The Champions League is Barcelona’s new garden

Barcelona arrived with the urgency to achieve a good result in Dortmund after how he was wandering in the League. And he needed it urgently because he had to, on the one hand, stop the blow, and on the other, establish himself among the eight best in the competition that give direct access to the second round. And he passed the test in a big way. It was a hungry Barcelona that never lost face of the game, overcoming the rival and also some referee decisions.

It is clear that this team playing like this He is a clear favorite to win the competition. It is true that there is a world left until June, but this Barcelona is something else. His way of competing in Dortmund was exceptional. It was not that team that lets go or gives up in the face of the first adversities. No, this Barça fights until the end and with Ferran who was the key piece when the starters were no longer giving enough of themselves. Barça has turned the Champions League into their home garden.

He’s getting a taste for the game. Lamine Yamal He increasingly uses the pass with the outside to assist his teammates. And he executes them with enormous mastery. After a quarter of an hour he made a pinpoint pass to Raphinha who, absolutely alone and with everything in his favor, sent the ball wide. And the pass, although not with the outside, to Ferran in the third is also from a video game.

What of Married It’s not normal. The kid manages to be in all the places his team needs. It is insurance for the defenders, especially the full-backs, when they go up to attack and the rival counterattack arrives. Casadó appears there to abort the rival’s attempt. The progression of this kid since Flick bet on him Since the beginning of the season it has been spectacular.

In Seville, Flick already changed him ahead of time against Betis. In Dortmund with twenty minutes left the Pole went to the bench again. The coach is clear that whoever does not play well goes to the bench, whatever his name is. Robert Lewandowski that is, a kid from La Masía. Meritocracy is sacred to Flick and his players appreciate that.

Ferran has already left the bench against Betis to score the second goal of the game. The Valencian is ‘on fire’ because a week before he had already scored in Mallorca. Against Borussia it was arriving and kissing the saint because four minutes after entering the field he scored the goal that put the Blaugranas ahead again.