FC Barcelona broke a record  by  winning eight consecutive matches in  a league with an emphatic victory over VALLADOLID. Alexis sanchez scored two, Neymar and xavi were the other two. TATA martino is doing absolutely well so far. Though our defense is vulnerable, we haven’t conceded in a while and the yesterday’s goal, which we conceded was totally down to the tactics. TATA should sort out that thing .
TATA Martino is showing good progress and  he is the sort of manager we needed right now, after the shambolic performance against Bayern Munich. As discussed earlier, rotation of the squad is very important  especially for a club like Barca, who participate in every cup games and its in our instincts when it comes to the league, to give hundred percent.
        A league is a marathon, especially in La Liga, you have to win every game and every game has to be played as a final in order to be crowned as a league champions. Though the league looks easy looking from outside, but let me assure you, it isn’t.
Real Madrid are the best example in this regard. Villarreal, Elche, Atletico Madrid all played well  and  even levante  snatched a point. Almost!
     From the last 8 league games, we have seen that TATA Martino has managed very well in terms of rotating the squad in order to keep every player fresh and fit. From Lionel Messi to Pique all got subbed and hardly few played 90 mins. The fatigue plays a key role during February and March, So keeping that In Perspective, Martino is  sketching the things.

Coming to the game, Barcelona were without the services of Lionel Messi  who scores half amount of total goals  scored by Barca every season. The front three looked like this

                         TELLO , NEYMAR ,SANCHEZ.

      Barcelona conceded early in the game at ten minutes mark in a corner. TATA Martino prefers Man marking over Zonal Marking. It’s good to recall  city’s match,   Manchester vs Cardiff city (not sure),  which they lost 3-2 away. Manuel Pellegrini also used similar system during corners. It looks pathetic, and the defenders are made to look haphazard. Gerard pique is usually isolated nowadays due to this system and Iniesta will be having a role to clear the ball. Wow! 
      We looked terrible  against sevilla due to this system, Thank heavens for Lionel Messi who played a vital part in the last minutes . We got all the three points.
 Soon after being goal down, Barca started to press and we got a reward very soon.  Alexis Sanchez with a screamer, CRACKER whatever. One hell of a goal that was and Barcelona continued to play well  by keeping the ball and making the runs towards the box. Neymar was denied penalties (I think the Referee thought, Neymar Dives ). At HT it was still 1-1.

     In the second half we looked very comfortable, and soon enough  Xavi scored to make it 2-1. Alexis scored minutes later, so did Neymar . We should give credits for Alexis sanchez,Neymar and Tello too .THEY  DESERVE IT. SANCHEZ is our engine, he never stops working for our team. He always covers whole pitch and he used to be poor infront of the goal , according to his standards, which attracted criticism but he is doing really well  in front of the goal too. And we never looked back after scoring 4 goals. We comfortably won and became the first team to win 8 consecutive league games starting from the first. That’s what champions do!


Question : How many games did Alex Song start last season ?

    As I recall,he started only in Copa Del rey games ( I may be wrong) But one thing for sure he hardly played in few games . It means Sergio Busquets played every game ,week in week out last season.
 But this season we differ from the last season, Thanks to TATA MARTINO.

      Alex song PLAYED IN A LEAGUE GAME, NOT AS A SUBSTITUTE. Not to disparage Tito vilanova, but he was very poor when it comes to rotating the squad. SONG hardly played, Thiago  felt he should have had more games. And of all, Xavi played week in week out. 

     I penned out some player names, who were affected, actually their performance was affected due to Fatigue.
1) Messi 2) Xavi 3) iniesta, 4) Busquets 5) Dani alves(He is hunk you see lemme leave him) 6) pique.
Keeping the above things in mind  and looking at the past 8 games, we are doing very well. All players are getting enough time and key players are being rested especially for CL knockouts.
SO FAR SO GOOD. This  line sums up what we are upto. We are not favourites for CL, League is tough too with Atletico Madrid showing the world, they are up for a challenge. Anything may happen, Just enjoy the ride week in week out !!

Visca Barca.