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Maturity has to do with getting away from problems. That is why, when one sees Leo Messi walking through the Camp Nou meadow as if nothing, without overly repairing what is going on around him, it is not difficult to interpret the true essence of the scene. To create, you don't have to run. To marvel, it is not necessary to warn. [Narration and statistics: 5-1]

Messi sighed, groomed his left booty and collapsed Valladolid with a stroke of genius. He generated the first goal of Lenglet. He gave the second to Arturo Vidal. He closed the first act with a parable of foul to which goalkeeper Masip could only regret the day he stopped being a training partner to become a rival. He pocketed another one to shake the second half. And, if that had not been enough for Valladolid, he did not go to the dressing room until he smiled at Luis Suarez.

He invited the party to the guateque after, in Prague, Barcelona was accused of not running enough. Since statistics prosecute football, there seems to be no greater truth than that of the data. Modern times. Rogelio Sosa, who was a Sevillian left-hander from Betis in the 1960s, made a fortune when he told his coach, Hungarian legend Ferenc Szusza, that he was not running. That was cowardly. But not because he was lazy, but because he was convinced that art could not be measured in drops of sweat. Rexach, that something vague yes that was, had no choice but to endorse that phrase. Just missing. Although it was Johan Cruyff who twisted everything to impose his crazy sanity: «If you don't control the ball, you must run after it. And that is another sport. My strikers, for example, should only run 15 meters. Unless they are stupid. Or that they are sleeping ». Something like that was the Magic Gonzalez. His best workouts were those of bed and hangover.

Ernesto Valverde turned on the eve of the duel against Valladolid when he was reproached that his players tend to run less kilometers than their rivals. The fact is that who appeared at the start in the medulla in the duel against the blanquivioletas was Arturo Vidal, the most extremist and trotter player in the squad. Arthur, playing cachazudo, this time it was rest. The technician in Ansu Fati also looked for fresh legs, looking for rhythm after a month in fallow. The 16-year-old took the place of Griezmann. Sitting in Suarez requires more peaceful management. At least, the Uruguayan closed the night with a goal yielded, yes, by Messi.

However, Barcelona faced the game quickly, although it had to take advantage of a carambola. Messi gave meaning to a short corner that the defense of Valladolid did not know how to repel. Lenglet, who met the face ball, did not hesitate at the auction. Although it was Barba, one of the three centrals recruited by Sergio González, the last to touch the ball.

The Valladolid coach woke up with the obsession of not being inferior in any of the corners of the field. Hence the 3-5-2 rescue that made Barcelona suffer so much last season. The scheme, however, lost value as the night progressed.

Valladolid, yes, had managed to match the score to a quarter of an hour. Ter Stegen, who of course is human, did not react in time to a closed foul by Míchel. The goalkeeper responded with his arm, and the ball was dismissed towards the leg of Kiko Olivas, who did not hesitate to celebrate the goal as the occasion deserved.

Although, this time, Barça did not give time for their demons to come to the call. Arturo Vidal, with his heart between his teeth, was the one who opened the Valladolid channel after Messi sensed his progress from the second line. The Chilean leg stretched out as if it were his life in it. The rosarino abounded with a sweeping foul throw, with a shot to Óscar Plano to which the blanquivioleta only opposed misunderstanding, and with a previous hammering control oriented after alliance with Rakitic, still with a gesture of misunderstanding before his role as reliever.

Who lives in peace is Messi, who finished the game by tapping the ball. So hot in the night.

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