My take on yesternight's 'Battle of Bernabeu'..just a few happenings that mentally stuck.
Di Maria was quite scary in the first half..had some brilliant bursts down our right. I've observed this: Dani has low composure..once under continuous pressure he errs much..those confrontations before his yellow showed so..the same thing happened in the return League leg
when he brought down Ozïl for the penalty.
It was really strange to see the normally placid vulture/human thing
animated after Alves did him a bit on that wing..counting with his fingers. He's human afterall.
Thankfully Mr. Urban Legend wasted all three (?) freekicks from those horror Alves tackles..and another central one which went straight out of the stadium.
Speaking of which, Mr. Urban Legend aka Vagino Ronaldo aka Mr. Cunth
was anonymous all match..except for maybe that exasperated shot after one FAIL! freekick that Valdes did well to parry, even making a double save. I mean, based on formation positions, Puyol was to be the designated CR7 marker since he played LB..but he didn't have to break half a salty sweatdrop doing that sorta shit..Keita and a free-roaming Busquets did that amicably, though it must be said that Mou's intentional gameplan was to funnel much of the gameplay AWAY from Mr. UL/VR's zone..Lass and esp. Pepe had a lot more of the ball.
Busquets deserved an Oscar statuette for his interesting dive v/Marcelo in the first half..I admitted that here during halftime.
Talking of dives, boy..we were DIRTY atypically, but yeah that's part of football ain't it?
Pinto's red I missed..some altercation in the tunnel at halftime or something..at least he'll be there in the Wembley dugout, complete with his San Andreas braids.
Pepe's red=harsh, but right. Intent folks..there was obvious malicious intent, and the challenge was high, that with the studs as well. Had it connected properly that would have
been redolent of the Gattuso challenge on Corluka..some bad shit.
For this reason Marcelo should've gotten a clean byer from the ref,
had he seen that stamp on Pedro's thigh..Ped had a great chance to open the scoring there after the initial Villa shot, don't know if he was offside with that low header or not, but it was an awful attempt..
And then the thigh-crushing stamp.
You know, was good that happened. Celo got his come-uppance with Ibra's introduction..the Dutch Ibra.
Fresh pace, fresh, fresh, fresh..just at the time Marcelo had started gasping for breathers.
JF's red? Lol at him writting some golden SHIT in his makeshift prison..didn't change a bit, hahahahaha!!! He did give the fourth official a mouthful and a load of sarcastic winks, so hey.
I complimented Messi's finishing before..OUTSTANDING stuff.
Keita had a supposedly quiet game, but he was instrumental in keeping the possession in the middle, and in starting the forward pushes with Xavi. We didn't miss Iniesta, thank God for that.
Adebayor otoh was a total fuckhead, shoving, shoving, shoving his way stupidly to a deserved yellow, no other contribution whatsoever.
Villa needs to rebuild his predatory confidence from the scratch..he's a totally changed guy compared to his Valencia days. Yeah, his new LWF status in Barca may be an excuse, but it's tenuous..he flourished roaming on the left early in the season, and in the WC after his transfer had been announced. Silva's done much better at Shitty all season.
It's a mental thing..hopefully he'll sort that out a bit within the last six games of this BEAUTIFUL season.
I've left out much, but I'm quite tired already.
We deserved the win..defending deep and tight, hard multi-player pressing (tires players quickly), waiting for errant counters..you call that football? Is that what the whole planet's fallen in love with?
Jose Fiver,
Spoken like a true man 
