David Villa – Barcelona’s success story
The Spanish La Liga fixtures have stopped because of a winter break and now is the time to analyze the new signings made by the top teams. With the summer transfer window opening after the 2009-2010 season, Barcelona were the first
to sign the best Spanish striker of all time, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/David-Villa-c10629.
When the season started, David Villa was coming back from a successful FIFA World Cup 2010 experience. After playing for the Spanish side, he scored five goals and took them to the final match of the tournament to face the “all-winning”
Dutch team. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Spain-c3011 looked to be the only side who could defeat them. Even though David Villa could not score a goal in the final match, he did bring a lot to the team just as he is
being very helpful for Barcelona at the moment.
When Barcelona signed the Spanish goal-scoring machine, they knew that he was one of the few players who could replace Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who was too slow for Barcelona’s style of play. After the Swedish striker joined AC Milan,
it was up to David Villa, Lionel Messi and Pedro Rodriguez to take care of the goal scoring in the Nou Camp.
Even though David Villa was scoring many goals while playing in front of Andres Iniesta and Xavi Hernandez in the Spanish team, he could not really do the same after joining Barcelona. It was the Argentinean maestro, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lionel-Messi-c22296
yet again, who overshadowed all the other players in the game. Currently, the Argentinean has scored 27 goals for his team, which is more than double the amount of Villa’s goal-scoring tally.
Despite the fact that David Villa has only scored 13 goals until now, the Barcelona trio have already netted 51 goals. Moreover, David Villa has also helped the team with his wonderful assists. There are speculations that these
three might be better than the attacking force of Barcelona, which consisted of Lionel Messi, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Thierry-Henry-c34918 and Samuel Eto’o. Except for Messi, the rest two left Barcelona, they were replaced by David Villa and Pedro Rodriguez, and both the players have done
a lot for the team.
Lionel Messi, Thierry Henry and Samuel Eto’o scored 100 goals for Barcelona in a single season and with half the season still to go, Barcelona have already scored 51 goals this season.
When Josep Guardiola’s men were to play against Jose Mourinho’s Real Madrid, the match was expected to be a low-scoring event. However, the Spaniard made sure that he clearly gives a shut up call to the Los Blancos. Right before
the game Jose Mourinho sent out a message to Barcelona indirectly. While the former http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Karim-Benzema-c20350 in his team who is not scoring goals, the Portuguese coach decided to take his frustration
out on the Catalan Giants. He stated that he knew a club who spent awful amount of money on a striker who was not scoring – a comment that pointed directly towards David Villa.
Even though there were more haters for the newly signed Barcelona striker, he managed to give a shut up call to the Los Blancos in the Spanish La Liga derby game. After scoring a brace against Jose Mourinho’s Real Madrid, he took
his tally to 11 goals and later scored 2 more goals before the winter break to make it 13 before the year 2011.
Barcelona are definitely a side that look to be unstoppable. They had only one tough team in the Spanish La Liga and they defeated them 5-0 to take their spot on the top of the table. Now, they have settled well above Real Madrid;
however, it does look to be unpredictable.
With David Villa included in the equation of the Barcelona striking line-up, they are a team worth a watch as they play the most beautiful football in Europe at the moment. The Spanish Champions are going to play against Arsenal
in the UEFA Champions League and as it was http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Zlatan-Ibrahimovic-c38029 who scored two goals at the Emirates Stadium last season, David Villa is definitely going to be nothing less if he remains intact with his form.
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