Alternative Title: 2009 Begins With A Hattrick From Messi
Positives
- Barcelona achieved a win in the first leg.
- The win (and the scoreline) is an advantageous position for Barça: an away win (away goals advantage), the 1-3 score is a big and good score for Barça to bring back to Camp Nou and also not forgetting that Barça will have a very good aggregate advantage.
- Lionel Messi:
- MOM performance,
- scored a Hattrick,
- all three goals were excellent,
- When he left the pitch, received a standing ovation from the home fans.
- Daniel Alves gave a fantastic pass for Messi’s first goal.
- Iniesta, what a great cross from him to Messi that resulted in Messi’s third.
- Overall the team gave out a very good performance. Atletico Madrid did not have much of a chance. Further more the team (minus Messi, Alves, Xavi) was a 2nd choice team and they did very well against a dangerous opposition. Great job Barça!
- The Pique-Caceres tandem I felt showed a potential centerback tandem.
- Pinto had made a great save in the 2nd half.
- Barcelona defeated Atletico Madrid.
- Well, the goal conceded was perhaps the biggest disappointment in this game. Especially concerning that yet again Barça concedes from a set-piece.
- There were some chaotic moments in defense especially during parts of the second half. At some moment it was like getting a heart attack from Pinto’s frantic keeping and positioning.
- This is just me, but I think that Barça should have gone more brutal in finishing the entire tie off when Heitinga got sent off. The matter that Atletico are not such a defensive oriented team and the fact that Barcelona were 1 player more why they didn’t go all out and get a possible bigger scoreline to put Atletico out of reach in this stage?
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