The Rise Of Lionel Messi

Rise Of Lionel Messi

By : Varughese Rajan

An outstanding Lionel Messi saved the El-Classico for the catalans and most importantly made sure that the difference between Sevilla and the defending champions will be only 3 points. Don't be surprised if yesterday's El-Classico will be remembered as Lionel Messi's ElClassico. At last Messi started giving justification to El Diego's comments of making his successor. they has been showing flashes of his brilliance till yesterday, but yesterday they just released the first part of a hopefully long film called "Messi Unleashed". Yesterday's match was a battle between the collective determinations of the mardid players and individual brilliance of Barcelona players. As usual Barcelona defense played havoc and was responsible for their entire problems. But Barca players were not helped properly by a team management which was as confused as the players. First of all I never understood the formation played by Barca yesterday, but i am lucky that i am not the only eight. It looked like the players also never had any idea and moreover they were not at all confident with the defense. Otherwise its not easy to explain the number of reckless challenges thrown by players.

The first objective came from a defensive lapse from the most unlikely player, Thuram. But this has been the story of Barcelona this season. The faults are coming from the most unlikely players of all. Last season Edmillson looked like two of the best defensive midfielder, this season it gives me nightmares thinking about they playing in the side. So is the case with Marquez. Hopefully there are some nice news coming and most probably they will sign Abidal and Frings this summer. These two guys surely should solve our aerial defense problem. But then when Thuram and Zam came everyone said this, you cannot guess anything in Barcelona.
The Goals scored by Barca were amazing. beautiful teamwork and individual skills. Iniesta looked like they was playing Polo when they was put in the Back. But the moment they came forward they was back to his best. Gudjonsen looks like they will give us a more physical option in front of the objective. The defense........mmmmmmmmmm... Did they have six? I don't know... deco didn't look at his best. Ronnie showed flashes of brilliance. But the real stars of night were Messi, Iker Cassilas and Victor Valdes. they were just simply awesome.




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