- Narration: So we live the game
- Classification: First Division
Johan Cruyff fired Andoni Zubizarreta hours after Milan's Capello officiated the funeral of the Dream Team in Athens. The Dutchman understood that the position should be for Carles Busquets. The goalkeeper without hands, which was how L'Équipe baptized him. Cruyff stood again facing all imposed doctrine and bet on a type of sparse plant, drooping shoulders and conducive to getting inside the goal embraced to the ball. And that, once the ball reached his feet, he played like the angels. The Skinny was enough with that, and nothing mattered that he speculated on his legends. They never talked more about their hands than the day the club said they had burned them with an iron. Maybe Sergio Busquets, his son, has not told these stories to Marc-André ter Stegen. The German is a goalkeeper with hands and feet. Stop and play Cruyff already knew that this was not so simple. [Narration and statistics: 0-2]
If Barcelona finally managed to corner its torment at home in Getafe, it was, in large part, thanks to its goalkeeper. Two actions of Ter Stegen knocked out the resistance of the Bordalás team, penalized in turn, and there the contrast, due to the bad day of its starting goalkeeper, David Soria. He walked the afternoon through an alley of uncertain destiny when the Catalans found themselves in serious trouble. A mistake after a throw-in allowed Cucurella to think, create Mata and finish Angel. Although there was no other cherub than Ter Stegen himself, who left the sticks drawing a cross. Angel did not find any hole where to cast the ball, so he ended up crashing into his left leg. Maybe there the Getafe will take a course towards the graveyard, because there was no way to snoop the goal again.
But Ter Stegen still had something more to say to leave behind a first act of the most gummy and in which it was already clear that Barcelona would pull ex officio, rather than a story. David Soria started a counter with a ball that had to die in the front of the opposite area. The Barcelona goalkeeper was the first to notice the danger, so he went in search of the ball, although he had to leave the area. He cut off the action with his chest, the ball went down meekly, to the beat of a babysitter, and telegraphed Luis Suarez for assistance 57 meters away. With the left booty. As if suddenly the doorman, always condemned to be a mere mortal among virtuosos, had mutated in Koeman.
That could not conclude in anything other than goal. Although David Soria had to intervene in this, in a curious butterfly effect. Getafe's goal was halfway through the exit and Luis Suarez offered a highway to the sky above his head. The Uruguayan only had to raise the ball to reach the lost glory. He did not mark Suarez away from home since last April 23, against Alavés. Precisely, Barcelona has not won away from Camp Nou since then. Used to Suarez to fight against his own curse, but also against twilight, the baton finally earned a break after having hovered the goal a couple of times.
He troubled Getafe and, above all, calmed down to a Barcelona that already lived relatively peacefully in the second half. De Jong had trouble taking center stage against rival pressure, but Arthur allowed himself to grow. The absences of Messi and Ansu Fati did not penalize either. Much less that of Dembélé, successfully supplied by the other Valverde boy, Carles Pérez.
He did not have to repair Barcelona for a while in that other enemy he is fighting with. The paranoia Valverde saw last Tuesday paranoid thoughts, perhaps obsessive, in those who noticed Dembélé's sudden wandering in front of Villarreal. It had begun as a shot to conclude holding the tacatá. In the case of the same player who last August concealed an injury for four days to be able to go on a trip, that perhaps was not surprising at all. The Frenchman, who officially concluded the last match without incident, revealed new muscle discomfort in this Friday's training. Nevertheless, he traveled to Getafe, where he ended up asking for a shift in the infirmary. The boy sees life lying on the stretcher.
Carles Pérez, who does not need to show pictures of his lunches with salmon to prove his professionalism, did not miss his opportunity. Incisive on the right bank, the squad knew how to be decisive in the action of the second and final goal. In the first act he was able to test David Soria after ingeniously knocking down a force of nature like Nyom. In the resumption he returned to try his fortune, also with the left-handed, although this time from outside the area. Soria rejected again, although the one who went there to execute was the footballer whom nobody expected. Junior Firpo, who until then had gotten tired of piling up fouls while promising a hopeless exercise, came first and took the ball to the net. The former lane of Betis, finally, could smile with desire.
Beyond the collateral damage caused by the expulsion of Lenglet - with an injured Umtiti, Todibo will have to dress in front of Sevilla - Barcelona moves forward by pulling out of trade, intelligence, but also guardian angel. And few exercise their celestial work as Ter Stegen.
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