Barcelona is engulfed by a storm

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Barcelona was engulfed by a storm at Old Trafford, a scene in which only stable clubs and mature teams survive.

And Barça is neither one thing nor the other.

While its directors have been twisting the sanity of the institution for years, the footballers continue to crash against the wall of Europe.

's group

, despite resisting in the first leg (2-2), despite their notable first half in the second leg, paid their zero offensive fang to end up succumbing to a Manchester United that returns them to indifference.

Eliminated from the Champions League in October, and from the Europa League in February, the Copa del Rey and the League remain at the end of a tunnel in which the light is still not visible.

The desks for the visiting press of the so-called Theater of Dreams reconcile one with the discomfort of the old football fields.

Between tight behinds and computers embedded in carved wooden tables in hell, the screams of the fans made the stone floor of Old Trafford tremble.

got fed up with sweeping as a child

after spending hours waxing the boots of United's elites.

"The effluvia that all the cleaning products gave off would go up through your nostrils and stick to your palate until it turned into a dung heap," explained the Northern Irish legend.

He did not forget that until the alcohol and the drugs ended up bursting him.

That's right.

Everything in this field digs you to the marrow.

Until it is fixed in memory.

The stadium still smelled of sulfur from the flares lit in the corner where the Barça fans lived when the United footballers started according to the planned plan: charge and intimidate at dawn.

A loss from Xavi's team at the start allowed

to be left alone in the box against

.

Although the Portuguese was leaning, the occasion deserved that the fans stood up in unison.

Ter Stegen opposed his right leg and inaugurated the demanding test of maturity.

Physical and emotional pressure

Doubts regarding the performance that the Barça group could offer in midfield without

(injured) or

(suspended) never dissipated.

Although

,

,

and

wove a network in the first act that curtailed United's ability to advance,

and

, the double pivot lined up by

, ended up winning the battle.

The four Barça midfielders insisted on not being intimidated, no matter how hard the physical and emotional pressure was.

And while

Rashford

pass

when he ventured to leave the band, the young

would lose his hair.

It was precisely Balde who starred in one of the episodes of the game.

He picked up a reject in a place in the area where nothing was supposed to happen.

He was on his back.

But Bruno Fernandes, clumsily, prevented his turn with a light grab that ended with the winger on the ground.

Referee

bolted for the penalty spot.

And

, unaccustomed to stopping before hitting from eleven meters, was right.

endured too much.

When he wanted to react, it was already too late.

He touched the ball, but it doubled his mitt.

Kessie's serious mistake

Barcelona, ​​with

trying to get up the defensive line, resisted United's attacks in the first half.

Not so in the second, which began with the agitator

substituting for

, but also with the first goal for the English.

Kessié made a serious mistake on a backward pass.

Fred was able to advance alone towards Ter Stegen, whom he beat with a placid shot that brought Old Trafford to ecstasy.

An English fan took advantage of the moment to gladly insult the journalists who were working behind him.

The muscles began to torment Araujo, increasingly sore.

And while Xavi despaired over

's poor decisions , Koundé tested De Gea's stability with a header.

But that was only the preamble to the goal with which Antony punished an overwhelmed Barcelona.

snatched the tie from Lewandowski in an action annulled for offside.

Little mattered.

This Barça still has no tour in Europe.

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