"It takes a very great weight, that is the one of being the best one of the world, but to him it does not affect to him. He is the same here that in Argentina and I can assure to you that I have seen few with as much personality as he, that it says “dadme the ball that I here am to solve””. Pep Guardiola praised to I read Messi before the critics that have arrived to him from their country after not making a good action in the parties of classification and “the pending” conversation that maradona .The least surprising piece of news over the weekend was that Lionel Messi was among the 30 players short-listed for the Ballon D’Or, the European Footballer of the Year award. It won’t be much less of a shock when Messi wins the award outright on December 1, capping a spectacular year for the Barcelona playmaker.
However, while Messi has the makings of one of the finest club footballers we have ever seen, his overall legacy also depends on success on the international stage.
For Barca, the diminutive Argentinean is a genius and has conjured spectacular victories for his side on countless occasions. The UEFA Champions League final last May was a prime example when he outshone Cristiano Ronaldo and tore apart Manchester United to secure the trophy.
The technician of Barcelona, Pep Guardiola, wanted to go out to the passage of “the 10” critics that have received azulgrana on their state of form, after the critics that have received by their game with the Argentine selection and the loose party that Saturday realised in Mestalla. Guardiola has remembered that “does not do so much that I read played a good party” and it does not understand how now it questions a soccer player who until recently was unquestionable.
“Messi can badly play one, two, three, four, the times that the desire gives him. I am for tender to him the hand here, the two or those that are necessary”, she sentenced.
As far as the party of Champions that faces Barcelona the Rubin Kazan, Guardiola understands that with a victory it would be “a step important” to classify itself for eighth of end. “We have a good opportunity to take a very great step, because the following year to gain the Glass of Europe traditionally we have fallen soon”, it noticed Guardiola.
The technician of the azulgrana set remembered that, after the encounter, it will be necessary to confront, “at a bad time of the year”, individual displacements to Russia and the Ukraine and that, then, Barcelona will receive the Inter, del that the sensation has “of which, by its form to play” will be put it “more difficult that in Milan”. Of there the importance of a azulgrana victory in this third day. “We would add seven points and we would be to three or four to classify itself for eighth”, have added.
Guardiola intuits, in addition, that the atmosphere is not the propitious one to be moderate to the Rubin. It understands that she is a rival “little known” for the fan and who, for that reason, “much people will not go to the stage”, but she has insisted on which “the Russian champion” is an equipment to consider. Between his virtues, the azulgrana technician is outstanding that “is very well structured”, “has talent”, is “dangerous in the strategy plays” and owns a varied repertoire of “high, fast and strong” players who can complicate the life to anyone.
After the tie without goals of Mestalla, Guardiola hopes that the best Barça returns to see in Liga de Campeones, although noticed that a high level of game cannot stay during all the season. “We must and we can make it than the other day (before the Valencia in League), that better must be the challenge, but we are conscious that we cannot gain all the parties”, affirmed Pep Guardiola, that added that, in any case, “the trainer continues having much faith in this equipment”.
Touré: “We must win yes or yes”
“We have two difficult parties, we must win yes or yes in the Camp Nou, and there it will be more difficult by the cold and to play in his field, but we can win”, has showed Touré with reference to the double confrontation that the Barça - leader of his group with 4 points must confront before the Russian equipment.
For Touré, the Rubín Kazan is “a difficult” equipment because it is not known international level, and has aimed that the Russians can “make damage”, since already he made the Dynamo of Kiev in the Camp Nou in the second day, in spite of losing by 2-0 before the azulgrana set
The midfield player has demanded “concentration” and “to play” to surpass the Russian rival very well, after the Barça yielded his first points in League before the Valencia in Mestalla (0-0).
The azulgrana player has indicated that the equipment “was tired” in Valencia, after the international commitments, although it has noticed that the party that lived was not most difficult that hopes to them.
