Eto'o glad to raise Camp Nou pulse

Vital points
Although winning three points at home is a fundamental task in this competition, the Cameroonian international accepted that the pressure which had accumulated given Barça's failure to win or score a goal from open play for over a month was both unwelcome and damaging. However, his view now is that the spell is broken and Josep Guardiola's team will be opponents to fear. "Of course our public was getting a little jumpy, not so much with how we were playing but with the run of results," smiled the striker, who scored Barça's second on the night with a cleanly-struck penalty. "But the Camp Nou crowd gather their rhythm as we improve ours – if we are on form they are satisfied and noisy. We get confidence from games like this and they do too, so winning like this has been a very satisfying night's work."

Penalty decision
After Rafael Márquez had given Barça the lead over Paulo Bento's side it was Eto'o, winning and converting the second-half penalty, that gave the home team breathing space. However, while it was Lionel Messi who took, and scored, the penalty against Real Racing Club Santander at the weekend, the Argentinian did not quibble when Eto'o strode up and claimed the spot-kick. "It was a key moment and I was clear that I was taking it so why would there be an argument?" he queried. "In training there are a handful of us who practice penalties so as to take them in match situations. If we go far in this competition and are competitive in La Liga then you don't want teams working out which way a regular penalty-taker is going to shoot, so we'll keep on altering things to keep rivals guessing.

Open game
"What I liked about this match, and is often the case in European games, is that teams don't come and park ten men behind the ball, which is a regular occurrence in our domestic fixtures at the Camp Nou," added the 27-year-old. "This was a good game of football and there was a little bit more space for us to impose ourselves and I'd say that the coach was right in his pre-match statement: you can't train for goals to come automatically. You need a bit of luck and when you shoot at goal around 50 times, as we've done in total across our last two games, then you can be sure that two or three, at least, will go in."