Madrid de Liga: Time.news, result and goals

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BarcelonaThe day of glory arrived, finally. In an electric night that will be remembered for years and years, Xavi’s Barça left the League in the best possible way, with a goal in the last minutes against the eternal rival. There are few more beautiful sensations than shouting a goal like that, hugging your friends, your loved ones. How the players of a Barça embraced that, for one day, had two unexpected heroes as the authors of the goals, Sergi Roberto and Kessie. The League will be Blaugrana. Xavi’s first as a coach. A day of strong emotions, with a final showdown, with angels and demons. A triumph that all Barcelona fans needed.

There was electricity in the air at Camp Nou. In the eyes of the young people who sang cutting the Travessera de les Corts there was the same desire for victory as in the slow but sure walk of the grandparents who blew up pillows to criticize Guruceta in 1970. This was not just any game. Barcelonianism needed to turn it into an act of faith, a kind of aquelarre to burn in the fire all the criticism, mockery and accusations received in recent days. More than a day of joy, it was a day of anger, where Kessie’s goal meant screaming loudly to take out all the frustrations accumulated in Europe in recent years. A day to hold your head up and be able to say that Barça will be League champions and no one will be able to find any excuse. Because if the fans felt an enormous desire to challenge Barça’s critics, the players were looking for redemption after so many gray triumphs, so many suffering triumphs, without becoming the team that Xavi wants. As it had happened in the distant Saudi lands in the Super Cup, it was a day to bring down Madrid on the basis of good football, touching the ball, taking care of it, attacking time and time again. It couldn’t be completely, because the destiny of this Barça is to end up suffering in every game. At times, the desire played against a Barça that was much superior and deserved the victory, but from time to time it fell short of the desire it had to impose its game.

The Barça of recent days, the one that ends up defending with scores more typical of Simeone’s Atlético, gave way to a group of players who seemed demonized, as if a spirit had taken possession of them and made them attack without stopping Courtois’ goal. They looked mad, Xavi’s players. Nothing stopped them. Neither the great saves of the Belgian goalkeeper, nor Madrid’s luck in the first goal nor the mud of the Negreria case. Still without Pedri, Xavi played Sergi Roberto’s card in midfield. And, despite the fact that the player from Reus suffered when he had to defend against White, it was a winning card because he was the one in charge of equalizing just before the break. A goal that did justice to a team that did not falter, condemned only by the lack of aim and the know-how of Courtois, who left both Lewandowski, after a whip from the Pole, and Raphinha, in two occasions It was a Barça with sense and rascality, with the ball and moving it very quickly. Where Araujo, placed on the right side as always against Madrid to face Vinícius, sometimes forced the Brazilian to play on the side, as much as he attacked the Uruguayan.

But Vinícius was the first to laugh. In a play in which Kounde came out to face him, he crossed without an angle and Araujo was unlucky to score an own goal. Vinícius is a two-faced player, gifted with great talent, but also a natural provocateur, who looks for the rival fans with his eyes, bullies the opponents and does not keep quiet with the referees. He was only speechless when, before the break, Sergi Roberto’s goal, after a lot of rebounds, sent Camp Nou into a frenzy. When Kessie scored the winning goal, she ended up losing her papers, like much of the white team, from losing badly.

Madrid, who waited entrenched for the opportunity to run, was not enough with the tie, if they wanted to continue aspirants in the League. Barça, with a cushion of 9 points, did deserve a tie looking at the standings, but Xavi’s team wanted more. You can’t win the League with the calculator if you can do it by keeping your mouth shut, by the big door. And so chaos took over the game, with both teams up and down, in the second half. An entertaining upset, a Russian roulette in which Barça failed to materialize their chances and left alive the team that knows how to survive best in the world, Ancelotti’s Madrid, the king of illogical triumphs. As the legs of the Barça players grew heavier, the white team reversed the trend of the match and approached Ter Stegen with Rodrygo, initially a substitute, helping Vinícius and Valverde. With the changes, Madrid improved and got to celebrate the winning goal, the work of Asensio. But after three minutes longer than a day without bread, the VAR certified a life-saving offside.

Barça, superior for 70 minutes, got a little scared in a very emotional game. Not even players who usually have the ball trained at their feet as if it were a faithful watchdog, like Busquets and Modric, could escape the condemnation of making mistakes. Lewandowski? He tried especially with dry shots from the front. But the goddess of fortune denied him the grace of the goal. Nor did Raphinha, insistent, brave and courageous, succeed.

Kessié celebrating with his teammates the winning goal against Real Madrid, at Camp Nou

It had to be an unexpected hero who was in charge of giving way to a party that lasted for hours. After two saves from a Ter Stegen who is fighting to have a goal with his name in the future new Blaugrana stadium, a counter ended with Kessie scoring a goal to remember. An image, a photograph to frame. A cry, a release. In a few minutes, Madrid went from celebrating the triumph to being defeated by a Barça with a giant heart. A team that needed this triumph as much as the fans. A day of glory Suffering so much in the last few weeks was worth it, if fate had in store for Barcelona fans such an end to the game.

  • FC Barcelona: Ter Stegen, Araujo, Kounde, Christensen, Balde, Sergio Busquets, Sergi Roberto (Kessie, 75th), Raphinha (Ferran Torres, 83rd), Lewandowski and Gavi (Ansu Fati, 83rd).
  • Real Madrid: Courtois, Carvajal, Militao, Rudiger, Nacho (Mendy, 62′), Camavinga (Tchouameni, 75′), Kroos (Rodrygo, 62′), Modric (Ceballos, 75′), Vini Junior, Benzema and Valverde ( Marco Asensio, 75′).
  • Goals: 0-1 Araujo own goal (9′), 1-1 Sergi Roberto (45′) and Kessie (90′).
  • Referee: Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea (Basque).
  • Yellow cards: Nacho (17′), Raphinha (33′), Sergi Roberto (64′), Modric (69′), Balde (90′), Ansu Fati (96′) and Ceballos (96′)
  • Red cards: None.
  • Stadium: Spotify Camp Nou.

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