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Originally Posted by ProphetofProfit
Anyone else think Van De Saar's positioning was responsible for both goals?
The second goal was on the blond guy standing around. You can't let Messi dribble free that close to begin with, and the goalie has to weight himself to the left side (facing the net) because the defender is blocking some of the right side, and Messi just curled it around him to about the rightmost place he could put it.
On the first goal, the guy was just in clean too, and goalie guessed far post instead of near post, so he looks like an idiot when Pedro goes near post, but unless he were somehow out a lot further challenging it, and I don't see how that could be given the play, he had to pick something.