Spanish La Liga: Espanyol vs Barcelona – Second Half Report (Part 2)
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The tactics were simply risky as Barcelona had immense pace up front in the form of David Villa, Lionel Messi and Pedro Rodriguez. All three of them would outrun the Espanyol defence anytime and that was exactly what happened soon after a few minutes. A
wonder ball again by the Argentinean maestro http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Carlos-Kameni-c8464 to make
the score line 1-4 for the visitors.
Despite the fact that the Catalan Giants were leading the game with a three goal lead now, the home team did not really look to be giving up on their dominating style of play. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Liverpool-c39809
star http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Javier-Mascherano-c18071.
The Spanish champions were not through even though they were four goals up and despite the fact that Espanyol were trying to dominate the game, Barcelona were the side who scored another to totally round the game off for themselves. It was another outstanding
ball by the midfield maestro Xavi Hernandez which found http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/David-Villa-c10629. The Spanish striker was able to score a brace for his new club yet again as he easily shot the ball and found the back of the net.
Barcelona were totally dominating while attacking but that was only when they got the ball past the “strong” Espanyol midfield. It was for the first time that Espanyol were being defeated by the Blaugrana wearing side at their home and even last season in
their home ground, Espanyol held Barcelona in a goalless draw. However, this time it was total humiliation for the home side as they could not get stand strong against Josep Guardiola’s Barcelona side who look to be totally unstoppable this season.
With the fifth goal coming from David Villa, Pedro Rodriguez was taken off along with Andres Iniesta. The Spanish midfielder Iniesta was given a standing ovation by the Espanyol crowd as he was replaced by the former Sevilla holding midfielder http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Seydou-Keita-c33177.
Pedro Rodriguez was taken off for the young Spanish striker http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Bojan-Krkic-c7794 who took his place in the centre forward position while Lionel Messi took the right wing position and David Villa positioned himself on the left flank.
The Spanish champions did not totally dominate the game while being away from home but the front three simply did their job to highlight an extraordinary score line. Barcelona won the game 1-5 while being away from home and it was for the first time in a
decade that the Blaugrana giants won against Espanyol at their home ground. It was definitely a great moment in the history for the Spanish champions. Despite the fact that the score line was totally one way, it did not tell the whole story about how Espanyol
dominated most of the possession and the midfield. Lionel Messi was not on the score chart and that means that his one-on-one goal scoring battle with the Real Madrid man http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Cristiano-Ronaldo-c9629 would see him being left behind in case the Portuguese captain scores
against Sevilla tomorrow.
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