Barca sweat bottom side ink

One of the great attractions of football is unpredictable nature: for many previous accounts are made, you never know who you can make life difficult. The last day was marked on the calendar as an auspicious date for Real Madrid he would cut some distance from the FC Barcelona: Whites received in their stadium while the Blaugrana Sporting should visit El Madrigal. Contrary to all logic, it was Madrid which ended up losing against the rebels Asturian and thus, three-quarters of the season. This weekend, Jose Mourinho had the difficult trip to Bilbao while Barcelona got the bottom side and again the world seemed to turn around. Madrid, with a lineup full of substitutes, clearly won the Athletic Club while the club had to slog to break the UD Almería.

Without the benefit of the suspended Valdés and Busquets, Pep Guardiola ranked as a couple of Pique Milito, Thiago made ​​with the creation Xavi and Bojan up front, leaving Villa and Pedro on the bench. Despite having many players on the field, Barca lacked freshness to convert a high percentage of possession chances. He did not move the ball with speed but on the contrary, was strong enough to pressure group led by Roberto Olabe premiere. And even added a half dozen shots out, only tested once in the sticks (the same as the Almería) throughout the first half.

Before reaching the break Bojan was injured by an entry in Marcelo Silva. Diagnosis: partial tear of the posterior ligament of the knee, leaving it out for the remainder of the season and puts in great doubt his participation in the U21 European Championship in June. The first forty-five minutes to finish without the sign of weakness would Almería, making clear that the party run by very different paths to the outrageous 0-8 in the first round. Barca, as always in these cases, confident that the rojiblancos gasoline will run out sooner or later. But before this happened, Almeria mounted a counterattack after a great loss Iniesta left corner next to the Blaugrana attack and managed to get ahead on the scoreboard thanks to a goal of Corona. 5 min ran the second half and Barca was forced to step on the gas if you do not want to end up losing the match that he would back within five points of Madrid just before visiting the Santiago Bernabeu.

But it took only three minutes for most of the creeps calm again. A great pass from Milito at the back left side just before leaving Villa Diego Alves, whom the Spaniard waited until the goalie hit him. Clear penalty. Messi and took responsibility, unperturbed as few others drew the race from the penalty spot. The quick draw was used to ward off evil spirits and established a new party of forty minutes. Immediately after the equalizer, Guardiola brought Milito and put to Peter, having a defense of three who, by commonplace as plan B, it seems that it is unworthy of mention when, in reality, very few teams that dare to remove a long central ahead. The morale of both teams tied at a goal changes a lot depending on who was the one who came forward and who you called and last night at the Nou Camp was as Almeria took a couple of steps behind the Catalans took the opportunity to ride one of their sieges virtually indefensible.

Despite such talented leg on the pitch, the second locally came with a final header Thiago Alcantara launched a corner kick by Messi. The young Spanish-Brazilian midfielder is a rough diamond that has a lot to polish to reach the excellence of two referees as Xavi and Iniesta but what is already clear is that a player with more physical presence than the previous two, no by size or bulk, but because it seems to have inherited from his father a good pair of balls. Despite the quick turnaround, the first hour of the party had to fly Guardiolawhich was soon replaced by Thiago himself Keita, Mali placing the pivot and delaying Mascherano to right center position. Did well on distrust Santpedor coach because Olabe guys that changed the entire second line of attack (Ortiz, Corona and Cruse), bent by the great physical deployment required to mount the pressure held, managed to get Barca in your area to the point that pitch to pitch, began asking the time.

But in the end, in one of those punts (Keita, specifically), Messi tore at top speed and he put such a fear in the body to the Uruguayan Marcelo Silva eventually succumbed to the fear of crying wolf, that wolf , lost his position and enabled to Messi scored his second goal with a subtle touch over Alves. The Argentinian star showed once again that the nickname The Insatiable is that neither he painted, because carrerón often stuck on 93 minutes when defender advantage seemed to reach the ball was mission impossible. In the end, left the Camp Nou Almería as expected, without taking a palizón like the first round, but without the three points. Barca, meanwhile, spent years struggling to break the bottom side but finally was able to react in a game in which there was nothing fresh and final victory keeps the distance of eight points over Real Madrid.

And eye Guardiola warns: do not go to the Bernabeu to speculate, but to try to give the final blow to the League. With problems in defense, Messi once again set and it adds 29 in league (47 in 45 games so far this season). Pedro is back and only need to restore Villa's goal (yesterday met for the umpteenth time with the stick). In the first round also came into the match against Madrid after a period of drought and ended up scoring two whites. In six days we'll know more.

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