In deadly time, while the Seville players were preparing to celebrate qualifying for the Copa del Rey final at Barcelona's expense, Barca defender Gerard Pique suddenly appeared, bringing the match back to the starting point.
The heart of the Catalan team’s defense - who used to turn into a spearhead in the last minutes of the game, especially when his team was late in the score - played the role of savior, and contributed to his team’s rise to the final and the championship role in a second "Remontada" recorded in the history of the Catalan team.
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While the match was breathing its last, with Barça advancing with a clean goal in the semi-final second leg of the competition (he lost the first leg by a clean double), Pique received a decisive and accurate pass from French Antoine Griezmann to plant his head into the goal of the Andalusian team and raise the result to two goals without response and take the match for two more periods, ending the match with a victory The Blaugrana, with three goals, after a goal by Dane Martin Braithwaite.
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And if Pique's goal made headlines in sports newspapers, then a video clip showing Argentine Lionel Messi's "crazy" joy with the goal spread like wildfire on communication sites and sparked a great controversy among those who considered that his joy was justified due to the circumstances of the match and the successive crises that the team is going through, while others commented that it is "The exaggerated joy of the best player in the world after his team narrowly qualified for the final of a local competition."