Villa shows why he's Barça material

Barcelona vs Sevilla

Barcelona continued their good form with another clean sheet and a 5-0 win at home to Champions League chasers, Sevilla. With Xavi back from injury, Pep Guardiola had his best eleven available to start.

Barça came bursting out of the blocks, looking to pressurise Sevilla right from
kick off and it only took the champions four minutes to find the net when Messi capitalized on a weak parry by the keeper to give Barça the lead.

With an early lead, Barcelona kept up the pressure and Sevilla failed to find a foothold in the game. In the 23rd minute, Messi effortlessly cut inbetween two defenders, leaving them to look out of their depth, he then found David Villa, who cut inside to beat his man and curled a left footed shot past the keeper. Villa has been pressing for goals in the last few games and finally got his just deserves with this spectacular effort.

Sevilla's Konko picked up his second yellow in the final minutes of the first half, after being subjected to a nutmeg by Pedro, his late challenge earnt him his marching orders.


Barça resumed proceedings in the second half and they were three up when Dani Alves made a flying leap with his outstreached leg to convert a headed back pass by Sevilla's Ndri Romaric. In gracious fashion, Alves didn't celebrate against his former club, opting to remaing calm, despite his world class goal.


Messi then got his 7th La Liga goal of the season and went past Rivaldo in all time goals and is now level with Sammy Eto'o. Picking the ball up near his own half, he dribbled at defenders, drawing them away, he then found the bottom corner from the smallest of gaps through the centre backs.


David Villa then got his second and Barça's fifth with a goal similar to Messi's. Drawing the defenders one way, he put the ball in the far right corner.


Josè Mourinho made indirect comments reguarding David Villa recently, comparing his form to the out of favour Benzema, clearly overlooking Villa's work ethic and his overall contribution to the teams perfomance, this was another classic Josè mind game tatic, which unfortunatly for Josè, didn't work out. David Villa responded on the pitch and later told journalists that
"He didn’t mention me by name, so my goal record is there for everyone to see. I just focus on my work, which is helping Barcelona.

"The work that I do is there. I have to be grateful to both my coach and my colleagues, who trust me. People have enjoyed the team play, and I have been calm, because I knew that I had to get goals."

With David Villa's eye for a goal he will always find ways to score, that's what instinctive strikers do best. Messi has recently said how important it is to have Villa at the club and his style of play makes it easier for himself to score. I, for one, am looking forward to the progression of the partnership of the two forwards. Last years partnership of Ibra and Messi didn't quite materialize so this one is gonna be an interesting watch!