E 'from March 9, then for almost two months, around Camp Nou hangs a ghost. Sportswear, has long hair held together by a band, and wears a shirt with a gold number on the back: the ten. Ronaldo de Assis Moreira is called, but people prefer to remember him as Ronaldinho. This ghost is not scary, in fact: to make it fun, good humor, to have fun. Except that since it was treated as the worst apple decided unintentionally, of "revenge." Just play on tv code, just smiles. "Now I'm curious to see what combination without me", seems to have meant. And the negative results, have arrived.
Barcelona without Ronaldinho nailed. He put the reverse gear. It is no longer the same. There was a volta una squadra che dava spettacolo, e segnava gol a grappoli, divertiva e si divertiva. Da quel 9 marzo (giorno della sconfitta interna 2-1 con il Villarreal), però, tutto è cambiato. Su dodici partite i blaugrana ne hanno vinte solo tre. Di queste, due contro lo Schalke 04 in Champions League: non proprio le migliori esibizioni nella storia del club catalano. Il resto dello score? Da dimenticare: cinque pareggi e quattro sconfitte. Con contestazioni annesse.
C'era una volta una squadra che dava spettacolo. Specie con i suoi attaccanti. A inizio stagione la stampa gongolava immaginando i "Fantastici Quattro": Ronaldinho, Eto'o, Messi e Henry. Insieme hanno giocato pochissime volte, è vero; ma i gol non sono mai mancati. In these last twelve matches, however, the media has collapsed. Only 14, goals scored, a figure identical to those experienced. As if every meeting should end 1-1. It is not the stuff of Barcelona, \u200b\u200beven if the signatures on these goals are always copyright: five Eto'o and Bojan, two Henry, Iniesta and Yaya Toure one. But it is the most significant recent famine offensive blaugrana: from 404 minutes, in fact, Rijkaard's men did not pierce the opponents goalkeeper. A single goal in his last four appearances at the Camp Nou: disaster.
The ghost of Ronaldinho, meanwhile, looks at a couple of figures and compare them: "I am playing in a game 26 times this season, and in those games the team scored 41 goals, winning 15 matches, tapping seven and losing only 4. "Above all, it was still engaged on three fronts: the distance in the league by Real Madrid was still acceptable, as the English Cup and Champions League. It 'true that in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwhen Ronaldinho is" missing "missing something that goes beyond the game.
Alex Ferguson, before the return match, said:" Barcelona played very well, but always in the same way. "Of course, the unpredictability is the prerogative of Ronaldinho Yesterday. Rijkaard even with that stare blankly into space, he seemed convinced he can do it. Perhaps because, in the distance, had seen the ghost of a player, sports suit, with long hair and the shirt Blaugrana number ten.
