The formula of Pablo Machín to stop to Messi in the Barça-Seville

The Seville will arrive to the Camp Nou with the intention to conserve his leadership at the head of LaLiga Santander that achieved to assault in the last day, thanks to the pricks of the Real Madrid and the own FC Barcelona. The team hispalense arrives with the morals by the clouds after four victories ligueras followed, by what will be a hard rival.

Pablo Machín, technician of the Seville, is conscious that Leo Messi will be the greater threat of the Barcelona group. Thus, it will mount an entramado defensive important that allow him contain the tackled of the Argentinian star in the party. During a report for the official television of the club, left to fall that it could opt by the individual labeling with him.

"To see which council give me, because, you know that the first party that play against the Barça did it?. I had a restlessness and said, 'to this uncle with the well that it is, if you leave him receive are died because it goes you . Why we do not put him a player here, that devote only to mark it to the man as in the times of Ali Babá?'", it commented Machín, in a talk with the ex sevillista Antoñito.

The trainer of the Andalusian picture remembered that this strategy already went out him well when it was technical of the Girona: "I put Him to Pablo Maffeo, but was a party with some special circumstances for us, was between week and for us was more important the party of the weekend, did not play all the best. But I remained happy with that experience. In fact, it went a party in which Messi neither appeared".

Pablo Machín inspired in the Barça

In the same talk, Pablo Machín ensured that his contact with Unzué did him learn a lot to apply these knowledges to his teams: "Before it thought that like trainer had more than doing in the defensive appearance that in the attack, as it thought that was more thing of the talent of the players, but with the step of the time changed, especially after going in in contact with Unzué. He transmitted me a lot of the idea Barça, the Dream Team… no only with Pep, he had been also with Rijkaard and, well, try there do a miniBarça and here learnt a lot of the offensive tactics. I changed a bit and I thought that it could facilitate alos players that created a lot of occasions of goal fometando some automatisms".

At present, Machín uses a system of peculiar game based in a line of three head offices in the defence and two carrileros very opened to support in the construcci´n of the offensive game. Besides, it opts by three midfield players in the medullary and by two forwards. This tactical worked him very well in the Girona and goes on doing it in the Seville.