Barça loses its sanity against Inter and is one step away from the Europa League

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Barcelona mortgaged its future so as not to live badly in the present.

But football, relentless, harsh, tends to punish those who run blindfolded.

Perhaps because success should never have been an end, but rather a consequence.

's team

, who proposed heart on the day that only football could save him, who embraced

's shots as much as possible , could only start a draw against Inter that leaves him once again one step away from the subsoil of Europe.

, at least, avoided the final elimination in 95. The azulgrana will have to beat Bayern and Plzen, and wait for Inter to stumble twice.

Paris, Turin, Liverpool, Lisbon or Barcelona itself.

What difference does it make.

Any scenario seems appropriate for the Barça club to show its suffering.

And with

and

, keys with their mistakes, like an umbilical cord with the past.

Leaders and applauders change;

the legends take turns on the bench (from

to Xavi) and on the pitch (from

to Lewandowski). The dressing room is renewed at the stroke of a lever. But the club cannot free itself from its past.

Dembélé

is disconcerting because he is an absurd footballer.

Nobody understands him.

Neither his rivals, nor his teammates, nor his coach.

Maybe he doesn't even understand himself.

So many years silent, so many years absent, and now he gets into fights with the most quarrelsome.

So much time immersed in the enigma of him, and now determined to be the football leader, but also emotional, of Barça on his dramatic night.

Bad business.

ground punches

As the fan's gaze focused on Raphinha's mischief in the corner and

's subsequent cross , Dembélé ran for glory.

So much so that no defender could control his arrival in the small area, where the Frenchman, after finishing off the goal, only had to get himself into the goal.

The only thing that connected Barcelona with Europe was that same overexcitement of Dembélé.

The Camp Nou showed it, intimidating.

, who punched the ground when something didn't work out for him.

Or

himself , who in addition to striking and losing his skin in the pressure, took advantage of every corner kick to ask for more fire.

Before the fire on the stage there was a serious risk that the cables of sanity would end up fried.

That's how it went.

And that Xavi tried to offer solutions to Inzaghi's defensive device.

The Barça coach placed Pedri as close as he could to the area, where he could have more impact.

For this he drew a 3-4-3 in a diamond.

The interiors, however, did not have weight this time on the back of the Inter midfielders.

Lewandowski ended up as fueled and denied as in Milan.

And the defensive trio, led by a twilight Piqué, showed endless holes in the face of Inter's attacks, almost all of them dangerous.

and

looked to the sky in search of answers.

Rage and unconsciousness

Before Dembélé's goal, Inter regretted a shot to the crossbar by

after a lateral foul (no one followed him) or a three against one poorly resolved by

.

Barcelona, ​​all rage and unconsciousness, took advantage of a nirvana in the final stretch of the first act to take advantage.

Although that was nothing more than the whiplash of the discharge.

Because Piqué, sunk in his area, let a cross pass without noticing that

would score only behind his back.

And because Busquets would lose a ball in midfield before

caught Inter's second goal.

Barça did not want to give up.

Lewandowski, who finishes everything off, caught the tie again in nowhere.

took advantage of another mistake by Piqué to make it 2-3, although Lewandowski's pride led the night to a draw that changed nothing.

If anything, it delays and prolongs the pain.

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