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Yesterday evening the Barcelona accumulated nonsenses before a team directed by an old dog. Juan Manuel Lillo came undone in praises towards the Barca, his trainer and his players during the whole week but, come the hour of the truth, it did not cheat itself: the circulation of the ball of the Soccer Club Barcelona is not the one that was. This way, he arranged tactics that many have already used fruitlessly, but it went out for him well: the team much juntito, good closed about his area, with two defensive lines, going out to her against, etc …

An already well-worn exposition and that the Barca has destroyed repeatedly during these two years. Yesterday it was not like that. First because the Almeria could make the most of the opportunity when Domingo Cisma marked the first one with an impeccable testarazo and second because, after the goal of the tie, the Lillo picture neither was dismantled nor gave symptoms of general panic, anything in what there fall down most of rivals of the Barca.
The party had a secondary actor who fought for a principal role: collegiate Clucks Gómez. First it delayed the beginning because he did not want that the Almeria was going out with a T-shirt that it was saying: Force Chile! The bird came to the regulation I do not know what of International Board and according to it, the point I do not know how much prays this way:

The obligatory basic equipment will not have to have political, religious or personal messages.

That is to say: it is not possible to put “He votes for Jesus”, not “Jesus is my Gentleman”, not “Jesus: do you want to marry me?”. Nothing says the norm on the united or humanitarian messages, so the Clucks chicken Gómez for not knowing cannot even interpret a text of the simplest thing. Already in the party, first there was invented a transfer so rigorous that not even the culés were going to ask for it. And skylight, someone should have said to him for the pinganillo that it had put the shrimp and, from here on, it went crazy and began traveling from one end to other, always trying to compensate the previous error.

Messi’s great goal of absence that supposed the tie comes from an absence that is invented: it was not an infraction either of one or of other, simply a powerful Ibra jump over a smaller man. He expelled to Money box for saying to the linier “you whistle at everything the other way round, you do not find out about anything”. I do not want to imagine what it would do if there was chicken in his prostitute mother. And already in the second part, completely out of himself more dependent on his image than of the party, he decided to expel Ibrahimovic because it turned a hard struggle into the area in an aggression. It is clear that the Swedish is wrong: one more party in which it does not appear and ends up by losing the head; it must not be expelled for violent, but perhaps yes for idiot. The case is that struggles like that there is thousand in every córner and as very much it should have been a yellow card. Of course, to Schism one of two: or the Goya one gives to the actor revelation or a sanction gets as it would be necessary to do with all these personajillos that exaggerate the pain.

Him the Selections shutdowns do not feel good to the picture of Pep Guardiola: the baggage is of a victory and three ties in such situations. And if still above Puyol, in his emulation to do everything, puts a ball that belonged already to Valdés in proper door, the situation complicates you even more. Less evil that they take a player as Messi, one of those that, when it is plugged, even the rebounds him fall down to his feet.

But good, the case is that the Barcelona is not well. The ball does not move with the speed of earlier, not with the intention. Too much horizontal touch, too many slowness … this way the team rival has time to cerrase well about his area. In last two months the only player of midfield up that has had certain regularity has been Messi (top goal-scorer of the League with 19 so many people): Iniesta has not just broken from the band, Xavi is so tired (it accumulates more parties than anybody) that takes months without dominating an entire party: I do not say giving good passes, like that marvel of the previous day, but dominating the rhythm of the meeting; it does not do it. And what to say about Ibrahimovic: when a forward adds up more it was of game that shots, bad matter. Henry neither is one nor waits for him and Pedro is not going to save you the furniture every weekend.

I agree in that in any comparison with the spent period the today Barca goes out losing. Pep already said it on having begun the League and the Catalan press (with little or void criticism capacity towards his team) he has got into debt in fleeing of comparative happiness. But this is what exists: with whom would you compare Cervantes but with the proper Cervantes? Although it is clear that it does not also take to any side to compare the rest of his work with the ‘Quixotic’, because next to you everything seems minor. The same happens to the Barca: last year was the perfection and, therefore, practically impossibly to be equal.

It is necessary to criticize the game of the Barca, the absence of fluency, the slowness, the quantity of passes that do not serve for anything … proper Money box knows that something does not go badly when it plays two days continued with 4-2-3-1, looking that at least Messi breaks so many slowness with his vertical position, offering him the way of the field so that his dodge has gone out for all the directions. Now, it is not necessary to fall down in the pessimism: as for the points, we are before the best Barcelona of the history, good placed to go on to Quarters of the Champions and, after suffering the inevitable annual hole, it is joined to points with Real Madrid and losing the leadership simply for the goals difference.

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