"So......4 minutes to go. Can Ronaldinho find a way throooough....ohhHHH YES HE CAN!!!!!!!"
- Paul Breen-Turner
What a friggin' busy day today. Woke up in the early hours. Watched some football, and had midpoint in the afternoon. Busy day indeed. But it all started at around 3.30 am, watching a live transmission on Astro SuperSport from Catalunya. La Liga matchday 10.
There were 3 things that mainly summarizes the match yesterday:
- the linesman Rafa Guererro,
- Ronaldinho’s performance, but more importantly his second goal (¡Qué golazo!),
- the attacking football displayed by both teams.
Where to begin? Let’s start with the first two goals.
I’m not sure whether to say that they were conceded due to bad defending, as they seemed to be more of a miss man marking in which somehow both Milito and Ronaldinho had a free-header apart from the other players contained in the 18-yard box (the corners delivered were excellent though).
The match was flowing back and forth, but IMO they wasn’t much of a clear chance between either teams.
The real commotion of the entire match began somewhere in the 75th minute, when Motta was expelled from the field. The controversy was that, he was judged to have elbowed Diego Milito as he challenged and won the ball from the Argentinian. But replays showed otherwise. Even though Motta’s hand did make contact, but the way Milito simulated his ‘dive’ looked like it warrant a ‘correction’ from the linesman. And who was the linesman? Rafa Guerrero, the same linesman who was involved the same sort of sh-t in the Spanish League like a decade ago (here’s a Youtube link regarding Rafa Guerrero. Bizarrely, it was also a match involving Zaragoza & Barcelona. In addition, additional opinion on Guerrero).
Once the decision was made, there was an outrage of fury from the blaugrana bench, surrounding the unpopular linesman. And there was a ‘special’ ovation from the Camp Nou crowd when gameplay resumed as Diego Milito received the ball once.
But what to occur just a minute after gameplay resumed after Motta’s expulsion was to further shock the game. Saviola managed to outsprint Gabriel Milito as the Argentinean Zaragoza defender miscontrolled the ball, where he pulled back the arm of Saviola. As the Rabbit fell down, the outcome was a no-brainer as by that time Gabi Milito was already on a Yellow card, and there’s no other decision given out by ref Eduardo González other than another yellow card. Out went Milito. The crowd approves, and the roar grew louder and louder. By this moment, I’m sure I’m already sharing the opinion with other watching the match that the match was going to be a crazy game, as there was going to be around 15 minutes plus extra time left (!)
What resulted next after Gabi Milito was expelled was to be a frantic showcase of desperate to win football (dunno how else to describe it). From this particular period, I found that Diogo, the Zaragoza rightback (who had a terrible first half in trying to counter against Ronaldinho) was one of Zaragoza’s players who had came out attacking the Barca defense. Hell, it was like during the 81stZaragoza. minute or so when he sprinted to the Barca corner, and managed to dribbled through Carles Puyol (!) I was like “What the hell is this?!. But it was to be like a couple minutes later after this incident that Saviola proved crucial to the Barca gamplay once more as Sergio brought him down a few yads outside the 18 yard box of Zaragoza.
The resulting freekick is summed up by the YouTube clip below:-
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I’m not sure whether to say that they were conceded due to bad defending, as they seemed to be more of a miss man marking in which somehow both Milito and Ronaldinho had a free-header apart from the other players contained in the 18-yard box (the corners delivered were excellent though).
The match was flowing back and forth, but IMO they wasn’t much of a clear chance between either teams.
The real commotion of the entire match began somewhere in the 75th minute, when Motta was expelled from the field. The controversy was that, he was judged to have elbowed Diego Milito as he challenged and won the ball from the Argentinian. But replays showed otherwise. Even though Motta’s hand did make contact, but the way Milito simulated his ‘dive’ looked like it warrant a ‘correction’ from the linesman. And who was the linesman? Rafa Guerrero, the same linesman who was involved the same sort of sh-t in the Spanish League like a decade ago (here’s a Youtube link regarding Rafa Guerrero. Bizarrely, it was also a match involving Zaragoza & Barcelona. In addition, additional opinion on Guerrero).
