Why Teams Including Real Madrid Haven’t beaten Barcelona

Posted by Borris Becker on Jan 17, 2012 in General | 9 comments

Barcelona have won like 15 trophies in the past 3 or 4 seasons. All of them came under Guardiola.Even though he has done no work to get Barcelona to this stage (or at best, he has done very little work as in my opinion Cryuff and Rijkaard were major contributors to the current status of football club Barcelona) where Barcelona are just murdering teams home and away.

The most noticeable defeats of Barcelona in the past 3 or 4 years have come from the hands of Real Madrid in the Copa Del Ray Final, from the hands of Inter Milan (coached by Jose Mourinho) two years ago in the Semi Final (or was it quarters) of the Champions League. Barcelona have just stuck  to their philosophy of entertaining their fans with huge signings and huge talents from their youth academy which is probably the best in the world right now and in the process getting the results as well.

Real Madrid have lost like 8 games of the past 10 against Barcelona and currently the only hope this world has to overthrow Barcelona is Real Madrid and no one else.

What makes Barcelona so tough to beat, why do teams succumb to their might so easily? Here are 3 of the many reasons why Barcelona have won so much in the past 3 or 4 years whether deserving or undeserving.

1. It is quite straight forward, apart from Real Madrid no one can match or even come close to this Barcelona squad. The shear quality of their players is just cut above the rest. They have the best players playing at each and every position of their starting line up. Their bench may not be the strongest on paper as it hosts players from their youth academy but their bench does what it is supposed to do. Each individual player in this Barcelona side can win a match on his own against every team either through scoring a goal, making a tackle or stopping a shot.
2. When teams do beat Barcelona on the field, they are unable to beat Lionel Messi. Real Madrid, in my humble opinio, has beaten Barcelona on the pitch in the past 4 or 5 games but in the end the difference is always Lionel Messi. He just pops up in the dying minutes of tough matches and scores winners.
3. The third and probably the single most significant factor is Barcelona’s theatrics. Their art of diving and crying and complaining is unmatched. Opponents may be able to beat Barcelona but rarely beat Barcelona and the referee or the oscar winning performances from the likes of Messi, Iniesta, Pedro, Puyol, Valdes, Pique, Alves. Almost every single player in their team is a cry baby. They have stripped teams of their due wins only because they are the best (by a country mile) at diving and influencing the referee in big games at big critical moments.

Here is a little proof to what I have said in the last point as that is the major factor why Barcelona has been able to win so much in recent times. No other team in history has had so much luck with the referee and theatrics as this Barcelona side. It is a pity they could not just sweep each and every title in the past 3 or 4 years, thank God who gave the likes of Real Madrid and Inter Milan the courage and the talent (to play football not the talent to dive and cheat) to defeat the evil that is in this Barcelona squad.

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