Wembley, twists of fate. Wembley, the stadium where it all began, where the Barcelona raised their first European Cup this May 20, 1992. The first witness to continental glory Barca. Wembley waiting again the Spanish team. What’s New, Barça?.
Many things, think the Barca fans. Many, mentally review Guardiola. 19 years after the Pep good returns to the legendary English stage. 21 years old he was when he showed up there along with Zubizarreta, Koeman, Laudrup and company. So, Barcelona won by the minimum goal for Sampdoria with a timeless, legendary lack Koeman. For the first time, Barca Europe shouted: “Hey, I’m here.”
But Wembley is for much more than Barcelona where he won his first European Cup. It’s the best argument for a philosophy, a way of understanding the game, a belief that began Cruyff and has now perfected and brought to success Guardiola.
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The Real Madrid is outraged by what happened at the Nou Camp on arrival at the airport of El Prat both Mourinho and Cristiano Ronaldo made that clear with eloquent gestures that indicate the anger and helplessness felt by whites in Barcelona.
“We have won,” was the phrase used by white expedition on its way back to Madrid. Himself Iker Casillas already said after the match: “We’re hurting. Arbitrators have shot us. We have won here and there, we have taken the Champions League.”
The Portuguese, who watched the game from the team hotel, his face reflected in the discontent with the performance of the Belgian College. In the only picture of Mourinho throughout the day, taken by the program “Punto ball ‘, it was discovered that Madrid will take a long time to forget what happened in this double match in the Champions League.
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“It was Mission imposbile 4.” So Cristiano Ronaldo scored the second leg of the Champions League for Real Madrid. The Portuguese said his team has gone to Barcelona because it is “a gentleman club”, but said “For it was better not to come”. “Next season is better than to give Barcelona the cup directly”, he charged.
On arbitration of the meeting said the white team “I knew something would happen”, Referring to the disallowed goal by Gonzalo Higuain by Frank de Bleeckere. And he remembered the rival: “Mascherano in England never threw and there appears to be dying every time he touched.”
Very annoying, the Real Madrid striker said: “It is very difficult to play with these setbacks.” “This is not just football, there are many more things,” Ronaldo said after the 1-1 draw at Camp Nou, a result that has prevented his team qualify for the Champions League final.
“Something happens, many things together. Higuain’s goal was legal and they have not given. Barca have a great team to assist him behind, “reemphasized the white player.
Tactical issues
A Cristiano Ronaldo was asked if he kept his idea, launched after the 0-2 at the Bernabeu, that does not like the style of play Madrid. “I like to play well, but I have to adapt,” he said then.
The Portuguese called a “tempest in a teapot” these demonstrations. “I feel more comfortable playing in a place than in another. That message is not what he meant. I’m used to the arbitration and the press, we must learn to live with it,” he said.
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April 20th, 2011 by admin
Real Madrid captain was blunt in his complaints. Asked about the Higuain goal disallowed early in the second time, had put Madrid ahead by the score 0-1, was hit. “So you want to say. Another plus, as always. But whatever we say Real Madrid players may be used against us. Nobody likes being eliminated as well. Such aid may be received from the collegiality. I do not understand why is this story. We will not hurt and angry. Referees have us shot. We have won here and there. He has missed the final, “he said.
That did not stop Real Madrid goalkeeper. He still threw a sweety most Stark, UEFA and Barcelona. “Having seen, you keep the memory of what happened in the first game with the unjust expulsion of Pepe at the Bernabeu. We have shown that when we play with 11 against Barcelona, we do not complex. We have long been working for referees to take two decisions so critical to a playoff, “he said.
His recent statements left in the background to the controversial referees and focused on the work of their peers. Despite the outrage at the cancellation of Higuain and helplessness accumulated after two rounds in which Real Madrid has been injured in two actions that have changed the qualifying round, Casillas praised his teammates. There has itself to Internacinal Barça. “Some have been identified. I did not like what some said nothing, “he complained.
Aitor Karanka, who served as Mourinho at the Nou Camp, said that the Portuguese coach “was right” when he said that “It was impossible that Madrid could happen”. Basque coach has stated that “arbitration was easy with what had been at the Bernabeu.” To Karanka, the semifinal was “virtually settled.” But he warns: “If it does happen the way we would have been to 0-0, the numbers are there.”
The Basques had to sit on the bench as head of Real Madrid for technical sanction to luso Jose Mourinho, Who saw the red card in the first leg protesting the expulsion of Pepe player. Communication between the Portuguese and the bench led by Karanka was constant throughout the leg.
Basque coach commented how it affected the absence of Mourinho. “Before starting the match team talk and assumptions of the outcome. Also the players and their status. This happened in Auxerre where we had no communication with him, but at all times we knew what we had to do. ”
Aitor Karanka focused its analysis of the tie in the arbitration proceedings. “We ended eleven against eleven, almost at the end of Valencia. Had it not to happen what happened in the first leg Had we been with 0-0 and with Pepe. The numbers are there. ”
The second Mourinho refused to make any assessment of the season because it is not yet finished. “I make no evaluation because of missing league games. No ratings have to do to where we are today. The Madrid is a real team and in adverse conditions has always face. ”
Finally, Karanka valued the input of Kaka in the starting lineup. “We thought that after like I was playing this game and had to go look at rival and have the ball. That’s why we wanted the player we needed.”
