Barcelona UEFA Super Cup 2009 winners

August 29, 2009

The Super Cup is played between the winners of the Champions League, and Europa League, respectively. This time it was Barcelona who was playing against Shakhtar Donetsk in Monaco at the Stade Louis II. The match was won by Barcelona in the 115th minute when Messi displayed his footballing prowess and set substitute Pedro up to net the winner. Throughout the match, Shakhtar tried hard but their efforts were not enough to trouble the newly crowned European Champions.

The champions themselves gave a lackluster performance in front of a enthusiastic crowd which stood at 17,000. Fans were disappointed as they had hoped for a few goals from the Catalan giants. Barcelona’s new £60m striker who replaced Eto’ was seen exasperated most of the times. Zlatan Ibrahimovich didn’t look happy with the pitch, and kept falling to the ground a lot. Barcelona surely missed their playmaker Iniesta, who is out due to injury. They kept losing possession due to inefficient passing.

Messi thought that he should have gotten a penalty just before half time when his curling free kick touched the defenders arm, but Belgian referee Frank De Bleeckere refused to budge to Barca’s appeals and moved on with the game.

Henry had one or two shots but the Shakhtar keeper was on his toes all night. The stipulated 90 minutes were over, and the match entered extra time. The match seemed to be heading for a penalty shootout as both teams were not looking to take chances but 22 year old Spain’s rising star winger, Pedro had some different ideas, and scored in the 115th minute, helping his coach since the last 14 months lift his 5th trophy for the club.

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