Leo Messi is beginning to know each other. Good news. The Argentine noticed cramps in the area of isquiotibiales and said enough

Requested change and Rijkaard is not thought twice before giving entry to Bojan. Although the'19 'requested more time, 90 minutes remaining key at Old Trafford and there, in Manchester, Messi will be decisive.

While on the pitch, the striker did not stop trying to create holes in the defense of the 'Red Devils'. We tested with walls, driblando individually, with long passes, with centres. He did everything he could to break a pace that was unwavering. But the best news is that he saw with much more pace than in previous encounters. And that, for the round of the semifinals, may be key. If Messi is well at Old Trafford if he can finish the encounter, Barca will have a good chance of playing the final in Moscow. Yesterday only tried a shot, unfortunate, but his football again encourage the tier and, most importantly, the team. While he played almost all the balls went through their boots. His colleagues believe in him and know that is his greatest asset. So we must seize it. His change few people understood this, but what was he himself who asked. With him on the field the last half hour could be different, but this is mourning two parties and The finalist will play from that day 29. There will be.

Against Valencia became centenary and returned to be one of the highlights of the team Rijkaard. Leo thinks that the staffing has travelled

The Argentine footballer will everywhere. Not content with little. Come on, igualito that when it is in the field and facing a rival defence with his particular skill and audacity. Leo Messi firmly believes that this team can win all three titles at stake and that there are assaulting the stadium to be put ahead if remains loyal to its philosophy of the game. That is, if you leave the field of play without hesitation or wavering. Prihajajo a number of parties very important and the best thing is to maintain the serenity without mistakes that may pay very expensive in the decisive moments. "As we are playing lately we can win in any field. Now we depend on ourselves and if we can not get the leadership it will try this week to the next. The most important thing is that we are playing all parties to a high level and that the team is more united than ever, "said the Argentine crack yesterday morning after tie with sweat and tears against Valencia in the round of the semifinals of the Copa del Rey.

Messi deeply regretted that it could not be break the team Ronald Koeman which was closed back over ninety minutes trying to maintain the only marked both by the Guaje Villa. "On the one hand I was either because empatamos but on the other wrong because we did not have too much luck in the face of the goal and rival what we try. When you see that are created so many scoring chances to not come to realize not get satisfied, revealed demanding with himself and with the same team that won derive more benefit of the party. Leo knows very well that faces the final stretch of a season that should not end like the previous one and that the concentration has to be maximum without losing sight of the world at a time when the euphoria of the environment can be counterproductive. "Now comes the more difficult. Each party, in any of the three competitions in which we are, it is an end. You can not throw off even one minute because if you do you can stay off the rest, "warns cautious of what evil things could be made if the positive results that have been harvested in recent weeks just esfumando.

And yet yesterday had to be a special day for the Argentine having become centennial. But true to his nature and was not shy Leo Messi for many celebrations. The only that the team has hopes of living in the Cup after zapatazo Xavi Hernandez but little more. He is well and anyone or anything that seems ready to change. After playing his party official number one hundred with Barça Argentine trained in the gym next to the injured, gave a brief press conference, posed for the media and went home. Nothing more, nothing less.

Leo was unclear what

There is a party that has a special meaning. It is a game and I did not feel anything special to play

Humble indicated yesterday morning with his timid tone of voice while posaba for cameras SPORT. The Flea has grown as a footballer and as a person since he officially debut at the Lluís Companys an October 16, 2004. Since that day has improved their football but has not changed one iota his particular way of looking at things.

About the match tomorrow against wards of Aguirre stressed the figure of his friend and compatriot Kun Agüero and refused to be as easy as the 0-6 of last season.

The encounter against Atletico will not be like last year

On the hypothetical hand of Samuel Etoo in the action that marked the goal of Barça Leo Messi merely to say that it was "Unintentionally".

Messi was the real hero in Glasgow. The Argentine was the author of two of the three goals that made him Barcelona to Celtic (2-3)

The Barça play of the fourth Champions inter alia because it showed in Glasgow that is infinitely better than the rugged and willing Celtic. Also because won with a remarkable collective action (2-3), two of many Messi, and top scorer of the competition and the best Ronaldinho minutes too long.

Despite the authority visitor, there were a couple of scares, two blizzards that made Scottish shake the foundations of Celtic Park and the ever-voluble personality azulgrana. Two cabezazos after centres from the left that led to book[+]

There will be revolution in Celtic Park if Rijkaard gives continuity to the tactic that tested yesterday behind closed doors.

Frank Rijkaard used yesterdays training behind closed doors to rehearse tactics without Leo Messi as the holder for the party tomorrow at Celtic Park. The body of technical Barcelona is assessing the possibility of submitting an alignment in Glasgow with more troops in the center of the field and ensure that the possession of the ball bearing in mind that always subtracted 90 minutes per play at the Camp Nou.

