The Barcelona begins his key week losing the leadership
The Barcelona could only tie to one with an Athletic Club that took a point in spite of his racanería. It was not difficult to predict the intentions of two teams and the party passed for the habitual way. The Athletic defended itself well, with the quite anticipated defense, and the Barca touched and touched as always, patiently, until the goal of Dani Alves came after Xavi’s excellent pass in the minute 54. The script seemed to be fulfilled for those of Pep, but nine minutes later neither Piqué nor Alves closed well an extension Weep of for you and Toquero defined before Valdés. A pitcher of cold water for the blaugrana, which they already did not manage to put in too many problems to the Caparrós squad.
The tie leaves to the Barca second in the table, a point below Real Madrid, which Camp Nou will visit the next weekend. It is true that Money box had some falls, but it cannot be an excuse: they recorded Maxwell precisely to replace Abidal and Busquets comes of getting thousand and praises for his game with The Red one; I am evident, of course, Ibrahimovic’s absence, but skylight, if to replace your forward it covers with stars only you have a young promise and a veteran crack and you do not even entrust in them for eleven initial …
That the tie was deserved it is a lie that only there should believe the boys of Caparrós and his shortest fans of sights, because the Athletic only pulled once between three sticks in the whole party and, for very well that were defending and for very jammed that the Barca has been, the tie did not do justice. Nevertheless, it is not necessary to obviate the fact that that of yesterday is the third tie continued out of Camp Nou, what has made them add three points of nine, an average to insufficient domicile to gain one league.
Caparrós is one of these trainers rácanos that, it is not known very well how, it has quite good press. It sees the soccer as if it was a question of a tribal war and he likes taking the parties at the level of the mud. He does not lack followers that they create that presently better trainer does not exist for a team as the Athletic, argument much reinforced after last year has come to the final of the Cup, but the most minimal thing does not convince me. His teams fight to death, sweat the T-shirt and play with the frown, but soccer, the justito. In fact, in his stay in A Coruna it was provided with a much better staff than he arranges Lotina, but it did not manage to do a Dépor any more than mediocre.
What is undoubted is that his players are to death with him and with his idea, up to the point in which sometimes they take it up to the end, as it did yesterday Amorebieta on having left the blocks to him in her facing Messi. Time to withdraw the plant or, when less, to minimize the impact, it had in abundance, but it did not do it and must be expelled by it.
For his part Money box sees the soccer in a chess board and not always it manages to turn round him to the clash when he is wrong in the initial exposition. Yesterday possibly one of his towers remained him in midfield and the team had worked better with one more touch midfielder in the fundamental one, leaving Iniesta in his place, to Pedro and Messi in the bands and with Bojan or Henry in the top; sacrificing Keita of beginning, which for good that has begun the period cannot be the key piece of this one Barca either.
This way and quite, the Barca loses the leadership in favor of Madrid which it is not necessary to play well to win. On Tuesday there waits for him the Inter of Milan, which comes to the European duel after reinforcing his first position in Italy. Money box is before a key week when we are still in November and everything around him seems to be complicated: the flu A puts in doubts Abidal, Touré and Márquez, for what it can have to get the Inter with only four defenses of the first staff (Chygrynskiy cannot play Champions): Alves, Piqué, Puyol and Maxwell. Neither perhaps comes Ibrahimovic, who did not take part yesterday, and, if it was small, Messi also is a doubt for an injury in the adductor.
Now scarcely it has that of Santpedor two days to achieve that his wards face to the Inter with optimism and insurance that will achieve it, because nobody knows better than he the tendency victimista that it always threatens to destabilize to the Barca when the results do not accompany him to the soccer idea.
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