atletico was thugging it up and barca wasn't handling it well. have mourinho's tactics from real madrid spread? if so, this is going to be a long, boring ass year.

so many fouls. so many obvious decisions to foul on purpose. and the espn3 commentary was painfully bad.

i hate to say it, but xavi looks like he's finally a step too slow/cautious. alexis was surprisingly ineffective with neymar and messi and messi had to drift to midfield to get any threat on the ball. really like a compilation of all the flaws of last season, including a classic busquets missed tackle leading to a breakaway chance. cesc was invisible, messi off, iniesta completely invisible once he was introduced. only pedro looked good in his minutes, really. and the backline was decent, though alves was a weak point and alba didn't add that much in attack.

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