• The party: that's how we live it

The lunatic night provided an incomprehensible game, but with a predictable outcome. Three penalties, although four were dropped because the VAR reformulates our gaze. Two advantages of a frustrated Barcelona , two immediate draws of a compliant Atlético . A rude encounter by Arturo Vidal , the only offensive solution in the twilight. The stroke of genius of a Messi increasingly confused. The troubled day of Diego Costa , executor of a goal on his own at dawn, and denied by Ter Stegen in the penalty ordered by Mateu Lahoz to repeat from the technological lair of Las Rozas. Griezmann's substitutions andJoao Félix . How ephemeral is confetti. And, above all, the feeling that everything remains the same. Simeone has never won at the Camp Nou . Barcelona continues to escape the League without remedy.

And that the azulgrana dreamed at dawn that could turn such an ugly fate. Because Messi took a corner and Diego Costa , who was waiting at the near post, lost the ball from sight and saw the leather bounce off his thigh before sneaking into his goal.

The Spanish-Brazilian striker soon had the option to redeem himself. He soon demonstrated that once again the Camp Nou would be the focus of torment. It was the same stadium where a year ago he won eight penalty games for insulting the referee. Arturo Vidal carried Carrasco ahead, a dagger on the bank of Semedo . And Diego Costa, who was responsible for the penalty shot, saw Ter Stegen guess his intentions. Little did it matter. The referee ordered the shot to be repeated after the VAR indicated that Ter Stegen was no longer touching the goal line with either foot. Saul did not fail.

The draw allowed Atlético to back down, while Barcelona, ​​who for many stretches thanked Riqui Puig for his presence at the top of the diamond, had no choice but to entrust himself to his pantocrator.

In the dark there are always those who find some light. Messi stood up to one of the most extravagant moments of the entity. Also to Oblak . And, of course, he looked directly at his own legend. So with 1-1 on the scoreboard, and after Semedo took a penalty from Felipe, he took the ball to caress it. He advanced. He waited for the goal to expire and paid tribute to Panenka . Even if it was on a baffling night.

The duel had already confirmed many of the suspicions. Atlético, after an effervescent start, chose to keep order while waiting for better times. That was not his fight. Barcelona, ​​which did want to go forward, simply could not advance. Either because of that feeling of sporting satiety that troubles him so much, or because the technical area never offered a single solution to such a traffic jam.

President Bartomeu was unable to attend the duel. He had had to witness another collapse in Valencia, that of the final of the ACB of that basketball squad which he loaded with stars to be directed by Svetislav Pesic (70 years old). If nothing happens by chance in the world of sports, much less in the entertainment industry. To the Messi soccer team, where the hierarchical power exceeds the influence of every coach, Bartomeu put him in January in the hands of Quique Setién (61 years old). He thought that the Cantabrian cruyffista cartel would limit criticism of a broken government. Without noticing that the coach would end up prioritizing survival over aesthetics [this time he played a 4-4-2, with Arturo Vidal as a man for everything and for nothing], and that the footballers, against a coach without titles of which to boast, they would quickly disregard his commandments.

It was only necessary to take a look at that first time-out of the party - hydration pause they call it - to show the different authority of Setién and Simeone regarding their subordinate theorists. On the Barcelona side, they drank water. On the rojiblanco side, it sounded as if there was a messiah climbing on a rock.

Simeone was able to celebrate the 2-2 at ease after Semedo cut the advantage provided by Messi and brought down Carrasco in the area . Ter Stegen brushed the ball with his fingers on the penalty again marked by Saúl.

Setien was no longer in himself. Messi was staring at the ground. Ansu entered at 85. Griezmann , at 90. And Barcelona was under the Lowry volcano. "Man only cries in vain against death."

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