The self-destruction of Xavi, kicked with advertising in the band, was the self-destruction of Bara, like a Saturn that devours its children, an unfinished work. This elimination after a 1-4 at her house does not mean that he will be able to finish it, that he will reconsider his decision to leave. When she did it from the Montjuc bench, expelled, it was as if he did it from Barcelona. [Narracin y estadsticas (1-4)]
Lamine Yamal He showed a path that the coach himself blocked when he felt the fear of an expulsion, that of Araujo, despite the two-goal lead at that moment. The fear then brought the ghosts of Liverpool, Rome or Lisbon to the field, like Chinese shadows in front of a PSG that did not need a great MBA, despite his two goals. His most earthly version was enough to meet Borussia Dortmund and close the doors of the Champions League semi-finals to a club that returns to square one, with its DNA, its debt and its fears.
YAMAL’S DECISION
That Yamal had been Mbapp for a single fleeting moment, like the run of a cheetah, fleeting but deadly. There is something feline in this footballer who runs without stepping on the grass. He slides. There is also something of a predator that awaits his moment, absent from what happens for many minutes, because his minute is the golden minute, the one that justifies his presence on the field. Upon receipt of Araujoorient with your head and leave behind Nuno Gomes how to leave the ski doors in a slalom. The center of the goal went to Raphinhawhich added its hat trick in the tie after his two goals in Paris.
If there was a differential player on the field, we just saw it in Montjuc. If there was a footballer that Xavi chose to leave the field when Araujo was sent off, it was precisely Yamal. The footballer’s lowered gaze as he retired was that of the resignation of a young man who still does not feel the hierarchy that he already has on the field as his own. He had given Barcelona the cover with which to protect themselves, one more goal advantage, added to the one he already brought in his luggage back from Paris. Xavi was thinking about the wall and that’s why he called a tower, go up Martnez. There was calculation and little Bara DNA in his decision. In his decision he lost the footballer who could best run behind a desperate and upset PSG. I’ll regret it.
There were still games to play within the same game, but Luis Enrique He was the one who had his own clearest. He had started it with control in the game and the changes that had given him the most in the Parque de los Prncipes, such as Barcola and Vitinha. The first was located on the left, with Dembl on the right, so the place of the 9 It was for Mbapp. Focused, he sought to jump from the line of vertigo, while Araujo went in search of him everywhere. He was the center of risk and he was the center through whom the problems began for Barcelona when they had done the most difficult thing and could really play the game they wanted. On the way he achieved it; On the way back, no.
EXPULSIN FATAL
Barcola won a ball into space in the race and Araujo knocked it down on the edge of the area. The foul was outside the rectangle, but the referee showed him the red card because Barcola was the last man. The VAR did not correct its decision despite the Barça protests and the Frenchman not being exactly perpendicular to Ter Stegen. There was one hour left in the game, the hour of self-destruction.
PSG’s goal did not come in the immediate play, a poorly taken free kick by Nuno Gomes, but the goal was already in the dynamics of the match. A cross from Barcola, in another of his arrivals from the left, was not intercepted by Cubars nor for I cancel and Dembl scored at will. The best thing for Bara was the rest; the worst, the return.
The Barça team did it with the same doubts with which they had gone to the booth, with the same fear. The harassment brought a team into its area that is not there to build walls, much less an igo Martínez outside the team dynamic. In a few minutes, he had seen a yellow card in a dispute with Mbapp. Also the French, but the warnings weigh less on a striker.
A HISTORICAL TECHNICIAN
Fabin was able to overtake PSG after a few minutes, but Vitinha did it next in a walk along the front in which no one came out to meet him, soft De Jong and in a role that is not his Lewandowski. The Pole’s habitat is the opposite area, not his. Bad business. The equal inferiority silenced a Montjuc convinced of the opposite and drove Xavi out of his mind. For an inconsequential foul, he told the referee everything and kicked a billboard. His expulsion was his failure, which his brother could not correct. scar with the entries of Ferran Torres, Fermn o Joao Felixwhich was followed by that of a disoriented and helpless Bara.
I cancel He committed a meaningless penalty on Dembl when the Frenchman was going out of the area. Ter Stegen He moved like a fair doll and then Mbapp, a Mbapp in white, did not fail to sign with another goal in a sentence in which he had little to do. Almost everything, the good and the bad, was Xavi’s doing.