Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Week 1 - Barcelona 4 Benidormida 2
Gibney and his men couldn't have asked for a more difficult start to their first season in La Liga, a trip to the Nou Camp to face the current Champions of Spain and Europe.
He gave debuts to Dida, Rajkovic, Zebina, Matabuena, Ricardo Clark and Charlie Davies, going for a 4-3-3 formation, more attacking style than last seasons 4-4-2.
Barcelona starting with the dangerous trio of Messi, Eto'o and Henry, and it was Eto'o that welcomed Benidormida to the league, capitalising on defensive mistakes and putting Barca 2-0 up in 5 minutes, and it only took 4 more minutes for him to complete his hat-trick, Eto'o played the ball to Iniesta, he tried his luck with a shot, Dida could only parry the ball to the on rushing Eto'o and he made no mistake for his and Barca's 3rd.
The Away team finally settle down midway through the half, starting to knock the ball about the way they had in the 2nd Division, and just before half time it cam good Ben Sahar released Reyes into the box and he curled the ball past Valdes in the Barca net, great way to end the half.
That goal must have made Gibney's half time team talk alot easier and it was the Costal side that start the 2nd half brighter, Ricardo Clark advance toward the Barca box, laid the ball off to Vederson he took a shot, Valdes could only parry it, and Sahar pounced to reduce the deficit to one, the pressure back on the home side.
10 minutes later all their hard work was ruined, Thierry Henry found some space on the left, fired a shot, and Dida and van Eijden between them couldn't clear the ball and it spun off, into the net, off Dida's back, calamitous defending.
Benidormida couldn't find a way back into the game, and the referee draw a close to the entertaining match, Barcelona winning 4-2, good come back from Benidormida, just not good enough, Gibney should take alot of positives away from the match.
M.O.M - Samuel Eto'o - Barcelona
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