Barcelona got its smile back in Seville. The Cursed City, the city in which he had lost the last three finals he played (the last one exactly three months ago), was this April 17 talisman for a team that passed the same Athletic that beat him in the Super Cup in January. and indicated Joan Laporta the first great joy since he became president of the club.
Ronald Koeman, whose ears must have whistled when his line-up was announced, with Dembele’s resignation, he won in an excellent way all the credit that some continue to refuse him every day and for showing that he is not the coach of this directive. to deliver the best performance to an orphan squad of undisputed central forwards, survive the worst moments of the season and reach the last part of the track with a trophy under his arm and, in any case, with all the hope from fighting the League to the end.
“We really wanted to win again and we did it against a great rival. We played a great game and I am happy for everyone, the players, the technical team and our fans,” the president happily revealed, proclaiming that “he did for For. Barcelona fans have not celebrated a title for a long time and it is time to celebrate.
The celebration was done without concealment by a Barcelona that lost a final three months ago, in the same stadium of La Cartuja, at perhaps the most delicate moment of the season, from the moment the growth, which had already started in the League. , was indisputable. . With the fading of PSG and until the defeat at Valdebebas, the improvement of the Barça team was a constant to arrive in mid-April, as Johan Cruyff always proclaimed, with the ambition to win titles.
He got the first and was catapulted in his mind to focus on the eight finals that remain until the end of an exciting competition to fight with Real and Atlético de Madrid, confident and assuming the time of the match is. about depression.
Luck is once again drawn in a Barça that, awaiting Messi’s decision, heads into the final part of the season with restored pride. In times of pandemic, the joy was finally complete.
For Athletic … Follow the desert crossing. Defeated in 2009, 2012 and 2015 by Barça, he fell again and hit the same team he took his last cup title against in 1984. There was no excuse for the lions. They were simply overwhelmed by a rival who passed him in football and in goals.