yup... agree with your points here.. "IMO (& most of the football experts i believe) it was Jose who wants to sit back and watch & frustrates barca with deep defensive line"

but, thats why i said.. psychology... reverse psychology is done by pep..  last 2 matches, we try to break madrid defend, but, there is no outcome... correct me if im wrong.. thats make Mou happy becoz of the deep defensice line was really working against barca.. again, correct me if im wrong...

so, what pep did, instead of trying to attack, why dont we sit back, and passing around while hoping madrid played to frustrated & come n get the ball while commiting a foul??? yes.. we were frustrated in last 2 matches, but now, we want to make a reverse of that.. is that wrong bro???

to make it worst, alves, busquet & pedro already known becoz of their acting ability... so, why dont we use it?? althought it is stupid ways to win a game, but win is a win right.. no matter how u achieve it, how u score it, win is a win.. correct me if im wrong...

again, how to play again team that use deep defensive line??? last year barca lose in semis becoz of that.. we lose in spanish cup becoz of that.. then, can u figure out how to play again Mou's team??? with the resouces that we have???

it might sound stupid, but again i would say, this is my own opinion.. its not representing others.... 

Why Barcelona love making provocation at opponent? 

Pepe's challenge should have been a yellow card.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/...elease-?cc=4716

What a dive from alves. As always.

the rolling and medical team & stretcher is neccesary eh?

Spain will fall if the el classico continues another few matches

On Mourinho and his red cards.

UEFA didn't instruct;
1) S. Ramos to kick at Messi after being skinned in Nov.2010.
2) Albiol to strangle Villa while being the last defender, in the penalty box.
3) Di Maria to make a late from behind tackle which will always result in a yellow. Two yellows-RED!

4) Pepe to put his studs up shin-high. In EPL it would've been alright but not in UEFA. But someone who did this before
will clearly not get the benefit of the doubt of the referee. He has a reputation for being violent.

If Alves didn’t pull out his leg, he would’ve probably been in hospital now. Would you fans feel better if that was the case? Would that make the red card worth it? some times you don’t need to wait for blood to drop.

And put yourself in the ref’s position. You see one player who has been aggressive all night going in with studs up shin high, take in to account he is someone with a violent record, WHAT WOULD YOU DO? WITHOUT THE AID OF REPLAYS? WHAT?

Those were the RED cards and not even something that wasn’t called for or seen by the ref.
Now something about the goals

5) Messi dribbling past 5 players ,including keeper is 7 player six madrid defender standing in their own pitch
6) Messi to score twice

UEFA certainly didn’t have anything to do with all those listed above right?

Didn't you guys notice how MAdrid time and time again got away with dirty plays over the last 3 matches?

I can't and will not go back to each and every match to take notes because it will not help anything.
DID HE FORGET ABOUT THAT? ALL THE NON-CALLS, DIVING BY HIS OWN PLAYERS THAT WENT UN PUNISHED AND INSTEAD WE GOT PUNISHED FOR IT? Dive Maria, Marcelo??

Just take a look at the last match.
-Di Maria took a dive after and Alves got a yellow card. Similar thing happened last week at the Bernaboo and he got a penalty.
-And later on in the match he pushed Puyol after he lost the battle. It happened on the right corner from Barca's goal in the 2nd half.

-Marcelo TWICE stamped on Pedro. Why is nobody talking about that? There were stud marks on his knee for goodness sake!

-Adebayor used his hands to push Puyol. Right in front of the lines-man. And then later on on Busquets.

-Ramos to block Messi's run. That would always result in a yellow. And too bad, he will miss the 2nd leg.

-Arbeloa elbowed Villa and then as if it wasn't enough stood on his legs. And to make matters worse pretend as if nothing happened and dragged Villa up. This is what their Spanish National Team Coach Vicente Del Bosque had to say about that incident;
“What Arbeloa & Ramos did to Villa after that was against the principles of a football player, even against their morals.”
Ask yourself if you were any of the Barca players, do you think that you need some kind of protection from these kinds of players who is trying to use all kinds of dirty tactics to get a result?
Not that I condone play acting but Madrid players went too far. So far until the relationships of some of the Spanish national team players are beyond repair.

On the match itself;

why isn't Mourinho talking about his NEGATIVE TACTICS?
Why time and time again is he diverting the attentions away from his poor tactics?


