Notes from the last day of Champions

1) For a moment the world stopped turning football. Messi, for Müller hunt last night, leaving the match on a stretcher on which he should have between cheers. The magnitude of the tragedy was relieved a few hours later, amid reassurances and medical statements confirming that 'what' of '10 'was not no big deal. A statement read out at the timeline of Enrique Ballester and subscribe, perfectly sums up what happened in the Camp Nou. "If the importance of a player is measured with the fear of a hypothetical injury, Messi's no comparison."

2) We could make a string of players that Manchester City have signed recently with the firm intention of making it big in the Champions League. We could count all the millions that have been spent to strengthen the English side a template but would sound repetitive. His overwhelming market power is almost as common as their European disaster. There will be round, but not in the Europa League. A strong realization that happiness is not the purchase money. And to be among the best in the Old Continent is priceless.

3) came first and overwhelming victory of Rafa Benitez at Chelsea after three league games in which he tied to zero twice and lost the third. He even, with two goals from Fernando Torres, the protege who runs out of excuses. And arrived just as the left Juventus pasteleo aside to go fishing in Donetsk. It is the first time a champion falls in the first phase, which speaks of the metamorphosis that a team can suffer in a few months. A Benitez, who now directs the favorite of the Europa League, the best result came at the worst time.

4) Hulk's brute force and disbursement of Zenit to seize their services was brutal. As some of the cases cited, the expectations around the Brazilian and his new team has undertaken the time to put them on the ground. According collects SpheraSports , the striker is the player who has lost more balls in the first phase, a total of 156 times, surpassing the average of any player up to 26 times. And yet, the image of the day was his trademark, when he lost the papers to be replaced with Spalletti. He says he is able to leave in January. Ya.

and 5) Things like that happened last night at the Maksimir stadium are the one who reconciled with football. Dynamo Kiev had sealed their place in the Europa League, while the other Dinamo, local, Zagreb, aspired only to give joy to the just over two thousand faithful who clothed. Under a frost that interrupted the meeting, and after the 0-1 fit, had to reach the fifth minute of extra time to Krstanovic, from eleven meters, achieved the first goal in two units of the Croatian team. Rather, a simple point, the players celebrated as if picking a title is involved. Hegemonic in Croatia, where he has won the last seven leagues, both in the last breath was experienced as something more than a mere anecdote.

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