The beauty of the routine
Barca win their third consecutive league championship to tie with Levante in Valencia after a no celebrities, in a day than to expect to play
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There are times when time flies, especially when playing against the clock, can not score a goal, and got away to Barca Cup after Cristiano header at the Mestalla. There are also times when life is suspended by magic, as when Iniesta was waiting to come down the ball at Stamford Bridge or in Johannesburg while the breath of the supporters carried his leg. And they have a time when the hours are eternal because victory is taken for granted and costs passing games: more or less what has happened to Barcelona since he visited the Bernabeu and was awarded the League.
LEVANTE, 1 - BARCELONA, 1
Levante: Munúa, Javi Venta, Nano, Ballesteros, Juanfran, Valdo, Iborra, Xavi Torres, Pallardó (Larrea, m. 82), Xisco Nadal, and Caicedo (Stuani, 74 m. .) Not Used: Reina, Cerra, H. Rhodes, Rubén y Montero.
Barcelona: Valdes, Alves, Mascherano, Piqué, Abidal (Fontes, m. 62), Xavi, Busquets, Keita, Afellay, Messi and Villa (Pedro, m. 86). Not Used: Pinto, Bartra, Thiago, Iniesta and limbo.
Goals: 0-1. M. 28. Keita, head after a cross from Xavi. 1-1. M. 41. Caicedo advantage Piqué failure.
Referee: Stops Romero. Pique showed yellow card and Iborra.
Ciutat de Valencia. 20,473 spectators.
That happened on April 16 and did not sing the Alirón Barca until yesterday, May 11th in Valencia. It has been many days to wait for a goal or a celebrity fantasy play. The fans expected to be consummated triumph once and did not notice anything extraordinary. Simplente wanted to win the league. And so it proved, as expected, home of the Levant. The title fell by inertia, without pomp or epic, after a match that lasted what is not written, heavy and suspicious: in the fourth quarter was a non-aggression pact. The draw suited both: it saved the Levant and left the club champion.
Barcelona seemed hypnotized-to Levante. Not risked with the lineup, ran the ball for a quarter of an hour from one end to the divide, and who does not want the thing, and even seemed that he would not play the game. Levante seemed great, so that was collected on their home court with a very physical team, not at all interested in game development or leather. Absent Pedro and Iniesta, possession was sterile because the imbalance was reduced to the acceleration of Messi and Caicedo intervened too little, alone against the world, far from Valdes. So
hung out a and others, without intensity or aggression, or puñetería. Not a chance, not a good move or a pass filtering, or a scare. They both liked to draw and either could have sworn that they had spoken of the marker before going out there. False impression. Just as the match went to sleep, turned the stadium into a spa, Xavi tempered mellow leather steering wheel center as Keita headed to the surprise of Munúa. A goal, in slow motion, so beautiful and unexpected, a player's own laborious and long stride and good coat as Keita.
expiration of the Levant, oddly anesthetized Barca goal. Barca draw and even gave a resounding second time granted After a mess of legs and heads, as if they had just backs up from a nap. Pique was not understood with Valdes in an assignment, accompanied by central evil and not corrected by the goalkeeper, and holed Caicedo. Nor Xavi hit upon a control soon after, caught by the rival, and Levante narrowly escaped what would have been the second goal. Viewers exception, not end granota grateful for the generosity of the club. Nor are they suited to bother the champ.
The second half began more agitated than the first, perhaps because Barca put dynamism and aggression and deny Levante cost him more space. Messi grabbed the leather and began to haggle endlessly in search of the goal of the League. Sometimes he sliced \u200b\u200bthe ball, others left him and there was a chance that after bypass the defenders and goalkeeper ended up hitting the post. Marr's description after a sublime driving. The play won by a party that the lift was opened by the presence of this Caicedo.
The match was reduced almost to a duel between Messi and Caicedo, until Luis Garcia replaced the Ecuadorian and Argentine understood that the mourning was over. And just then the light went out and both teams killed the time until the referee blew the final. Did not pass the ball to midfield, almost always at Barça, while it looked Lift does not fit, without dispute, without competing. "Ugly? As in 2005, when Rijkaard's Barcelona also won the League and then surprisingly dropped from the Levant. Not expected to be the case this season. It
follow the Levant in the elite as the third best team in the championship in the second round and nobody can dispute the title won by the club: if Barca have struggled to finish the tournament is because we started from fable and gained right to manage the records, and epic items, and on the other hand, deserve to celebrate in style. They've played better que nadie, dejan un 5-0 para el recuerdo y su distancia con el Madrid en la tabla ha sido más larga que nunca. Los chicos de Guardiola ya llevan tres ligas seguidas, registro que les remite al dream team de Cruyff y les anima a superarlo.
La rutina tiene su belleza en el día a día más que en el principio o el final. Ayer era un día para esperar más que para jugar y hoy toca festejar el trofeo al tiempo que se evocan los momentos más solemnes de una temporada endemoniadamente fascinante para el Barça, irreductible y de nuevo campeón.
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