Barcelona is unleashed with an amazing Dembélé

Football is too twisted to understand.

Or even explain it.

achieved something unheard of: stopping the clock by drawing bicycles.

His legs, slow and heavy but still reliable, began to go over the ball.

Four.

Five.

Six times.

The Osasuna footballers were stunned, thinking about what the hell that funny Brazilian was doing.

Nobody knew how to notice that everything had a meaning.

Those seconds of supposed surrealism were the ones that allowed

to steal time and space.

And

won the center that would lead to 3-0 with which Barça confirmed their exultant half hour.

Because it was a game in which amazing things happened.

Like Dembélé, so used to chaos and the constant wandering between genius and disaster, discovering that the game can be much simpler than he thinks.

He got fed up with sharing the game, formed a productive triangle with

and Alves, and was involved in three goals.

In his first assist, the French winger, instead of being carried away by his usual incorrectness, acted like an academy student.

He released the ball at the precise moment that marked

's career and, once the goal was caught, he was him again.

With the same absent gesture of someone who eats some pipes.

Barcelona's emergencies are more than scars.

They are wounds so deep that they require constant care and attention.

Xavi's team needed to be convinced that the slump suffered against Galatasaray had a reason.

But also a remedy.

The one who paid for it was Osasuna, whom the coach Jagoba Arrasate threw so far back that, when he tried to raise his chin, he was already carrying a charge against three goals in just half an hour, impossible to lift.

Galatasaray has already warned the azulgrana of the price to pay for the carelessness and embarrassment of those who look good.

So Xavi Hernández, no matter how much the continental neck is at stake in Istanbul next Thursday, lined up a team loaded with starters against Osasuna.

Of course, he wound up Dembélé, already accustomed to taking turns with Adama on the right flank; and Gavi, who this time was able to take over one of the precious interior positions (Frenkie de Jong rested).

The reason for the substitution of Araujo did have to go looking for him with the typical caution of the big weeks.

The Uruguayan center-back, warned, would not have been able to play the classic against Real Madrid next Sunday if he had seen a card.

Gerard Piqué started the night with endorphins shot.

He was the first to run when he started to thunder Angus Young's guitar riff on Highway to Hell.

He went in search of some fans who were on the other side of the field.

He turned and ran to the other end to do the same.

As he waved his hand from side to side, he, too, was getting in tune.

Piqué fulfilled 600 games with Barcelona.

It was convenient to have a good time, but also to be ready.

He only missed that the referee, before resting half an hour the last half hour, did not validate a goal scored offside.

But the meeting had been resolved at dawn itself and thanks to the fact that Ferran Torres faced the appointment runaway.

Much looser as a winger than as a striker, the Valencian striker showed courage as many times as he could.

He began by trying to force a penalty from Nacho Vidal after a powerful incursion down the left.

The referee did not notice it, but he did go swiftly towards eleven meters after the same Osasuna right-back took Gavi ahead.

The inexperienced Barcelona midfielder had previously been enabled by Sergio Busquets.

And Ferran Torres did not hesitate against Sergio Herrera, whom he deceived with a low shot that seduced the post.

In full nirvana, the former City footballer put aside the demons that had been inhabiting his boots and gave meaning to Dembélé's assist in the 2-0.

The French opened the channel to the long-suffering defense.

And with proper control, Ferran Torres gained enough confidence to make the execution a mere formality.

Aubameyang used to decipher occasions with the same solvency, whom Dembélé found at the near post for the Gabonese to score his fifth league goal.

The exceptionality of the night was such that it admitted the emergence of Riqui Puig, who had not played in the tournament for two and a half months.

He took advantage of the third corridor opened by Dembélé and scored after winning an angle that he himself opened.

The match swooned with Memphis mimicking a scorpion and Gavi throwing a hat on his back.

"Will they believe me?

I do not know.

After all, it doesn't matter."

Thus Verne playfully dispatched his

Sea .

This is how Barça dispatched its night.

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