The Champion League Quarter Final game facing FC Barcelona and Shalke 04 ended just one hour ago. I am confused and not sure what to write right now. Once again a dissapointing performance from Barca and yet we won. In fact my opinion is that tonight's game was a result of Rijkaard's upcoming firing. He was aware that if he loose this game he is out of the club and he made everything possible so this doesn't happen.
Barca started without the injured Leo Messi and Ronaldinho but performed really well in the first minutes of the game , maintaining the ball and playing their well known passing game. In the 11th minute a wonderful pass from Iniesta sent Henry in front of the keeper and he made a powerful shot which was boxed out clumsy. This gave Henry the chance to pass the ball and he did , he passed it to Bojan Krkic - GOAL! 0-1
After the goal the picture slowly began to turn around - Shalke's physical game started to override Barca's passing strategy and at the end of first half the strenghts were even. The second half belonged to the Germans. They become the leading team on the pitch with endless counter-attacks and powerful air plays.
In a result of that picture Rijkaard took out one by one our offensive players replacing them with defensive ones.Thanks God , Shalke weren't able to score till the end of the game and we won a very important victory.
After the game was over I stared at the TV for one more minute asking myself all those unanswered questions about the future of my favourite club and now , one hour later, I am still unable to find the answers...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Barcelona beat Shalke with one goal and dissapointing performance
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