Last update 24 February, 2013 by Julio Muñoz
Barçelona had to overcome a difficult game that began to suffocate when Sevilla took the lead (0-1), but in the end two sails in eight minutes of Villa and Messi (2-1) they gave a victory to the azulgrana.
After the setback in the Champions League against Milan, Barcelona opted for a team with many rotations waiting for the two games in a row against Madrid (Copa y Liga), and he came across a very upright Sevilla that made him live a nightmare for many minutes, although in the end Unai Emery added his fifteenth game against the Blaugrana without knowing what it means to win.
Sevilla should have taken a look at the Milan-Barca video (2-0) from last Wednesday, since Unai Emery's team set out with the same objective, also repeated by other clubs with different luck.
The Sevillistas handed over the bands so that Alexis and Villa could try it alone, while they completely closed the axis of the defense, with two pivots above, How were Maduro?, Medel, What a good result it gave in the first part.
Barcelona was overcome by the rival's circumstances; lack of spaces to move the ball and create danger, his game became increasingly thicker until it became not only unproductive, but lacking spark and fear.
Unlike the match against Milan, This time the Barcelona fans looked for some depth in the center, since the bands were inoperative, except for some Iniesta raids, and in some approximations distant shots appeared and the search for a free kick that gave Messi the possibility of undoing the equality.
Apart from a robbery of Messi in the center of the field, that enabled a counterattack that ended with the ball at the feet first of Iniesta and then of Alves, although on both occasions he was repelled by the Sevilla defense, the azulgrana game was marked to enter through the center again and again.
In the first foul that Messi had in the front, at quarter of an hour, the ball ended up against the wall. In it 28 and in 34, once again the Argentine tried with a direct free kick, but without fortune.
Before, in it 22, Messi received a good ball in the area, cut back and with a dry shot with his right foot forced Beto to intervene from below.
Apart from these episodes, and one more, passed the minute 45, in which a cross from Iniesta caused the ball to travel across the goal, Sevilla did not have any trouble, to the point of feeling comfortable and confident as the minutes pass.
He made his first incursion into a Coke cross in which Valdés dove to the ground to stop the ball and repeated the sequence in the 40, but the blow of grace came in the 42 when, Coke again, He sent a poisoned ball to the center of the Barça area and Botía beat Alves in the jump to head home the goal. (0-1).
In resuming, Barça opted for Tello, who came in place of a very dull Alexis in the first part. The entry of the young Catalan created another atmosphere in the Catalan attack, although the Barça tying goal came from an orthodox action: center of Alves and, Villa as center forward, finished on goal (1-0).
tell it again, after a very elaborate play by Barcelona, sent to the center of the area where Messi received without a mark and scored his team's second (2-1).
Sevilla played and with a grown Barça, Messi once again had a clear action in a header, when Fazio failed to clear. Messi again, in the minute 22, He tried to hit a shot from outside but the ball went slightly high..
Emery brought in Negredo for Babá to refresh the offensive options and Sevilla increased their aggressiveness. The Seville team, with the 2-1, He went ahead and in the third almost consecutive attempt Rakitic could have tied with his shot.
The match entered a phase of exchange of blows with arrivals in both areas, despite the fact that Xavi entered the field instead of Iniesta to control the center of the field. Manu of Moral and, in the next action, Tello once again created clear danger with separate shots.
Negredo, in it 30 of the second part, He had a great chance to score when Rakitic's pass was only due to speed and before Valdés came out he sent the ball high. It was him 2-2, but Sevilla resisted, who was experiencing moments of maximum intensity, until Barça ordered a new change, with the entry of Busquets instead of Villa, to calm the spinal cord.