Barca, downhill and rights to the knockout

FC Barcelona is one of the sixteen teams that will play the second round of this year's UEFA Champions League. The Pep Team, a team record numbers and superlatives, like any statistics breaking against the few remaining, and the night ended with the saying that had never won the third and the fourth meeting of the group stage. All this the day you met your particular bicentennial Guardiola as Barça coach (144 wins and 500 goals in between) and Messi exceeded the barrier of 200 goals in official matches.

However, under the long shadows of the Catalan coach and star in Argentina, the Czech Republic duel served to enlarge the figure Víctor Valdés as Barça goalkeeper mythical beating the unbeaten record of Miguel Reina, and in his personal horizon only is reached five Ramallets Zamora. He had to do their part, sticking out a hand to hand with the start marker Petrzela. Viktoria Plzen The party tried to put him pace, supported by an exceptional public who must travel more than 100km in the Champions League matches, but his whole plan was shattered when Messi broke her hip Cisovsky: penalty and expulsion.

With the numerical advantage and the scoreboard, the game went downhill for the club. Despite not having either Xavi or Iniesta, captain and boatswain of the ship Barca, Guardiola has shown other officers of worth. Thiago and Cesc led offensive maneuvers following the mapping of the pattern: quick ball movement, movement band to band and the necessary doses of patience and power. Proof of this was the second of the night. Long possession, leaving the injury time was running out, as if it were basketball, start a band, continuity in the other, change of pace, wall between Adriano and Messi goal.

The second half became a formality, a circumstance that took coach to prepare changes Santpedor attending not just technical, but the physical. Busquets, Alves and Abidal found rest in their replacement by Keita, Maxwell and Alexis Sanchez, who reappeared after two months out. Evaluate your party is the least important thing is your turn itself. Although the party lost strength and interest, did not end in half sleep. Basically because the starting Blaugrana was found riddled with players but can not be considered as mere substitutes for philosophy rotating Guardiola, they are men who start out with some disadvantage with co-location, which gives them an added enthusiasm and intensity : about the game ended Messi Keita, Thiago, Fabregas, Alexis and Cuenca.

The junior squad climbed Guardiola has debuted a very good start. Isaac Basin opened with a goal in the match against Mallorca and in his first international match caught on a great game, displaying the same nerve to tackle that tactical rigor to open the field and working pressure. Furthermore, perhaps the only man band of all staff to focus better than he is Dani Alves, because the kid has shown a striking fine thread, as we saw in the third goal Barca, which put a center as measured at the Four Cesc had nothing but take advantage of the inertia of its snack uncheck the ball without even jumping.

And some more. Leo Messi took a joy that was Pique, who was at the forefront, caught a rebound and landed on the ball backwards to enable an inch in the fourth goal of the night. This second hat-trick in three days with reaching the 202 goals in 286 games Blaugrana, 104 in the last 100 - can be a lesson to press sector of the pro-Madrid: Messi is better not to bite and if depressed, get depressed. With this win and a draw in Borisov Milan, Barca, and to achieve mathematical classification, it gets two points ahead of the Italians, a fact that will give you the advantage of going to Milan to play a game in which the Rossoneri no be able to stay to defend and wait a duel forced to raise more open than they would like. The first place in the group stage is not trivial matter because it offers the perks of playing the second leg of the round at home.

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