Barcelona and Saint-Germain ... Dembele spoils the "Remontada", a former Madridist smashes it with an iron fist

The most optimistic Barcelona fans were not expecting the emergence of "Barca" with a high-level collective performance, as in the second leg of the 16th European Champions League soccer match against Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday, which ended in a 1-1 draw, despite his bid farewell to the competition after losing Going to Camp Nou 1-4.

Barcelona tried to create a "historic remontada" had it not been for his collision with a former Real Madrid goalkeeper and the now Parisian team, the Costa Rican Keylor Navas, who led the scene and imposed himself as the match man unchallenged by addressing achieved goals and snatching the stardom of the match from a stadium filled with resonant names led by the Argentine magician Lionel Messi and the French golden boy Killian Mbappe.

Navas broke the "Remontada" expected from Barcelona's supporters by standing in front of all the balls "from the ground and air", and even from the penalty mark when he deflected Messi's kick, which was an important turning point in the life of the match.

At a time when it was easy for observers to name Navas as a man for the match, the French striker Osman Dembele insisted on describing him as the "worst player" in Barcelona by wasting opportunities - including three achieved goals - as he acted the ball with extreme recklessness that did not indicate the striker of a team the size of the Catalan team. The most important factors spoiling a big win in an important timing in the first half.

Fate liked that Dembele was one of the signs of weakness and caused Barcelona to quit the Champions League again, and the memory still records the spectacle of his strange waste of a life opportunity in front of Liverpool in the season before last when Messi gave him a ball on a golden plate in front of the goal in the last minute of the first leg 3 - zero) was the guarantor of qualifying for Barca, but he lost it strangely, in a shot that specifically angered Messi, as if the latter was expecting Liverpool's coup in the second leg with a clean quarter!

Distinguishing signs, as in the case of Messi, Mbabi and Navas in Barça and Saint-Germain, put a strong imprint in the confrontation, and if Messi missed a penalty kick, he scored a global goal with a missile, as Mbappe carried out a penalty kick that did not stop even if an additional guard stood next to Barca goalkeeper Ter Stegen, As for Navas, he spoke without embarrassment about his value and his abilities that drive fans of his former club Real Madrid to mournfulness for wasting his services, while the most prominent question remains: What about the continuing failings and disappointments of Griezmann and Dembele?

Or are they on the way to leave the Catalan club, starting next season, which is expected to witness new deals with the return of President Juan Laporta, who recently won the Barca administration elections?

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