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The Camp Nou lived yesterday one of the hottest classics that are remembered. A tension that is explained in the 12 yellows that Martínez Munuera had to take, a record in the Barça-Madrid since the 9 yellow and 3 red with which Fernández Borbalán punished Barça and Whites in the return of the Spanish Super Cup in August 2011, with Guardiola and Mourinho on the benches. The ecstasy of the controversy between both teams.

However, this Copa del Rey semifinal event had both football and adrenaline, kicks, insults, chants and clashes. 29 fouls committed (21 from Barça and 8 from Madrid) and a final stretch of the game, already with the duel sentenced, full of fights that reminded the classics between the templates of Pep and Mou.

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Above the rest of the players, Gavi and Vinicius starred in the confrontation of the night. The two young stars lit the fuse of the controversy in the 27th minute and would not release it until the end of the duel. The Barça midfielder 'hunted' Camavinga and Vinicius in the same play and kept the ball while his rivals were on the ground. The Brazilian, also electric, returned the action by giving him a slap to take the ball away. The youngsters gathered their foreheads and between Camavinga and Busquets they were separated while receiving yellow cards.

That's where their war began. Both looked for each other and found each other in almost every break of the game in the first half, crowning their pique with a tangana conatus on the way to the locker room tunnel avoided by the coaching staff.

Gavi, against veterans

Gavi, whom Luis de la Fuente already advised to "control some behaviors" during the last concentration of Spain, does not go down well in the dressing room of Madrid, where beyond the faults or the normal piques of an intense match criticize that he has a "very toxic" attitude, especially with more veteran players. During the last classic, in addition to his friction with Vinicius, he was seen facing Alaba and Kroos.

Opposite, Vinicius was again the center of the goal of the stands and the rivals. The Brazilian, who scored the first goal, caused the penalty of 0-3 and assisted in the 0-4, ended up being substituted to prevent him from seeing the second yellow and running out of end. He left the field unhinged with the rival fans and with Gavi and Araújo, who had dismissed him with a push that sent him to the ground, and with Ferran Torres. "You are silent, you are very bad," he replied to the former Valencia as he faced him before reaching the bench.

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The players were looking for him, he said something... Everyone started to sting him and look for that red one," Courtois explained, while Araújo admitted that he "got hot." "I warmed up to see Vinicius speak so much to the stands and to the teammates. If he dedicates himself only to playing football he will be an even better player." His compatriot Valverde said that "we have to think a little more. Instead of enjoying the game, you face them..."

The tension jumped from the grass to the stands, from which, according to the minutes of the meeting, "several lighters and a 1 euro coin fell on the Madrid goal, "impacting one of these objects on Courtois". In addition, during the players' celebration after the fourth goal, "two half-full water bottles" were thrown. Some regrettable actions that will lead to a fine to Barcelona.

The party in the locker room

In the dressing room, Ancelotti, shouting, announced to his squad that this Thursday would be "Rest day!", to general madness, while Militao, Rüdiger and a crazed Modric danced non-stop. "That's how Madrid wins!" sang a squad in which Benzema, after a historic hat-trick, entered the shower shouting unintelligible. The Frenchman is already the top scorer of 2023 with 19 goals. "The new era! The new era!", boasted Ceballos on the way to the bus, referring to the phrase used by Barça players after winning the Super Cup in Arabia.

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I lied to you, this was not the final," Ancelotti joked with his team. A few weeks ago, the Italian had told Jagoba Arrasate a comment that is now reality: "See you in the final."

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