After three days of a match day selection, which took nearly all our stars (including Messi played 90 minutes at a high level, I know because I saw it.) - And four a decisive day in the Champions League, making rotations is a fact almost obligatory. If today we had started with all the artillery and Wednesday at Highbury would have been limp around the world (myself included) have complained about the lack of alternatives on the computer. And while we rotated (and with all the respect in the world, especially a day like today) a match against Sporting seemed the right time. Another issue
is whether these rotations (both quality and quantity) were adequate. Generates an automatic first team that the substitutes can not reach, so they are alternate, hence the sinking of Afellay, who played by the usual Peter, unable to overwhelm or combined with Alves on the right wing and lacking the aggressiveness of Canary player, not the player Mascherano seems convenient, when pulling forward when Xavi and Messi are not a good day (as it had at least in part).
Sporting was not particularly well in the game, or at least more than many other teams that have been so loud goleados for Barca actually did what almost all them: be aware that their only chance lies in overwhelm the world's best team in the opening minutes for a goal that allows them to lock himself in his area the rest of the game. The other difference is that they failed and they did, something that helped the factors already mentioned, ie rotations and fatigue that starts to weigh on the usual (without going any further it seems absurd that still keep playing Xavi Hernández with red).
The result was a horror first part, except for Iniesta, who was the only one that came some danger to the local goal, and Pique, who had to make Busquets-the rest of the team was loose and off center with Messi and Xavi missing inoperative due to the bands mentioned wreck Villa Afellay since disappeared from the game (leaving only Maxwell left) and defending a nervous wreck until the Sporting marked and decided not to bother more. The rest
almost everyone had in mind the appropriate changes: Pedro by Afellay and Mascherano Busquets and Bojan leaving as the last trick. Pep only agreed to the first and last. The entry of Peter gave a little more dynamism to the Blaugrana attack but unfortunately the canary was as lazy as the rest of his teammates. Yet in the early stages of the restart it seemed that the team came out focused and convinced that a both at the time the party was a guarantee of a comeback, but not, it goes better and within minutes created more danger than in the entire first half but no luck. The goal rather than a result of our improvement in the game (which some of it was) was the result of a flash of quality of two men as Messi and Villa, the latter had in fact only two seconds fortunate throughout the match but was enough, for it is signed.
No more, the incorporation of Keita and Bojan did not contribute anything and just another blow to quality and fortune could have brought victory.
Given the circumstances I do not think we lost two points but we won one, I am personally happy with the result in fact an equal sign next Wednesday.
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