Barcelona – The perfect team ends a perfect week
The Spanish Champions, Barcelona, were able to end the perfect week after lifting the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan. Lionel Messi was the one who showed the world that he is, without a doubt, the best footballer in the world.
Messi doesn’t need to prove to the world how great a player he is, but the Argentine has thrown in a reminder by helping Barcelona beat Madrid, and then Santos.
Barcelona were to face their arch rivals, Real Madrid, in the Spanish La Liga last weekend. With the El Clasico lined up, everyone started to keep a check on how http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ronaldo-c31734’s season has been, compared to Messi’s.
Ronaldo has been impressive throughout this season. Moreover, his team was also topping La Liga with a three point gap over Barcelona, plus a match in hand.
Barcelona went away from home to meet Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu. Los Blancos looked to be the favourites to win the game as Mourinho fielded his strongest side, with the exclusion of the Portuguese centre back http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ricardo-Carvalho-c30973.
Josep Guardiola, on the other hand, had all the first team players available to him. However, he still chose to field http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/David-Villa-c10629 and Cesc Fabregas over Pedro Rodriguez.
The tactics worked out just fine as Barcelona were able to win the game 1-3 away from home.
The home side went into the lead after only 25 seconds as http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Karim-Benzema-c20350 scored the fastest goal in the history of El Clasico’s. Later, a Lionel Messi pass helped Alexis Sanchez score his fist goal against Real Madrid.
A deflected shot off http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Marcelo-c23554 helped Barcelona take the lead and later Cesc Fabregas scored his first ever goal against Madrid to make the final score line unreachable for the Whites.
Later in the midweek, Barcelona were to face Al Sadd in the Club World Cup semi final. The Spanish Champions won the match with two goals from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Seydou-Keita-c33177.
Barcelona then had to face the Brazilian side Santos in the final of the FIFA Club World Cup. The Catalans were the favourites to win the game but the inclusion of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Neymar-c27639 in Santos’ squad was enough to build hype before the game.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lionel-Messi-c22296 a lot of time to score the first goal of the game. It was Messi’s favourite chips which helped him make the score line 1-0.
Soon, Xavi Hernandez managed to double the score line. Cesc Fabregas scored the third goal before Lionel Messi was able to complete his brace to end the game 4-0 in favour of Barcelona.
Last week, for Barcelona, was simply phenomenal. Not only were they able to beat their arch nemesis, Real Madrid, they were also able to write their name in the history books as they won the final of the FIFA Club World Cup 2011.
Barcelona are now going to resume the Spanish La Liga season after being triumphant in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Japan-c2928. They have to face Bayer Leverkusen in the UEFA Champions League while trying to gain the top spot in the Spanish La Liga.
Josep Guardiola has managed to win all titles in his reach while being the coach of Barcelona. Can the Catalan repeat his feat? Only time can answer that question.
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