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  • Shaktar Donestk 0-1 Barcelona: Messi superb-finish

    A goals from Lionel Messi gave Barcelona a 1-0 win over Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League quarterfinal second leg. The Catalans had glided smoothly into the semifinals with agreat advantage 6-1.

    Barcelona come to Donbass Arena on Tuesday (12/04/2011) with more than enough to bring lunch after picking in the first game 5-1 victory. Although Shakhtar known to have good statistics in the cage, Xavi Hernandes cs yet still able to reap the narrow victory with the score 1-0.

    Messi mere puppet goal was made in minute 43. One further goal was to make Josep Guardiola's squad is entitled to a ticket to the semifinals with a 6-1 aggregate advantage striking.

    In the last four Barca will face the winner of the game between Real Madrid vs Tottenham Hotspur. El Real is now in the underdog position following a 4-0 victory at the first meeting at the Santiago Bernabeu.




    The game

    Barcelona close to the resistance of the host at the beginning of the fight. In the eighth minute when a kick threatened Barca goalkeeper Douglas Costa Jadson continued feedback can still be blocked by Victor Valdes.

    Six minutes later the duo Costa Jadson re-examine the Barca defense, this time deftly captures Valdes Jadson hard kick that leads right to him.

    Josep Guardiola's squad then tried to build an attack, one of them through long-distance kick Xavi Hernandez is still hovering over the target. But it setekah Shakhtar again have the opportunity to make goals while Henrik Mkhitaryan kick him right into the arms of Valdes.

    Barcelona's best chance came in minute 30 when efforts Ibrahim Afellay hits the ball into the goal after receiving feedback can be driven long Adriano still Yaroslav Rakitskiy in front of goal. A minute ago Messi facing one on one with Pyatov, its digging the ball read well by the goalkeeper.

    After the kick in minute 40 Afellay able punched Pyatov, Barca finally winning when the game first incoming minute 43. Getting feedback from Daniel Alves, Messi calmly controlled the ball for the kick off and then lodged in the goal. 1-0 Barca.

    Unlike the first round, early in the second half as host loosing their fighting power. Has to scored seven goals to keep the chance of escape clearly a very difficult task.

    This is what then makes Barcelona nearly double the advantage in minute 59. Starting from individual action Messi who passed by two opposing players, able to release the bait that he struck perfectly by Afellay, although still able to be intercepted goalkeeper Pyatov. Alves rebound effort also was fruitless.

    Shakhtar almost equalized through Mkhitaryan in 63 minutes. But Valdes appeared to make a brilliant save to avoid his goal of being broken.

    Pyatov made a mistake in the 80th minute when he just gave the ball to Messi. Shakhtar lucky kick Pedro Rodrigues, who can sodoran ball from Messi, still deviated from the target.

    In the remaining time of the match no additional goals created. Score 1-0 to Barcelona's advantage lasted until the game completely.

    Team Line-up:
    Shakhtar Donetsk: Andriy Pyatov; Yaroslav Rakitskiy, Mykola Ischenko, Viacheslav Shevchuk, Vasili Kobin; Tomás Hubschman, Henrik Mkhitaryan, Willian, Douglas Costa (Eduardo 58); Luiz Adriano (Marcelo Moreno 60), Jadson

    Barcelona: Victor Valdés; Gerard Piqué (Gabriel Milito 70), Javier Mascherano, Adriano, Dani Alves; Sergio Busquets, Seydou Keita, Xavi (Pedro 66); Ibrahim Afellay, Lionel Messi, David Villa (Jeffrén Suárez 75)

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