The derby ended in zero, and Real Madrid are excited

This time, transporting us to Spain , we have to take a look at some of the other derby born not by a duel of powers, but rather a question of cities.

As happened in the Manchester , it was a fairly conservative game, without too many attacks and two teams that sought to maintain zero, despite having two completely different realities.

Quite the contrary to what was expected, Lionel Messi was part of the game from the start, although this did not help that the Barca opened the scoring (25 matches passed since the last time the Blaugrana ends without converting)

In the first half, the most dangerous play FC Barcelona was a shot of Peter that crashed into a pole, offset by a shot in the 44th minute Pablo Daniel Osvaldo (front of RCD Espanyol )

In the second half the team Guardiola sought to overcome the tough defense raised by Mauricio Pochettino (a coach heavily influenced by Marcelo Bielsa , currently with the football team Chile) with the accession of Henry replacing Gabriel Milito, Messi as placing single point and leaving Maxwell (of sluggish performance on this occasion) attacking from the left.

Pochettino appears to have won the duel of coaches

Despite this effort, the perfect defense of preventing every attack RCD Espanyol blaugrana whole, often leaving the edge of the infringement and to generate controversy before the match referee, Undiano Mallenco, who ousted Dani Alves in the 60th minute.

Just a shot from Lionel Messi flew past Kameni arc, and the match ended with a dull 0-0 that leaves hope to Real Madrid (now second) who tomorrow will face Valencia at the Bernabeu , trying to get to a point on the top and continue to dream of the League trophy .