Barcelona claims its catharsis

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In schizophrenic football there is always time for catharsis.

As much as you are teased and ridiculed, there is no sport in which derision frolics with such exaltation.

One day you can't even pick up the training cones, and the next you're the fucking king of the mambo.

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Ousmane Dembélé

, unleashed, finished the game as captain.

What difference does it make that he put the bracelet on backwards.

Confusion must be part of your legend.

was to be nothing more than an anomaly in

decrepit sports policy

.

Now he is the starting center forward of Barcelona.

There is nothing.

As a child, he was confined to a wheelchair for two years due to Legg-Calvé-Perthes Syndrome.

Braithwaite learned to fight too early.

And it continues.

But the Danish is not the only footballer who embodies the mental transformation of this Barcelona that has taken cruising speed in the Champions League, qualified for the round of 16 before his last win against the humble Ferencvaros in Budapest, with full triumphs in the league and waiting to be able to certify the first group place against Juventus in the duel that closes the group stage.

Faced with

recidivism at rest

, other players so far imperceptible have changed their musty gesture.

, lacking in media affection, is one of them.

The goal he scored from the heel can only be interpreted from a surge of confidence.

But there is also Dembélé, whom Koeman begins to find useful.

and

continue to look forward to their big day.

However, the first Barca half hour at Puskas' house was excellent.

Then there was nothing more to enjoy the kneading.

Braithwaite's role

Being able to find answers to the improvement of that Barcelona that had been struggling in the League, it is difficult not to notice the incidence of Braithwaite.

Not only because of the goals - four in the last three games - but because his presence finally gives meaning to the idea of ​​the game of a coach who, without a reference striker, had become used to being shipwrecked in static attacks.

Braithwaite does that.

It offers depth, fixes the center-backs and frees up spaces for that second line through which Griezmann, finally, begins to plot the dances with which he crowns his goals.

So it was with the opening goal, spawned on the left bank between Dembélé, sane in decision-making, and

who is also beginning to know how to live without his historical partner, Leo Messi.

Griezmann came to the center of the lane with solvency.

So sure was he that it would be his moment that he drew his spur.

Although Dembélé had caused the flight of Alba in the first rapier, for his second irruption he chose to reach the baseline.

Not only did he leave his pair behind, but he was precise with the center at the near post to Braithwaite, who finished off the net.

The trilero Dembélé

Long possessions made sense because there was always someone to finish them.

Braithwaite was preparing to do so when the suffered

took him ahead in the area.

The Danish forward preferred to give up the penalty kick to Dembélé.

If the French stimulates so much it is because of the confusion it causes.

Dembélé was placed in a straight line in front of the ball as if he pretended that the goalkeeper did not know which foot he would use.

It was the right, although the goalkeeper was seen with the frustration of those who narrow his eyes at the nuts of the trilero.

As much as Ferencvaros stretched in the second act and that Koeman's changes - even

appeared

as playmaker - led to a certain disorder, the agonizing races and cuts with a stake by Dembélé encouraged until the end.

Péter Esterházy

, a master of Hungarian letters who looked more like a football fan than an intellectual, was always clear about it: “Without forgetting there is no memory.

We can only remember when we can forget.

Maybe it's time to remember that this Barça, a month ago, was a mess.

But now it is a delight.

Life.

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