The match started here at 1.30 A.M (Monday morning) in India.  This is the match which comes under Real "Late Night Match" category and not one of those 11.30 P.M games. So i had my expectations as how we should play and win. Who else can it be other than Barca to fulfill my expectations? Yes, Barca played by far their best  football in a while , where all players had a good game. I was flabbergasted seeing Jordi Alba's performance.It was one of the brilliant performance by the pacy Alba.I will talk about some of my player's performance today

Jordi Alba : Alba has an enormous pace. He covers whole left flank , and yesterday's match was one of the best example depicting Jordi Alba role in our team.There was this particular moment where Alba's superb speed came into handy.Santa cruz had a chance to score, but Alba came from behind with his enormous pace and took the ball in his control. Minutes later, he was testing Malaga goal keeper.Earlier in the second half, Alba cleared the ball for what would have been 'Game changing moment' as we were just 1-0 up. He is one of those rare LB's who cover whole left flank (for real).

Pique : Do you remember those Inter Milan,chelsea etc games where they would park the bus, and Guardiola tactics would be to bring Pique much higher up the pitch. The same happened in yesterday game. Pique is in fine  form in terms of goal scoring. After all those failed attempts by Pedro,Alves and sanchez in the first half ,it was pique who provided the lead by scoring during a corner. As the commentators were saying, he could have had a hattrick .

Messi : If it was not clear in midweek against Levante, it was crystal clear today as how Messi would play when he would be 30. Messi played in False 6 Role.  Messi is one of the phenomenal players in football. He will be the best at whichever position he plays. Since Iniesta wasn't there, someone had to take a load alongside Xavi(Who still plays almost 2,3 games a week ). Who else do you trust other than Lionel Messi. This time he didn't try to score for himself, but he provided perfectly weighted passes to pedro,fabregas and sanchez. Cesc Fabregas is useless infront of goal , Let's keep it for another day.

Alexis sanchez had a pretty good game.He played very well since Messi's return.Pedro has been magnificent this season. What a goal that was!!. Valdes kept another clean sheet.

This was the perfect match to advertise "Total Football" . Messi was dropping deep,Pique and Jordi Alba were ahead of Messi. Alves and Alba were more close to Malaga's goalkeeper than Pedro and sanchez .I think Malaga 's coach must have had a hard time in telling their players regarding "Marking" during the course of the match.They weren't knowing , whom to mark and whom not to. Messi provided 5 assists in couple of games.This is one of the verticals in the game which Messi is acquiring.

Over all it was a good performance by Barca.Need this type of performance week in week out , to win La Liga. And Xavi-The Maestro completed 700 games for Futbol club Barcelona. He is one of the best players for  Spain and Barcelona , and a base for all the tiki-taka during Guardiola Era, which brought so many laurels to spain and Barcelona. He won all trophies that a  football player can win. We must be lucky to witness such a player during our time.

Visca Barca