One Barca player didn’t celebrate the win over Real Madrid in El Clásico
It’s over. FC Barcelona left LaLiga open for judgment this Sunday after beating Real Madrid of Carlo Ancelotti , Kylian Mbappé , Vinícius and company.
Hansi Flick ‘s men once again recovered from an adverse result of two goals down to give a new exhibition and, despite the ominous and biased refereeing, they surpassed the whites, leaving their season like the color of their shirt and marking the beginning of an era that will last a long time.
The Lluís Companys de Montjuïc presented an atmosphere that is not forgotten, with fans devoted to the team who, once the match was over, did not want to leave the stadium. With the goal disallowed to Fermín López there was a celebration that smelled like a title. And after the final whistle, the delirium. The team and fans knew that this was much more than a victory.
Overcoming Real Madrid for the fourth time in the same season, making a full set of victories against the eternal rival and sentencing the competition is not something that happens every season. In fact, it was the first time that the Blaugrana won all the meetings with the team from the capital in the same campaign.
The celebration on the pitch, although measured, was inevitable. The Barça players could not contain their desire to commune with the fans. And in private, in the dressing room, the party continued . In fact, some players went afterwards to the Opium nightclub in Barcelona, where they enjoyed, among other things, a concert by Travis Scott , the star of the advertising that the Catalans wore on their shirts for this Clásico .
However, there was one player who did not participate in the party on the pitch, in the dressing room or at the disco. It was Iñaki Peña , who had a very difficult season. The goalkeeper was given the starting role after Marc-André ter Stegen was injured.
But Barça signed Wojciech Szczęsny shortly afterwards , who had just finished drinking mojitos and smoking a few packs of cigarettes while enjoying his retirement in Marbella . And Flick, without hesitation, gave him the starting role when he was fit.
Since then, no sign of Iñaki except in the second half of the Spanish Super Cup final, when Szczęsny was sent off against Real Madrid . In the games in which he was there, he was not the worst Iñaki Peña has ever been seen in goal for Barça, but Flick never had confidence in him. The rift between the goalkeeper and the coach was already unbridgeable.
From then on, Peña knew that his future at Barça would not go beyond this season. And while Ansu Fati celebrated the almost title of the Blaugrana team, Peña remained in the shadows, far from a team that he has long felt he does not belong to.
Source: El Nacional