You don't sit back in your home match. But every time the English reporters report that Mourinho is a great tactician?
What kind of great tactician let's his 200million dollar team sit back very deep and let Ronaldo all the attacking alone?
Not try to score in the home leg of a Champions League match?
If he is really that great, he would know that is is hard to score at the Camp Nou.
Im sure you guys were watching ESPN as well. I don’t know what on earth the commentator at half time was talking about saying that Mourinho did his home work.

What home work?
Told the gardeners not to water the pitch and cut the grass in order to disrupt the passing of our players?
Cause Madrid sure didn’t do what was agreed with UEFA which is to water the pitch before the match?

We didn;t even have any sort of Left Back and yet he didn't make use of our handicap. Not to say that I don't think that Puyol is good but he certainly doesn;t have to pace to match with Dive Maria nor Ronaldo.
So if Mourinho was that great of a tactician, why didn't he instruct his players to attack Puyol's side?

We had to play Mascherano at Center back. Why didn't they test him more?

Mourinho said that he tried to play for a 0-0 draw at HOME? And score Away at the Camp Nou?
That is pathetic. He knows very well that it is hard to score at our Camp Nou.

In the 1st half, they could hardly string passes together. Same goes in the 2nd half. Instead of bringing a player who could help their midfield like Kaka, he brought on Adebayor, a target man. To make matters worse after the red card he didn’t change a single thing. Granero is DM, why didn’t he bring him on ad take off an attacker like Ozil or Dive Maria? Other than that he had Kaka, Benzema, Higuain amongst others.

Who did we put on? Affelay who costs 3Million and Sergi Roberto, another young player from the youth academy.

Mourinho downplaying Barca’s CL triumph in 2008/2009 season?

Did he forget that in Champions League, you would have to get through group stages and the KO.
Barca thrashed Bayern and Lyon in the KO stages and beat Man United in the final comfortably.
It is not a one match Cup, it’s a long marathon!!
Mourinho having a short term memory loss?

Did he forget how he while still with Inter beat us last season?
By playing all out in the home leg, attacking game.
And did he forget that Milito’s goal was offside and how many calls were against Barca?
In the 2nd leg, we had a legitimate goal disallowed.
Did you hear Guardiola complain?




Really lastly, is it better to intentionally hurt people or play act and harm nobody? Barca players were kicked while on the ball and worse, off the ball many times during the last few matches against them.

Would it better for Barca players to fight back with dirty play? Fight fire with fire? It would’ve certainly been a hell lot uglier match.
Madrid players got away with it for the past few matches because Mourinho influenced the ref’s in an indirect way as he was complaining about the ref’s all season long.

Stop letting Mourinho play with your minds. You guys shouldn't take what ever is printed on the newspaper as the most reliable thing. What is printed on the newspaper is just for them ( the newspaper) to sell more copies. So obviously they will put it all over their papers with Mourinho's rants.
He knows that this is his only way to save himself from critics over his tactics.

-I guess it’s ok for Arbeloa to elbow and stand on his legs. And to make matters worse pretend as if nothing happened and dragged Villa up.
This is what their Spanish National Team Coach Vicente Del Bosque had to say about that incident;
“What Arbeloa & Ramos did to Villa after that was against the principles of a football player, even against their morals.”
-it’s ok too for Adebayor to slap Puyol and Busquets?

Im done...

its not jsut that.
Mourinho has been going all season long complaining over how the refs and even the other teams favor us.
But as usual he forgot that they were awarded penalties 10x more than Barca did and most of them were soft ones too.
Usual suspect, Dive Maria.

bah... affellay also played quite good for Barca last season but he also prove to  be an expensive extra option.. now the will have alexis sanches to that mix as well.... and how will Fabregas enter this equation?

frankly speaking, i know it was crap when i read bout that report however, i just afraid that lightning strike twice like wat happen to ibra.. i mean for me ibra is performing ok when he was with us.. but too bad he just be with us only a season, i wonder what kind of dispute happen between him n pep.. 

btw, assuming sanchez will play for us, n let say we manage to get febregas too, so who will be playin in the first eleven.

ok, we r playin 4 3 3, that is abidal, puyol, pique n alves at the back, in the center we will hav busquets/masch, xavi/febregas n iniesta, forward shud be messi,villa n pedro/sanchez.. whatever it is i wishes that affelay can hav more play time as i c a lot of potential in him, i hope he'll be like bergkamp in our team.