Barca is a way out of Cuesta February

FC Barcelona decided a game that is very complicated and, incidentally, found a way out of their usual costs of February. The pregame scene could not be more different to that found eight days ago in Gijón. Accustomed to playing before the Madrid and be the ones that marked the distance, rose to address a party with the opportunity to get ten points up, to face this day with the need to win to get away from the two points that came Last night the team coached by Mourinho . In front of the Athletic Club, a rival uncomfortable, which had not been able to win in their last two games in the second round of the Copa del Rey.

Joaquin Caparros has tried everything against the club and, although almost always loses, no doubt you know how to put the Catalans into trouble. As in Cup, again using a 4-2-3-1 with lines close together and with all parts ready to play the role of hard laborers. Pep Guardiola, anticipating that his opponent would play with one striker, wrote a chapter more in their already rich encyclopedia behind consisted of only two plants, and Piqué Abidal, Busquets with tilting between the libero position and pivot in harmony with the defense-attack balance. Alves had for him all the right wing, but from more of Seven that as two, while the left side served as nobody, except when Peter was to delay a bit position. Others crowded around Messi, Xavi and Iniesta to enjoy the freedom that comes from your back is covered by a bulldog and Mascherano, and acting as a man Villa ahead.

Barely four minutes had been met from the start, Alves Xavi saw coming like a shot from the right, put the ball with his usual precision and the Brazilian had the foresight needed to put a pass from death to prey Villa coming from -11 back Athletic goals in 16 games. Subsequently, repeat revealed that Alves had left in a tight offside. The early goal, very culé style did not change the script of the game on a single comma. Already surpassed the half-hour, the club accumulated a holding of 81%, with nine types rojiblancos defending close to your own area. This is the way most visitors to the Nou Camp, although they are losing, but what differentiates the Athletic Club of others is that lions, and wounded they are, never fail to make sense of danger: one red herring and you take a blow .

And so it happened. At the turn of rest, Caparros sent theirs out and put him far ahead of the pressure intensity of the first line. Thus, after five minutes, causing an error that ended up behind forcing blaugrana Busquets to make a penalty that leaves no room for doubt. Iraola made no mistake, put the tie on the scoreboard and returned to his spot with a good reward after a successful campaign of looting. Aware of the importance of solving a party morally worth more than three points, Guardiola recovered an old habit that not practiced since he wears a suit, of inciting the public to a cold by nature to help them leave the throat by his team - although we must not forget that 85,000 people is an excellent entry for a Sunday at 21.00h.

With Messi as willing as unwise, Iniesta pushed his team back in the second half, giving a true recital of starts, fakes, feints and dribbling, all spiced with characteristic elegance. Iraizoz and boom slowed the best chances Blaugrana, while Messi was beginning to revive after dribble to dribble past two games rather weak. In one of many who rushed slaloms was shot down by Javi Martinez, but the referee saw the penalty and sent forward. The passage of minutes favored the red and white target, and more to be poured on the attack, the club was not the way to kill lions. Finally, finally finding the goal on the same path that led to the first, Xavi saw Alves breaking from behind, striking down the hall leaving Koikili to tilt toward the center, and lateral empowered to Argentina's Messi enirera the ball into the net and break the tie.

The Messi both lit everything to start his own, which he felt some anxiety about make a difference after a week quite gray, and, by extension, the whole team because, after all, if Messi happy, and is only happy when he wins, FC Barcelona is happy. The Flea scored again in the 250 º as Barca the same day that Guardiola became a coach first anniversary, giving a major victory to his team before facing a last date of its staff costs of February, next weekend in Mallorca. Athletic, meanwhile, again had chest can get in serious trouble as the best team in recent years, but the defeats, for they are sweet, always hurt. Within seven days will close the weekend with the party of Canal +, receiving at San Mames to Valencia which will, with Atletico-Sevilla, the most interesting match of Round 25.

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