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Messi recovered the aim after 398 minutes of drought when the Camp Nou had already put the rope on Bartomeu's neck. Although the luck of the president will not depend only on the goals of the captain, the Argentine deactivated the dynamite truck in which the appointment with the Eibar became for the maximum president of Barça. The game, after all, seemed simple, especially for the rival, one of the best customers of the Camp Nou. And, certainly, it was so tasteless that it was summed up in the goals of 10 and the good premiere of Braithwaite. The heavy environmental burden, however, had turned the contest into an explosive date before consecutive visits to Naples in the Champions League and the Bernabéu in LaLiga. Messi's response was as unequivocal as that of the fans: nobody points to the players or the team, but to Bartomeu.
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The game took seven minutes to start because the technology did not work at the Camp Nou. The members could not connect to the VAR room while Bartomeu did not drop the phone in the box, stunned by the loud rage and the constant screams of resignation of the fans, outraged by the Barça gate . A cry of such disapproval was not remembered since the time of Gaspart. Perhaps there were some days of rechifla when the decline of Ronaldinho, the laissez-faire of Rijkaard and the motion of censure against Laporta began. The cloth returned energetically and ostentatiously against Bartomeu. The white dots filled the stands and for one day they were not the motives of the tourists but of a fondness indignant with the directive and at the same time respectful with the anthem of Barça.
Once the protocol was over, the camp broke into a scream, so angry that a sound dialogue was initiated between detractors and supporters of Bartomeu. Not all fans blow in the same direction and the ball flies as if it were a hand grenade through the Camp Nou. There is a general relief if it falls in the rival goal in the same way that the tension increases when the own area is around, occasionally passes in front of the bench and at certain times it goes towards Bartomeu's box, sheltered in his mask after losing the director of his cabinet and right arm, Jaume Masferrer. Managers and fans, divided by an institutional crisis that has atomized the board, agree to surrender to the team, the only supporter of the club, and entrust to Messi.
BCN
5
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0
EIB
Barcelona
Ter Stegen, Piqué (Umtiti, min. 67), Clement Lenglet, Nelson Semedo, Junior Firpo, Rakitic, Busquets (Frenkie De Jong, min. 58), Arthur Melo, Griezmann (Braithwaite, min. 71), Messi and Vidal.
Eibar
Dmitrovic, José Ángel, Arbilla, Esteban Burgos, Tejero, Orellana, Escalante, Edu Expósito (Cristóforo, min. 82), Inui (Pablo De Blasis, min. 65), Diop and Sergi Enrich (Quique, min. 65).
Goals
1-0 min. 13: Messi. 2-0 min. 36: Messi. 3-0 min. 39: Messi. 4-0 min. 86: Messi. 5-0 min. 88: Arthur Melo.
Referee
César Soto Grado
Escalante (min. 63) and Diop (min. 84).
Stadium: Camp Nou
The captain is the only credible leader of Barça. The 10 understood that it was necessary to calm down as soon as possible a very dangerous match for the electricity of the stands and marked the differences with three goals in 40 minutes against a pleasant rival like Eibar. 1-0: he took the ball filtered by Rakitic before the balcony of the area, threw a spout at Arbilla, endured Diop's load and crossed it over Dimitrovic's exit. 2-0: He received from Vidal, changed pace, accelerated against Burgos and shot until he beat the Eibar goalkeeper. 3-0: He finished a rejection of Tejero after Griezmann missed a rosary assist, enabled by Rakitic's good pressure. The goals of Messi, which added four games and 40 shots without scoring, concealed the strange display and the poor football fluidity of Barcelona. It was not clear what Setien intended.
The premiere of Braithwaite
Absent De Jong and Ansu Fati, Arturo Vidal appeared on the left tip to receive the passes of Ter Stegen and the team stuttered a lot, without continuity, erratic in the combination and instead decisive change in the definition by the success of Messi. The 10 finished very well the plays against a very soft opponent in the areas, always down in the Camp Nou, a stadium too big for his excellent small team football in Ipurua. Messi did not want to doubt his commitment in a few days when the board walks on a ledge because of the digital crisis discovered by the Ser Chain. The goals of the Argentine allowed Setién to manage the changes with such comfort that Braithwaite even made his debut while They agreed on the Lenglet and Umtiti court, both to a sanction card and unable to play, therefore, in Madrid.
The premiere of Braithwaite was a blessing for the final stretch because it provoked Messi's fourth goal, delicious in the series of feints that was scored to sit his rivals before putting the shot together, and was decisive also in the 5-0 he riveted Arthur The handyman, the magic digit of Barcelona, calmed the fans on an afternoon pregnant with anger against the president of Barça. The best Messi reappeared just on the worst day of Bartomeu. The ball now travels to Naples and then to the Bernabéu. Nobody knows how the Camp Nou will be then.
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