Barca will have to finish at home to Milan

AC Milan and FC Barcelona signed tables without goals in the match played last night at the San Siro leg of their quarter-final UEFA Champions League. An encounter with a very lively first part and a second in which the rate was steadily decreasing. Rendered on Camp Nou, where Barcelona has never lost a tie after a goalless draw at home.

As was the case in the double grief of the first phase, Milan began as a pack of dogs but their anger was short-lived. At ten minutes, finding no meat in their bites, Allegri tubicines and ordered to retreat bucinatores touch. Two lines of four close together, focusing on the inner game and swinging together with Ibrahimovic tipped as a beacon illuminating. The newspapers say they also played Robinho, I would not put his hand in the fire to such a statement ...

After the initial arreón Italians, Xavi took command and the clock Blaugrana began to work, moving the ball from one flank to another, playing wall and the third man, finding Messi regularly. But the Milan defended very well on the inside, with capital in the back Nesta and Ambrosini, the best Rossoneri last night in midfield. Quantity and quality defense. Reading Blaugrana was clear: we need a more softly inside. So Guardiola, using positional submission Milan (optional part, partly forced by the club), allowed him to Keita a dual role: Defensive phase Busquets had to support the center, but with the ball in possession Blaugrana, false had to exercise extreme left, thus freeing up Iniesta for the Fuentealbilla were to create interior spaces.

Keita alignment instead of Cesc in the starting guy who more or less all barruntábamos was the option he chose Guardiola to help Busquets in something very important: the cleaning of the left face of Ibrahimovic. With Boateng and Robinho (this in theory because, again, I have clear who played last night) starting from its field, the Swedish giant had only two options every time he got back: hold the ball or play several seconds of face. Pique handled the first thing he found it comfortable and not Busquets and Keita that the latter did not happen.

In the first half both teams had their chances. Milan was about to take advantage of several gaps of his rival, both in creation and in the retreat. Meanwhile, the club called several times on the door of Abbiati, clearly in a couple of chances Messi and Xavi, plus a penalty that the referee did not believe it's over, between stupid and exaggerated Abbiati Alexis.

The second time it had nothing to do. The unwillingness to risk of absorbing the Milan ended Barca, who also declined to give an opportunity for the apuñalase Ibra in the back with the help of The Shaarawy (substitute Robinho) and Emanuelson (Boateng). ¿0-0 and we we played at the Camp Nou? Xavi and Iniesta accepted. Not so Messi, for which there is no tomorrow, nor for Taylor, again used as a troublemaker for Guardiola (Cuenca it has to do other things with more tactical rigidity). In the second part the referee may whistle another penalty for Barca to grab for Puyol. One of the jacks on the TV put the referee in a difficult situation to explain.

I said, will decide the Camp Nou. A stadium whose turf itself falls short of the top European competition. The statistics and intuition, suggests that next Tuesday the club will not let Milan alive, but who knows ...

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