Discuţiile despre seria de Clasice s-a talibanizat atât de mult, încât te întrebi ce meciuri au văzut unii, care la rândul lor se întreabă ce meci oi fi văzut tu. Fiecare purtăm nişte lentile partizane, prin care meciul devine un film derulat după un scenariu făcut dinainte în cap.
N-am mai apucat să scriu cronica aseară (prea multe beri pe fondul unui meci hidos) dar ce pot să fac e să vă arăt cum au decodat meciul cei mai importanţi jurnalişti sportivi din Anglia:
Twitter:
Oliver Kay FT Real 0 Barça 2 (Messi 2). Anyone who thinks that was a victory for evil over good wasn’t watching properly
Oliver Kay I hate the diving and the demands for yellow cards. I dislike Barça’s holier-than-thou attitude. But only one team tried to play tonight
Paul Tomkins I think that if you’re at home with a £400m squad, you might at least try and get out of your own half. Maybe I’m odd.
John Sinnott Mourinho parked the bus, but Messi took the wheels off it. Can’t imagine many youth coaches telling teams @ w/e: “Go & play like Real lads.”
Rafa Honigstein First time I ever cheered a goal – YES – from a team I don’t support
Phil McNulty And thank goodness Lionel Messi has lifted this game from a horrible, spiteful nonsense into something resembling a football match. #fb
Matt Lawton According to the stats Michael Carrick completed more passes last night than Madrid have managed this evening.
Ravi Hiranand Agreed; the Messi v Ronaldo debate is almost insulting. Ronaldo is a great player. Messi is a level above.
Gavin Hamilton Conspiracy theories are classic Mourinho diversion strategy. Nobody fooled: he sent out the wrong team with wrong tactics.
Henry Winter I like Mourinho, good coach, likeable guy, but tonight was embarrassing. I certainly don’t buy the pro-Barca ref conspiracy
Craig Foster Mou’s post match comments a disgrace. There’s reason why he consistently has 10 men, when plan is to destruct, ultimately u self destruct.
Cronici de meci:
Kristen Jack, The Score: It was a night when the world’s greatest player took one of the worst games of football you will see and turned it back into the beautiful game.
Sid Lowe, The Guardian: At last, here was a moment that graced this occasion, at last a piece of skill that sat well with the two strongest clubs on the planet. All that anger finally gave way to a moment of awe. Sublime genius won out in the end.
Henry Winter, The Telegraph: Messi picked up the ball 50 yards out and just ran and ran, control and determination, taking him past Diarra, Ramos, Albiol and Marceloa before sliding the ball past Casillas. That wasn’t a dribble, that was an odyssey.
Miguel Delaney: The problem with Mourinho’s strategy, however, is that – as Holland found out in South Africa – you always run the risk of crossing the line. In that sense, whatever the correctness or otherwise of Pepe’s red card, at least one dismissal was inevitable.
As Gerard Pique – rather self-servingly – said after the game, “They play at the limit of violence. If you play with fire, you could end up burning yourself.”
Given that Mourinho’s approach to this game was utterly dependent on defensive discipline, the loss of a man was always going to tip it over the edge. Barca finally got the sort of space their thrilling football thrives in, and Messi did the rest.