Milan stopped breakthrough
Catalan giant Barcelona in the group stage of Champions League football and
tied with 1-1 on Tuesday evening at the "San Siro" in Milan in the
third round of group matches eighth, to be the second equalizer for Milan in
the group and the first for Barcelona after two consecutive victories in
tournament.
Robinho Opened scoring for Milan
in the ninth minute and then the Argentine star Lionel Messi realized equalized
for Barcelona in the 24th minute, and despite the continued enthusiasm
offensive until the last minute, especially on the part of Barcelona, the game
did not result more, ending in a draw and raise Barcelona score in the top of
the group to seven points against five points for Milan in second place.
intents Milan Appeared early as
the game started enthusiastically attacking a huge part of the Italian team and
the brilliance of Kaka and Robinho dramatically since the first few minutes,
which resulted in an early goal but Barcelona entered the match strongly to
realize the equalizer in the 24th minute and came close to putting more than
one occasion, but the Milan defense bloc and control of Neymar and Messi also
form a major obstacle to Barca stars.
In the second half, Barcelona
were the most control in and most dangerous offensive in the game but the
players wasted more than a real opportunity,
also Amelia starred dramatically in the defense conceded, while Milan
offensive sharpness decreased something in the break before to rebound from a
relatively new with Mario Balotelli from the bench in the 64th minute.
Barcelona Fought the match in a
manner 4-3-3 and Coach Gerardo "Tata" Martino pushed Trio Messi,
Neymar and Alexis Sanchez in the foreground in front of three midfielders
Andres Iniesta and Sergio Busquets and Xavi Hernandez while four Dani Alves and
Gerard Pique, Javier Mascherano and Adriano took task of defending in front of
goalkeeper Victor Valdes.
Also Milan fought the game in a
manner 4-3-3 and coach Massimiliano Allegri pushed two stars Kaka and Robinho
along with Walter Persa in the attack in front of Riccardo Montolivo and Nigel
de Jong and Sulley Muntari Ali, and involved four defense Anzi Abate, Cristian
Zapata and Philippe Mexes, Kevin Constant, pushed the veteran goalkeeper Mario
Amelia to be his first participating since last April, and in light of the
absence of Christian Abbiati and Gabriel Ferreira because of injuries.
The game started sustained
offensive pressure from the side of Milan where the Catalan giants in the
besieged central home during the first few minutes and Barcelona tried to break
the blockade and to control the ball as much as possible, but Milan has not
given up early for offensive ferocity.
And the Barcelona net shook in
the seventh minute as Robinho passed longitudinal to Sulley Muntari Ali who
shuffled the ball into the net but the referee did not count it a goal for
offside, ahead goal for Milan came two minutes later only where Robinho used
defensive error shared by Javier Mascherano and Gerard Pique and passed the
ball to Kaka who returned him brilliantly to Robinho inhabited in net declaring
demons to 1 - zero.
The impact of goal was clear on
the performance of Barcelona, where its pressure has intensified dramatically
offensive but collided with a defensive bloc by Milan and did not succeed in
threating of the Italian goal only in the 20th minute but veteran goalkeeper
Mario Amelia cut a dangerous cross from Messi in front of goal.
In 24 minutes, Messi returned the
confrontation to the starting point, where he received the longitudinal and rip
the defense brilliantly and then blasted the ball into the net to the left of
goalkeeper Amelia declaring Barcelona drew 1-1.
And Milan almost was to advance
again in the 27th minute, where Philippe Mexes received a ball of a corner hit
and shot it in his head but it went beside the goal, and tried to Barcelona
then in control of the midfield and rolled his attacks, but the bloc and
control defensive closely, especially imposed on Brazilian star Neymar, made it
difficult to penetrate the penalty area.
And Amelia Milan goalkeeper saved
conceded a certain goal in the 37th minute with a magnificent save football
deceptive shot Alexis Sanchez after a long pass, and with successive attempts
to Barcelona balance is disturbed shown by Milan in the beginning something
where intensified its focus on the defensive side of the expense side of the
offensive and only looks for opportunities through counter-attacks.
The Christian Zapata frustrated a
serious opportunity to star Messi in the 44th minute as Neymar fired a powerful
runners in the final seconds but passed directly next to the existing, to end
the first half 1-1.
In the second half, Both teams
started the same activity offensive and stepped up to the players in Milan
focused on cut crosses Messi and continue the siege of Neymar, and almost
Robinho to add a second goal from a counterattack after 52 minutes, where he
received occasional charming Muntari Ali but the ball is passed between the
legs of Robinho without being touched to foreclose upon a valuable opportunity.
Then Amelia shined in the defense
of nets Milan and stood to Curtin serious within one minute of Iniesta and Xavi
Hernandez, in an attempt to revive the side of the offensive, Allegri Milan
coach pushing the star Mario Balotelli instead of Robinho and already had
Balotelli positive impact on the performance offensive.
Adriano missed a golden
opportunity to Barcelona in the 70th minute, where he received a high ball from
Messi in front of goal but he shot near the goal, and Allegri conducted his
second substitute in 71 minutes where he pushed European Emanuelson instead of
a star Kaka.
In the 75th minute Tata Martino
pushed Cesc Fabregas instead of Alexis
Sanchez in an attempt to renew the blood of the attack Catalans , while the 80
minutes experienced two changes where Milan coach Involve player Andrea poly
instead of Walter Persa in the 80th minute as associate Tata Martino 's Pedro
Rodriguez instead of the star Neymar .
Barcelona team surrounded the
owner of the land in the center of the home in most of the remaining minutes
and varied attempts between high Occasional shot from outside the penalty area,
but all attempts failed to end the game 1-1.
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