When you can’t do Anything…

By: Anthony | December 1st, 2008

So yes I’m late with this, but it’s not because of my blogging neglegence but rather my depression. 3-0 to Barca? Horrible, absolutely horrible. It’s not even like we deserved to win, or played well, it was all garbage. The picture doesn’t lie. What the hell was that?

In a game against two of our former stars, Dani Alves, and Seydou Keita, this game wasn’t only about our position in the league table, but I’d say more so for pride and bragging rights. Unfortunately I think it’s more important to me than the players themselves.

Barca was by far the better team but the result could have been very different. Now I’m not one to make excuses but anyone with any sort of footballing knowledge would know that Kanouté was clearly fouled in the box by Piqué but of course, nothing was given. Eto’o hit a wonderstrike in the 20th minute to put Barca up 1-0 before half time. It went into half being anybody’s game, both teams had pretty equal opportunities but when the teams came out for the second half this all changed. We didn’t want it at all, or at least it looked this way, there was no intensity, passion or anything at all as a matter of fact. I really can’t believe we played this bad, also considering Barca hasn’t beat us at home since 2005.

Oh well, so much for that good streak then.

Messi basically sealed the deal in the 79th minute when he struck a bullet into the bottom right corner, Palop couldn’t do anything except watch it go in. In the 85th minute Fabiano obviously thought that no one could see him clearly knock someone out with his elbow. Man was he wrong, the linesman or assistant referee (whatever floats your boat) came onto the field as the ref blew his whistle, told him what happened and for the second time in a month, off went O Fabuloso with a straight red. From then on, it was just painful to watch, we couldn’t even keep the ball for more then five minutes, absolutely abysmal. In the 90th minute Messi just added salt into our wounds when he doubled his tally and capped off an amazing performance with a 3-0 win.

I personally don’t think the whole Fazio/Maresca combination was working out and would have rather seen Duscher in place of Fazio as he is more experienced and would have been much better against this top class Barca side.

Really, during the game, I couldn’t help just getting off my couch and applauding.

Messi is amazing.

Best player in the world, end of story.

Hats off to him and Barca, they deserved it, we have some serious thinking to do ahead of our upcoming UEFA Cup match at home to Partizan Belgrade on Wednesday.

Until then, keep the strength my fellow Sevillistas, keep the strength…