Lisbon has become a spooky city. In times of pandemic and without fans to welcome, the fanfare is limited to the television show and hyperbolic statements such as that made by Arturo Vidal: "We are the best in the world . " Inside that beautiful mass of red arches that is the Estadio da Luz, the footballers of the only two clubs with European Cups in this eighth final will run around this Friday (9:00 p.m., Movistar). Five are from Barça, another five are from Bayern. History tends to come to the rescue of a football condemned for now to live off melancholy.

This is Bartomeu's Barça , president who is nearing the end of the break after a term in which the shadows turned off all previous light.

It is the Barça de Setién, a coach whose eyes lit up when the day of his presentation he declared himself an apostle of Johan Cruyff, and who has ended up giving himself up to an extreme exercise of survival . That confession made after eliminating Naples in the round of 16, "we are not good enough to control the whole game," sums up a time. Because being romantic doesn't quite work when you fear for your job.

Berlin Spine 2015

It is also the Barça that maintains the same backbone of its last continental title in Berlin 2015, under a sports policy that prioritized the maintenance of veterans, but also propaganda in hiring . Coutinho, Dembélé and Griezmann are the most expensive signings in the club's history. The former is now a substitute at Bayern. The second has spent almost three years on the stretcher, and who knows if he will have a minute in this Champions League. And the third, the weak link on the offensive front, could even have to leave his place so that a fourth midfielder (Sergi Roberto) enters to accompany Sergio Busquets, De Jong and the revered Arturo Vidal.

But it is also Barça, yes, of Leo Messi. Footballer before whom it is not convenient to venture any prognosis . The same one who, under the protection of the defensive triangle formed by Ter Stegen-Piqué-Lenglet, continues to deny the twilight. Although in front of his small figure that gigantic Bayern appears to which his priests (one day Matthäus, the other Rummenigge), always proud, placed as clear favorites against the Catalans after the awakening caused by Hansi Flick.

As Bayern's arguments to oppose the semifinals, that streak of results stands out (they have won 26 of their last 27 games, including the Bundesliga and German Cup titles) , the so-called gegenpressing in rival field, which Barcelona, ​​delivered to prudence, he is already unable to practice, or Lewandowski's cannibalistic instinct.

But there is no sport as bloody in the forecast as soccer. Much less now, without fans to correspond in the field.

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