The attitude with which faced mourning FC Barcelona this afternoon against Spartak Moscow summed up perfectly after the match Lionel Messi: We could not allow a repeat of what Celtic. Though to be fair, it is first necessary to be clear about one fact: the Celtic Spartak is not. That both technicians decide to face the club with all his men stuck in his field, betting everything on the counterattack and set pieces, not make them twins teams. The defensive order and, above all, the strength and faith in the Celtic game idea does not, even remotely, the set of Unai Emery.
Tito Vilanova in the bank left Puyol and Villa, probably to protect turf and climatic conditions, without being anything special, nor were normal. There will, of course, other interpretations in the case of Guaje, now that he has inherited some of unreason that once surrounded the other Seven of Spain. Pedro regained a role that recently came being Alexis thing: stretch the field in depth. From horizontal amplitude and took over the sides.
With Jordi Alba on the left, a more lateral combinative Adriano or Abidal, Barca Tito tends to heel to the flank, attracted by the magnet's Iniesta Ten Lane. This is greatly favoring the other side, Dani Alves, who is a broker in order to become the one before: not so many ups but much more damaging. To this end, the first goal came from a rebound blaugrana collected by the Brazilian side at the peak of the box and in the second, the work of Messi and taking advantage of a rebound, the two sides were the first to arrive to embrace the Argentinian star , which gives us an idea of the height of its position at the time of the goal.
However, do not think the extreme side of their offensive vocation is still one of the reasons for the defensive problems that are having the club. The main cause of the most defensive weakness compared to previous years is available in the midfield , less compact, more vertical play and therefore less organized pressure when rapidly after loss. Being misplaced causes the team has to run back and there is nothing worse that give Barca to run backwards. If Busquets also, that Vilanova should participate more in building, make a mistake in delivery, the mess is imminent. With these losses and a strategic corner perfectly executed except for the final definition, Spartak could have hurt the club.
The third goal, a few minutes before the break, was born with a pass to Pedro Busquets breaking two lines and the canary took to leave Messi alone with the keeper, who dribbled like a child just out, before adding his second goal of the night, his not-know-how many-and two of the season and thus, made only seven goals Müller's record.
I've always been very critical of chronic typical newspaper, spent twelve paragraphs to tactics and the first time and then just one or two the entire second half. But here devote much ink to fill the second half would be chronic with straw. The Russians completely defeated the bench again and more than one would have seen him repeatedly check the time if they could keep watch. Barca was devoted to his favorite pastime in these cases: move the ball everything without losing it, so that the man should run as little as possible, keeping forces for future battles.
Vilanova even had the pleasure of making his debut in Europe at jovencísmo Gerard Deulofeu, which for many is the squad with the most potential to become an important man's first team in a medium-term future. Barça already guaranteed their place in round and if just by beating Benfica Celtic-beating going 1-0 as I write, as group winners would be no need to score on the final day.
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