The game was more than calm. And resolved. Suppurating the wound of the defeat of the classic and the virtual elimination of the Champions. Everything was under control. Not all. until he walked in Busquets by Frenkie de Jong and thousands of emotions were mixed. Ovation for the Dutchman, who completed a good game, applause for the captain, but, at the same time, timid whistles that announced, however, the subsequent storm that was experienced at the Camp Nou, something that he did not count on, perhaps , Xavi because it caused tension.
The technician intervened to dose the starters. removed to Koundé, who had signed an excellent corrective night, and placed Piqué in the final quarter of an hour. Minutes in which the Camp Nou became a forum for debate. The shyness of the whistles turned into a general uproar when Piqué stepped onto the pitch. From then on, nothing seemed to interest the party, much more than liquidated.
A Busquets, for example, was included Xavi in a double change (Bellerín also appeared for Sergi Roberto), while Piqué, who was returning after the European disaster with Inter, where he made a double mistake in 1-1, left the bench alone to enter the game. From that moment on, the ball was forgotten. The Camp Nou whistled and applauded one of its captains. In addition, the stadium’s Animation Stand, located in the North Goal, began to chant for the center-back with a cry that was unanimous years ago: “Piquenbauer, Piquenbauer, Piquenbauer!”
From fifth to sixth center
They were times of unanimity on the figure of the defense. Times that now belong to another era, as Piqué himself knows. Although, perhaps, he did not imagine what happened last night. Nor his own Xavi, who made the change based on sporting interests and not for other matters. He wanted to protect Koundé, whom he used in the Clásico and against Villarreal, because he is a fundamental pillar of his defensive structure.
But Piqué appeared and the landscape, festive and happy in the stands, was completely changed. And the old Camp Nou, which is in its last year of life, rescued old stories of debate about players who are his, whom he has treated with exquisite affection, already transformed into legends. But the center-back is already looked at differently. Also Xavi.
Piqué appeared and the landscape, festive and happy in the stands, was completely changed. And the old Camp Nou, which is in its last year of life, rescued old stories of debate about players who are theirs
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This is what he told her from the first day of the new course. He would not be the starter. What the captain could not intuit is that with each passing day he decreases his role in the team. He started out as the fifth central defender and since yesterday, when Xavi handed Marcos Alonso the starting line-up, forming a partnership with Koundé, he dropped down the rankings to sixth. And the sixth appeared in the stadium to remove all that calm that had generated the three Barça goals in seven devastating minutes.
Then, each ball that Piqué touched generated a heated debate. The shouts of the Animation Stand were replicated by the majority of fans, who disapproved of those whistles. The sound of the debate faded with the passing of the minutes until the match ended. Then, Piqué and Busquets stayed in the central circle greeting the people who whistled for them.