I suppose that I wasn’t the only one who ended up angry after the classic loss against Real Madrid, although for a moment it seemed that way to me.
FC Barcelona played a pretty good first half, but nothing to write home about; I mean, we could talk about an excellent first half if we had gone to the locker room with a couple of goals advantage. Real Madrid was in tow until they stopped doing so in the second halfat which point Barça fell behind and doubts began to creep in, as small teams do, locking themselves in the small area, something that against Real Madrid represents sporting suicide.
As culer I was desperate to see the team lose balls while they were squeezed together due to the insistence of the meringues. After the first goal the whites began to believe it and we began to get scared. Seeing how things were going, the feeling was that the game was going to be Madrid’s, and so it was.
Then came the post-match statements and I didn’t understand that they were talking about how well we had played for 60 minutes. So what if we play well if we end up defeated later? The statements of the fans at the exit of the stadium were of a desperate conformism, never seen in this club. Where are those partners and followers who shit on everything when something like this happened? What is happening to all of us? Have we become small and are we content with having dominated Madrid for 60 minutes?
As if that were not enough, Gündogan, in statements that honor him, He suggested that some players took the defeat with little pride, and Gavi, a player who has plenty of pride, commented that they were overwhelmed.
As a partner I would like to see more anger and more wounded pride than I have noticed in the following days, angry like the one I know he had president Laporta after the match, one of those angry ones you have to have after losing to your eternal rival. Let’s see if all of us, or at least some players and fans, wake up and start asking for what we have always demanded, pride in being a Barcelona fan and a greater capacity for self-criticism.