Caparrós seemingly also founs a way to override the 3-4-3, as Joao Victor has the first goal in his head, but will it be because he was nervous, will it be somewhat else, he missed (luckily).
Messi (who else?) vanished up all hesitations in minute 13: unlucky move for Mallorca, as while trying to stop Barça's pass and pass flood, Nsue, one of Mallorca's forwards (forward!! A forward defending?? It does not sound logical... Well, except in catenaccios) touched the ball with the hands (you'll say: supposedly involuntarily, then fault and direct free kick). Not exactly, as he did this inside his area, thereby committing a penalty that was transformed by Messi with a high ball-breaking shot.
Again, "La Pulga" struck in minute 21: Isaac Cuenca (a Barça B forward that had done merits to climb to the first team) managed to avoid Ivan Ramis, connected a long center that was mis-volleyed by Adriano, and that mis-volley landed right in front of Messi, who was right in front of the goal (what a coincidence, isn't it?), and he did not forgive.
Again, AGAIN!!, Messi struck, just nine minutes later, when he cannoned in a great pass by Alves (this guy has managed to do something worthy of YouTube, you'll see).
Four minutes after the beginning of the second half, Isaac Cuenca finally had the price he had been so desperately looking for: line-breaking assist by Thiago, Cuenca dribbles Aouate and scores at pleasure.
And in the late second half extra time, Alves scored an impossible goal that could be the goal of the month: Messi takes a fault short, Alves gets the ball, and out of nowhere he connects an almost 25 meter mindless cannonball from the vertex of the area that goes straight to goal, hits the lower crossbar, and bounces in the net (OMG you don't see that every day).
Poor "bermellones". Poor Mr. Caparrós. Well... this is football, folks, this is football.
Now, La Liga takes a breath to allow the UEFA Champions League to take over, this time we lay exactly the last match, but reversed (instead of Barça-Viktoria, Viktoria-Barça), so that means Barça will travel to Czech Republic, more concretely, to Prague (why? because Viktoria's stadium is like BATE's one: it does not accomplish UEFA's requirements). So, this Monday (ooooofffff, three matches in a less than a week... that must be tiring), 20:45 (TV3?? PPV??), Viktoria-Barça at the Struncovy Stadium in Prague.
That's all for now, folks, see ya after the Viktoria-Barça!!
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