Barça was presented in San Mamés with 99 goals scored in the League and presented itself Robert Lewandowski with 99 goals accumulated in three seasons of Barca. They fell 100 and 101 in less than twenty minutes to an Athletic who had five games without fitting. The triplet escaped because Hansi Flick replaced him Three minutes before the penalty that Dani Olmo transformed.
He did not have time to stain Unai Simon before going to the bottom of the network to collect the ball or had the opportunity to avoid the double of Lewandowski, fine and accurate (two shots, two goals) as he had shown until the last day of March, when he suddenly dried. The Polish sting poisoning the Athletic poisoned, who did not find the antidote with Nico Williams or the rough Maroan, who then wanted to copy his petroleum jelly and stopped the impeccable Iñaki Peña, who reappeared.
Nothing was at stake in San Mamés, but Nothing implied that it was an inconsequential duel. It scares to think how the clash would have run if Barça had had to win to be a champion or Athletic would have needed the victory to get into the Champions League. Or both situations at the same time. Only alignments would have varied, substantially that of Hansi Flick.
Lewandowski elevates the ball on Unai Simon in Barça's first goal in San Mamés. / Dani Barbeito / Sp
Pedri's slalins
Valverde accepted the challenge of playing with the advanced defense, but not as much as that of Barça, which advanced to the dividing, knowing that the punishment would be an assumed defeat by cheap. However, reduced spaces on the board and grass, no one of theirs knew how to deactivate the type that moves best in a maze.
Pedri was overcoming rojiblancos footballers such that they were posts, in a link that resulted in an advantage situation for others. The goals, however, were born from a stopped ball. In the first, Pedri quickly took out a foul to receive Fermín alone and could throw an assistance to Lewandowski. The second arose from a corner launched by Raphinha.
For the farewell of the league, Flick recovered Iñaki Peña to entrust the three sticks. He withdrew from the field in January, “in one of the hardest decisions I have made,” confessed the coach, and He returned him in May as an apology. It was an essential choice if I wanted to present a Barça with eleven canteranos.
Lewandowski nods at the bottom of the network the corner launched by Raphinha for 0-2. / Dani Barbeito / Sp
Marcos Honors
It was not that way out or at the end. He gathered seven for the third time this season. The two precedents resulted in two triumphs, in the derby with Espanyol (3-1) and in Valladolid (1-2) and Bilbao was no less in an impetuous and implacable Barça start that erased the concord from the prolegomena, when Athletic made the corridor of champion and the entire Barça template expanded The hall to Oscar de Marcos, who said goodbye. San Mamés illuminated with his name when replaced.
Pedri directs a Barça attack in San Mamés. / Dani Barbeito / Sp
Pitos and applause
As acclaimed was from Marcos as later Berchic Yuri, The other side. Years ago he ran into Messi and last night he was measured with Lamine Yamal, whom he wanted to decentrate through the same procedure, with the attitude of the thug that wants to intimidate the rival. He did not intimidate the youth, nor did he feel especially harassed to verify that the others also received Estopa. Even Maroan, the gigantic rojiblanco ram, which gave and received in his pulse with Cubarsí. San Mamés inaugurated the tradition, retired Andrés Iniesta, to whistle Lamine Yamal, For now for an unknown reason. He applauded Pedri. Impossible to suppress gratitude to the exquisite football that Pedri distils.
