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Sorry, you have to get out of here. There is going to be a demonstration of Barça radicals and it is not a safe place for you. Your team will enter through the north access." A group of four Real Madrid fans were waiting for the white team bus at Access 18 of the Camp Nou, in Travessera de les Corts, the same one that the Madrid expedition had used to enter the Barça stadium in the League classic. For the Cup semifinals, however, the Madrid vehicle changed doors and accessed through Avenida de Juan XXIII, which arrived from the Hyatt Regency Barcelona Tower Hotel, his 'home' in Barcelona.
Against Thebes, Florentine, the Federation...
It was one more detail in a hot preview in the surroundings of the Barça fiefdom, which they approached more radical than in the classic three weeks ago. There were insults against Madrid, against Javier Tebas, president of the League to whom banners were dedicated with the slogan "every pig gets its San Martín", against the Federation... The pressure of the Negreira Case, the victory of Barça in the league duel and the possibility of sinking its maximum rival even more leaving it without another title encouraged the fans, who pressed from hours before the initial whistle.
In the box, the faces of the March 19 meeting were repeated. Florentino Pérez, president of Real Madrid, decided not to go to the Camp Nou, as he did in La Liga, in response to the refusal of the Barça board to hold the traditional lunch of directives and to avoid raising the tension caused after the outbreak of the Negreira Case. It was the second classic that Florentino saw on television. Another historical fact. Next to Joan Laporta sat Eduardo Fernández de Blas, vice president of the white team and substitute for Pérez in the seats of honor of the stadium.
24 hours before the start of the classic, Madrid officially appeared as a private prosecutor in the Negreira Case, warning that "the actions tending to favor Barcelona in the decision-making of the referees and in the results of the competition" harmed him. Opposite, a fan anesthetized before its directive, with 85 wayward partners who want to appear as an accusation against their management but with the stands of the stadium focused on their rival and not on the judicial messes that drown the Barça.
"Step on it!"
Yesterday's classic was one of the hottest in memory, with Gavi and Vinicius as protagonists of a constant battle of kicks, pushes and insults that infected their teammates. The young Barça began the trench with several 'errands' to Madrid players, until one of them hit the Brazilian, who turned against him. Yellow for both, who looked for each other on the way to the dressing room tunnel at halftime, and tension from minute 1. "Vinicius die!" and "Step on him!" shouted the stands about the Real Madrid player, who wiped off the symbol of world champion when his team scored the 0-1. A detail that angered a stand that in the 10th minute sang "Messi! Messi!" and in the 17th "Independence!".
The tension moved to the benches, where Xavi was reprimanded for protesting to Martínez Munuera and 12 yellows accumulated. After Kessié's penalty on Vinicius that caused Benzema's 0-3, the Camp Nou shouted "So, like this, this is how Madrid wins!", but the referee was convinced.
The 0-4 victory enters the history of Madrid as one of the greatest triumphs in the fiefdom of the eternal rival. Four goals difference, more than in the 1-4 league of 1930 and tying with the 1-5 of 1963, with Di Stéfano, Puskas and Gento, also in League. And it is also the best result of the Whites at the Camp Nou since the 1-3 of the 2012-2013, also in the semifinals of the Cup. There he scored two Cristiano, last night they were three of a historic Benzema.
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