Messi
has blessed
Pedri
.
It could not be otherwise.
Geniuses seek out other geniuses to feed their talents.
You just had to find a way for them both to frolic without being disturbed.
The Argentine guardianship, the canary assimilates and dazzles.
Simple, right?
Barcelona was not here for his coach to stand idly by and waiting for the extreme unction.
Ronald Koeman
, who doesn't care about hierarchies in the dressing room, found a new starting point in Valladolid.
Few things are more pleasant than risk when you save your neck.
Also in football.
The maneuvers that allowed Koeman to achieve the second road win of the season were all efficient.
The coach made a purge visible, with
Coutinho
and
Griezmann
as illustrious affected, although
Busquets
also stayed out
, without
Pjanic
wasting his opportunity.
They formed three centrals, the scorer
Lenglet
together with
Mingueza
and
Araujo
, so that Jordi Alba and especially Dest opened the field at once.
It facilitated the essential connection between Messi and Pedri, with no more foreign bodies hanging around the central zone.
The assistance with the spur of the canary to Rosario in the third goal nailed some toothpicks in the eyelids.
While
Braithwaite
, point of reference, showed that, despite his shortcomings, he is a striker who drags rivals and is decisive.
He does not usually miss at goal.
Revolutions are tasty.
Koeman, when his quadriceps were still terrifying, made his official debut as a Barcelona footballer on September 2, 1989. Yes, in Valladolid.
But that match did not go down in history because of its premiere or that of
Michael Laudrup
, his then partner, but because of a boy whom
Cruyff
went to look for at the Bruc barracks, where he was performing his military service.
It was necessary to ask permission from the colonel on duty to let him leave.
His name was Jesús Julián Lucendo Heredia and he was coming up from Barça C. Barça lost that match (2-0), Cruyff was viciously stoked by the invention, and
Lucendo
, ridiculed, did not play with the first team again.
Who knows.
Perhaps Zorrilla's stadium is something like the Overlook Hotel and has the ability to awaken some of those ghosts that so disturbed
Jack Torrance
in
The Shining
.
He wanted to write a book and ended up hacking.
Koeman, who does not have a typewriter but does have an electronic tablet, did not use any Lucendo.
He did formulate a singular plan that, if it had gone wrong, would have cost him a good deal of time.
But it was a fable.
Three of the sacred cows were separated, that concept so
cruyffista
with which before the privileged were pointed out.
Coutinho, Griezmann and Busquets stayed on the bench in one go.
It was becoming increasingly difficult to justify the ownership of those involved in the purge.
In return, what Koeman proposed was to rebuild his team from the alleged strengths of his rival, a Valladolid in relegation places.
As the opponent was playing with two forwards,
Marcos André
and
Weissman
, what better way than to train for the first time with three center-
backs
,
Mingueza
,
Araujo
and Lenglet.
Barcelona needed little to show that the night was going to be theirs.
After a couple of approaches from Messi, splendid in his recovered role as leader, it was the Argentine who led to Lenglet's opening goal.
The Barça captain crossed from the front so that the French center-back could redeem himself from his latest sins.
Sergio González, who night changed parts and systems that would remedy that, could never support this new Barça.
Masip
did what he could in the face of Messi's constant attempts.
Although little can be asked of a goalkeeper when
La Pulga
engenders an impossible pass.
Sergiño Dest and Braithwaite did the rest.
Koeman's team lived so comfortable that, beyond a double stop by
Ter Stegen
in the second act and the outrages of
Umtiti
with the sentenced game, he only had to thank a time of peace.
And be proud of that heel with which Pedri lit up Messi in a goal with the scent of liberation.
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