Messi dismisses Maradona with an offering

Live the football of mythology.

Of the heroics, but also of the failures of all those characters, angelic and diabolical, that turn a simple sport into an extension of our own lives.

So it should not have been surprising that that simple piece of cloth framed in the Camp Nou box gave off so much force.

Meyba, blue and scarlet, and with the number ten that

wore in his impossible romance with Barcelona.

The stage, ready, required however the offering of

for the story to be perfect.

So La Pulga, in front of the goal line and with the ball on its way to the net, jumped as much as he could.

He raised his left hand, the same one with which El Pelusa grabbed God in 86, and left it suspended with a sigh.

But he didn't touch the ball.

The goal, bizarre, was owned by Braithwaite's knee.

Messi is not Maradona.

Although Diego was not Maradona either.

Leo's tribute had to be something else.

The one that allowed him to approach the legend not through cheating, but through greatness.

It was then that his left booty appeared on the balcony of the area.

The ball already knew its destination and Messi was able to fulfill his dreams.

He took off his shirt and kept the one Maradona wore at Newell's in another meager idyll.

Just five official matches and two friendlies.

The Barcelona forward once said that when he was a child and the memories were still only distorted images, he himself was in the stadium watching Pelusa's debut with the lepers.

Against Emelec, with

as a teammate and a goal included by Maradona to the squad.

He was the only one who scored with Newell's.

"With the right I am made of wood," El Diego said.

It was not like that on October 7, 1993, when that wood gave a caress.

Maradona had already left Sevilla and was trying to make the descent into hell, at least, be on a sugar cube.

It did not succeed.

It was late for the epic at the Camp Nou.

But also so that some of those footballers who seemed condemned to indifference, such as the aforementioned Braithwaite or the tormented

, could continue with the good fortune started in Kiev.

Eight goals in favor and none conceded for Koeman's in the last two games.

Osasuna de

, no matter how much they tried with a defense of five, could hardly resist a Barcelona that continues to show signs of improvement.

Although the injury pandemic and the serious shortcomings of the staff designed by the former rectors continue to condition the future in a bad way.

The last to fall was

, the only healthy center-back left in the squad.

Koeman advanced that the Frenchman's ailment does not seem serious.

The Catalans finished the game with youth squad

and midfielder

as centrals, and with

, a left winger, exiled on the right.

However, nothing conditioned the fantastic game of Barcelona.

Even Koeman allowed himself some license, such as starting the afternoon with

as De Jong's companion on the double pivot.

The canary, how could it be otherwise and despite his determination to speed up the game at the first touch, it was difficult to free himself from the pressure.

At halftime he was replaced by Sergio Busquets, who was coming out of an injury.

The party, in any case, had already been practically resolved in the first act.

To a large extent thanks to Griezmann's hyperactivity in some unchecks that, now, make sense, and to Braithwaite's insistence on his second start as nine of the team.

It was the Danish striker who opened the scoring after that knee that Messi was about to accompany with his hand.

The beauty was reserved for the second goal.

Griezmann's left-handed volley on the front was so violent and accurate that not even his bizarre dance in the celebration disfigured the moment.

Osasuna had nothing left but to regret that

could not reach a center from the injured

, or the goal disallowed for offside despite

insisting on denying the action with a double stop.

Coutinho

, who was only failing the shot, was finally able to score on an empty goal after Griezmann returned to interpret well what the action required.

To the French, by the way, Mateu Lahoz validated the play despite being in an offside position.

The ball came from a rival.

not have the same luck

, whose glory was canceled due to the incorrect position of Trincao.

But Messi was not going to stop until he could raise his hands, with his eyes on the sky.

Let me live my life.

I don't want to be an example, ”Maradona repeated.

Messi, like so many others, was inspired by his football.

Leo fired him with the ball.

So it should be.

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