The Catalan football deserved this derbi. For years, Espanyol had never suffered as a condition of his club neglected and marked by enquistados complex of inferiority. Faced with a Barcelona embroiderred football in the first half, but was unable to endure until the end of a rate infernal game, Espanyol was able to boot a tie merit that allows you to continue dreaming.
The azulgrana, which hartaron from crashing against Kameni, pointing symptoms of improvement, but still far from reliable team of yesteryear.
What a pity that such shows are enmugrecidos with the pathetic attitude of the chairmen of Chelsea and Barcelona, Daniel Sanchez Llibre and Joan Laporta. The first, unable to enjoy the bisoña prosperity of his club is growing assumption of antibarcelonismo, that the flag should flee forever Espanyol.
Laporta it lags behind, and avail their interludes autopropagandísticos with their pals of Convergència yesterday it was the turn of intellectual disguise himself in the demonstration for the right to decide on infraestructuras for bramar with his usual desparpajo against Sanchez Llibre. Already in the stadium of Montjuïc, nor had the look of dignity despite sharing living space. Unfortunately attitude that ignites further hatred of descerebrados. While the Boixos Nois preparing their flares and forced entire families to leave their seats on the lawn, while Espanyol Barcelona claimed piety as offering a great match against those who seek gangrenar this sport.
Messi gave a masterful lesson from start to finish. The Argentine has everything to mark an era, and yesterday again proved that the era post-Brazilian Ronaldinho, alternate for the first time in the League, now gives the status of a Ezquerro will be nothing more traumatic if it maintains its incredible level of competition.
The blanquiazules met in the first leg of face against a monster that does not reach the 170-centimeter nicknamed La Pulga, which also has two escuderos stem similar Iniesta and Bojan, trained to magnify the work of his champion. Among the three destriparon to Espanyol, which nothing seemed to serve its hipermotivación nor his ploy planting lines pressure very top.
Resistance equipment Valverde lasted five minutes, just the time that Messi was presented an opportunity to address the poor Clement in the race. The former Boca lost two meters tenths of a second after a dizzying dribling of striker azulgrana. Neither caught Torrejon to Messi inside the area, and the Argentine, and the bottom line was still forces to attend the second pole for a superb Iniesta scored a pleasure.
The Espanyol, even without losing the order, the enduring ventolera how could. Barcelona, by contrast, has missed the opportunity to kill the game. It was lucky Messi, who caressed the judgment with a cross shot which went outside. Nor Xavi. First, erred incomprehensibly after a phenomenal assistance Bojan; moments later, the midfielder azulgrana sent leather in the cross-kick after a frank and Bojan in the rejection, he returned to crash his testarazo in Stud.
But this team has no Rijkaard average. Barcelona showed his condition colossus with feet of clay and tear left by Espanyol in a second hand full of the blanquiazules. Valverde arengó to theirs so that they are without fear upwards, and azulgrana were laid to tremble. The technician sent to the Dutch bank to Bojan from entering the denostado Ronaldinho; cacereño, for its part, threw hand of man miracle club, Coro, who once again led the delirium to Montjuïc. Riera only once escaped from Puyol. Enough. The backward pass from Spanish international found in the area the accurate boot of Corominas, who awoke to a Barcelona still seeking its identity.