While they were defeated 2-0 in Seville in the first leg of this Copa del Rey semi-final, FC Barcelona was able to turn the tide on Wednesday.
Messi's teammates won this last round, at home, 3-0 after extra time, signing a comeback.
A very strong and evocative term less than a week before the return match against PSG in the knockout stages of the Champions League, when they had been swept away at home 4-1.
If with such a performance of the Parisians nobody believed that Barça could recover this time as in 2017, the comeback of the Blaugranas against Sevilla may have awakened the Catalan ardor.
"A comeback with a very serious message" writes
Marca
, Spanish sports daily, rather pro-Real.
Overall, the rest of the Iberian press lingers on Barcelona's feat, while highlighting the renewed confidence of Ronald Koeman's team, since the slap received by Paris.
The
Mundo Deportivo
and
Sport
, pro-Barça newspapers headlined respectively "Epic!"
and "Grandiose!"
while highlighting the “heroic” side of Barcelona who had already won against Sevilla last weekend in La Liga (2-0).
A regained cohesion
Ronald Koeman, the Dutch coach of the Catalans, wanted to be measured at the end of the qualification of his men: "A 2-0 is easier to recover, even if it is not easy either. .
A 4-1 is something else ... In addition, they have a great team (PSG).
During the match, we will see if there is an opportunity to pass.
Otherwise, it will have to be accepted.
The team is growing, they are united.
Our ball game has always been very good, but our ballless game has improved a lot.
So yes, there can be very beautiful things in front of us, ”he said at a press conference.
His hug with his players and the fact that he admitted that this victory against Sevilla was his "best night as a Barça coach" still gave hope to the Spaniards who see it as a sign of a real team cohesion.
A necessary unit when engaging in an endeavor such as eliminating PSG by losing 4-1 at home.
Paris, for its part, won on the smallest of margins against Bordeaux on Wednesday with a fairly widely reworked team.
The ghosts of the remountada of March 2017 may still lurk near the Parc des Princes, even if the Parisians did what it took in Barcelona to exorcise them.
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