Barcelona in the final
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Barcelona reached the final of the Champions League. "Holiday", "cheers", "God save the Catalan football and so on. But does this team, which will be the favorite in the final tournament to be around for a model of European football? Judging from the semi-finals against Real Madrid, damaged countless simulation "blauhranas" - no.
Interestingly, in the team is quite clear division of players feigning at every opportunity, and "honest" players. Belong to the second Messi and Xavi, Busquets to the first, and Pedro Maskerano. Iniesta and Villa - somewhere on the border. Why are players who just play football better than rivals - a question. Not great, because the ends justify the means, but still. In the first game, besides the usual "hellish misery" Catalans, there was an episode of seizure Pepe when Alves proved himself a fan of Stanislavsky.
Add the ability to play football and the ability to solicit referees cards to help opponents of judges - and now the recipe is actually invincible team. After what happened immediately after the break requires separate consideration. Ronaldo in attack and guests came together on Ihuayin Pique and Maskerano. Pique sfolil on the Portuguese, who had to pay Ihuayina. At the moment Ronaldo falls and touches Maskerano. Ihuayin smoothly perehraye Valdés, referee whistle, fixing the penalty in favor of the owners. Where is the logic? Ask in Blekkere where, in Belgium, perhaps, their own judiciary system.
Yes, the episode took place at very high speeds, but does that justify a referee? Decision of judge teams deprived spectators fantastic intrigues, because no better from the standpoint of an onlooker than when Real Madrid have brought in the bill and left him to play one more goal and could not be. And so ... So we saw the remake of the situation 9 years ago.
In the 2001/2002 season a couple years Champions League semi-final were Real Madrid against Barcelona and Manchester (of course, "United," City "then only could dream of European Cups) with the German club. The situation in general terms, repeated this year, just as peace kalamutnyka Bayer replaced Schalke. This somewhat similar status and Spanish clubs, but in mirror image. Then Real Madrid to win the Champions League in 1998 and 2000 and had "Superstar" (Figo, Zidane, Raul) in stock, a favorite of confrontation. Instead, Barcelona looked a dark horse, which lyhomanylo in the championship, but the number of "stars" Catalans are not too inferior to the capital club. Does that sound?
For full match lacked only the same score games, and it became! Then Real Madrid won away in 2:0, then brought home the bill, but satisfied with a draw 1:1. So, when Marcelo equalized through in this game, spectators, fans of the statistics might miss home, because everything was decided in advance.
If more serious, the match ended somewhat illogical given the events of the first half. It "Leopard" was undeniable advantage that could kill from the middle half, while Messi rozihravsya than once or twice. But Casillas saved the gate every time Real Madrid and intrigue in the confrontation. Busquets, Messi, Villa, Messi again - it seemed that the chance of neprohrash madrydtsiv actually in there.
And when the break Iniesta, whose fall sick and suffering, took the case and gave a thin belt to Pedro, the de facto all became clear. Slaughtering three goals to the gates of Barcelona for 35 minutes plus added - right supercomplex even for Real Madrid, playing with enthusiasm and in the optimum moment. And if the first cases were so-so, the absence of a second game affected the guests very much.
Let's calculate. Pepe, who resisted Messi during the previous game April series - one. Ramos, who is usually an order of magnitude more active in attacking than Arbeloa - two. But this loss is known in advance and Mourinho had to have a plan how to compensate them. But in addition to madrydtsiv actually was not a constructive part of the offensive midfielders. Kaka has once again proven that the "Real" - just not his team, and lost again Ezil under pressure. Add to this Ihuayina after injury and Adebayor, whose stubbornly Mourinho prefers over Benzema, who scored a lot this year, and the result is 4 (chotyroh!) positions in the "Real" were serious problems.
So Marcelo goal that was the result of individual actions di Maria, looked not very logical. After that game actually zakonservuvalasya, perfectly illustrating the famous adage about riding, not want, and bottoms that can not. Who was who - not hard to guess. And for added time remained only count simulations players "blauhranas, which has been mentioned. "Real" as he could help them by playing hard, because when your opponent falls on only one breath, it put it mildly, does not help cool game, and quite simply - annoying.
Now Barcelona is waiting for final opponent. And if the analogy in detail from 2002 m is unlikely to work - it Schalke must make a miracle and get to the finals, this is the main - the Spanish team win the game in front of the main EUROCUPS - question not so much. But miracles happen and someone like Alex Ferguson did not know about it. His "Manchester has proved it in almost the same far as 2002 and 1999-year ...