Club World Cup 2011: Villa's injury becomes pyrrhic victory of Barca

When football was a Pyrrhic victory speech often to explain a victory for the minimum, especially a 1-0. But the origin of this phrase (and the first meaning DRAE ) Is the victory of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, on Rome, and refers to those successes where the winner suffers more damage than the vanquished. That's what happened this morning at FC Barcelona has won the Al-Sadd and has qualified for the FIFA Club World Cup final but the road has left David Villa.

The Guaje title again after a few weeks a lot of buzz around their substitutions, enhanced by its absence in the team that won 1-3 at the Bernabeu and ridiculous exaggerated to the desert for that credibility is the sports daily Marca. Villa formed at the tip of the attack and not to seek the goal stood amid the tangle defensive Qatar. He spent a couple of times circling the goal and a stupid move, a career like so many others vying for a chance shot with two defenders rivals, Seven and Selection Barca broke.

We knew at the time, because he himself called ipso facto change. But his body language, with no major signs of pain, did not portend a serious consequence as: broken tibia. A failure to do more tests (such as confirming if the fibula is affected) the calculation is to be around six months of low-minimum-four, with little chance of returning before the end of the season and remains a serious doubt for Euro .

The party did not have too much history. The Al-Sadd, champion of the Asia Champions League, played with nine behind the defense line of five and four in front, leaving only hook to Niang (one of the bargains of the PES 2012). At Barca had to do an exercise in harassment and demolition, as so often, but found a friend where you least expect it: Mohamed Saqr, rival goalkeeper, gave the first goal in becoming a mess Adriano a punt. An entertainment which include only the goalkeeper to put pressure on the small area was the right side.

Before the break Adriano scoring side repeated their lead to finish the game at a party with the sole aim of seeing if Messi scoring the goal that you need to complete the same record that Peter made in 2009 to mark the six competitions. He did not, because Keita was the third and fourth Maxwell, giving another speck of interest to duel with the Saints Neymar. The Brazilian crack watched the game in the stands next to Goose, another player who says in many ways but that lived in its shadow, at least the media, as happened to many years now with Robinho Diego mattress.

Barca to meet its obligation by goals of supporting characters who gave rest to the more common, as Alves, Pique, Busquets, Xavi, Fabregas ... But the cost of victory was terrible: Villa, for many jets have been said, is a very important player for the club, which is expected to miss the remainder of the season. It is even more to the Spanish, as the gauge, top scorer of La Red, left orphan goal in Spain. If the forest and was worried about the situation of their forwards, now has no choice to open a casting with a view to the Euro. Soldier side ahead, but will have to prove all of what you have (Negredo, Adrian ...).

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