This is not a post on Boca, although the title suggests otherwise, and although Roman you pull your stomach. I summarize here some thoughts on the 4 games we saw this afternoon and tonight.
Let's start with the second Barca derby between Pep and Mou MR. As we wrote before, in a four-game series is only natural that Mou was carrying something. The penalty to draw with ill-gained, which may have left him little taste of Barsa on Saturday, sealed the fate of the championship and consolidated the lead of 8 points Pep routed to a new title. The Copa del Rey is a smaller tournament, so it does not hurt by the dimension of the defeat but by the rival. That is the same as that encountered below the Champions League. The MRI showed on Saturday but much more now the distance of 5 goals from the previous derby is exaggerated. And although Barca win 10 games 5 or 6, two draws and two other ends are led MR. Especially if not put Barca ahead quickly and the threat of backlash is a real threat. Mou's team played a good first half. Pep took the play to what the RM wanted. Domino Submit and gender but not shine the best situations (including a header in the inner side of the stick Pepe). Mou, who complained to the leaders about the lack of a 9, sat on the bench Higuain, Benzema and Adebayor. The 9 was Pepe, the impressive display. After only one betting term backlash, which was at the feet of CR at the end of the second half. Barca, For its part, played a football like that can only play for 15-20 minutes after the break. More full term in 90. I miss you aim. And luck then got Ronaldo. My forecast is that Barca wins both Champions League games. But you need to Puyol. And Messi. Of course everything will be different if it manages to remove the Barsa Mou of the Champions League. But that does not occur.
Second point: the local selection of Batista. An invention. Like Maradona. A Diego as we condemned by the number of players who immediately called and were sold abroad, creating suspicions of collusion between Mancuso and player representatives. Know if those suspicions are followed with Batista. But the number of invited and exceeds that of Diego. And the quality of the squad invites comparisons: Javier Garcia, Mouche and Chavez are substitutes in Boca and headlines in this selection while Batista leaders complain that "lobbying" that Riquelme is summoned to the local selective. At the Boca players are added as Aued, Yacob, Hauche, Maidment, Ariel Rojas ... And not enough to beat Ecuador alternates. This is not a criticism of local selection, but an appeal to abandon illusions: the only team that matters is the owner, whatever this. These inventions are to raise and lower pitch line (politics, not football). If it wins, it is noted Checho beans. When you lose "rescues positive things" ...
Finally, and this is gilada, with the removal (and scandal) from Argentinos Juniors in the Copa Libertadores - unfair, unexpected, but elimination at the end - is left Argentina with only 2 of the 16 best teams in the continent. Yes, only 2 / 16. You can do many readings, but the numbers do not lie. It is no accident that the two teams began to play the decisive instances are the last champion and runner-up last, that is, Estudiantes and Velez Sarsfield. Which are also in the tip of the local championship, despite having to play both tournaments. Today Velez San Lorenzo did beat the game in hand and remains as the only pointer. Then this data confirms the one hand, the gradual decline of the local football and, on the other hand, the hegemony of Velez and Students in the last five years.
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