Barcelona says goodbye to the Champions between goals and sadness

They say that it should be for honor, that concept so vaporous that it is valid for everything except to assume deficiencies.

Also for money, because 2.8 million euros are never enough when, to sustain this increasingly fictitious ownership of the partners, you have to deal with loans and mortgages.

Little does the argument or the alibi matter when Barcelona played their last game of this Champions League in the fall, on All Saints' Day, in a small municipal field in Pilsen, and against a team, Viktoria, known for their defeats but who finished up to 22 times.

Before returning to the subsoil of Europe,

's team said goodbye with a victory that only revealed sadness.

In addition, the night served so that the beardless

knew in an hour and a half how ungrateful and how beautiful football can be.

He made a huge mistake that

corrected , he committed a penalty for pushing an opponent and, at the moment in which he drove away all his demons with a redemptive left foot, his fibers exploded and they took him out of the game.

There was no way to escape the grief.

Barça played as if they had tied dumbbells to their feet.

The defense, made up of two captains (

and

) and two reinforcements (

and

), was a disaster against the stevedore

.

The midfield was held by

;

with

, lost and injured as a midfielder;

and

, at 19 years old, condemned to be aware of what they will say.

While

continues at the border crossing in limbo.

Xavi must have thought that the appointment would serve both to offer breaks (none as necessary as that of

) and to grant opportunities.

And there were some who took advantage of it.

Like the goalkeeper

, who made six saves in his official debut as a Barça player.

Like

, better when he moves away from preciousness and approaches creation.

And, above all, like

, who claimed his role now that the World Cup is approaching.

He chiseled the first goal with an inside pass to Ansu - goalkeeper Stanek missed and Marcos Alonso scored on the line - and scored two goals.

One on the verge of the break after assistance from Alba, and another after outwitting three defenders and teaming up with Raphinha.

Viktoria Plzen, the worst team in the competition, hit the goal twice.

He took the Barça defenders to the limit of sanity between lateral fouls, corners and kicks of all kinds.

But he ended up giving in to a Barcelona that, once exiled, managed to be effective where he least needed it.

expectation

: «If I could live my life again, in the next one I would try to make more mistakes.

I wouldn't try to be so perfect."

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