Real Madrid arrived dead at the Camp Nou. It seems to resurrect much pride and order, but in the end, between 84 and 91 minutes, he lost his bet defensive. Is 12 points of the leader, a Barcelona game with torrents of whose errors could well turn into funeral announced its largest party.
The classic was the anguish of a treaty. The candidate for the title, as many already proclaimed champion in the making, and the emperor's fallen. One is to win anguish, the other by not losing. And at the end was a stroke of fortune, after much insistence, which opted to grieve the first option.
Aware of their inferiority, the Madrid pulled unit, proclamations of solidarity and to spurt from his own field off the audacious gamble of a Barcelona that is conceivable only from the ball. The 4-4-2 advocated Juande Ramos was one entelechy, with their tips in support of the midfield and they are committed to helping its defenses.
Messi breaches
The Barcelona attacked with the speed of ball that certifies every day since leaving the field to the phenomenal blunder of the Dutch. In the first quarter of an hour, aid of defensive Whites were recorded in misconduct: the only way they found Ramos, Gago and Sneijder up to stop Messi, the great threat. Little by little Madrid was closing the range offensive players, preventing the arrival of the bands. So, Barca were on strike darkens with some central spotless white: Cannavaro and Metzelder.
Barca took their options to change the script with a goal, but Casillas was infected with the enthusiasm of their peers and, most wrapped ever, began the road to recovery of their values. Stopped shots from Abidal, Messi, Henry and Etoo. And fitting ending two goals when his figure was the big winner of the night.
An error has it all. Not the best of Barca fought for the maximum. And a lost ball, beaten with force forward from midfield Madrid, found Drenthe, often the only option attack of its own. The boy was found with the opportunity to mark a turning point in his nascent career and discussed. Deepened doubts about his presence in that template.
The surprise of Juande: Lever
A paradón Valdes to zurdazo of Sneijder, just a minute earlier, had been the first breath of air in a Madrid so distressed. But the Dutch took seconds in touching the back of the right thigh (contracture isquiotibial) and ask for change "as a precaution." It might be the crowning moment in the dynamics of the new Madrid Juande Ramos: left Van der Vaart on the bench and gave the squad an alternative to the lever.
A Guardiola did not like anything the first time. His team, of course, had shown an almost insulting superiority with the ball, but no rival are the progressing and it was growing before your eyes. For the first time in recent weeks, Messi, Henry and Etoo not exchanged their positions, insisted on banging against the wall with no alternative to white hands.
The start of the second half charted changes. Messi came to the center, Etoo was right. And the left Barcelona for Madrid will find something else to their main enemy, that in these times is the ball. Lever appeared as a main architect of its few moves deep tread the end of the right wing, territory Untouched by the Madrid Bernd Schuster, the coach defenestrado.
Etoo could not with Casillas
The Barcelona, with some added precaution, insisted the pressure and tried. Found a clear penalty for Michel Salgado to the newly incorporated Sergio Busquets. And Etoo continued to taste the bitter taste of its contrast with Casillas, who is grabbing the measure. The Cameroon was confused at the launch and resurrected the hero of Madrid, that he would reject a volley tremendous few minutes later.
The Madrid and stand in contrast to his image of the first part, had something more output. Still cautious, but the pride he gave any chance to break all the moorings of logic. The best was the lever that once the wall with Raul, forced Valdes to make his second intervention magic of the night.
The Camp Nou was sunk: win or even victory. Missed a penalty, a domain insulso ... And found the solution in a move anything artistic, in a header from Puyol to a balloon flown from the corner that ended up hitting, so some accidental, in Samuel Etoo.
It was the lace to Madrid after being left almost almost, to revive. The thin end of Messi is heading for history. Neither the classic embroidered front, but both have engraved with their names.
| BARCELONA 2 |
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| Valdes; Alves, Marquez, Puyol, Abidal, Touré, Xavi (Keita, m.90 +1), Gudjohnsen (Sergio Busquets, m.63), Messi, Etoo (Hleb, m.88) and Henry. |
| REAL MADRID 0 |
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| Casillas, Michel Salgado, Metzelder, Cannavaro, Sergio Ramos, Sneijder (Palanca, m.36), Gago, Guti (Javi García, m.74), Drenthe; Higuaín (Van der Vaart, m.76) and Raul. |
TECHNICAL DATA | 15th day of the season. |
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| Stadium: Camp Nou stadium before 96,059 spectators. |
| Referee: Medina Cantalejo (col. Andalusian). He showed a yellow card Metzelder (m.22), Sergio Ramos (m.28), Marquez (m.40), Drenthe (m.42), Salgado (m.69), Etoo (m.83), Casillas (m 90) and Messi (m.90 +3). |
| Goals: 1-0, Etoo (m.83) and 2-0, Messi (m.90 +2). |