The Real Madrid rallied reaped the result in the Camp Nou (3-2) and imposed the value of away goals for, with a 2-1, becoming champion of the Supercup 2012. A game marked by defensive mistakes FC Barcelona but, above all, by the hand of Jose Mourinho.
The cracking launched by the Portugal coach his players, together with a prominent initial approach, whites served to play a first half hour immense; undoubtedly his best display in years before its rival. But Mourinho was wrong after doing full backpedal his players, not just paralyze what could have been a memorable night for Real Madrid, but even putting at serious risk the title game.
Barca played with the team expected (ie: without Cesc), once it was finally discarded Puyol and Alves had fallen off the list at the last minute. The Madrid, like: team with the balance falling gala side Higuain. The blaugrana went on as usual, to have the ball and grow around it. It is, now, because they always go well. But the momentum and the strength with which the Madrid came were so powerful that, in fact, for half an hour there was only one team in the dry grass at the Bernabeu.
Whites came out blazing and set on fire the match. Such was the superiority in the balance of power, desire and concentration that Madrid did not even need the ball. He came to explode behind errors blaugrana. The first of Mascherano, who ate a balloon pumped Pepe Higuaín took advantage to advance his own in the 10th minute. The second of Pique, who swallowed a service over Khedira, Cristiano Ronaldo is possible that stole the ball with a genius and ended by shooting action Valdés.
Minute 18 and 2-0. But the suffering was over there blaugrana. Higuain again stand alone with the keeper, but it was the night of Pipit. Valdes took it as he had done with before the first goal. Blaugrana goalkeeper saved his team on several occasions, not only for the duration of the storm white but throughout the match. Another defensive mismatch caused Adriano was sent off for cutting a clear chance of CR7. Now if the view could not be worse for Barca: two goals down, completely subdued by his rival and one hour ahead outnumbered.
By contrast, the Real Madrid rubbed his hands. Stadium in perfect harmony with its eleven players, burning to the same temperature, watching as his team was subduing his eternal enemy, that it took so long they went out of roses. The gladiators of Mourinho had opened many wounds in the Blaugrana that there was not a spectator in the white arena could not smell his blood.
The powerful play exhibited by the Madrid emerged from a large collective action, but we must emphasize three players, one per line. Di Maria, who gives a point of biting and excitement to the team that is priceless. Xabi Alonso, perfect in pressure and cutting, but even better throwing team. And Pepe, the key player for the Madrid may have run so well the plan.
With the Portuguese central Madrid can overtake more lines, to even put his defense on the edge of the divide, both Mourinho and his colleagues rely on the capacity of its two plants to reclaim space behind him, so the assembly is tightened in a very high pressure level, able to drown anyone. already had done this before the team Mourinho against Barcelona, but never so well.
Why backpedal Mourinho sent his team to five minutes to get to the rest? There we'll stop speculating now, let's focus on the result. Just delayed the Madrid, Barca finally managed to peek Casillas area, very timidly, albeit with a shot from Iniesta who blocked Khedira. Barca took 41 minutes to do something close to a shot on goal! But just two minutes later, the orderly territorial concession from the bench, led to a lack in another area that would have been dangerous, given a chance to Barcelona. Casillas misplaced barrier, forgetting to put an extra man out there being a lefty shooter and Messi nailed it precisely for that hole.
The 2-1 was failing even close to that seen on the field. The sensations, and some others, were that Madrid could have gotten a good beating his rival and yet, the result was that it was just a bit of difference. Mourinho's attempt to keep guard in the closing stages he won previously proved a backfire. Why change what worked so well? Mourinho is well. Not a defensive coach, as many mistakenly say, much less, there are his numbers to prove it. He's a conservative coach: his method is focused on not losing what has been gained, that and nothing else is the greatest obsession. Some will say, why change if it goes so well?
On a night like this, with his team handing over their rivals twice (by himself and coach white), with the Bernabeu in a state of frenzy, stroking with the fingertips that you take so much time looking forward, crushing the Barcelona, not just beat them, crush them, restore what they had to endure in the past ... The night was calling keep attacking, keep hitting, not step back.
But Mourinho does not. As passionate for some things, so cold to others ... When the Madrid again after the break, the approach was very different from the first time. Sit back, let the club forward and pull kickback. A plan, by the way, most of the time has paid dearly against Barca.
Tito Vilanova had corrected in the first part of the void left by introducing Adriano Alexis Montoya (provided only a few crude attempts to deceive the referee). In the second gave mobility to the triangle formed by Busquets, Xavi and Iniesta, who stopped turning without stopping, exchanging positions at each vertex. Swarming including Messi, as free electron, and set up Pedro, trying to stretch the home defense uncheck pulling her back. In one of them could tie the game, but his extraordinary control was answered by an excellent drainage of Casillas, immense all night, holding all standing hand in hand.
Barca tried to do what you do with ten and eleven and largely succeeded. He played many minutes the second time opponent and managed to create half a dozen times. Blaugrana team was able to deploy to start trouble himself Madrid Madrid because it provided the recoil, but behind it is the faith in the idea the conviction of wanting to die without sacrificing style and, above all, the hulking figure of a Sergio Busquets than tripled in office to support his team standing.
The cons Madrid launched with much danger and even made some static attacks with long possessions, drawing and fatigue outnumbered visitors. But whites did not come to shoot on goal until the 69th minute when Khedira took off one individual jugadón Valdés was only able to repel. Higuain again had another, again just before the goalkeeper, but among their excess parsimony and a desperate Mascherano arrived in extremis, the ball ended up going to the post.
A little to the Pipit had been successful, the score would have been different. That is undeniable. But he spared Barca was Mourinho. Against ten, with its two plants with yellow side of the subsidiary and another offensive vocation which only takes a month to the team, resigned from his initial strategy, so well that he had given. Did thrashing his way, his style, when it needed was to stay the same, do not touch what I had done so well.
The Madrid deserved to win by a landslide but may have lost perfectly. Barça, a team that had played with ten for one hour, ended the game in the white area and theirs were the last occasions. A heads-Casillas Montoya with the captain ruled with absolute solvency and a final shot from the edge of Messi happened near the bottom.
What could be a big night for Madrid, a win of scandal, that has been waiting so long that the Real Madrid and a coup of authority in the fratricidal struggle, remained half. Barca will have lost the Supercopa escocerá, no doubt, but the aftertaste is not so bitter after having survived a devastating storm white and are forced to play with ten more than half the game, having been close to the tie and, therefore, the overall victory.
Feelings of Madrid are inversely proportional. Delighted to have won the title and awe of the mammoth exhibition of his team in the first half. But they remain a thorn stuck at losing the best chance in a while to put him to Barca a hand. Claims in the mailbox of his coach, who gave us a final chapter with an air of absurdity: Modric debut just 36 hours after being lead Real Madrid.
Two honorable Iker Casillas gestures to end: the club remained in the grass until the Madrid received the trophy, that in itself is not something that should be noted, but Casillas did want to do it in the interview with TVE , Implicitly acknowledging the mistake last year. The second nice gesture I had with Victor Valdes in particular, praising his performance in the match, showing their solidarity and crony and partner with a rival who had rained a good sticks by his catastrophic mistake in the first leg.
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