Indomitable, incorrigible, but above all wild, Barcelona dragged Real Madrid to its emotional crusher in a legend classic. A asylum in which it was not clear who could free himself from his fears to assault greatness. He was free of the strength shirt, and perhaps also champion, Flick's team, although he had before seeing how Szczesny, already in the added time, snatched Mbappé his fourth goal and the referee annulled by hand a goal to Fermín with which everything ended.
Flick's team won the fourth time this season of Ancelottito whom the Arabia Super Cup and the Cup already snatched, and the League was shot, with seven points ahead for the Barça with nine for playing. A much more mood than numerical distance. Barça is opening an era, Madrid, closing it.
The Ancelotti team, like so many others this season, believed that dawn with two goals from its franchise player, a Kylian Mbappé who ran towards the deed with the face of not understanding anything, would have enough to protect and wait. Without repairing that the Barça de Flick sails better up and in Rio de Blood, such as The diabolical Kurtz of the heart of Conrad's darkness. Madrid, which built its legend from often inexplicable uprisings, was lost before the break. And with Carlo Ancelotti petrified eyebrowsign of frustration against the four goals that marked the Barca in 25 minutes of ecstasy that remain forever marked in the history of this sport.
Flick had not been carried out by the opinion currents or by the management of Egos del Camerino, but for the same sensations and urgencies that led him to align Eric García and, above all, Gerard Martín in the continental elimination in San Siro. A fall with which the blessed environment returned to the victimist and harmful argument that once knew how to deny Cruyff. Calcó Flick El Once de Milandemonstrating that what happened then was not going to change his vital plan.
Ancelotti's script in his last classic had more to do with survival than with conviction. The accumulation of absences in defense, even more serious because of a planning in which there was only space for the mbappé glitter, led to a defensive line made from retales that Barça undressed as many times as necessary. Because Lucas, who is not wanted to renew, sank again on the right bank before the ecstasy of Raphinha; Because Fran García, suspect even for his coach, could do little when Lamine Yamal took out the canvas to draw threads; And why, Tchouaméni Forced again to recive as a central one with Asencio, he wondered again what the hell they paid about 100 million euros for him to be one day who ruled the center of the field. To the young Turk Arda Güler, whose ownership served to sentence RodrygoThere was hardly any news. Although either of Viniciuswell defended, yes, by Eric Garcíaand that the dead was charged with his attitude to Mbappéthe project star.
Put to understanding the operation of Barça de Flick, which always needs a spark to activate, Montjuïc did not tremble with the first two goals of Mbappé. In it 0-1Cubarsí badly rejected when the Frenchman advanced off offside and Szczesny took him ahead. The Polish was not corrected with the penalty. While in the 0-2, The VAR did not claim the attention of referee Hernández Hernández due to a possible lack of Valverde to Lamine that preceded the backlash.
Madrid rejected its advantagehe showed fear and locked himself in his field, as if he claimed the storm. Eric headed in 1-2 after prolonging Ferran Torres. Lamine drew the tie with the most bureaucratic gesture possible. Less. Perform works of art with your feet. Valverde and Mbappé tangled before Pedri in 3-2 materialized against Raphinha, just before the Brazilian engulfs Lucas in a 4-2 That, being Barça in between, it could not be definitive.
Cubarsí fell and had to enter Christensen. Madrid understood that with Modric instead of Ceballos could win in sanity in the center of the field. And Barça, so contradictory, unable to give anything for granted, suddenly was seen An Iñigo error for Mbappé to take his 'hat trick' And I would think that what was seen in San Siro could reproduce in Montjuïc. Flick despaired to see how the referee denied a clear hand of Tchouamén before a Ferran shot. Even more when he aborted the celebration of a moment that was not, Fermín's goal.
Real Madrid knew himself fighting an impossible. Barça, against an era, against a time that has resisted it, but now his.
