Barcelona Obtains Its 9th Consecutive Victory

By Stephen Lars Barcelona expanded its triumph strike by defeating 2-1 the Racing de Santander that at the beginning of the encounter, although did not had much control of the ball, was capable of stopping the attacks from the rivals, to whom they alarmed for a couple of times with dangerous actions in their search to score. The 11 from Bara, that holds the headship position of the Spanish League with a lead of 12 points over Real Madrid, knew that it would not be an easy match, since they will face a Racing that had been going through some very good times; until then they had managed to survive from their last seven clashes from the Primera Divisin. During the whole first part, the game kept the same tune. A Barcelona that controlled the ball but was incapable to move into the green-and-whites zone, which played orderly also, trying to reach in vain the box safeguarded by a defense that, even though, for moments seemed a little scared. The Bara was certainly surprised by a Racing that revealed a game very different from the last seasons. Now with a more reinforced defense and motivated for the good performances from the latest matches, the Racings, although could not score in the first 45, did maintained stable. At the commencement of the second half, the blue-and-red kept playing with the same frighten attitude from the start, as Racing came acting more and more commanding, which worth them to open the scores at the 56 minute, thanks to a penalty stroked by the Serbian Nikola igić and caused by an action from Rafael Mrquez over Jonathan Pereira. In the middle of such occurrence, Josep Guardiola, the cul trainer, took the astute decision of replacing Sergi Busquets for the Argentinean Lionel Messi, who took the charge of bringing some real enchantment to the field. Immediately, following a header from Xavi that rebounded in the goal post the sphere landed in front of Messi, who threw it straight to the bottom of the box covered by Too Martnez, balancing the scoreboard at the 65. From then on, the Catalan recovered their warrior spirit and lifted up their game level attacking powerfully their opponents, who could not defend themselves and finished giving Messi another opportunity, with which he scored his second goal and placed Barcelona ahead in the scoreboard. With the second goal, Messi, was responsible of the victory of his team and besides turned into the player that score the goal number 5.000 for Bara; thus he is now part of the history of the club Cul next to Aurelio (1.000), Zaballa (2.000), Quini (3.000) and Amor (4.000), in charge of making the previous millennial goals. Barcelona demonstrated one more time having the makings of leader by defeating Real Racing de Santander, which despite ending with a superior number of players after the blue-and-reds, Rafael Mrquez and Gerard Piqu, were sent off for yellow cards accumulation, they were not able to overcome the competitive level of the Blaugrana.


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