«Antoine, however much he says he is half Uruguayan, is French and does not know what that feeling is. He does not know the delivery and effort of a Uruguayan to succeed since childhood. Luis Suarez, before facing France at the World Cup in Russia in Nizhny Novgorod, and shortly after Griezmann gave pumpkins last year to Barcelona, ​​he was blunt. Neither he nor Leo Messi found that refusal to be too funny after publicly claiming his signing. But no sport admits as many sentimental nuances as football. Suarez and Griezmann, who begin to share mate and carantoñas, also explore the appropriate paths to understand each other in the countryside .

The game of both in the second Barca win against Naples in this new wedge trophy called LaLiga-Serie A Cup, in which both divided three goals in ten minutes - two for the Uruguayan, one for the French -, allowed to dream to the Catalan fans with a new association. With Dembélé also joining the festival. And all while the ghost of Neymar continues to disturb some gerifaltes more pending to transcend than to govern.

The first goal of Barcelona in Ann Arbor, in the verbena started at dawn of the second act, was born after a double connection between Suarez and Griezmann. The French, possibly out of play, ended up finishing against Meret's body. But there the Uruguayan would break in, ready to rivet.

Increasingly lucid Griezmann, ended up finding the moment of glory to which he aspired. De Jong, Aleñá and Jordi Alba managed to get the world champion with France to finish off his first goal as a Barça player. The boy did not fit in joy.

Barcelona did not stop before an Ancelotti who did not seem to be unfazed by such a storm. Luis Suarez threw quality at the first touch in his second goal of the game - the third of this preseason - while Dembélé, emboldened, closed the scoring marker with a short cut and right before Luperto's frustration.

Ernesto Valverde, to whom this American tour did not make a graceful hair given the closeness of the league premiere against Athletic on Friday, saw with satisfaction how many of its headlines offered excellent performance.

In the rear, after the correcalles lived in the first of the games against Napoli in Miami, Semedo and Alba formed in the lanes, while Piqué and Lenglet reissued the headline pair of last year . It remains to be seen if Umtiti will be able to someday recover his privileged position. In the lead, Dembélé, Luis Suárez and Griezmann, an offensive troika in Ann Arbor, should be those who also appeared in San Mamés, given the injury of Leo Messi, who continues with his recovery. The three offered reasons to continue.

The variants were accumulated this time in the center of the field, with Sergio Busquets and Rakitic on the bench - they are waiting for the league debut - and with Sergi Roberto and Carles Aleñá as exceptional companions of Frenkie de Jong.

The Dutch midfielder is a footballer worth spending the night. De Jong is 22 years old, but imposes such a hierarchy every time he takes the ball that it is impossible to repair his bisoñez . Valverde has already made it clear during this preseason that, in the absence of Busquets, it will be the Dutch who occupies his place in the pivot. And although his tendency to advance in driving indicates that he must be one of the interiors - and so it will be as long as he shares minutes with Busquets -, in front of Naples he showed that his qualities also match with the trade of mediocentro. He insisted on Jong in the shoe, facilitated the fluidity in the circulation of the ball, and counted on the help of Sergi Roberto every time he left his position. There is no comfort zone for De Jong. Each corner is enough to impose your class.

In the first half, Valverde's team pressed and ordered with the ball. At the beginning of the second, with Naples already overwhelmed by so much Barça elaboration, it forced the Italians to crack. The changes, with the premiere this summer of Coutinho, Arthur and Arturo Vidal, prevented the bleeding from going further.

Barcelona, ​​which had been showing a disconcerting image - appropriate of these summer tours - knew how to prove itself that it will arrive prepared for the premiere in the League. It's not little.

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