No matter how much this classic is reviewed, surprises are always possible. Right now, when both Barcelona and Real Madrid have flown out of the Champions League, when they’re out of order, practically in a crisis, when possible coaching resignations are everywhere, right now these teams played such a match - perhaps the best for ten years.
He was not perfect, just as the game of Barcelona and Real Madrid was not perfect. It was, in the apt expression of Vasily Utkin, football a bit domestic, but played in the best of the possible yards.
The people who went out on the field this evening are great in their mistakes. Velik Tyuram, who so asked for retirement, forced to grieve about former greatness in the first half, and suddenly incredibly transformed after the break, became the same defender, whose name was repeated in fear by the best forwards of world football. Great is Elgera, who in desperation collapsed onto the lawn after Messi's third killer goal for Real Madrid. Great is Puyol, who missed his double Sergio Ramos in his own penalty area. And this double is great, “sitting” the entire second half on the card and not giving the referee a single reason to equalize the compositions. Great is even the judge Undiano Malenko, who worked out an incredibly difficult match for the top five with a plus. Perhaps, on a global scale, this greatness is relative. But this evening at Camp Nou, it was true, not false.
After such a match, the last thing you want to do is analyze something, look for the mistakes of coaches, players. To argue that Rikard apparently decided in vain to play three defenders. Or that Capello was not worth removing from the field of Guti - the man of the match. I would like to admire Guti, who has never played so, it seems, never in his life, and the heroic Messi, and van Nistelrooy, and Rikard, and Capello. You will not examine beauty under a microscope, you will not make it into details - you either see it or not. And everyone saw the beauty at Camp Nou stadium that evening. For beauty, gentlemen!
Maybe the notes came out indecently short. But, really, you must either talk about this match indefinitely, or limit yourself to a few words. It was super, "superclassic."
Kirill DEMENTYEV
BARCELONA - REAL M - 3: 3 (2: 2)
Goals: 0: 1 - van Nistelrooy (5), 1: 1 - Messi (11), 1: 2 - van Nistelrooy (13, penalty), 2: 2 - Messi (28), 2: 3 - Sergio Ramos (73 ), 3: 3 - Messi (90 + 1).
BARCELONA: Valdes, Oleger, Puyol, Thuram, Marquez (Goodyonsen, 83), Xavi, Iniesta, Deco (Belletti, 72), Messi, Ronaldinho, Eto'o (Silvigno, 46).
REAL: Casillas, Michel Salgado, Sergio Ramos, Ivan Elgera, Curro Torres, Diarra, Gago, Guti (De la Red, 83), Raul (Robinho, 61), Higuain, van Nistelrooy.
Warnings: Oleger (13), Ramos (21), Marquez (29), van Nistelrooy (44), Xavi (45 + 2), Deco (52), Diarra (67), Salgado (72), Gago (90 + 3 )
Removal: Oleger (45, second warning).
10th of March. "Camp Nou". 0.00.
Judge: Undiano Malenko.