A great work in three acts

After standing all seen and experienced yesterday and have read many reviews (and re-own it), I would like to play some songs that yesterday I was forced to leave the ink or expand some points where, for whatever it was, I was a little short. we can say that there were three parties in one: a first part that Mourinho won the slate, a second in which it imposed ideairo Guardiola and a third reserved for the epic and the drama was preceded by a large time seemed like a great painting by artist. A play in three acts, which the theater like Mourinho and Guardiola ...

Mourinho quashed the Barça midfield

Many have criticized the coach for his timid approach Luso's league match last Saturday. I do not speak for anyone but myself, but I think the critical time is not at odds with today's praise, if it is consistent with what was said and what you think. It did not take the final win to prove that the only way to play well is the FC Barcelona, ​​because this statement is a tremendous nonsense. There are many ways to play well, and if instead of talking about playing well, we do win, the range of methods and greatly expands possibilities.

As I said in the chronicle , in the league game left to play Real Madrid Barca, just pushed out of the ball until he was behind on the scoreboard, and went to meet him near the area defended by Casillas. But in the grand final last night, the three midfielders Mourinho met completely different roles. To begin with, began to push much higher, trying to get the core Blaugrana could never turn around after receiving the ball from the defense. Khedira Alonso and read extremely well when they should go after Xavi and Iniesta and when they should rely on Pepe to dial area.

Pepe did another great game in the first half and he could even be crowned if the club does not have spat his excellent header from the stroke of halftime. It is unfortunate that the excellent condition that has to be a great player has the head of a neighborhood thug fifteen years. Yesterday Mourinho gave him more freedom to move and the truth is that their starting point, the epicenter of his area of action was the playmaker position, ie, always ahead of Alonso and Khedira, with Di Maria and Özil flanking and only CR7 ahead of him. Mourinho is to be congratulated for having taken a gun sleeve much sharper than expected: a physical plant and moving through the area hitting a playmaker. A genius.

The Blaugrana ideology found its way but not the goal

Guardiola important moment he lived in the rest of the Cup final of his team had not been able to find their place in the first forty-five minutes. Trivote step ahead of Mourinho had disconnected the Blaugrana and Barca midfield, cut in half, just had upset his opponent's goal. The role played by Guardiola in the locker room after more to strengthen the morale and confidence in system for making a strategic shift beyond insisting Peter Villa and more open field.

The key was that Iniesta Alonso took advantage of the cooling and Khedira for a sewing project with which his team managed to stitch. Barca took possession of the ball, managed to give it more fluidity from the beginning of the play and found the passing lanes and movement in the first part did not appear anywhere. He knows well what better to do but not killing. Despite playing with two strikers who are quite out of tune, cases of Pedro and Villa, the club failed to put a pike in Flanders because much Casillas Casillas. If the Catalans had achieved a goal and ended up taking the city, we would be talking about a further confirmation of the need to maintain the style and philosophy to the end. Has it a goal? It should not. And unless the Champions League and the consequent possibility of revenge ahead.

A memorable moment

In the short break between the end of the ninety minutes and the beginning of the extension we see a wonderful picture. Wrapped by elclrylscnios songs of their hobbies, a team on each side, both in a circle between players, substitutes and coaches, with their respective coaches at the center, haranguing his men, blowing moral and energy. No two opposed ideas in the modern game that Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola. Each one with his style, his understanding of football, the competition and modernity, no doubt, are the two best coaches in the world, the two most modern technical. And so are bound to encounter again and again in large and epic battles to come a day when you can say definitively that one has beaten the other.

In team sports there are many echoes of the ancient art of war. And if something did not change much because of the difficult art of harangue. A great leader must know what to say and how to say it, but, above all, have something to say. In this sense, the role played by Mourinho and Guardiola should not differ much from that played at the time Darius or Alexander, Hannibal and Scipio, Caesar and Pompey. It's amazing the effect it can have a few words, spoken at the right time and in the appropriate tone. What should have been because there had been a couple of microphones that pick Mourinho's oratory and Guardiola (as in other sports less God-like ...).

The importance of knowing how to win and know how to lose

El Barça de Guardiola is a team that never comes to play hard, yeah so situational and individual, but never as team strategy. So yesterday I was pleased to see that football did not fall into violence after the goal received in the first part of the extension. I also think that Cristiano Ronaldo as he misses not the slightest error, we must recognize that yesterday was perfect in the interview he did in TVE just after the final whistle. No account was made (as many people expect) and praised the play of his team and the club. Some might say that's normal, but I think it is worth praise who usually has more clubs that you deserve.

Then there is the case of the finger of Pepe. As I said above, what penalty mentality. What could be physical and that instinct that if I had a mind to the same height ... I take out the sausage to light is not new (nor are we at his last appearance). The curious thing is that foreign players are almost always those who make such an indignity: Schuster, Giovanni, Pepe ... People with weak confidence they need to be more Catholic than the Pope to feel ingratiated herself with the crowd. As seen in this blog to as many different occasions, those who at the time of victory rather than celebrate, the first thing that comes to mind are the basic necessities required by their body, accountable and mock the opponent, people who do not usually worthwhile.

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