There’s simply no stopping the football ace Lionel Messi this season – the Argentine netted twice to help Blaugrana to 4-1 victory against this season’s surprise title challenger, Atletico Madrid. Falcao netted first for the visitors, but Barca responded immediately with a beauty of a shot from Adriano and then ran away with the game.
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45 Minutes of Gorgeous Goals
One could draw parallels to Atletico Madrid’s game against Real Madrid from the way they started the game in Camp Nou. It was encouraging enough start, them creating some decent danger while keeping it solid in the back. Barca, as always, dominated the possession but couldn’t create chances.
It was Atletico Madrid’s this season’s sensation Falcao who drew the first blood. Having hit the post at 8th minute and missed his chance on 24th minute, he didn’t miss the third chance he got. He broke Barcelona’s offside trap and then coolly lobbed the ball over Valdes with a clinical finish and a great goal. Falcao seems bound to move in January to Chelsea and no wonder – with performances like this Chelsea fans must be drooling the prospect of ‘El Tigre’ replacing misfiring Torres up front.
Barcelona only took five minutes to respond, though. While Falcao’s goal had been great, Adriano’s strike to draw level was absolutely gorgeous and probably best of the night. He cut inside and smashed the ball in from distance – ball clipped the bar and went in, bringing Barca back to even terms.
Towards the end of the half Barcelona really took the game to Los Colchoneros and it paid off in the dying moments. After a corner scramble ball dropped to Sergio Busquets, who kept his nerve to turn the ball past defenders and then smash the ball in the net – another great goal.
Disheartened Atletico
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Messi hit his first goal of the evening on 57th minute after finding some space at the edge of the box – that could only mean one thing, which was a simple, accurate finish to give Barcelona unassailable lead.
Barca’s fourth was just cosmetics and it came from a horrible mix-up in Atletico defence. Diego Godin absurdly back-heeled the ball in front of his own goal. Messi read the situation perfectly to latch onto the ball and lobbed the ball over Thibaut Courtois only couple of minutes before 90.
Champions Barca?
As Real Madrid dropped yet another two points and find themselves 13 points behind Blaugrana who have only dropped two points all season, one has to think title race is already over. Atletico are still only nine points behind, but given they are likely to lose their talisman Falcao in January and lack the ability to challenge the two big teams, it doesn’t seem like they are ready to mount a real title challenge.
Spanish La Liga will play one more round next weekend, before having a two weeks off for Christmas.