Posted by: abhibyakti April 27, 2011
Real Madrid Vs Barcelona Champions League leg 1 review
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I prefer to watch both real and barca games because am a big argentine fan for the last 20 years, and both of them got many argentine stars since the earlier history of their clubs, okay then today's game was yes boring as hell but saying the ref helped barca to get the lead was kind of unfair in my neutral point of view, it was Mourinho's plan that backfired. Pepe is a Central Defender and he is good at it but playing him more in the central of the field (as Mou did in his last two classicos) was going to go bad anytime. And Mou's tactics were clear just not allow barca to play their game whether they had to physically disrupt the flow of game which Pepe, Ramos and Alonso were doing properly. So the tackle made by Pepe with his studs high and late, which according to the books of FIFA is an immediate expulsion from the game. And if you look the tackle again by where the ref was standing ya it was a dangerous tackle. The recap of the tackle looked bit harsh for the red but I am with the ref in this one because the pressure was pilling up from the earlier half. Another thing Mou did was he played with 3 defensive minded midfielders at home, when Real have loads of attacking talent and they just won the Copa, so they had that upper hand going into this game. With the recent form Kaka, Higuain and Benzema should have started with Ronaldo because Ozil has not proved to be good playing against Barca and Di Maria should have been used as a super-sub with his speed. As long as the play acting goes i never liked Busquets for his part in acting, and Pedro i just noticed today he did some but Real also had Di maria who always goes down ( infact Di Maria is so skinny that even if i play against him, he is gonna fall down 10 times). So hoping that Real is gonna straight them up and come up with an attacking attitude in Camp Nou so we can see a real classico.
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