Winner at San Mamés, a particularly unfriendly stadium, where he has accumulated two defeats and a draw in his last three visits. Barcelona tied the seventh day of the League without losing (five wins and two draws) and catapulted to third place in the league, away from the two teams in Madrid, but ultimately showing a image in accordance with the greatness that should. What to expect.
Lionel Messi smiled with two goals, two shots on goal and a special connection, again, with the young Pedri, who left Bilbao with the confirmation that Barça had discovered another star. If Ansu Fati lit up last year, now it’s the turn of another “young man”, a canary able to play as a veteran, who makes football easy and so simple that it is difficult to interpret for those who are not related to their quality. And Messi, captain and beacon of this team, knows that surrounded by players of this quality he has the opportunity to enjoy again.
😉 Why is the purpose @Pedri to # AthleticBarça It’s unique? pic.twitter.com/5py90I8dbP
– FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona_es) January 6, 2021
Leo, like De Jong, like Dembélé, like Pedri and even like Griezmann, not only enjoyed a happy night in Bilbao, but, managing for the first time in the championship to tie two victories away from the Camp Nou, warned that with the new year may be dreaming of abandoning depression and conquering the illusion.
Cruyff said that “A flower does not make summer” and it is obvious that it is too early, too early, to ring the bells. Atlético de Madrid, with two games less, leads Barça with seven points and Real Madrid with five. But around the Barça team, which played in yellow on Wednesday, the feeling can begin to set in, as Ronald Koeman wants, to be at the right time to start the final growth.
Remember, or rather, remember, Fran Rijkaard’s first season on the bench. Another Dutchman in troubled times and that after 17 league matches he had the team in the ninth and fifteenth position, fifteen, from Real Madrid, then leader with 39 points. Rijkaard was on the verge of resignation, and then-President Joan Laporta kept him in office. Once again (3-0), he got 15 wins and two draws for, against everything he imagined, he ended up dreaming of a league title that was not won with restriction.
It is not known how far this Messi’s Barça can go, with Pedri on the rise, De Jong unleashed, Dembélé fired and waiting for Ansu Fati’s recovery to complete his illusion. It is possible that the disappointment will turn against Granada and that the Supercup will catapult him to success or collapse him to failure … But seeing what was seen in Bilbao, Koeman’s team finally gave a sense of illusion .
Third in the League, growing and hopeful. Thus, at least on the night of the kings, Barça lived in San Mamés.