Barcelona recovered, two and a half years after an identical result, 0-4, the healthy habit of converting the Bernabéu dressing room in its private party room, with the Coldplay logo on the chest. Long live life! Since the triumph in 2004 that marked a turning point for Ronaldinho and Rijkaard’s team, the movements in the field of the greatest rival have been falling regularly, to the admiration of the entire football world, who generation after generation has surrendered to the players dressed in azulgrana or, occasionally, with the ‘senyera’as was the case of the 0-4 immediately prior to last Saturday, that of the 21-22 season, with Xavi on the bench.
This time, the party came from the hand of a new generation of young talents, some of adolescent age, as is the case of the band’s leader, Lamine Yamal, and others just out of youth. Regarding the last party, that of 2022, Frenkie de Jong, Pedri and Gavi repeated on Saturday. They played then and now Ter Stegen, Araujo and Ferran are injured. In 2022, Eric, who is now also injured, was on the bench. And Ansu, in the dry dock then, was on the bench on Saturday.
The party album
The post-match left memorable images on social networkslike the jokes about Casadó’s ‘mane’, which was already the protagonist after the Barça-Bayern with references from several teammates, Szczesny’s vaping smoke or the ‘playlist’ of the party, which Lamine Yamal explained briefly in the mixed zone and which with so much generational diversity included several styles, with ‘Un Dia Partit’ and ‘Ser del Barça És el Millor que Hi Ha’ as big ‘hits’ .
Euphoria in the locker room
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And the party was not limited to the Bernabéu. To the global admiration we must add the joy that Messi showed on social networks. “What a beautiful victory!” he wrote from Miami, where the Barcelona neighborhood vibrated. Jordi Alba and Sergio Busquets also congratulated the boys. The line of succession works.
Euphoria on the sidelines, 0-4 has increased confidence of the team, which was already on the rise after the last week, in which Flick has returned in 72 hours the 8 goals he scored against Barça on August 14, 2020: four to Bayern, precisely the team that destroyed Barcelona in Lisbon , with Hansi on the bench, and four to Madrid. 1,534 days have passed since that unfortunate late in Lisbon and apparently it can be said that the Way of the Cross is over.
Eric returns
Another good news arrived in recovery training Sunday: Eric Garcia returned to activity.