Once the decision was made, there was an outrage of fury from the blaugrana bench, surrounding the unpopular linesman. And there was a ‘special’ ovation from the Camp Nou crowd when gameplay resumed as Diego Milito received the ball once.
But what to occur just a minute after gameplay resumed after Motta’s expulsion was to further shock the game. Saviola managed to outsprint Gabriel Milito as the Argentinean Zaragoza defender miscontrolled the ball, where he pulled back the arm of Saviola. As the Rabbit fell down, the outcome was a no-brainer as by that time Gabi Milito was already on a Yellow card, and there’s no other decision given out by ref Eduardo González other than another yellow card. Out went Milito. The crowd approves, and the roar grew louder and louder. By this moment, I’m sure I’m already sharing the opinion with other watching the match that the match was going to be a crazy game, as there was going to be around 15 minutes plus extra time left (!)
What resulted next after Gabi Milito was expelled was to be a frantic showcase of desperate to win football (dunno how else to describe it). From this particular period, I found that Diogo, the Zaragoza rightback (who had a terrible first half in trying to counter against Ronaldinho) was one of Zaragoza’s players who had came out attacking the Barca defense. Hell, it was like during the 81stZaragoza. minute or so when he sprinted to the Barca corner, and managed to dribbled through Carles Puyol (!) I was like “What the hell is this?!. But it was to be like a couple minutes later after this incident that Saviola proved crucial to the Barca gamplay once more as Sergio brought him down a few yads outside the 18 yard box of Zaragoza.
The resulting freekick is summed up by the YouTube clip below:-
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In a nutshell: PANDEMONIUM BROKE OUT ALL OVER CAMP NOU.
But the game was still far from over. Some moments later, Zaragoza managed to break and Diogo once more provided a cross. Ewerthon headed the ball only for it to be parried away by Valdes. The ball flew across the 6-yard box of Barcelona, only for Diego Milito to hit a missed overhead kick and if not mistaken Ponzio went and kicked the ball way high over the bar. That was crazy stuff, but a damn lucky break for Barça, if not, Zaragoza would have pulled level (and that happened during the 88th minute, bloody hell).
Anyhow, Barça held on, and managed to get another freekick right on the death of a 5 -minute injury time. Ronnie whipped in another great freekick, only for the ball to hit the crossbar thunderously, but Saviola managed to advance several steps ahead of the Zaragoza defense line and headed in the third goal (but I’ll admit that there was a sense of offside there…..but it didn’t matter…………).
As Paul Breen-Turner said, "Well, we have had a game that had just about everything tonight."
Anyway, 3 points in the bag, all smiles definitely for every Barcelonistas around the world, what with that great fuk-n’ goal from Ronaldinho. Incredibly, that’s still another Blaugrana victory with a 3 goal score margin, oddly bizarre. With the victory, and crucially the moment when Dinho’s freekick blazoned the ball past through Cesar, it all brought back Barcelona back at the summit of la Liga.
Ohhh………and he’s back (in Ronaldinho we trust). Hopefully, Los Blaugranas will now rise up once more in the positive direction and claim back what would be rightfully theirs to achieve.
Anyhow, Barça held on, and managed to get another freekick right on the death of a 5 -minute injury time. Ronnie whipped in another great freekick, only for the ball to hit the crossbar thunderously, but Saviola managed to advance several steps ahead of the Zaragoza defense line and headed in the third goal (but I’ll admit that there was a sense of offside there…..but it didn’t matter…………).
As Paul Breen-Turner said, "Well, we have had a game that had just about everything tonight."
Anyway, 3 points in the bag, all smiles definitely for every Barcelonistas around the world, what with that great fuk-n’ goal from Ronaldinho. Incredibly, that’s still another Blaugrana victory with a 3 goal score margin, oddly bizarre. With the victory, and crucially the moment when Dinho’s freekick blazoned the ball past through Cesar, it all brought back Barcelona back at the summit of la Liga.
Ohhh………and he’s back (in Ronaldinho we trust). Hopefully, Los Blaugranas will now rise up once more in the positive direction and claim back what would be rightfully theirs to achieve.
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