Eleven type + intensity + continuity = annihilation of rival

July 7, 1974. Munich Olympic Stadium, the end of the World Cup. Clockwork Orange is ahead in the score at minute 2 without that Germany had not even touched the ball in the most famous boot in history. FC Barcelona, the custodian of that style known as Total Football, gave us a sense of déjà vu yesterday when he was able to score a goal without the Sevilla FC had moved from midfield. In the nearly four minutes Barca soon found their goal, the Hispalenses had only touched the ball to clear a couple of times, but before he could give his first pass, Lionel Messi had already bored the goal defended by Javi Varas.

Gregorio Manzano last night was without two players who are often particularly well to the club: Andrés Palop, a goalkeeper who thrives on difficult days, and Jesus Navas, a knife used to draw blood from the left wing Blaugrana. On the contrary, Pep Guardiola fielded for the first time this season is that many consider the eleventh type: eight more World Cup Alves, Abidal and Messi. The equation is simple: once type + intensity + continuity = annihilation of the rival. With the best on the field, if all players notable grate above, the club is simply unstoppable.

Last week we talked about how Guardiola was enriching his team tactically , providing multiple alternatives for solving the duels in which the rival came with the lesson learned. Last night I went back to 4-3-3, balugrana DNA core, but with goal face and saw that Manzano had opted for a 4-4-2 in the most classic, then decided to give it a new twist to your computer: Each time your team had the ball, Alves forward position with Abidal , Puyol and Pique tilting to perfection for three to tie between the two rams Seville, Kanoute and Luis Fabiano, while the Brazilian side broke the balance in midfield. With indoor exercise Alves, Villa was free to leave a false position right end, creating great confusion in Sevilla, who lost his left wing to be forced to be continually Capel Alves pending.

Since this band was Barca's second goal thanks to a big play from David Villa who, from lane eight with his bad leg, overtook the Sevilla goal with a perfect parable he used to conjure up their ghosts under the watchful gaze Tuilla their countrymen. And just before the break, Peter made a huge pipe to Konko, who left to conquer by powerlessness, he dropped the leg and forced the referee to get the second card in just five minutes, leaving Sevilla to ten. With the club in a state of grace, two goals down in the score and a man down, the comeback seemed impossible Seville. Any hint of doubt about that was settled when, shortly after the restart, Alves finished off his former teammates with a fielder's crook and a top karateka.

With the game decided and the satisfaction of work well done, Guardiola was allowed the luxury of doing a double shift when there were still thirty minutes, something really unusual for him. Xavi and Mascherano was ordered to rest half an hour to continue buying the automatic requiring it to post, the same way, Bojan came to Peter, and we excel Nine endorsed him in the post about the Cup match in Ceuta: not seeing door, but brings many good things from what you read the play of his team, the second goal from Messi, Bojan scored a clever diagonal to uncheck that took Cáceres and allowed the Argentine to find the HUCor necessary to accommodate the ball into the goal. Krkic movement was not lost on coach and so he did know how well we could see on TV. The rout ended with Villa's second goal, also with the left, in a move to separate but identical decision making to the previous Messi.

The Barcelona, with eleven that would leave the vote of his followers, again approached its highest level boasting of the virtues that led him to conquer the world for two seasons, advanced lines, suffocating pressure, recovery of possession in three rooms, game between the lines ... all based on a high possession and moving the ball at a speed that no other team in the world can achieve. He played with intensity and for the first time all season, maintained the level throughout the match, a continuity that I missed him. For Sevilla's little hand is a serious blow yesterday, although one should not draw too many conclusions: Manzano was brave but a goal alignment as Early in season at the Camp Nou change any script provided.

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