The Spanish international hailed competition in the prestigious European competition, whilst adding that La Blaugrana will do well to take it one match at a time.
Tito Vilanova’s Barcelona jump started their UEFA Champions League campaign with a 3-2 victory over Spartak Moscow. The Catalan club were pegged at 1-2 at the hour mark but managed to secure all three points on offer with a late double salvo from Lionel
Messi.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Dani-Alves-c9869 own goal and Romulo goal thirty minutes apart put the match in the Russian outfit’s favour. Barcelona rallied late into the European encounter, levelling the score on 72
minutes and then gave the lead to the hosts at the stroke of 80 minutes to deny Spartak anything from the fixture.
After the match, Pedro Rodriguez took out time to reflect on the fixture, sharing that the problems Barcelona faced are normal in the UEFA Champions League. La Masia youth academy graduate hailed the competition for points in group stage of the prestigious
competition, claiming that every match will not be easy to negotiate.
“This is the Champions League and we know how it is. Every team is top class and every game is difficult. We must take it match by match,” Pedro said while addressing reporters at a press conference.
Analyzing the details of the Champions League meeting, Pedro acknowledged that http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604 suffered at the hands of Unai Emery’s charges, who did well to take the lead after Tello’s opening goal.
Furthermore, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Pedro-c29582 hailed Spartak for their organized effort, especially the manner in which they supplied Ari and Emenike in attack.
“We suffered a lot. First they drew level and then took the lead. They are a very well organised team that uses the ball well up front with http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ari-c6471 and Emenike, but we are happy with the win and to have got off to a good start.”
Continuing on the topic, Pedro hailed Tito Vilanova’s substitutions during the game, especially the introduction of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alexis-Sánchez-c4979 in the second half. The Spanish international stated that his Chilean teammate added to the team dynamics and they duly profited
from it on their march to victory.
“We opened the game up well. Tito brought Alexis on to give us more presence in the area and things went well after that and we mounted a comeback.”
Following their UEFA Champions League adventures, Barcelona turn their attention to La Liga where they host Granada over the weekend.
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