The decision: Lionel Messi lifts the score 2: 0 New to Manuel past .
Pep Guardiola has on Wednesday met again his old favorite disciple, with whom he had barely contact for four years. There is “no defensive system that can stop him,” the Bayern coach had said about the Barca star, and at the end of Lionel Messi confirmed the words of his former foster father. With two fantastic goals in the 77th and 80th minute of the world’s best footballers punished the hitherto very brave and strong emerging team of Bayern and gave the FC Barcelona with his two goals a very good starting point for the second leg in Munich on Tuesday – before Neymar with a counter on presentation of Messi in stoppage time to Bavaria with the lead to 3: 0 probably robbed any realistic chance of reaching the final of the Champions League
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Author: Christian Eichler, sports correspondent in Munich.
Before the duel between the two kindred teams that try to dominate by collective control of the game machine their opponents, Guardiola had stated that possession will be crucial: “It is a game where it is just about to go”. Logically would allow the enemy a safe playmaking neither team. Both were trying to prevent these already in the attacking half with early Offense. So the chances of the first half, did not arise, as usual the quality of the two teams, through skillful ball relay races, but by forced errors.
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The first offered to Luis Suárez who, hampered by Jerome Boateng arm, not New ago Manuel on the ball came and demanded in vain Penalty. On the opposite side shot Robert Lewandowski, despite the eight days earlier in the Cup against Dortmund suffered nasal bone and maxilla fracture ready, Gerard Pique on – may in its objective still hindered by the black mask he wore
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After twelve minutes Boateng struck with trying to Suárez with a long ball from the opponent’s half to put the sidelines, a blatant and almost fatal mistake. Messi headed the ball with a header, and the Uruguayan was because Boateng had adopted the wrong way, all alone on Manuel Neuer to. But although he made his low shot against the direction of movement of Bayern goalkeeper, parried with his foot great New the ball.
Three minutes later Suárez pulled in the penalty area right on Boateng passing, found with sharp cross to Neuer past Neymar. But the scorer of four meters is not the empty net, but the knee of Rafinha. And almost in return had similar luck as Barcelona before the Bayern, as Lewandowski Thomas Mueller’s flat, sharp edge from six yards not fully met alone in front of goalkeeper Marc-André ter Stegen -. The largest Munich chance of the first half
The Bavaria accounted for its human Not a tactical virtue and not only played defensively focused, even offensively bold, what could the attack machine the Catalans not stop, but slow down. For emergencies, you still had Neuer, who certainly caught (35) and by a fine direct game of Andres Iniesta Dani Alves on the volley with his foot deflected Lionel Messi’s free-kick (38). Pep Guardiola went with a serious, but not discontented expression in the cabin.
It looks like a semi-final: Both teams give themselves no centimeters . Photogallery
With a smile he was shortly after 19 clock the team bus in the garage of the Camp Nou got out and with a brisk step of his leisurely behind trotting team towards cabin forward stormed – as if he could return to the stadium, under whose shadow he had as a 14 -Jähriger moved into the football boarding school where he was a coach for Barca legend in eleven years as a player and four years, not wait. For the first time in his life he took in “his” stadium in the guest cabin space.
“Barca is better than us at the moment, the best team in the world, even as they maintain already 15, 20 years the same style,” Guardiola had stated – and also made a promise not to be in awe of his own great past freeze: “Barcelona was the most important part of my life, okay, but I’m here to win.” Even after the break playing Bayern, despite its setbacks in the offensive by the failures of Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery, who also return match will be missed, at every opportunity cheerfully forward. Great opportunities brought does not, however, self-confidence and relief. Lewandowski skipped out Dani Alves, who could stop him only at the expense of a foul and a yellow card Xabi Alonso scored the free kick into the wall halfway up.
Even Messi they seemed to have under control. Typically, the scene in the 55th minute when the Argentine received the ball on the edge of the box in a promising position, but saw itself encircled within a split second of white jerseys, unnerved veered and lost the ball. Even mate Neymar failed to New, as it consistently jumped the ball too far and tipped the best goalkeeper in the world far outside the gate (61)..
But then, shortly after Barca had unsuccessfully demanded a penalty, the Catalans won the ball back quickly, he came to Messi, and balanced it with the left from 17 meters as sharp bouncing ball into the near post – it was in the fourth game against New Messi’s first goal. He gave him the same as the next follow, as he took a pass from the former Schalke Ivan Rakitic, the cumbersome Boateng let lie left and let tremble with a sly, coming across the New Camp Nou.
Then hit even Neymar against the wide open drew Bayern defense. It was already the 111th goal of super-storm Messi / Neymar / Suárez who brought the sport newspaper “Marca” to the assessment, Barca play again “as to Guardiola’s times”. Yet remain Guardiola ninety minutes to do something about it.
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