Barça is back, the classic is back

The engine of Madrid is victory and therefore it refers to the scoreboard, winner for the fifth time in a row against Barça. You do not have to explain more than the result: 2-3. Nothing to do with Barcelona. The Catalans look for in each game, and especially against the whites, arguments that justify their reason for being and announce their return to the nobility after losing their sanity precisely two years ago in the Super Cup when they were the leader of the League. That day he fired Valverde and gave himself up to a way of the cross that culminated in Messi's goodbye. The torture is being so harsh that a gesture or a detail has served to hide the defeat and prematurely elevate Barça. Until the arrival of the Riyadh classic.

The Barça performance was more convincing than ever when compared to the one he starred in in similar circumstances against Bayern Munich. Barcelona competed, had the ability to react to adversity and warned that the reconstruction is serious even though its matches are still irregular and insufficient to defeat the impassive Madrid, a team that does not tickle when it mediates a title, even if it is It's about the Super Cup.

You never know yet which game will come to Barça and instead there are no doubts about Madrid football. There are times when it is difficult to know what the Barça team wants to play at while the madridista loves to run, unstoppable until 0-1. The Catalans were fighting at the time with the ball, still impatient and imprecise, while the whites dominated the spaces, more stable and with better rennet, implacable with the opponent's mistakes, which are still abundant in Barcelona. Madrid's arrivals and cons, caused by losses or poorly finished plays by the Catalans, were more far-sighted than Barça's confused offense.

The game was so appetizing for Madrid that they got confused and settled down to the point of conceding the equalizer on a ball poorly cleared by Militão that bounced off Luuk de Jong. The white team loses its grace when it stands still, it does not have the waist or the unpredictability and even less the deception of Barça, personalized in Dembélé. The Frenchman struck down the left side and with his perseverance lifted the spirits of his team from 1-1. The goal lit up for a while the best version of Barça and the most unbalanced of Madrid. The Catalans showed more personality and recovered their football identity in Saudi Arabia.

Although they are not perfect, Barça matches have started to have peaks since Xavi recovers players, some capital such as Pedri and Ansu Fati, much more decisive than the rookie Ferran Torres. Ansu Fati's appearances always announce the goal, even if the opponent is Madrid. Ansu emerged to momentarily deny the white victory after the goal of the virtuous Benzema, present, as a soloist or as the end point of Madrid's game, which little by little overcame the best moments of Barça. The extension was a gift after a beautiful semifinal, changing and gusty by the football debate of Barça and Madrid. Quick and bloody one and brave and nonconformist the other, both exhausted, protagonists of a titanic classic, the best propaganda for the Super Cup.

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