It was a night of celebration and an intimidating and superb show for Barcelona.
Antoine Griezmann celebrated his 30th birthday with a goal, Lionel Messi his absolute record of 768 matches with the Barça shirt with two goals and an assistant for Sergñe Dest, who thus made his debut on the LaLiga score list.
All this helped Ronald Koeman to celebrate the expansion of the Catalan team’s away victories to nine, with a 6-1 victory over Real Soceidad.
Barcelona celebrated a victory with a shot in San Sebastián to climb another step and no one stops believing around the Camp Nou.
Ten goals in the last two matches and five consecutive victories from the unimaginable draw at the Camp Nou against Cádiz relaunched a Barça that enjoys the happiest moment of the season and that responded to Atlético’s close and long victory over Alavés with a overwhelming triumph over a Real Sociedad that defended them at first, but ended up kneeling in front of an open poster.
Koeman, after touching and retouching the scheme, seems to have found the cornerstone for this Barça who from the three centers, with Frenkie de Jong a little behind, forgot the doubts to turn everything into certainties.
For the third day, the Dutch coach repeated the formation and without realizing that this new scheme penalizes the game on the wings, it is superb that this 3-5-2, with Messi behind the points, has become, or at least so it seems, in an indisputable scheme.
From that 1-1 draw against Cádiz, which followed the tough 1-4 draw against PSG in the Champions League on schedule, Barça’s accelerating football is a constant with a phenomenal start to the two consecutive games against Sevilla, with an important victory in Pizjuán to relaunch in the League and win a magnificent return to the Cup.
With 10 rounds to the end of LaLiga, no one could bet today on Atlético de Madrid, who, before winning with a minimum against Alavés (victory saved by the penalty that Oblak saved in the last minute), clarified that it passes through a particularly difficult time both in terms of the game and the results.
Real Madrid grits their teeth with Karim Benzema as a stiletto and Barça enjoy a football catapult reminiscent of the second half of the 2003-04 season.
The difference is that at present he does not have to overcome a clear disadvantage and that, with 30 points before and after adding 37 of the last 39 or tying 18 days without knowing defeat, the dream is seen closer than ever.
Barça intimidate and do it in a superb way.