Varane, what a boss.

great game.

First half:

I thought we did very well in the first half which i thought we edged slightly. Benz should have done better when he was released on the left hand side. his shot didn't even hit the target. he is ambidextrous as well no excuses there. His other shot went too high he did well too feign that move but i think he could at least hit the target. Ronaldo was alittle anonymous he didn't make his usual runs i suspect this is what Mou told him to do since we only had one playmaker in there. We pressured superbly for the whole half forcing mistaes on Barca. i was alittle dissapointed with Ozil's final third passes it happened against Getafe as welll where he gets all the way to the penalty box and his descisions there fails him. I thought he did well nonetheless i didn't like how isolated he was when he had the ball there was always 4 barca players on him with nobody to pass to. somebody should always be there for him god damn it

Callegoat oh dear, how many times did he lose the ball?? he had the first touch of a rapist yesterday jeez calegoat. he is very good at breaking offside traps but his first touch failed him resulting in the ball either being cleared or rolling to Pinto. poor poor.

I have to admit Barca had our midfield on locks, both Xabi and Khedira i thought couldve done more but where restricted by Barcas quick pressing. I loved our transition when we won the ball, there as a period when we attacked and it went back and force aka we were playing to our strength, barca couldn't handle it so they slowed the pace down to turtle pace to try and unsettle our players by making them go to sleep with their boring sideways passing.

Mr average will never learn will he, can somebody tell him NOT TO GET FCKING SUCKED IN TO THE MIDDLE WHEN THEY HAVE THE BALL. how many times was Alves free on that farside in acres of fcking space, good thing Missi kept holding the ball up for too long and we were able to intercept. Essien surprisingly did decent against Iniesta. Essien>>>>Mr average

Pedro where the fck was this guy?? more anonymous than soldado?? what has happened to him on another day he would have had a brace against the slow to react Mr Average. Carvalho did ok his backpass was similar to the one he did against i cant remember which team where he got booed off the pitch, he needs alittle spanking. he also fouls too much he could easily have gotten two yellows today. Varane need i say more

Second half:

I thought barca slightly edged this half, we were abit nervous, Arbeloa as per usual leaves his side unattended and cesc found himself in alot of space and tucked the ball away. we could have found an equaliser if Ronaldo hadn't missed that sitter oh dear didn't even hit the target. Barca could have scored some as well and Lopez did well to keep it at 1-0, then Varane the boss shows ronaldo how to really head a ball and we got our deserving goal. later we kept losing the ball and barca could easily have gone up very sloppy from us. Modric did nothing to prove he wants to start poor poor from him.

So my player ratings

Lopez 7: didnt have an awful lot to do in the first half was tested in the second alot and proved he should be our number 1 keeper till iker gets back

Essien 7: I thought he did really well tbh, there was no attacks from his wing and even if there were him and Varane combined well, there was no hoofing to get the ball away everytime they won it, it always found a madrid player further up the pitch

Varane 9.5: great game by him, did he even put a foot wrong??, i thought Alba got put through on goal too easily in the first 10 min but he was aiming for the corner flag anyways

Carvalho 6: after a very sloppy start picked up but i was still scared everytime a guy from that wing came in i always knew something would hapen

Mr Average 4: please go already, Alves had fun on that side too bad Pedro decided he felt sorry for him

Xabi 6.5: not as influential as we know he can be but he did well to restrict Missi to running into our players

Khedira 6.5: again not very influential, has a first touch similar to callegoat

Callegoat 6: did great backwards but foward he kept losing balls had the first touch similar to a grandma not into football, he could have been on his own vs Pinto on more than 3 occasions but decided it was time for him to not receive the ball well, happened against Getafe as well where again his first touch deceived him, needs to work on that young man

Ozil 8: did well whenever he he had the ball, nobody came up to support him so barca players easily dispossessed him, i think his decision making fails him sometimes, i mean when he can shoot he passes when he can pass he shoots a very tame shot, his cross was beautiful. well done avatar eyes

Ronaldo 7: hmm got his usual chances, didn't make as many runs as he always does but had a glaring sitter missed, you can't miss those Ronaldo

Benzema 6.5: Did well to press the Barca players and whenever he had the ball, but again he missed some chances you can't really miss

All in all, great performance considering circumstances you couldn't really ask for more could you?

I loved it when Puyol slapped the reffs hand away when he nearly poked him

Not much drama in this game, skysport just gave up its right to show the game

arbeloa has been average for a while now but granted that lb is not his usual position ill let him offf. but whatever side he plays in he always does the same mistake of leaving his side and getting suck into the middle which already containst both cbs plus xabi

not only dis barca continually exploit this but other teams have as well

and how is this scapegoating this was a good result considering circumstances.

benz did press great tho you can't take that away from him. 6.5 seems reasonable for his performance. higuain came in late with most of our players tired to run. it wss evident by how sloppy we were

do you really rate arbeloa punkfusion we have never gone a game withoutt his side being assaulted he is such a far cry from the old arbeloa who never gave us performanes less than a 7.