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What if Borges was right? He told Menotti that: "Football itself does not interest anyone." Wow While this classic was played, which they qualify as one of the best shows in the world, some barricades on the street were already burning , with the dressing of police charges. The smell of fire sneaked into the stadium. There, a fine rain of yellow balls, barely visible to those who watched the game on television, fell for two minutes. The Camp Nou held its breath and then returned to sports reality. That in which Real Madrid, angelic in his game, tormented in the pursuit of the goal, could not knock a Barcelona that is limited to survival. A disappointing draw. [0-0: Narration and statistics]

The Camp Nou could only rub his eyes before a situation that has stopped surprising. Barcelona is no longer the team that needed to stroke the ball to feel good. Nor does possession matter. Nor does control matter . Nor does aesthetics matter. Nor does the continuous contempt for De Jong matter, he must not understand anything. Everything lies in finding a way to reach Messi and that he, in the open, can offer some relief.

Real Madrid, which for so long it was put in face that its only purpose was the triumph, never the way, is now a romantic team. Who knows if by necessity, once he was freed from the voracity of Cristiano , who knows if by the influence of a type of melancholic game like Benzema. So the men of Zidane combined and associated without too much trouble in Barcelona. It didn't even seem to matter that Bale, headline, threatened to be a specter in the Camp Nou. There was game. But there was no goal.

Busquets in the bank

Ernesto Valverde found the perfect excuse to leave Sergio Busquets on the bench once he found that the historic midfielder had spent the day with a fever. Who looked out then was Rakitic . He had to escort the Croatian on the axis to De Jong and Sergi Roberto. Valverde, with all that, did nothing but minimize De Jong in what was his first classic. Without the ball in the middle, the Dutchman had no choice but to run from side to side. Perhaps missing that night in which his Ajax paid tribute to Cruyff at the Bernabéu.

Zidane knew that his bet was to strengthen control with the inclusion of Isco in a 4-4-2 in which Modric had no place . Even timeless soccer players end up sooner or later doomed by time. Damn life.

Piqué despaired at the inaction of Ernesto Valverde in the correction. He begged his teammates to get out of a hole once that only he and Lenglet covered with the help of Ter Stegen. And the goalkeeper, in case he didn't have enough, should take responsibility for building. A saying. Because that was nothing more than a ball towards Luis Suarez, so that he could find Messi on his back.

Up to 12 times he finished Real Madrid in the first act . Piqué took out a stick of Casemiro under sticks after Alba stared at the shrews behind a corner. Fede Valverde, dressed as a marshal, always had his foot ready on the balcony. But there was no way.

Controversy

The white team even had reasons for the protest. And because of two consecutive plays, with Varane as injured , in which the referee of the game, Hernández Hernández, said nothing. First it was Lenglet who left the tacos to the French center in the area. Rakitic also grabbed Varane's shirt. The VAR has not modernized football. Simply, he has offered him new weapons to perpetuate the controversy.

The impotence of Real Madrid was linked to the impotence of Barcelona. In this case, given the difficulties of advancing with the controlled ball. The media line seemed an inaccessible frontier for the Catalans, only pending the coup of genius of his pantocrator. Messi could even advance his team after a frantic action, of course, in which the rosarino was about to take advantage of a Courtois clearance. Casemiro came on time . Even clearer was the option Alba had after Messi noticed his arrival through the corner of his eye. The lane, however, was not able to orient the loot.

The public address, meanwhile, asked fans to avoid going out on the southern goal of the stadium . It seemed impossible to repair what was happening on the grass in the second half, when Bale was annulled a goal by Mendy's offside.

With the smoke slipping through the lungs of Camp Nou, Barcelona and Real Madrid ended up just letting life go by. And that it will end as soon as possible. No one escaped a strange feeling of defeat . «Everything that begins as a comedy ends as a comic monologue. But we don't laugh anymore. Blessed Bolaño.

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