second-rate outfit, as Lotina ironically pointed out at a press conference on Saturday when asked if he was looking forward to the relatively easy game in prospect. 'Easy game?' he scoffed, smiling all the time. 'If that's the Barça B team, then can they come and play for us next season?' Well, ok, point taken.

 

 

There was Henry, Bojan and Gudjohnsen, but nothing much in the engine-room to supply them. They made a show of it in the first half, but for most of the second they just trotted around, waiting for Depor to put them out of their misery, an act finally committed in the 75th minute. It sentenced Barcelona to a final stand of dignity at Old Trafford on Tuesday night, and left them four points shy of Villarreal, who won an awkward-looking game at Betis to keep the league alive for another week.