The alternative cover for the possible absence of Messi would be among the return to the team Iniesta, who was an alternate and did not dispute any time in the match last Saturday in Zaragoza or dotrar much more muscle to the team and give input to Eidur Gudjohnsen , as a surprise. Significantly, when Barcelona visited Glasgow last November to face the Rangers, and was the Icelandic player was used as a tool to compensate for the thrust of the British.

Messi, neither has been very lucid in recent matches of the Barcelona as a visitor and there has been some depletion of the Argentine, who since returning from his injury has not had an opportunity to make a gradual integration team. Proof of this is that it has been replaced in the final leg of the last meetings of Barcelona.

Therefore, if the tests conducted behind closed doors yesterday were satisfactory, Barcelona could appear at Celtic Park with a pattern more similar to 4-4-2 to 4-3-3 that when the front would be formed by Thierry Henry and Samuel Etoo, who thus returns to the team owner after his participation in the African Cup of Nations.

For the first time in a long time, Frank Rijkaard go to a meeting with the vast majority of their troops available, which increases the possible alignments. The fact that the meeting tomorrow will be the first act of an eliminatory scheduled to return merely increase the uncertainty concerning the possible team that could present the technician Dutch.

It seems certain that the defense, how well is carburando, is not going to vary. Valdes is untouchable as a goalkeeper in front of you will be aligned Puyol, Milito, Marquez and Abidal. A solid defence that can cope with the ordeal he intends to submit to the Celtic blaugrana through the air balls.

In this aspect of the game will be fundamental physical Yaya Toure in the centre of the field. When African fichó him to the stature in Europe and put Barcelona in the physical level of the great European teams.

The accompanying Yaya Toure depend largely on whether the evidence yesterday of a Barça without Leo Messi proved entirely satisfactory.

The substitution of Iniesta in La Romareda may suggest that Rijkaard thought in reserve to come to Scotland rested. If Rijkaard finally chooses to align four centrocampistas Deco and Xavi seems that they have more numbers, unless Guddy return to the team owner, rather than Deco.

Lionel Messi takes time without being at their level, the injury, aburguesamiento, a team that did not power.

Lionel Messi Argentine hope to emulate, if only in the comparative nonsense, Diego Armando Maradona is not the same. After a meteoric start garter belts, a slight but untimely injury, took the rate of progression to galactic aimed.

Even taking the misfortune muscle as a further factor, but not decisive, their low status so football, I think, in addition, we recognize other suspicions, imagined from the outside, and to deal with this discussion.

The only player in the history of football that he only enhanced the group , was mentioned Maradona everyone else, and in all possible circumstances, are projected by a group strong, cohesive, well-trained and technically tactic.

Naples Diego, the first say, it was a pine forest dressed in blue who invented the 10 squad as a winner. The Barça , and not the double national and European level, but that it earns as does Zaragoza is even mediocre, a template dream compared to the first example.

In this context, in which Messi peeked crack as it is in the midst of a set graced by its freshness and style offensive, grew to the excessive compared to those who established that the hard disk and view them played an intellectual slip.

Looking California today, which barely-rivals, mainly draws-points with forceps, we can surmise that not only fails the individual but also the system, how to train and the hecatombes a group that when everyone thought we started a cycle, nearing completion, as recalled Jorge Valdano .

If a coach, very good in this case, many respects it is unnecessary stress now, as Frank Rijkaard does not change in the victory, when he made in the defeat, as the Catalan club, where winning is a dogma, it will be late. < br />
And I am not talking about changing players, too, or systems, which is vital given the case in the same party, because rivals play, but the dynamics of training and group dynamics.

Psychologically it is known that a professional team when it meets the objective, he began to dissociate itself. This is why in times where drown our laurels, we have to start again, with an emphasis on lideratos positive qualities and football.

The routine, aburguesamiento, the same way of preparing the party and lack of results, are favorite condiments for the failure. Can we talk about failure on a computer that is second in League and keeps its options Champions and Cup ?

From the statistical point of view not, but in football send more feelings and mood, that the work of an absurd telonero counting passes either given or rival. The statistics do not differentiate risk and the chance of horizontality vulgar, therefore, I think that it fails Barça .

Because success is preceded by a game fluid, rapid and efficient wings as necessary for the adventure on its ambition. That is where Barça lost first Ronaldinho --and is returning now to Messi, no semblance of presence.

The Argentine is apathetic, confused, belligerent with himself and boring . It does not seem suitable for a boy of 20 years, this cocktail of disappointment. The team is horizontal, it retraza one day by any means, by another band and the set is sinking into mediocrity of the attempts to Giovanni dos Santos , for its resemblance in the hair, they wanted drawn another Ronaldinho from the galley of fantasies.



The Flea must re-which will be a big football world, a crucial player in the last meters and leave sorrows for others. If he is not, though atheists, we lack the soul and without a soul, we are nothing.