welcome to ea sports live coverage of this friendly today it's barcelona against fire munich
let's head straight for the camp nou the floodlights shining down in the
heart of barcelona here's your commentary team martin tyler
and alan smith we welcome you to this friendly fixture today and mountain tyler alan smith is
with me and we are looking forward to seeing what this game brings us
well it radiates european history doesn't it it's a wonderful fixture for us we're lucky to be here
alan buying against basa yeah as soon as this draw came out i've been looking forward to the tight
and uh i don't think we're going to be disappointed with the football on show here
barcelona's lineup here claudio bravo starts in goal
sheriff pk starts with javier mascherano as the centre-backs
iniesta plays with chevy in the center of the park luis suarez is the lone striker today
by munich's lineup and well neuer starts in goal mindy banasia starts with jerome
berting in central defense iron robin starts with frank rubery looking to provide width
robert lewandowski is the main striker today
well for pep guardiola his first season with bayern munich he couldn't do the treble
but he did do the domestic double well is that failure is it success i don't know the
standards are set so high in munich and for pep guardiola he slightly changed the style
of play but uh he got a avood awakening in that semi-final didn't he against real madrid
and the man who is going to referee the game today gavin mansfield
and it's bayern munich getting us underway at the start of the first half jordi alba tk
daniel alves
there to make that save corner for barcelona
how to improve on perfection that was the problem for buying music in 2013-14 and you've won the
lot the year before it's difficult isn't it alan it is difficult as pep guardiola
found out and he obviously changed their style of football slightly
and it looked at one stage as if he was going to perform the impossible and
well emulate the treble at least that they achieved on the hinkers but wasn't to be
this looks dangerous from messi
a goal
well it's an incredible moment for lionel messi and that
actually comes along probably three or four times a week he's that good well he's we've
grown accustomed to watching this working in such a tight space you just cannot get the ball off him
it's a decent challenge by the opponent iniesta that's the thing about football does move on
iniesta and his spanish colleagues of course have had so many great it's a quick break
in with a chance goalkeeper able to reach up and deal with that he was trying to be cheeky
but there was a chance but he uh it had to be perfect and it wasn't quite
daniel alves
sergio busquets luis suarez
defender has to be quick defenders done very well to clear that
throwing for bayern munich
that's very well read and that's a very good interception iron robin
barcelona giving away this free kick
go fantastic head up
an equalizer from robert i wonder about the keeper but there was good power on that header
and that's a goal well worth analyzing again
well we're back at level packing again
and certainly playing the barcelona has sharpened his game back in midfield for his country and very
good the master of midfield really but argentina that will be a free kick against barcelona
frank ribery bayern munich so used to winning today if they do i think they're going to be
somewhere approaching their best against what is a really strong outfit luis suarez this could be it
in the clear here here's the chance and he does his job fantastically well he's
got such statue he doesn't believe he's going to get beaten in those one-on-ones this keeper
however the game changes there's always a place for headed clearances like that
he's gone for goal and it's gone all the way through to the goalkeeper
ian
iniesta made the challenge well schweinsteiger
showing it's a physical game when it's a fair one so here we are at halftime
and it's 1-1 look at that halftime score line it totally doesn't reflect
the balance of the match and the territorial domination that one team's had
that's true i mean the lesser of the two sides have got out of jail haven't they with
the amount of chances that they can so here we go with the second half
pk
towards chaby
he takes the shot keeper really stretched and he's made a fine diving save
we've got a chance now and we want to have another look at robin's goal
well straight off the meet of the forward and that's flown into the right hand side of the goal
danny alvarez
i'm making a change now
iniesta luis suarez
goodness they needed him then to clear that one shot one on target goodbye munich yeah
there's been nothing wrong with the finishing these goalkeeper extremely
busy here looking at the bench it's bayern who are making the move with the substitute
neymar in with a chance the keeper pulled out there he reached it but couldn't keep it out
and that's wonderful wonderful technique to just feather it into the bottom line
let's have another peek at that goal
and the scoreline is 2-1 mario good
he'll feel good about that a really strong and clean tackle
it's messy
danny alvarez sergio busquets that passing is top class neymar
good challenge here chance for him what kind of the ball he connected with but it wasn't the
right part was it sliced and skewed in whatever it was he didn't hit the center of that ball
tackling technique to win the ball cleanly iniesta good strong challenge and he goes for goal
a decent effort just just off target yeah unlucky because he got some power beyond
the ball just not the direction it's lovely to see that kind of finish not an easy one by any
means he's got a lot of work to do to beat the keeper but he does it with wonderful accuracy
neymar sergio busquets now offside luis suarez under challenge that's good control
brian munich trying to do something very late in the game i think this is going to be
kitchen sink time martin now plenty of long balls into the box trying to get on those knock downs
leonard messi philippe
from the player to go over the line they've got a corner now by munich
even though they're a goal behind this is quite significant maybe
what a good piece of defensive clearance that was lionel messi
this could be it here's the chance
the goal for messi if you want to score too many better than that he certainly
won't have hit too many harder than he did there here's the goal again
the scoreline is three one
and now messy brilliant
they've got the ball back through a very good interception this could
be a chance messi in the clear in with a chance and he's put it away
beautifully
well i missed a few of these in my time it isn't as easy as it looks
but he made it look easy then i've got to say
team and the scoreline absolutely shows that and now iniesta
and barcelona have done it there is the final whistle they've won this game
you don't often get such a one-sided match at this level of the game but
that's what we've seen alan well we have and uh credit to the players
out there for playing so well and for dominating it right from start to finish