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To the Barca of Pep Guardiola, so much in his period to the orders of the team as in his stage like player, he likes the epic and the recoveries. A clearly offensive team as the blaugrana feels comfortable in the situations where there is no any more option to go to the attack. Such age the situation that it was confronting today in Sánchez Pizjuán, but for the first time the Barcelona has not left with his and could not have finished off the task before the Seville. It did not cost Xavi’s goal in the second half. With the final score of 0-1 the Catalans savor for the first time since Pep took the reins what is to remain eliminated of a competition.

In the very advisable series Rome, the personage that Marco Antonio personifies, after being defeated in Actium, confesses his soldier Lucio Vorenoa something like: "you know? the whole life have been afraid the defeat and now when have come, be so terrible as think. The sun keeps on going out …”. The sun keeps on leaving for a Barca that will not be able confirm the incredible plenary meeting of the past period.

In the first part it was the Seville the one that had the control of the situation. Before a Barca that except for the alignment of Spotted was going out with all his artillery, the team of Jiménez did not commit the error of hiding after his fortifications. Faithful to his direct style and with a rapid rhythm, the inhabitants of Sevilla approached with danger the goal of Spotted in diverse occasions. The Barca for his part seemed slower and to the waiting, nevertheless it managed to scare also Palop with a good occasion of Ibrahimovic and another level and placed shot of Messi, good solved by the international doorman.

The second part was another history: to the Barca he already had not left another option to go out to the attack with everything and the team accepted been delighted the assignment. The players seemed to have more movements freedom, and the changes of rhythm of Iniesta, Xavi and Messi, as well as the Ibra desmarques, were beginning scaring and very much in the area sevillista. In the first ten minutes of the second half the visitors harassed more to the opposite goal than in the whole first half.

Xavi’s goal in full siege azulgrana seemed to anticipate the recovery. The Seville had given a logical step backwards, but it never shut itself up completely behind and even had several dangerous approaches to the counterblow, settled almost in its entirety for decisive interventions of Puyol. The big captain avoided with one of his interventions a clear occasion so that Negredo was equaling the party, after a big move of Jesus Navas.

The Barca washed the victory in the qualifying round with quite clear occasions saved by the biggest Andrés Palop. With the definitive elimination of the Cup, the Barca will be sorry about his exposition in the going party. Even being the biggest team that we all know that it is, one mistakes Money box if he believes that it can win against any team playing with half of the substitute, and great team less against a team as competitive as the Seville. The Andalusians have now before themselves a very good panorama to re-live through his successes coperos of last years.