FIFA Club World Cup 2011 - Japan - CAMPIONS DEL MÓN!

[jairzinho]

Look at 6:39:

That Barça destroyed Santos, and everyone who thought they had a chance were wrong. And that this should be a wake up call for brazilian football.

The only ones who thought they had a chance were those in that part of Sao Paolo.

 

[BerkeleyBernie]

Aside from his finishing Alves had a great game.Thiago was not at his best, Puyol was a rock and Messi deserved his brace.

I'd really love to see Alves work on his shot. Really...he should just practice shooting all day long at practices. He'd be 5x as valuable a player if he could finish.

 

[BerkeleyBernie]

Barça played today in a 3-7-0 tactic.

More or less. With the space Santos was giving between the lines, that's where the players went.

 

[Flavia]

The only ones who thought they had a chance were those in that part of Sao Paolo.

You don't watch globo, then. It was ridiculous what they were doing to promote santos.

 

[Agri]

I really wonder... if Pelé had anything to say after the match, or is Neymar and Santos still better than Messi and Barcelona?

 

[Myrmecophile]

Really impressive performance. Nice to win the trophy of course, but I take more heart from the showing.

 

[barcelonista]

I really felt sorry for the Santos players. Some really young talents out there who were so excited about this tournament (talking about it with Alves and Adriano in the national team even 5 months ago) and then they don't only lose 0-4 (make no mistakes, if we had a striker instead of Thiago upfront, this would have ended 8-0). They lose in a fashion in which they surely did not even enjoy 1 out of the 90 minutes they played. Because either Barcelona didn't let them touch the the ball (75 % possession) or if they managed to touch it, they immediately got pressed and harassed like a lonely sheep in the middle of a pack of wolves, hoofing the ball into the sidelines. Barca didn't win. Barca sucked in their souls. Pep really shouldn't play Xavi-Iniesta-Messi-Alves all together against nominally weaker oppositions like this one anymore. It's against human rights. Have you seen Neymar almost crying at the end? You shouldn't do this to 19 year old kids.

 

[Richard.H]

I really felt sorry for the Santos players. Some really young talents out there who were so excited about this tournament (talking about it with Alves and Adriano in the national team even 5 months ago) and then they don't only lose 0-4 (make no mistakes, if we had a striker instead of Thiago upfront, this would have ended 8-0). They lose in a fashion in which they surely did not even enjoy 1 out of the 90 minutes they played. Because either Barcelona didn't let them touch the the ball (75 % possession) or if they managed to touch it, they immediately got pressed and harassed like a lonely sheep in the middle of a pack of wolves, hoofing the ball into the sidelines. Barca didn't win. Barca sucked in their souls. Pep really shouldn't play Xavi-Iniesta-Messi-Alves all together against nominally weaker oppositions like this one anymore. It's against human rights. Have you seen Neymar almost crying at the end? You shouldn't do this to 19 year old kids.

Yeah I noticed that too. Poor kid. I can see him fitting in nicely at RM though

 

[dalitis8]

I really felt sorry for the Santos players. Some really young talents out there who were so excited about this tournament (talking about it with Alves and Adriano in the national team even 5 months ago) and then they don't only lose 0-4 (make no mistakes, if we had a striker instead of Thiago upfront, this would have ended 8-0). They lose in a fashion in which they surely did not even enjoy 1 out of the 90 minutes they played. Because either Barcelona didn't let them touch the the ball (75 % possession) or if they managed to touch it, they immediately got pressed and harassed like a lonely sheep in the middle of a pack of wolves, hoofing the ball into the sidelines. Barca didn't win. Barca sucked in their souls. Pep really shouldn't play Xavi-Iniesta-Messi-Alves all together against nominally weaker oppositions like this one anymore. It's against human rights. Have you seen Neymar almost crying at the end? You shouldn't do this to 19 year old kids.

That is correct.

 

[dalitis8]

This is the 5th consecutive European victory in this competition.

The last European side to lose, were Barca back in 2006, going 1-0 down to Interncional.


I hate the sound of that.

 

[10Messi10]

Yeah I noticed that too. Poor kid. I can see him fitting in nicely at RM though

why? bcoz he was crying after the match ended?

 

[mitkoa7x]

I felt sorry for Santos too, they have talent but they cant stand up to us even if we played 10 we would win 10/10. Ganso was the only1 who seemed to not take it too hard, the others were godsmacked. They really thought they could win it, thank Pele for that...

 

[gingerless]

eh, they won't be too rattled. we spanked united and madrid all the same

 

[Andersen22]

Santos were awful i expected way more of them.

 

[FCBarca]

Some Gardner quotes from the Final:

38 min: Ah, there's Neymar, mouth agape after bumping into Big Ole Gerard Pique. It's a foul but, predictably, Santos are soon back in their own half, trying to piece together their dignity.

Peep! Peep! That's half-time. Which is what Santos are being paid, after a first period in which Barcelona demonstrated for the umpteenth time that they're playing a different game to everyone else.

"Football will be complete the day someone devises a tactic that lets 11 Xavi's play together."

50 min: Barcelona are knocking it about. Unless I expressly say otherwise, you can consider that to be the case ad infinitum.

51 min: They haven't induced mass panic in the Santos backline in at least five minutes, though. So, they're not quite perfect.

52 min: Hang on, I spoke too soon. Messi went skeddadling through the middle, evading tackles, wrecking balls, a buzzsaw, etc, before slipping a ball out to the left for Thiago, whose cross to the back post is headed comically off target by Dani Alves. Barça do win a corner, with the ball pinging off an unwitting defender - but that really should have been four.

62 min: "French TV reporting 75% possession for Barca in the first half, is that right?," wonders Philippa Booth. I believe it is - at least that's what the ESPN bods were saying. "At a certain point, watching them makes you a bit uneasy, like you're complicit in bullying or something. Like watching the big kid nick the little kid's mittens. Beautiful play, though."

GOAL! WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?! Santos 0-4 Barcelona (Messi 82)There have been more gaps in the Santos defence than in OJ Simpson's today, and Alves, sprinting into another one, has little to do to release Messi through on goal once again. There's still a touch of magic to the finish, though, as the Flea delicately flicks the balls past Rafael Cabral's lunge with the outside of his boot before popping it into an unguarded net.

85 min: This has been quite an evisceration, you'll not be at all surprised to hear, and Barcelona could comfortably have scored eight. Not that anyone was expecting otherwise, I suppose. Santos seem to have come armed with little more than hope and a callow talisman up front – 10th in the Brazilian league has looked a million miles from Club World Cup material here.