The Barça sees no door. And one of its greatest exponents is Messi. The Argentine Pichichi was in the early days of League door watching with great ease. But he stayed stuck in the day thirteen.
Rijkaard clung to the Argentine to alleviate the great evil of Barcelona, the lack of scoring. It should be borne in mind that the team reached Sánchez Pizjuán with the baggage poorest of recent times, four goals in five matches, and that Messi is currently the footballer who is more in the form of staffing culé. But it seems to have been infected by the lack of success of the classroom. The attacker does not hold somewhat since last November 24, when it marked the Recreativo. Since then, are two and a half months without scoring.
Without Etoo without Bojan, with Ronaldinho on the bench the first part and with a lot of casualties, Rijkaard was forced to set up eleven with many changes and a significant change tactics. When more normal seemed that he was going to be a triplet attacker with Messi, Henry and Iniesta, the technician decided to align Giovanni despite his jet-lag, forcing Messi playing as a centre forward for the Mexican occupy your position natural and Henry could act on the left, where else is paying.
The demarcation Messi also led to a lack of understanding with Henry, as many times the two were at the centre of the attack culé. The usual permutations position among front barcelonistas not occurred and Giovanni were not separated from the band right.