In one stage England football used to dominate Europe. It is still the best league in the world but La Liga have been taking all the glory in the past years, with the best two players Lionel Messi and Christiano Ronaldo playing their trade of football there. In the past 4 years Barcelona have won the Champions League two time, Inter Milan one and Chelsea last season. After the draw of the champions league semifinal we did not know what to expect in the final a German derby, Spain derby or Spain vs German. At the moment we are more likely to see a German derby in the final which will be held at Wembly on the 25 of May 2013.
On Tuesday 23 April 2013 we saw Bayern Munich do what teams from all Conner's of Europe could not do, beating
Barcelona by a convincing 4-0. It was my first time seeing a team that can match
Barcelona with ball possession.
Barcelona was outplayed form the first whistle. It is hard to believe that
Barcelona had one shot on target. Most of Barca fans went on to blame the coach on his decision to play Messi as claims say that he was not fit. But
Barcelona is not a one man team they have proven it in there last two league games. I think Bayern had prepared well for the game as they outplayed Barca in very position and they want the cup more than Barca who has been winning everything in the past 5 years.
To rub salt on
Spain pain Borussia Dortmund inflected pain in the hearts of
Madrid fans and
Spain football lovers when they thrashed Real Madrid 4-1 at home on Wednesday 24 April 2013. One would have thought that Real Madrid would step up for
Spain reputation but they were victims to Robert Lewandowski as he wrote history by being the first player to bang in 4 goals in the semifinal stage. We must not forget that it was not the first time these teams meet in this season champions league, as they were drawn in the same group and
Dortmund beat them on the home game and draw their away game at
Spain.
Realistic both
Barcelona and
Madrid are out of the competition but in football there is no therefore, miracles happen but it will take more than a miracle for them to pull this one through. One would now ask if the power has shifted to the Germans. We must not forget that the German national team has always been in the thick of things even though they choke when it is important. In 2008 they went to Euro final lost to
Spain. They went on to represent their country in
South Africa world cup 2010 and they finished 3rd and last year Euro they were knocked out in the semifinal by
Italy. One think I like about this team even though they always go down when it is important is that the bulk of their players played in all the competition mentioned above and most of them are playing for both Bayern and Dortmund. By next week all the teams will know their destination but we must not shy away to the fact that both German teams has their one leg in the final and for Barca and Madrid they have a mountain to climb.
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