Barcelona Dominates Spanish SuperClásico

After a goal­less dis­play by an overly defen­sive Chelsea side in the Cham­pi­ons League, Barcelona busted out as The Blau­grana dis­played their cham­pi­onship form in their anni­hi­la­tion of Real Madrid 6–2 at The San­ti­ago Bern­abeu.  Math­e­mat­i­cally Barça hasn’t cap­tured its 19th La Liga title but come on they are gonna win it.  7 point lead with 4 matches remain­ing, its a certainty.

The impres­sive thing about Barca’s win was that every time Real scored, Barça responded with a goal imme­di­ately.  Both times Thierry Henry was the per­son to swing the game back in Barça’s favor.  Henry showed the poise and skill of a great goal scorer slot­ting the ball past Iker Casil­las both times.  Both of Henry’s goals were set up by sen­sa­tional over the top of defense passes, first by Messi after Higuain scored the opener in the 14th minute and then by Xavi imme­di­ately after Ser­gio Ramos scored in the 56th minute.

It was a typ­i­cal Barcelona vic­tory, a dis­play of skill, speed, and pos­ses­sion.  Lionel Messi scored twice and goals by cen­tral defend­ers Ger­ard Pique & Car­les Puyol com­pleted the sweet Barcelona vic­tory.  Lesser teams would have folded under the pres­sure of a sup­posed Real goal onslaught. Instead, Barça stayed calm and ripped the heart from Los Galacti­NOs.  For Barcelona to reply the way they did against Real was impres­sive & showed that Barça has the men­tal tough­ness and con­fi­dence to win cham­pi­onships and that cov­eted tre­ble. The glo­ri­ous 6–2 result sent a sig­nal to Chelsea that in a hos­tile envi­ron­ment Barça isn’t intim­i­dated and will step on their opposition’s throat.

The 6–2 drub­bing prob­a­bly cost Juande Ramos an oppor­tu­nity to coach Los Merengues next year.  Despite a fan­tas­tic run to stay hot on Barcelona’s heels, every time Real lost on his watch it was bad.  The 5–0 aggre­gate embar­rass­ment against Liv­er­pool in the Cham­pi­ons League and then this match at home with so much on the line.

It wasn’t per­fect but there’s no need to nit­pick a 6–2 vic­tory.  Besides, a 6–2 vic­tory against your fiercest rival is a time to gloat and stick your chest out. Barça outscored Real 8–2 in their two matches this sea­son, sweet revenge from last sea­son.  Cel­e­brate Barça fans, Real got whipped. For The Blau­grana, its 1 tro­phy down, 2 more to go.

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