Oh hey, that’s Thiago Silva and Pato on the verge of doing a samba dance! IBRA-whoooo? Ah, yes, such is the sweet tune of football – you just want to keep proving yourself worthy of a place in first-team football. If these two irmãos keep up the momentum, the World Cup will come calling and so will the festa de SAMBA!
Anyway, in case you didn’t watch yesterday’s game between Milan and Barca (for a tragic reason, we hope. Fue un partido fantástico) which ended up 2-2 with goals from these guys, David Villa and Pedro.
The Champions League is obviously a crucial and historically important tournament for Barcelona, but it’s not going to be easy to repeat their unbelievably outstanding feat last year. Similarly, Milan showed that Barca can be beaten – and many people actually anticipated a thrashing from the Catalan side, but this is football – you never know what will happen tomorrow!
Perhaps it was really a case of matter of ‘mind over matter’ – the Rossoneri are simply good at this, coming from nowhere to spring a surprise within 26 seconds. Their defense were not a hundred percent formidable, but the back line of Zambrotta-Nesta-Ambrosini-Silva successfully held it together! Yes yes, we’ve been guilty of dismissing Nesta in recent years…
Watch the goals here!
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