Wait perhaps more political than sport, a fight of 90 minutes, two phenomena, one draw. The final Clasico could be summed up, but it would be very simple, because the boundary (the audience) and the icing on the cake (Messi and Ronaldo) cancel out the substance of a game that was particularly different from the Guardiola era.
THE VERTICAL OF REAL MADRID
Mourinho was presented at the Camp Nou with his "senators", forgetting Coentrao, Modric and reviving Kaka to make room for Khedira and Özil, oiled players in a game system rodatissimo that in the first 25 minutes was nothing short of dominant . Pressing up, recovery and large vertical ball on the counterattack, with the Barca seemed lost in his own world of possession, suddenly become alien in Catalan theater. Benzema the butt shot on the fly, Ramos puts out nothing's header, but the third time ago CR7 center ammutolendo the public and by ruling the superiority madridista, confirmed a few seconds later by the resounding pole of Benzema, that if he eats a another when he could (and should) make the decision with the race to the capital.
8 INCHES OF SUFFERING AND THEN PUT
Tito Vilanova was definitely taken aback, but was able to react. The coach of Barça took courage in the initial choices (Adriano central defender to manage the property with the highest quality possible) and initially has paid, risking the collapse in the first half hour and highlighting the suffering Blaugrana on dead-ball: the opportunity Ramos 'to 19' is emblematic, with Özil kicking a corner slowly, raising the parable simply to give the defender time to pull in the running for the gore out a breath. The clear physical superiority of the Real (on average 8 cm in height more per player!) Could make a difference, but the highlight of the goal - rather than causal - 1-1 of Messi question everything, especially from the psychological point of view.
REAL FRAGILE, BARCELONA flashes
The error on the tie Pepe Catalan did emerge fears madridiste all of a sudden, with Real unable to continue its high pressure, not so much for lack of intensity for the inaccuracy in launching the counterattack, which has enabled Barça to raise the center of gravity in turn, boosting the statistics of possession to the 2-1 punishment magic of Leo, at which - however - Xabi Alonso deserved his second yellow card. Ironically, the advantage of the hosts did well at Real, a team that remains fragile (at least in the Clasico) but also knows how to react to the great when it's back to the wall: the stroke of genius that sends Özil brings CR7 is by applause, on the contrary state of lethargy that wraps then the men of Mourinho, Kaka and Higuain who do not find the right energy for the final assault. An assault which becomes all Catalan, finding vent in the transom sensational Montoya (would have been the perfect "accidental hero") and the occasion wasted by Pedro in full recovery, signs of growing that leaves a bit of a bad taste in mouth to Xavi and his companions, although overall the game was controlled most of the muscles that merengue foil from Barca.
MORE BALANCE, BUT AT THE FALL?
A little 'as happened in the last two duels Super Cup between Barcelona and Real Madrid, the Clasico is more balanced than in the era Guardiola: Real Madrid seems less and less restrained by his awe (but emerge dangerously at times, as we have seen) but nevertheless failed to close the game when he could have, or to turn then in the second. The physical variable, in the end, was not decisive about the Barca failed to defend giving up only two corner kicks, but there must also be said that the Catalans have paid this attention offensively, given that Xavi and Iniesta played with precision, but almost horizontally only. The Barcelona as a result has built up to the very frontline, but without affecting continuously over the last 16 meters. In the face of this balance "to the bottom", we thought two phenomena make the Clasico still lively and spectacular to talk about Messi and Ronaldo statistics, records, it is only a pity that in January the Ballon d'Or will be awarded only one, certainly both deserve it. It is now a Clasico too.
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