• Negreira case Barcelona: two decades of sporting success between courts, prisons and revenge

  • Real Madrid The white club decides to appear in the 'Negreira Case'

Barça defends itself on the field and in the League.

Perhaps there is no other place where I can do it.

He won in San Mamés because he survived like no one else, because he had all the gods -and Ter Stegen- on his side, and because where his forces did not arrive, technology did.

Referee

Gil Manzano validated

Raphinha

's winning goal

after annulling it -a foot from

Balenziaga enabled the Brazilian-, and cut off

Iñaki Williams

' equalizer

in the same twilight after the VAR noticed a previous hand from

Muniain

in the origin of the action.

The marimorena was armed.

Barcelona footballers have to continue playing football no matter how much the tide of the

Negreira case

threatens to wash it all away.

You just have to see how

Gavi

and

Ter Stegen

put their heads and hands in the coals.

The confetti has been replaced by fake bills, because the real ones never belonged to the fans.

And while the president

Joan Laporta

delivers messages that one can only pronounce looking at the sky - "we will give ourselves every last drop of blood to defend the honor of Barça" -, the team goes about its business.

It takes cover in the League with 1-0 and 0-1 by flag, even in now hostile places like San Mamés.

Barcelona repeated its problems with the construction of the game, no matter how much Gavi and

De Jong

tried to offer continuity and sanity.

Although the difficulties to come out from behind and find the free man were more than evident.

Lewandowski

was involved in the organizational task, but failed exactly what is demanded of him, precision and finishing.

He provided the Pole with a great option after a pass from De Jong that came to nothing due to poor control.

Athletic, despite the fact that

Ernesto Valverde

erred in the main ideas with which he tried to hurt Barcelona -

Nico Williams

did not feel comfortable on the left despite being defended by

Sergi Roberto

, and

Raúl García

only intimidates when the ball goes down the air-, he recovered in style in the final stretch at Muniain's bugle call.

Barcelona only found relief after another agonizing exercise in which Athletic shot twice at the posts, and after seeing how Ter Stegen,

Koundé

and

Marcos Alonso

put their chests out before the final shootout.

Barça will receive Real Madrid next Sunday with their soul tied to leadership.

And with his old cutlery ally nine points away.

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