Barcelona has found plenty of arguments to justify its defeat in Sunday’s classic at the Bernabéu. Although Ancelotti’s team seemed to play with a certain condescension, the distance on the scoreboard was minimal, reason enough to debate the details of the match and to check both the referee’s and the VAR’s performance. The dubious decisions were decided in favor of Madrid or against Barça. In any case, none of them provoked as much debate as Lamine Yamal’s phantom goal following a corner taken by Raphinha.
The absence of a chip that would certify whether or not the ball crossed the goal line, a common device in most European tournaments, fuels the debate in journalistic gatherings that live more on speculation than information and questions the modus operandi of the league. Nobody explains how it is possible that in a commercialized football like the current one, such a banal instrument has not yet been incorporated – its cost does not reach four million – that allows us to objectively discern whether it was a goal by the Barça winger or a save by the Madrid goalkeeper Lunin. .
The bungling fosters uncertainty and encourages threatening interventions like Laporta’s. The president has taken advantage of the doubts to request an audiovisual review of the match and even its replay if appropriate, convinced that if Barça lost against Madrid and will end up giving up the title it is because the sum of errors against his team and successes in favor of their rival marks the 11 point difference that appears today in the League standings. An assessment that is difficult to sustain if one considers Barcelona’s erratic trajectory.
The intervention of the Barça president recorded in a video that is more homemade than institutional is extemporaneous and populist, more typical of the Real Madrid TV series on the resume of the referees who whistle at the club presided by Florentino Pérez than a declaration of intentions by FC Barcelona , an entity that boasts precisely of intangibles such as being “more than a club” and having its own style of play summarized in the DNA of Barça. Until now, no one has lived more from day to day life, the improvisation and the suspicion that comes from the VAR than Laporta.
The president became angry with the Barça flag to find alibis to excuse his government work after a blank year summed up at the Bernabéu. Laporta tries to make the 3-2 of the classic explain the grievances suffered by Barça and exempt him from giving explanations on matters such as the Negreira case or from being transparent regarding the continuity of Xavi. The goal is to buy time until the next game. And if the victory does not need comment, the defeat is explained based on the grievance, as happened at the Bernabéu.
The victim’s story was assumed and shared as long as it had signature and credibility, expressed in the penalty that was not a penalty by Guruceta. Nothing to do with the ghost goal that is not even known if it was a goal by Lamine Yamal. Laporta’s argument detracts from that of the ingenious, witty, seductive and charismatic president who regained the presidency with the banner of “looking forward to seeing you again” hanging near the Bernabéu. The video expresses the hardships that the club is experiencing and the lack of institutional sense of a president misplaced far from the Camp Nou.
Although the ball came bouncing from the VAR, Laporta’s shot escaped through the Maratón de Montjuïc door when he wanted to convert a play from the classic into the goal that explains the League.
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