Groundhog Day

The nth trial Mourinho could not prevent Real Madrid has returned to FC Barcelona live another Groundhog Day. After intrigue with his lineup throughout the week and trigger all sorts of speculation , it seems unlikely that anyone has been able to portend such nonsense. trivote in midfield with Pepe bow ahead of Alonso and Lass, Carvalho, who had not played since September , accompanying Ramos in the center of the rear, the right side for an unexpected Altintop and the left for a man who seems stuck with a shoehorn, Coentrão. In front, the proposed Guardiola, clear and unequivocal: the same as they won 1-3 in league with the exception of Pinto Valdés.

In the many meetings that have played in the last fifteen months Madrid and Barcelona, ​​Mourinho has tried different formulas. No fruit set, never repeats itself, sometimes because they require the results, but mainly because of lack of confidence in a concrete idea. His latest venture, with four defenders, three midfielders and trivote in attackers to sag (Benzema hitch) has a clear precedent: he put his 3-1 Inter Barca in the Champions League 2010. It seems that the technical Luso wished to return to its beginnings back to the basics of his teaching forgetting for a day of the idiosyncrasies of Madrid as always. If it went well, even with a simple 1-0, the result would have been credited. But it was not.

Despite the approach, the mother returned to strike first. At eleven minutes Benzema managed to find the Christian race to the back of Alves, the Portuguese took advantage of circumstances to nail Pique and send the ball into the net with a powerful crossover hit Pinto ate completely. A start without a hitch approach for Mourinho. Barca conceded a goal without taking a step back. Neither legs trembled. Cesc and Messi disconnected the two white lines tight (very advanced defense), the ship was known for his path: Xavi Hernandez.

As long as the ship began to move the ball, Pepe, star of another new chapter of madness and surrealism, he earned his card with a stomp to Busquets, who returned to give another lesson in tactical intelligence. Although Pinto's performance in both search door inviting Madrid, Madrid did not return to shoot with danger to the minute 58 (half-game after). On the contrary, shortly after receiving the goal, the club responded with a header from Alexis wood and within minutes Iniesta and Messi proved that Casillas is always there. The Argentine suffered playing for the center, surrounded by rivals, but the move again Fuentealbilla from the edge of the water as a dancer.

At rest the mother kept the result but had the feeling of losing the game. Déjà vu. At the turn of halftime, received the blow where least expected, set pieces, a sort of game that haunts especially Mourinho. In a corner launched by Xavi, Pique and Cesc took almost all white towers at the near post, enabling a space entered in evidence Puyol leaving Pepe pie. Of all the ways of giving a tie, there is another who could do more damage to targets that the passing game.

After the goal from Puyol, Barca continued to advance in the control of the game and creating chances. The depth of Alexis, tireless pulling uncheck the space to stretch the lines, was a priceless work for the interest of the club, which is nothing to find space for their midfielders to impose their law. A great pass from Cesc Iniesta door because he saw a providential action of Ramos deflected the shot of La Mancha to the bottom. Soon after, the mother, more than half a game later, he returned to peek through the area in danger Blaugrana, with a big play Benzema Altintop headed in the post.

At Madrid began to weigh on the legs and, above all, the doubts. Alonso spent half the meeting by grants Altintop, Lass was replaced by Ozil (previously left by a missing Higuain Alley) and Pepe ... Pepe bolted. First he wanted to make a touch of Cesc in a punch in the face, ugly affair, but nothing compared to what he did next: take an opponent on the ground to tread on with all the malice of the world is so dirty that no effort is needed rates it: and he does it by itself.

Slowly but surely, the club was working on his prey, stalking. Touching and playing was scrambling to Madrid, until one of many combinations balcony around the target area, Messi found Altintop had focused too much on the tilt, forgetting Abidal. The Argentine, who did not score tonight, put the side perfect Frenchman, who controlled and defined so quiet that does not appear to have been the third goal in his career. Nice way to celebrate its renewal.

Real, bottomless for both pursue the ball, blurred by changes that had nothing to do with the initial approach, could not even stick a final arreón looking for one of his magical comebacks, or tie at least. Mourinho, like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day of 'Groundhog Day', tried to change everything so as not to reawaken the same way. It failed in the attempt. Barcelona retook the Santiago Bernabeu, again according to the letter Guardiola's libretto. Not again: as always. The Real Madrid (much, at least) went home muttering different versions of the same concept: Posts to die, do it with their boots on.

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