Lewandowski ends the agony in Mestalla

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The tip of the foot to hit the agony, the demons and dispel the gray shadow of a crisis that seemed incipient.

showed that he only needs a good center to, with a stroke of the pen, unclog a game that

was becoming excessively complicated for

was not

the hesitant rival that he expected, but rather sold defeat dearly, surviving with courage and discipline until the addition.

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Barça looked at himself in a mirror and still didn't see the image he wanted.

As if the pain had anesthetized him for too many minutes in which he needed to embitter over and over again until dealing the final blow to a Valencia whose greatest virtue was walling itself off so as not to be the sack where Xavi's team paid for their frustration.

It was

who put on his gloves to distribute to the right and left, to the beat of a metronome, from shore to shore, finding

, back at eleven, and a foolish

.

Xavi took the canary out of exile and the team breathed before a Valencia that could not get away.

's effervescent team

mutated to hold up against a Barça that mercilessly subdued him, but without delivering the final hook that, without a doubt, would have left him on the canvas.

Without

, injured in the 18th minute, it was difficult for him to scare.

He watched the engine room with special attention, so that

and

did not raise their heads too high, and also the sides, where

despaired Dembélé and

was the shadow of Ansu Fati, the first to force

to take out a hand prodigious.

's injury

, and was subduing a rival who took his first corner before going to the locker room and having no other plan than to resist until he grabbed the post against which Lewandowski's header crashed.

It was the German's first notice, something lost on the Mestalla lawn.

no hit

Valencia returned from the locker room with their guard up but with the intention of letting go, so much so that

caught a very long cross from Thierry to beat Ter Stegen without it being a goal due to a stupid previous hand by

.

It was the snap that made Xavi.

He could not wait any longer to seek a remedy with

,

and

, but also with a defense in his thirties in which Piqué entered to pair up with Marcos Alonso due

.

Intent to harm was never lost, but they were still unable to find Lewandowski.

They did not make blood and thus fed the Valencianists.

They were entangled in the tangle that Gattuso's eleven had become, exhibiting an unknown solidity that allowed him to be alive because Barça was incapable of translating his command into an advantage.

Pedri kept trying without despairing.

It was the compass on which the attack was sustained over and over again.

Without haste, without pause so that the occasions continued to fall.

Someone had to get in.

He left Gavi first facing the Georgian Mamardashvili's goal, but Gayà crossed, multiplied in all tasks, to cloud him.

He later tried the canary to associate with Ferran, who stumbled a foot from the goal line.

It seemed like there was no way until

's center and Lewandowski's toe appeared.

One more time.

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