The lavish Cup wins Madrid

Real Madrid and FC Barcelona in a duel fought giant, uncompromising, full of football from the first minute to the last, which were ultimately imposed the meringues thanks to a superb goal from Cristiano Ronaldo in overtime. A great quote from the final of the Copa del Rey, play the game of the year who played, attended the two best teams in Spain (probably Europe) and both did what was expected of them: to contest the championship until the last sweat. And it's going until the last breath, Cristiano excelled above all, the Portuguese have an extra pair of lungs: those of his extraordinary physical and inhuman hunger for glory.

Real came out with the eleven expected, with Özil instead of exerting CR7 Benzema and advance man. But the most striking change was not in the lineup, but in the arrangement of the parts and, above all, instead of action. In this sense, had nothing to do with Real Madrid's league match, on Saturday, waited in his field, without pressing the ball out, but now began to work thirty yards ahead, biting, closing all the gaps, bothering the Barca game combined to make erratic and discontinuous.

When the club was trying to get the ball from behind, chased Khedira Alonso and Xavi and Iniesta as far as was needed and disconnected from each other. And Joe, the man most talked about after Saturday's match, was free to hunt everywhere, like a dog that will loosen the belt. Trivote the great work we must add that of Di Maria, who won the game as positional Alves, making the Brazilian was more concerned about him than vice versa. Mourinho hit full script change: the Madrid that Saturday was inexplicably timorous, tonight was much more intense and aggressive, neutralized the Barça midfield and attacked more and better. If you did not come to rest in front of it was thanks to a couple of times Pinto as the club fought off a spectacular header from Pepe.

Barca suffered a lot, felt extremely uncomfortable and had trouble finding the passing lanes. With Pedro and Villa out of tune (the canary for lack of pace, the Spaniard did not know), the bite of Barca is reduced to the feet of Messi, who yesterday showed once again that never goes down. Pep Guardiola at the break managed to revive his own, demanded Peter Villa and more open field and the players became a point of tension. After the break, the scenario changed completely: Iniesta found his rhythm and activated the other pieces, approaching to combine and accompanying Xavi Messi in attack. The downturn in the intermediate voltage is fatal to him sat Alonso and Khedira and where once appeared out of nowhere, now began to arrive one second late.

The Catalans took advantage of the downturn merengue physical midfield to tune their instruments and began to play as they like. In the first part had barely set foot in the penalty area, but the second hit with insistence, to make getting eight shots on goal and even celebrate a goal ruled out for either game. Before the two best attempts Blaugrana, a jelly and a shot Pedro Iniesta cross, emerged the figure of Iker Casillas and his providential hand, adding another chapter to his legend and the only trophy that was missing from his cabinet.

With the passage of minutes the club was losing fuel plus and had paid the shortage of reserves. The only two changes to his attack refresh Affelay and Thiago were two kids who do not have enough time in the Barça first team to change a game of this caliber. In the last minutes were matched forces and returned to Madrid to try to counterattack, taking advantage of his rival lacked the folding bellows. Thus reached the end of the ninety minutes, with a Mestalla inboiling by two hobbies, leaving politics aside dirt, were tremendous, at the height of the show that was on the lawn.

Arrival extending the match went into its third dimension, with two teams pulling the heart to compensate for the weight of the legs. Of all the players who had started the game for over an hour and a half, there were two that still had fuel in the tank, both were from Madrid and that ultimately unbalancing the game. Di Maria is set up a great wall with Marcelo and put a great center to the far post where Cristiano Ronaldo appeared to connect a powerful header after making a big leap and mark the times perfectly. At last he found the Portuguese Seven which had been looking for: be decisive in a match against Barça and be the man who gave Real Madrid its first title in three years.

Butler throne recovery after nearly two decades Mourinho definitely raises the white altar. He won by being faithful to his ideas (I insist that had nothing to do today's proposal with that of last Saturday) and has already met the main demand that brought him the bet Florentino Perez for him to reach the finals and win. There is no doubt that the title butler breathes new energy into the Madrid and is a substantial stick for Barca, but there is still half of the story to be written. From the beginning we said that if one of the two lost today but manages to win the Champions League title will inevitably butler in the background. Barça de Guardiola, a team that is already in the annals of history in its own right, measures Now its true dimension: on the horizon is first leg of the Champions League semi-final at the Bernabeu before a strengthened team and a cheering crowd. And there awaits the Madrid Mourinho willing to give the final blow to get back to feeling on top.

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