Narration: This is how we live the game
Classification Group G
The porters are always alone.
Okay, around them footballers run around who protect them, also who oppress them.
But they remain isolated in their area.
In your world.
The error supposes the condemnation.
Success, on the other hand, is nothing more than a routine exercise.
Stopping is part of your life.
That usual disregard for the job of goalkeeper too often denies his special relevance in a sport in which the scorers are the ones who monopolize the attention, the prizes and the drooling.
A prestigious goalkeeper, Ter Stegen, and another anonymous, a Ukrainian teenager in his second professional match, Neshcheret, glorified their craft.
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To decipher the triumph of Barcelona against Dynamo Kiev, we would have to stop at Ter Stegen.
Beyond the fact that the victory of the Catalans was taken for granted against a rival so minimized by absences, the goalkeeper appeared in four capital actions.
Against the foot and with Buyalskiy thinking that his header would mean the momentary draw, Ter Stegen's left arm was a beam.
His foot, a stake in front of Supryaha.
And his chest, a wall before Tsygankov, tormented a second time by the mitten.
But not a third, because not even the best are infallible.
The German returned after eleven weeks injured, returned Neto to a bench already with bars, and helped a Barça as disconcerting as it was frustrated by his bad face.
It does not seem small.
Agree.
Ronald Koeman achieved the first of the objectives, catching the full of victories in the Champions that clarifies his classification for the round of 16 of the tournament.
But far from the second, show some consistency.
The inconceivable blackout of Barcelona after a first quarter of an hour in which he scored a goal - Messi again from a penalty - and finished up to eight times accumulates readings.
Messi scores a penalty for Barcelona's first
To the disappointment of those who add chances without any success - there was no trace of Griezmann after failing to empty door - joined the already usual deficiencies of the team in the static attack.
If the rival picks up the seams are so many that one looks like a mess.
Only Ansu Fati, assistant to Piqué in the goal that sentenced the night, seemed capable of taking overflow actions.
Pedri was seen this time out of place, without knowing if he should stay in the center or leave space for Messi.
The Argentine wandered.
He is not at ease.
Frenkie de Jong's poor performance as center back was also evident.
Koeman wants his compatriot to develop his potential from behind, with the whole field in front of him.
But De Jong has no capacity for correction.
In their area, the Ukrainians danced as much as they wanted.
In this modern football that takes everything, it is always appreciated that guys from another time like Mircea Lucescu continue in the front line.
Serve your presence on the Camp Nou bench to show that seniority (75 years) should not necessarily be linked to moth-eaten suits and retrograde librettos.
Lucescu directs - or Furbescu, as he was baptized in Italy for his cunning - a good handful of those young Ukrainians who won the last U-20 World Cup.
Guys who must have had enough of hearing old stories from General Valery Lobanovsky, or even closer heroes like Andriy Shevchenko, in the rickety bunks of the Dynamo Kyiv sports complex.
But Lucescu had enough to be able to train with a competitive eleven when he arrived in Barcelona with 13 casualties, nine of them caused by the coronavirus.
The two starting midfielders were missing, especially missing that low-slung, high-eyed talent named Shaparenko.
Although where the damage should be most noticeable was in the goal.
Absent the two goalkeepers of the first team, who had to get under sticks was Neshcheret, 18 years old.
Although his age should not be out of tune with the two centrals in charge of protecting him, Zabarnyi (18) and Popov (21).
Piqué celebrates Barça's second goal against Dinamo.LLUIS GENEAFP
And Neshcheret, who must have been watching Ter Stegen's interventions from the other side of the ocean, set out to live the night of his life.
There were 12 stops, eight of them inside the area.
And his gesture never changed.
It was his duty.
Its mission.
Koeman, seeing that his team showed its worst image of the season, assuming that he had to rescue Lenglet and even give Aleñá a chance, could not help but despair again.
And witness those last minutes with his team in full defending in the area against a Dinamo who sniffed the tie until the end.
Ter Stegen brought some peace.
Although a goalkeeper should never be the only answer.
Enough has.
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