Barça gives a victory to Piqué in his farewell

Everything was predisposed so that the emotions spread through all the corners of the decayed Camp Nou. Who knows if also for the box. Farewells often serve to iron out rough edges. Afterwards, there may or may not be a stain. With the fans, after the whistles of the last game, matter solved. More viewers than ever this season and his name chanted as he played. With the president laporta looks like it will cost more. Perhaps they are electoral rivals one day. We will see. Things of the future.

Everything was predisposed for a night of emotions but the delay in solving the game, due to the inaccuracy in the final meters, prevented the evening from having the air of an act of homage. Rather, it flew over a cold environment, until Christiansen He replaced him eight minutes from closing with the victory in the bag. So yes, then the Camp Nou stopped to applaud him. So that all the players on the field hugged him (also Xavi). So that all the components of the bench applauded him. Then, a lap of honor, more cheers, some sincere tears and see you soon to a giant.

Before, Piqué, competitive as the most, closed his last match with height. He made up for the bitter day at Inter. It is true that Almería did not demand much of him. He acted quickly on cuts and precision on long, diagonal deliveries that he was always good at. His best game of the season? Without a doubt, although the bar, given the prevailing ostracism, was not very high. In any case he was able to show his trainer that he could still be useful, but things have gone like this.

no frivolities

He had the opportunity to leave with a goal, but he wanted to save the ornamentation for last. Win first. He refused to shoot a penalty with an eloquent gesture to Lewandowski signaled at the dawn of the encounter. Shoot you, she came to tell him. Pity. She surely would have focused on it better. Not even between the three sticks did the Pole shoot.

The captain did not want frivolous gifts yesterday, although he accepted the transfer of the bracelet from Busquets. If he had to score a goal to sweeten the goodbye, he would look for it himself. Like the header from a corner after 12 minutes that he escaped high.

In all the corner kicks, in fact, he sought his coronation. And there were many, because the game progressed like so many games that Piqué has played at the Camp Nou. The visiting team sitting back, more trembling than cunningly crouching, and Barça, as if constantly groping the wall with their knuckles, looking for where to drill. Insulting command, but it took him a while to open a hole despite the abundance of opportunities throughout the first half.

star finial

Dembélé, who had had about 45 minutes in a daze and without a compass (yes, one of those days), knocked the wall to the ground with a slalom culminating with a star shot two minutes after the restart. For the good and the bad, which is usually said in your case. He missed a few minutes later a goal that seemed not to want to score. Quite incomprehensible what he did, with just one defender under the sticks. As reliable as a piranha in the bathtub.

De Jong tied the result with a shot from close range after a pass as fine as silk by Jordi Alba, who was very competent in his performance yesterday. Ansu Fati did not take advantage of the little gift (he has not just recovered the angel he had) and the Dutchman shot in his turn. Alba must have felt at some point during the season that his presence on Luis Enrique’s list for the World Cup was in danger. He shouldn’t, apparently against Almería.

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With Piqué leaving the field, the match languished, more concerned with whether it was going to end 3-0 than 2-1 and above all the return of honor of the exceptional center-back, the unapologetic footballer who lived in the public light away from the cliches. So far removed from them that he retires on November 5, the rarest date for a retirement. And as a winner that he has always been, he did it with a win.

The last Dance? Please! That the orchestra does not go too far. “President, President!” the audience chanted at the end. Needless to say more.