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Barcelona stage epic comeback to remember against AC Milan
Quite simply, the most perfect response possible.
Barcelona are not just still in the Champions League, they are emphatically the team to beat. Indeed, it wasn’t just that they eliminated AC Milan 4-0 (4-2) at Camp Nou on Tuesday, it was the manner in which it came — every goal of exquisite quality, every recent criticism answered.
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That sense of completeness also came in the very context of their qualification. In the aftermath of Milan’s first-leg 2-0 win, Xavi attempted to put on what seemed like nothing more than a brave face when he said, “The one thing that is missing for this generation of players is a historic comeback.”
Now, they have one of rather epic proportions. Leo Messi, meanwhile, also has his first goals against an Italian side in the Champions League, finally banishing one of those last nonsense criticisms that were never anything more than coincidences. This,
The way in which Milan pushed Barca so close in the last 10 minutes — and derived such defiant, desperate saving tackles from the likes of Jordi Alba — points to persistent, unresolved problems that may yet come to trouble the Catalans again before this season ends. There was also the moment that the entire tie hinged on, in the first half, when M’Baye Niang hit the post just before Messi’s magnificent second goal.
On this night, however, Barca rendered those flaws irrelevant by reverting to the approach that initially made them.
For a start, Jordi Roura abandoned the awkward Cesc Fabregas experiment, and restored the 2011 frontline of David Villa, Pedro and Messi. It ensured Xavi and Andres Iniesta were closer together as well as immediately injecting the intensity that had been
Because, amid the difficulties of the past few weeks, there had been a somewhat misplaced argument that Barca’s pressing-passing game — or, tiki-taka, as it is somewhat clumsily called — had passed its sell-by date. In truth, though, the team simply weren’t applying that approach. They may still have been passing, as in the first leg against Milan, but with nowhere near the same urgency or enthusiasm. Similarly, the pressing appeared to have disappeared.
No more. At least not on this night.
Right from the very start of this game, Barca were roused into a response that recalled the absolute best of the 2008-11 period. Everything about the first goal, less than five minutes in, revealed a team that meant business; from the quick-fire touch passes to the shot that was well past Christian Abbiati before he even realised what was happening.
The key second goal, meanwhile, was reminiscent of Messi’s winner in Barca’s 3-1 win some degree of luck. And the bigger question is now whether, having benefited from it, Barca can build on it in the way their great rivals at Real Madrid look likely to after a similar stroke of fortune at Old Trafford last week.
Jose Mourinho’s team, If such ties are all about inches and maximising space, there was b
Sure, the last few minutes may have gotten a little ugly in comparison, but Barcelona responded as Jordi Alba made it 4-0. It was the story of the night.
It may be the story of the season. Once again, another team will have to come up with something pretty momentous to respond to this Barca.
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