Ramos’ positioning was horrible for (I think) the second goal. 100% culpable. Marcelo also very poor defensively, as ever. Surprisingly little fight from Madrid. 1-4 foul count on their part in first half; made up for it a bit (certainly on yellows) later. Singling out Pepe, Ronaldo etc is ludicrous IMHO.

Mourinho showed cojones with his team selection and tactics, but both fell flat. The changes (which he might have been better starting, I thought beforehand) didn’t work. He got it wrong. On the other hand, Barcelona were simply unreal. Take nothing away from them, that was a serious performance.

Mou great value post match. In Spanish and i Portuguese. i caught most of it, my friend is going to help me summarise. i’ve seen Mou in England, Italy, and Spain, but never so honest and humble. And, to be fair, protected his players to the hilt when one ESPN reporter questioned their attitude. Praised Barca, said his players know they can perform better. Guardiola good too.

it’s gonna be a humungous article tomorrow.

That was quite possible the greatest team performance I’ve ever seen, but Madrid were terrible. Had no spine, Pepe was the only one who stood up.

Iniesta is one of the greatest players ever to grace a football pitch.

MADRID! CABRÓN! SALUDA AL CAMPEÓN!

;)

I just hate the way everyone goes on about the second leg, the first game was a cracker yet gets forgotten about. For me, tonight’s game could well be even better.

http://backpagefootball.com/news/el-clasico-%e2%80%93-breaking-news/

I just get worked up when people mention/exaggerate Inter’s 1st leg performance, they only played good for like 40 minutes.(end of 1st half and starting of 2nd half)
Last 15-20 min were barca in zone with utter domination again.

Extremely Resolute is what i would describe Inter rather than “blew way barca”

Here’s a great piece from Santapelota on the tactical side of things: http://santapelota.blogspot.com/2010/11/tactical-variations-for-clasico.html

And an amazing figure tweeted by Andy Mitten on Saturday night: “Betis sold 56,000 tickets for their second division game v barca b today. The game was rained off an hour before kick-off…”

Adeu, bona nit!