Barça and Juventus, two of the three promoted teams in the embryonic Superliga Classista, are increasingly showing their dream reasons. Economically, of course, but also sportingly, because they have to earn a status in a foreign ministry that they don’t deserve today, when everything is reduced to football, that pure football that occasionally rebels against the nomenclature and its glory. What they can no longer guarantee on the pitch, the two clubs have to secure in the palace.
Cursed and amnesiac as it is, football doesn’t always understand caste, so it’s possible that with several plebeian rivals in the middle, some aristocrat might fall out of the European Cup and end up in the catacombs of the Europa League, nothing to do with the sparkling celebrity world . Barça, who have failed to score against Bayern for the third time in thirteen months – as they had previously against Bayern and Benfica themselves – are now doomed to a suburban tournament. A transit teeming with rivals, from whom he almost wanted to flee with a super league à la carte, without relegation, initially a closed space only for supposed masters. It is worse for the Vecchia Signora, who have to play for a place in the popular Europa League with Maccabi Haifa, their executioner in Israel. This Barça, which brought Joan Laporta back with a giant hand against the Bernabéu, has fared better than the whole Agnelli family: after all, they have beaten Viktoria Pilsen, their only win in this Champions League so far. An unknown master for Lewandowski, his flag bearer. Three defeats in five games for the Pole, as many as he recorded in 43 games at Bayern. Only Real Madrid, the Super League’s main patrician, are currently subject to a watchtower from which to claim a tournament reserved for European royalty. Especially when he sees a danger that cannot be ruled out in Barça and Juventus when it comes to bloody football.
The Barça goal, Atlético’s blunder and Sevilla’s slip-up can be categorized as separate phenomena. With those pointing to a downturn in La Liga following the departure of Cristiano and Messi, it must be stressed that Real without CR champions were champions. And Barça have stayed dry in Europe for six consecutive years with Messi as troubadour, some of them appallingly. This league is the same league that not only gave shelter to the European champions and martyrs of the brilliant Prime Minister last season (Madrid melted down Chelsea, City and Liverpool). United went down the drain against Atlético, which City miraculously resisted. By the way, Villarreal just six months ago defeated the royal Bavarians who are crushing, crushing and crushing Barça who thrashed said Villarreal a week ago. Football and its winch.
Carrasco’s penalty was missed by Jaime Villanueva
The problems of Barça, Atlético and Sevilla are limited to Barça, Atlético and Sevilla. All three were beaten by football, seventh in Calcium (Inter), third in the Belgian league (Bruges), 15th in the Bundesliga (Bayer Leverkusen) and eighth in the run-down Danish league (Copenhagen). The Spaniards, who fell three times in the first half of the season for the first time in Champions League history, lacked competitive strength. To an overrated Barça with its summery neon levers, to an Atlético that is more called than cholista, and to a Seville that sold better than ever but bought worse than ever.
Add Atlético, who have yet to secure a place in the Europa League, Spain have five representatives in Thursday’s European Cup. A league that detracts from the beauty of the domestic league, with fierce drives on Thursdays and just hours for Sunday’s restart. A scourge for the divine Super League visionary Barça, who had come to terms with Bayern as much as he was protected by a cheering crowd with fewer expectations than his ancestors. An escape route for the disappointed Metropolitan and Nervión, who at least know what it means to rise to the top of the Europa League and whose greed has never been to stir up elite games. Today is your turn to accept your reality. Like Barça, although he resists and, like never before, summons a Super League of plutocrats to protect him from these shocks. Why not assume that the incomparable charm of football is that there are cases like this Barça or this Juventus, or that of the Sheriff, Shakhtar, Maccabi Haifa…? This is the people’s football.
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