It was a night of partying and an intimidating and outstanding performance for Barcelona.
Antoine Griezmann celebrated his 30th birthday with a goal, Lionel Messi his absolute record of 768 games with the Barça shirt with two goals and an assist from Sergñe Dest, who made his debut on the LaLiga scoring list.
All of this helped Ronald Koeman celebrate the extension of the Catalan squad’s away wins to nine with a 6-1 win over Real Soceidad.
Barcelona celebrated a win with a beating in San Sebastián to climb one more step and no one will stop believing around the Camp Nou.
Ten goals in the last two games and five consecutive wins since that unthinkable Camp Nou draw against Cádiz have relaunched a Barça that has its happiest moment of the season and responded to Atlético’s tight and long-ago victory over the Alavés with an overwhelming triumph about a Real Sociedad who came up against him at the start, but eventually knelt before an open showing.
After touching and retouching the scheme, Koeman seems to have found the philosopher’s stone for this Barça who, from the three central points, with Frenkie de Jong a little behind it, has forgotten the doubts to turn everything into certainties.
For the third day, the Dutch coach repeated the line-up and without realizing that this new schedule penalizes the winger, it is wonderful that it has become 3-5-2, with Messi behind the points, it seems. , in an indisputable arrangement.
Since that 1-1 against Cádiz, which followed the tough 1-4 against PSG in the Champions League on the calendar, Barça’s football acceleration has been a constant with a phenomenal start to the two consecutive matches against Sevilla, with a memorable victory in the Pizjuán. to start over in the league and win a wonderful comeback in the cup.
With 10 laps to go to the end of LaLiga, no one today could undoubtedly bet on Atlético de Madrid, who, before beating Alavés with a minimum (victory saved by the penalty that Oblak saved at the last minute), made it clear that is going through a particularly difficult time, both in terms of game and result.
Real Madrid grind their teeth with Karim Benzema as a stiletto and Barça enjoys a football catapult reminiscent of the second half of the 2003-2004 season.
The difference is that he is currently not allowed to overcome a clear disadvantage and that with a 30 point lead and after adding 37 of the last 39 or linked 18 days without knowing the defeat, the dream is seen closer than ever.
Barça intimidates and does it in a great way.