Maybe Pep Guardiola's true master was to understand when to leave. Watching FC Barcelona these days, a shadow of the squad that's been on top of the world for most of the last four years while most of the workers is the sameA-or maybe because of thatAAA-you start to believe that former BarAa teacher knew something that the rest folks did not, and still don't, but could see the effects on the area. If the Blaugrana were smashing Neymar's Santos 4-0 in the last of the FIFA Club World Cup a little more when compared to a year right back and were called the best team in history no one believed that six months later Pep would be gone. But Guardiola left, because he saw something he didn't like, something he thought he couldn't repair to extend the great function for a few more years. He prevented, remember?, so long as he could making a decision, probably hoping to the end to find a answer. Pep loved BarAa. Still, he left, and we wondered, we nevertheless do, why? For a time everything went good under Tito Vilanova, Pep's successor. BarAa had the most effective begin in the annals of La Liga, winning 18 of its first 19 games, with a draw, Messi continued his amazing rating speed, and with 13 games left the Catalans, 12 points ahead of Atletico Madrid and 16 in front of Real Madrid, can't lose the title, baring an of unprecedented, cosmic dimensions. But judging by how BarAa looked in two crucial games played within the last week, the 2-0 reduction to Milan in the UEFA Champions League, and the 3-1 embarrassment by Real Madrid at the Camp Nou in the semifinals of the Copa del Rey, no lead is safe. BarAa is in crisis. Something must change. Even through the great group work there were signs that the staff isn't really that good. The security is suspect, it's granted one or more goal within the last 12 games, and undisciplined. The goalkeeper, Valdes (no Zamora, for sure) really wants to leave; he needs to have been dumped in January. His substitute, Pinto, is 38 and no one can tell why he is on the list. The right straight back, Alves, "doesn't do" safety, it's below him. He is never in the framework when the other team scores. PiquA walks aimlessly all over the subject, thinking, or thinking he is a centre forward. Captain Puyol is getting old. He has lots of spirit and little else. Mascherano is not a central defender, despite his good intentions. Often he scares Valdes up to other opponents. Left right back Alba is a great addition to the group, definitely not to the security. But BarAa has never been about defense. They just won more than one other team. The technological wizardry and vision of its baseball controllers, Iniesta, Xavi and Messi, has been the choice with this group and has defined BarAa's play-ball control and development through short, repeated passes-resulting in many scoring opportunities. While Messi's rating hunger and his unique ability have made him the natural leader, and the natural leading scorer, in the last 12 months a change, nearly delicate, has happened. The initial story, "BarAa is very good, BarAa may be the greatest" is now "Messi must report, Messi must set another file, and another one." From the staff, the interest has changed to Messi. Even the great competition BarAa versus. Real Madrid has been changed into a Messi compared to. Cristiano Ronaldo individual competition. It's not yet determined if Messi required dictatorial powers or if the role was bestowed upon him, but when Iniesta, Xavi, Fabregas, Alba, Alves and most everyone else have "Messi must score" in mind, the team's performance is influenced negatively. Yes, Messi appeared as the savior in many activities, but because the team played for Messi to function as savior that is. BarAa isn't the best group when Messi scores 37 objectives in 25 group games and all of those other people have 42 combined. When Messi is annihilated, BarAa is paralyzed. Great opposite coaches like Allegri and Mourinho have identified how to stop and frustrate Messi. Stopping Messi means preventing BarAa, since participants like Pedro and Fabregas are becoming almost unnecessary, they can't take over a game, they can't even go past an opponent in dribbling, one-on-one. Damage has slowed Xavi, who's not the player he was 6 months ago. Iniesta does not have Messi's killer instinct. Accommodation has been ostracized, probably because he didn't choose the "all-for-Messi plan," youngster Tello represents significantly less than under Pep, and Alexis has been a break. Believe that Messi would use a like IbrahimoviA now? Hopefully BarAa will get Neymar (alongside a defenders), but what the staff wants at this time is really a instructor. Vilanova has been in New York since early January getting treatment for a recurrent parotid gland cancer. His assistant Jordi Roura is not really a instructor that could make the team for a casino game against Real or Milan. It'd have been enough to say: "Hey, we tied 1-1 in Madrid, we are ahead. They must score first, they must attack. Alves, PiquA, Busquets, stay straight back and keep an eye on no 7. Iniesta, only keep the ball for 90 minutes at midfield. We all hope since a team have been coached by nobody to main awards via the web, Tito gets well quickly. You can give instructions, good or bad, but you can not feel the heart of the team. And today BarAa's pulse is practically a set line. Vladimir Moraru played soccer for 15 years and has observed it for 60. He has not seen a player like Messi and a staff like Hamilton Academical Barcelona.
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