Camp Nou Stadium
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 16:32
Of the African power to the fictitious ‘antiMessi’
The African Power
Essien was an authentic defensive Guru and multiply himself in the midfield• Piqué, the best player of the Barça tonight, he annulled Drogba completely. Bosingwa did not have to worry for a missing Messi.
The Chelsea of Guus Hiddink controlled to the perfection the assault azulgrana and dried the fundamental men in the game of the Barça. “The same thing will not pass to us that to the Bayern “, was saying the Dutch in the previous days. And this way it was. 0-0 it is the best reflection of which the plans of the Chelsea were fulfilled to the perfection.
The bolt was based in asphyxiate the creation zone azulgrana. Eleven initial of the ‘blues’ already was showing Hiddink’s intentions: to stop up Xavi and Iniesta. For it, the Dutch forgot Anelka and Malouda and put Obi Mikel together with Essien. Both African mid-field players, especially the Ghanaian, multiplied in the recovery and obtained, by half, the initial aim.
Xavi went unnoticed, scarcely it he had contact with the ball and had one of his more discreet games in what goes of season. The first part of the fulfilled work. The second one turned out to be impossible. Iniesta was, once again, the best of the Barça and the ‘blues’ only could stop him skipping the regulation. He initiated almost all the plays of assault azulgranas and was the great culé hope.
Messi does not go out of the wardrobes
Other one of the details most commented in the previous one of the game was the possible antidote for Leo Messi. Hiddink chose to place Bosingwa in the left side to try to stop the Argentine. Ultimately, it of ‘antiMessi’ was totally fictitious, because the Argentinean did not even appear. In the first part he got involved in going towards the center and had a couple of relatively dangerous actions. After the rest, Leo was more “a” ‘flea’ that never, because there is the one who still doubts if he went out of the wardrobes. Neither for the center nor for the band had the Argentinean managed to scratch ball.
It was the game of the defense, of the Essien, Bosingwa, Ivanovic, Piqué, Touré … and it means problems for the Barça. In Stamford Bridge Hiddink will raise, assurance, a game of a different well way. It is possible that it, though it does not seem, benefits Barça which goals have a double value.
