First is football. First this and then the teams and the players. The performance on the court is not directed, its development is not controlled, and the outcome is independent of value and justice, based on the performance of the opponents. Yes, because in the game above is the ball, unpredictable and a whore, and then everything else, as it solemnly proved yesterday in Barcelona-Liverpool. Black turns black. And white, black.
A bad Barcelona won 3-0 (!!!) a good Liverpool. Is it? Done! The biggest player of our time, 32-time Argentine Messi had never scored against Liverpool and scored two goals yesterday. Liverpool had never lost on the Barcelona stadium and ate three yesterday.
Perhaps for the first time in the last 40 years there was a game 11 against 11, I mean with the full participation of both goalkeepers who also played on foot. I note this to emphasize how close to the frames of the two teams the match was played. Which presented full football action and kept the viewer breathless.
The Barça players started without a rhythm, almost confused, and did not find themselves even after the 1-0. What a goal! Suarez, former of Liverpool, had not scored in the 2018-19 champions league and while the English team is pushing the Rottweiler from Uruguay, he had to go through the needle hole and open an account. Liverpool misses an opportunity to equalize and Barça makes it 2-0. When Messi took the ball from the crossbar and entered the net with it. Salah from a favorable position marked a beam. Mane, the other great asset of Liverpool, also lost a unique opportunity.
3-0 was Messi's apostasy. Foul shot over the wall and the ball ends in the beam. Neither was Superman caught in the movie. And after the 3-0 Liverpool missed an opportunity to reduce.
It was said by a man of work, a European football man. That Barça deliberately, out of tactics, left the initiative to the opponent, in order to "open" him and thus facilitate its own scoring. There is no such approach. The Catalan team was in a bad day! At times, even in the counter-attack, he was a nuisance, even with more players facing only one and only two defenders.
In European football, however, the show must go on…, as sung by Queen Freddie Mercury since 1991, when it was decided to reorganize the Champions Cup and set up the most commercial champions league.
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