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The Barca is already in the final of the World cup of Clubs. The logic was fulfilled and the quality was imposed in the evening – night of Abu Dhabi. But it was not easy for the set azulgrana to be imposed on Atlante de Cancún, which went forward to five minutes thanks to a goal of Red, and to the absent-mindedness of the defense azulgrana, everything is said. Then, it trumped a clear opportunity and the due script happened. Touches and touches of the Barca, patiently but with too many slowness. The lawn seemed dry, something that does not favor the style of game of those of Money box. In spite of everything, the Barcelona bored the rival, the tie came, Messi came to change everything concerning seconds, and Pedro’s wished goal came.

There is something that is over the quality of the Barcelona: his conviction. It seems easy to subordinate everything to a style, but it is something that they not all reach. A goal in against cambia the way of playing of the team, and this way it him goes, that it annoys to more painting by means of short passes. Today Xavi did not start as of custom, but vague, but the joint pressure works well and allows the ball him not to last on the contrary, being provided with the opportunity to initiate repeatedly the moves. That asphyxiates the rival, physics finishes with exhausting him and mentally, however much it goes forward so early.

One of the big dangers of the set is the right band. There is no remedy that avoids the increases and the poisoned centers of Dani Alves; without it being necessary that it is at his best level, but simply to half a gas, showing presence in attack. The Atlante also suffered his insistence. The goal came of córner, a formula with which it had already warned the Barca. A córner, also, in which the Mexicans were too innocent persons: one of his players came for the ball, it was delivered to Xavi so that it was centring and placed itself in the streak of the big area, it was not going to receive it again. The question is that the ball finished brushed by Touré Yayá and pushed to the network for Sergio Busquets. It was 1-1 of the perseverance, without brightness or anything.

Messi resolves in a minute

This way up to the rest, and Messi, who was a doubt, took nine minutes in going out, and one in unbalancing everything. The doubts were finished. With the result in favor and the Argentinian in the field everything was much easier. Also Abidal replaced Piqué Márquez, who walked excessively slowly sometimes, how. But skylight, the Barca defends from half of the field for forward, and they end up by attacking all to his way, even the defenders. Ibrahimovic has a few different conditions that they allow to his partners to believe that every center will be finished off and every ball will be born, and they are right in believing such things. Yesterday it fell down to the left often, and from there it was wrapped. It was the Swedish who saw Messi’s diagonal to open the way of the second goal.

And it did not take in falling down the third one, a goal with which young Pedro does history. The canary made use of a big Iniesta move for the left and his wonderful assistance to beat Vilar and to turn into the only soccer player who has marked in six official competitions in the same period. His talent question is, and of months. It is already, it settled the matter and without doing noise, since the canterano did not walk obsessed on the field. It found the goal because the circumstances happened, congratulated all to him and let off steam — of what way—. Mostó the lad satisfied.

Since then, more goals could fall down. Of Bojan, Ibrahimovic and even of Pedro. And also Valdés had his occasion to save the second one of the Atlante, covering well his goal, doing of his body a magnet that it attracts to the steel ball. The grace of this one is Barcelona, for which the things go out well for two reasons so simple and so difficult to manage: because it has a group of exceptional soccer players — some, the best — and because he believes in his work and in his style. There will be times that the matter twists, but there have joined the quality, the seriousness and the confidence, a deadly combination, difficult to neutralize. On Saturday it has him to prove it to the Students of La Plata.

Photo | Bernart Armangue