Messi Mourinho's plan punishes

High voltage match the vivid tonight at the Santiago Bernabeu between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona. It came hot, both in football only after the first two acts of League and Cup , for the media noise which yesterday reached its zenith with the penultimate show of José Mourinho and, unexpectedly for many, knock on the table given by Pep Guardiola . And now everything will be hotter after the 0-2 achieved by the club. But all that really matters is the game itself and it will focus on.

Both teams were planted in the field fear expiring. Each in his own style but with the utmost prudence. Real came out with the eleven expected, the same as in the Cup final with the exception of Albiol by Carvalho. But the team we saw was more like that of the first game, the league, did not exercise the suffocating pressure that took place in the first half of the cup game and went to wait for Barca in its field, managing to close almost all doors but recovering too far from the opponents' goal to mount counterattacks as incisive as the Mestalla.

On the other hand, the club was dedicated to having the ball with little risk it, being very careful not to lose it in dangerous areas. That to defend the ball is often more a cliché than a reality, but today this analysis makes sense. Guardiola had to put in place Keita Iniesta, which lost vertical and associative capacity but gained strength in midfield. Although in the case of Andresito, talk of big words, sometimes there's an ill wind that blows no good. Overall, the initial approach and development of the game for the first time two teams left us quite timid, more concerned to avoid the rival virtues of exploiting their own. With two considerations to take into account: Barca had the ball and Madrid was in their own stadium.

Although a few were devoted to expect and others played with the brake, quality always comes sooner or later find their own way. At that time appeared again Casillas and Valdes, two skin porterazos selling more expensive than anyone else. Come to rest, while the players were heading to a discussion between Arbeloa costumes and Keita ended Chendo Pinto and locked in a dispute the umpire children settled with the expulsion of goalkeeper Blaugrana. And during the course of the game did not miss foul play by both sides, the Marco, treading Peter or Busquets, with his usual theater which has already earned a reputation as a storyteller that even Puyol did not wait to get the costumes for his attention.

Around the break, both coaches made their moves. Mourinho got rid of a Özil that no ball is completely wasted by Adebayor, whose mission was to fix the central rivals and disrupt the output of the ball by them. Barcelona came back with the same eleven, but taking a step forward in its lines, with Xavi hovering ten or fifteen feet into the enemy camp. With Villa and Peter opening the field to the two lines of lime, the Blaugrana were able to have a higher flow rate, the level of the second part of the Cup, but without full power, inter alia by the lack of Alves increases, a sign of how much that concerns coach the exceptional counterattack Madrid.

Without Khedira in the field and without the element of surprise with which the duel was in Mestalla, Real Madrid Barca failed to handcuff and in other phases of the previous games. The key was that again so shy and contemplative as in the league match, instead of going back to lockBarca in the field, forcing him to always play back, as in the 'Cup may intend to coach their soldiers was not hitting the wall as occurred last Wednesday, hoping to challenge the victory in the second half. The Madrid players arrived, they found that half a second late too many times, which always entails the corresponding library recaditos at the ankles of the opposite. And one of them, past Pepe came round and put studs on Alves in the shin, with no intention of playing the ball because not even come looking. A hard and dangerous entrance to the television could be heard through a microphone near environment. Decision rigorous, perhaps, but the orange color is so close to the red and yellow ...

Eleven against eleven, the club owned the possession, with Xavi who found himself and worked as coach and lit the way for Messi. Without Pepe Mourinho's plan was left without its key player and the field was leaning, minute by minute, toward the goal of Casillas. Guardiola sat down with Peter and ushered in a Affelay he came upon the energy but lacking accuracy. Until today. The first time he faced Marcelo took an unfortunate slip of Brazil to leave him and put a ball at the near post, where he arrived Leo Messi Ramos earning the position and scoring once held honoring his shield. The crack both Argentina caused a hemorrhage in Madrid, by which means conceding a goal in your field at this stage of the tournament and, above all, because there was still a quarter of an hour ahead in your injury could get worse.

That took care Messi, The Insane, the boy of fifty-three goals (and counting ...), with one of his trademark moves of the house. He picked up a ball in three quarters, used a co-wall and lunged Casillas leaving the way for every opponent that came forward until he had finished crossing the ball into the net with his right leg. The final 0-2 leaves Barca with one foot in the Wembley final. The comeback is seems unlikely if not impossible for Madrid, to top it off with the result, will be without Ramos, through suspension or with Pepe, by the expulsion. Madrid paid dearly for the approach of his coach who recognized how little talk of football news conference he played for the 0-0. Today's version of the pack was not sharp and suffocating pressure, which puts you fear in the body every time you steal the ball, but the timid team in their stadium is dedicated to expect in their field and barely discuss the ownership of its rival. When we were kids and our coaches told us that playing the match, almost always ends up losing, concerned parties like today.

PS. I beg that reason prevails over passion. Leave aside the controversy Mourinho press conference here have deliberately avoided. Sooner or later someone NDF team published a post about it and discuss it all you want. But here Let's stick to commenting on the match, the referee's decisions as well, as I have done the first, but above all: Let's talk football.

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