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Pedri has something that any footballer would give his life for: while everyone is running, he stops;
while everyone falls, he rises.
He reconstructs time and space at his whim and condemns his rivals to incomprehension.
Rakitic fell before the first feint on the edge.
The tower of Diego Carlos fell before the second.
And Pedri, with all his life and glory ahead of him, shot with the confidence of the chosen ones.
Bono stretched knowing he was defeated.
And Sevilla, who had resisted so much to retain second place, found that this unchained Barcelona of Xavi insists on continuing to grow.
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It was also a great day for President Laporta.
Just a few hours ago he had carried out, without blinking, the celebrated agreement with Spotify, "the largest sponsorship in the history of Barça."
He did not even have to show the figures of the deal to the 906 compromising partners who were kind enough to accredit themselves to the telematic assembly at the time of the vote.
4,478 were summoned.
After Bartomeu led Barcelona to ruin, the club members, far from being extremely vigilant and defending their presumed position as owners of the club -now a "family business" according to Laporta-, opt for the same supervision of the drugged companies.
It is these issues that remain in the pipeline when players like Pedri amaze in their wake.
Or when Xavi's players, who had just given a cheer to their fans after their exhibition at the Bernabéu, continued with his good fortune.
Although from the defensive facilities that he found with Ancelotti's Madrid, he passed to that bone in which Julen Lopetegui has turned Sevilla.
Lopetegui is still remembered at the Camp Nou for his discreet tenure as Barcelona goalkeeper in the mid-1990s - in memory of a spectral flight in 1994 against the Higuera Package in a match that conceded five goals by Zaragoza in a Super Cup -, but also for the five goals (5-1) that cost him the dismissal as coach of Real Madrid in 2018. Memory can be bloody, but never unfair.
And Lopetegui has plenty of arguments to defend his worth.
For example, the labyrinth in which he put a Barça that went through different states of mind: from the joy of the first half to the impatience of the start of the second.
To culminate with a harassment to which the people of Seville no longer knew how to respond, even though Augustinsson had the final tie in his boots after an error by Ter Stegen.
Sevilla fought the ball.
Although this did not serve to create danger, but to gain strength in all those defensive aids plotted on the board and commanded from the field by Koundé and Diego Carlos.
With Martial as the theoretical centre-forward, the team from Seville had no qualms about defending themselves in front of the area with a double line of four and five players that turned the interior corridors into a ditch.
The azulgrana response, then, had to come from the sides.
Almost always from the football of Dembélé, who may never be able to separate the genius from the absurd and the bizarre.
After Ferran Torres appeared in the icy Barcelona night with a thread that sought courtship with the squad, Dembélé began to generate chances.
He ran so much and he dribbled so well that it was unbearable to see how he got tangled up right at the end.
De Jong verified it, to which Dembélé sent a ball too high to goal.
Or Ferran, to whom the same thing happened because of a center that was a hammer blow.
Or Diego Carlos, who saw how after Dembélé destroyed his hip he found that he would have a new opportunity to snatch the ball from him.
Bono warned that, where Diego Carlos and Koundé did not arrive, their hands would.
They were iron in shots from Aubameyang or Ferran, and agile in a header from Araujo.
The former City striker had an impact on a wave of occasions for a Barça that already knew that he could not lose sight of his back.
Ocampos did not reach a cross from Navas in a transition and Rakitic, from a direct free kick, stayed as close as Piqué, who crashed the ball into the crossbar.
Until Dembélé stopped and knew that there would be no other way than the one shown by Pedri, that boy who, without knowing it, already acts as a messiah.
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