Record.Messi equals Pelé as top scorer in club history
Football, at times, is as bizarre as it is grotesque.
Hence its power of attraction.
In the match that faced Barcelona with Valencia at the Camp Nou, epic and poverty were piled up, without rhyme or reason;
history and amazement.
The arbitration turbulence.
The goal of the longshoreman
Diakhaby
, gigantic
Gulliver
defended by the diminutive
Griezmann
.
Araujo's
spoon
, with his gratitude to God printed on the undershirt.
Or
Messi's
blessed head
that equaled
Pelé
after missing a penalty himself.
Glorious chaos.
But let no one talk about the atrocities of modern football, because the old one also had its things.
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Pelé, at 33 years old, lived football as if it were already a circus show.
Stuffed in his Santos shirt and with his wide smile as a great claim, he was threading world tours with the
Beatles
laughing
.
Nothing and nobody mattered.
Just him and his role.
Sometimes he was the goalkeeper, his fetish position and where he still found challenges increasingly difficult to find.
Others, he simply twisted his wits, something difficult for a footballer who at 17 had already scored in the final of a World Cup with two hats.
He improved it at 18. It was four times that he passed the ball over the deranged heads of his rivals Juventus Brazil before scoring.
At its twilight displays, the public wanted to see those things.
Although it was no longer the same.
So against the Baltimore Bays in 1973, Pele scored the only Olympic goal of his career.
The show had to be round.
Messi has not yet scored from the corner.
At 33 years old, they do not demand tricks or pyrotechnics, but something much worse.
May he continue to be the best, not on a circus ring with his friend
Jordi Alba
disguised as a bullet man, but in high-level championships.
And before fans and journalists that we analyze the last Instagram post, the angle of the smile, the red color of a map that they call heat, the free kick that fails or the remaining days to equal Pelé's 643 goals with him. Saints.
Messi has never had a break.
Gayà's penalty against Griezmann
And, what is worse, he could not even celebrate the end of the hunt for the Brazilian legend as he deserved.
The extravagant performance of the match referee,
Hernández Hernández
, was partly to blame.
Because Messi should never have thrown that penalty with which he approached the goal he was looking for so much.
A goal that did not even come from his shot from eleven meters, rejected with the right gauntlet by a
Jaume Domènech
who had waited for him on his knees.
Who knows why.
The goalkeeper was already on his feet when Messi went to finish off the plate, and to the net, Jordi Alba's center.
Rosarino had not marked the head for more than three years.
That tie, we said, found its origin in one of those actions in which the referees adopt Solomonic positions once they are exposed by the VAR.
Hernández Hernández understood as a penalty a very slight contact of
Gayà
with
Griezmann
when the Frenchman faced the rival goal.
The Frenchman fell to the ground and the judge signaled a penalty and expulsion.
Warned by those responsible for video refereeing and after going to review the play on the monitor, the referee made a half correction.
Maximum penalty, yes.
Red, no.
A total incongruity.
Barcelona's draw, reached in the first half added, powdered its deficient opening act.
Unable in the static attack despite
Pedri's
construction insistence
, the great reason for being of this team, any offensive transition from Valencia brought him closer to cataclysm.
Coutinho
, always in the middle, always hindering the circulation, nothing linked.
Nothing used.
Griezmann was simply Griezmann: active and candid.
While
Busquets
was unable to avoid problems for
Araujo
and
Mingueza
, a central couple until recently from the subsidiary and who has nailed
Lenglet
and
Umtiti
to the bench
.
Between Busquets and
Dest
, with dangerous losses, and
Guedes
, threatening since dawn, they put the game in front of a Valencia that ended up advancing thanks to the bizarre mark in a corner from Griezmann to Diakhaby.
Javi Gracia's
team could well
have left their afternoon to the point of candy if
Ter Stegen
had not denied
Maxi Gómez
the 0-2
.
The refereeing noise arrived.
Also Messi's 1-1 just before the break, and Araujo's caper at 2-1 as an aperitif of an even more upset second act.
The entrance of the bruised
De Jong
had not calmed Barça.
And Maxi Gómez, who had already seen how
Cheryshev
starred in one of the worst auctions of his life, reached the final draw after playing Gayà and advancing to Mingueza.
With no center of the field to find sanity, and with the players given over to a turulato effort darned by
Koeman
, the afternoon fainted with Mingueza teaming up with Messi in the front of the rival area and the contenders wondering what the hell they had lived through.
"
¿Hyde will die on the gallows or have enough courage to free himself at the last moment?
God knows it;
I don't care
.
Stevenson
, who didn't know what the hell to do with Mr. Hyde, would have had plenty of supplementary material with this Barcelona.
A team left to its own devices.
And with only one face.
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