Football Update: La Liga News- Barcelona Dominate Against Deportivo La Coruna
In the midweek fixtures of Spanish Copa Del Ray, Barcelona barely made it past against the resilient Athletic Bilbao side. This was another difficult encounter against Deportivo and the heavy rain made it even harder for Barcelona as they travelled to Municipal
de Riazor. However, Barcelona continued their dominance and scoring spree in La Liga as they won the match easily by 4-0.
Barcelona has maintained a perfect away record this season, as the points were dropped only at home. Once again, the Catalans looked in perfect condition as they looked to win another potentially difficult match away from home. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/David-Villa-c10629 was the only scorer
in the first half of the match, while Lionel Messi, Andres Iniesta and Pedro were on target for Barcelona in the second half.
Pep Guardiola made some changes in his side as he looked to rest his players before Champions League match against Arsenal. Xavi, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Seydou-Keita-c33177 and Adriano.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lionel-Messi-c22296 was also back into La Liga after missing the last match because of an extended winter break.
It was a trademark Barcelona performance and despite missing Xavi, the Catalans continued to dominate the midfield. The visitors adeptly cut the Deportivo supply in the midfield and enjoyed 75% of the total possession. However, the game was mainly focused
in the midfield area as Barcelona did not find enough openings in the first half. The hosts adopted a different strategy for this match as they chose to start with four men in the midfield. It was an attacking manoeuvre as compared to a previous five man midfield
which has been successfully implemented throughout this season.
The first goal came in the 26th minute of the match and it was once again a display of perfect passing. Maschernao found Messi who created space between two defenders and played a precisely weighted ball into the area. At the same time, David
Villa made a run into the free space and placed his shot into the goal through the legs of the goalkeeper, Daniel Aranzubia.
After a few minutes, Lionel Messi placed another perfect through ball to Eric Abidal who made no mistake in finding the back of the net. But, he was marginally offside, as pointed out by the linesman, and the goal was ruled out by the referee. The second
goal came late for Barcelona and Messi was the scorer in the 51st minute of the match. Messi scored from a free kick, curling the ball over the wall into the right corner of the goalkeeper.
Andres Iniesta made it 3-0 for Barcelona after only ten minutes. It was a fine run from the midfielder, who ran diagonally and placed a powerful shot into the right hand corner of the keeper. After a couple of minutes, Pedro made it 4-0, finishing after
getting another great pass from the young Argentinean, Lionel Messi. In the end, Barcelona won the match easily and increased their gap, on top of the table, to five points. Real Madrid will be under pressure on Sunday, as they are looking to host Villarreal.
It was yet another man-of-the-match performance by Lionel Messi as he scored one goal and made two assists. With this, he has increased his season’s goal tally to 18, only one behind http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Cristiano-Ronaldo-c9629. However, Messi is significantly ahead in the Assists
section with 12 assists after the match.
Deportivo will have to rethink their strategy and might switch to the old tactics. The five man midfield was workable as it earned them 17 points in last 9 games. Right now, they sit in 12th position on the table but they might move down after
the results of fixtures on Sunday.
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