Time is a damn. When you lose it, you can't recover it anymore. Modric, a period footballer, passed a ball to the abyss. And the abyss did not look at him like Nietzsche. Koundé didone of those unexpected heroes who suddenly appear in the history of Barça, such as Belletti, like Sergi Roberto, to grant the Copa del Rey to Barça. The final, apotheosic, and that lived two uprisings, one of the whites, another of the Catalans, definitive in the extension, enhances something that sometimes we do not repair. Football is wonderful.
The anguish had already been intense the eve, When for eight hours Real Madrid threatened not playing the Cup final If the Federation did not come to change the arbitral body. Once from the White Club they accepted that, with King Felipe VI in the box and 65,000 spectators in La Cartuja, the final plant was not going to be given, it was then attended to the reaction of the referees. Both of Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea, the main judge who, before one of the capital days of his sports career, began to cry; or of Pablo González Fuertes, the head of the VAR and who with more bitterness complained about the videos of Real Madrid TV threatening even with a strike. Only Burgos can know if all that conditioned an arbitration in which he always gave the feeling that He resisted approaching the whistle to his lips in case he burned them. The pressure was maximum and the shouts of the fans in a stadium in flames, unbearable.
Because with 2-2 on the scoreboard and in the 96th minute, Rüdiger dragged the Ferran Torres ankle. González Fuertes did not warn De Burgos. Just after, the main referee saw a penalty in an Asencio entry to Raphinha. He seemed convinced until, from the VAR, he was invited to notice that there was no contact. The drama could continue to the extension.
Controversy
Before, the Catalans had already protested a grip in the Ceballos area to Cubarsí when he was about to finish off a corner that died in the stick. And the Madrid players saw how after Iñigo Martínez knocked Vinicius and Burgos rushed to point out a penalty, a second later had to correct by a clear offside position. The night hardened And Mbappé, in full white uprising in the second half and just before marking the 1-1 foul, protested because De Jong had not shown the red to grab him when he headed to Szczesny. He was not the last defender. The focus only pointed to whistle.
It was not a simple final for anyone. Barça found that, while the media environment demanded a tripletit had to correspond to a favoritism always more film in duels in which emotions weigh much more than the ball.
Pedri's inaugural goal was born in a correction of an Imperial Cubarsí and in a cheat maneuver of a blond dye lamine. “When people look at me, what they want is to see a star, “is what Marilyn said.
But that did not work for Barça to display his carpet. Madrid revolted in the second half to the compass of Raphinha's errors and thanks to Mbappé's goalswhich had been a substitute for some ankle problems that were not noticed later, and Tchouaméni. The ball stopped as a Barca torment.
Although Flick's team is distinguished by a spirit of often incomprehensible survival. Because Ferran Torres had not looked in the final until, in the 84th minute, he took advantage of a sublime touch of Lamine that neither Rüdiger nor Courtois knew how to interpret. Already in the first part of the extension Ferran stayed in a span of glory, and in the second he even marked offside.
Agony
The big difference with respect to the other two classics of the course was that Ancelotti reacted – Guer improved Ceballos – and Madrid knew how to endure the pulse to force Barcelona to tighten their teeth to astilla them. Araujo, Gavi and Fermín, Flick's last solutions, enjoyed in agony.
The players burst at night. Vinicius, proud and dangerous while he was in the field, did not arrive to reach the extension. Pedri, who lived an intense duel with Bellingham, also asked for the time. Worse was the thing about Mendy, in whom Ancelotti had thought to stop Lamine Yamal and who barely endured ten minutes.
Kundé's goal in the 116th minute caused madness in A Barça who beat drama while Rüdiger lost the papers. Madrid went to the referee. Barça, to a stand that dreams.
