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BENZEMA AND VINI, THE PROTAGONISTS

Very hard 'KO' of Barça in the Cup against a Madrid that thrashed at the Camp Nou (0-4)

Published:5/04/2023 - 22:54h

Updated:6/04/2023 - 03:03h

FC Barcelona says goodbye to this season's Copa del Rey final, and the possibility of securing a double that many had as objectives at the beginning of the season

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The FC Barcelona has received this Wednesday to the Real Madrid in the meeting of turn of the semifinals of the Glass of the King 2022-2023. The Barcelona team, absolute leader in LaLiga, looked for to close his pass to the final of the tournament, in where it already is -and by a lot of- the winning maximum of the history. Finally the mission would not be possible for the ones of Xavi, thanks to a so much totally out of libreto that opened the marker.

So many players, like technical body and fans of the Barça knew that they went to find with an authentic partidazo in front of the merengues if it wanted to inscribe his name in the big final, where already expected Osasuna after his victory of the Tuesday in Saint Mamés in front of the Athletic Club. Precisely the beginning of the party did not defraud in the script that expected and the first minutes were of authentic football of elite.

Already to the 30 seconds of party the Madrid had a free shot to his favour, without too much danger and less than a minute afterwards already the Barça retorted with a big played of Alejandro Balde, that in the first 45 minutes was definitely the footballer culé more dangerous for the goal of Courtois. The big pressure, pregonada many times by Xavi, was the leading and the Catalan team did not leave to think to the madridistas.

So effective was the plan of the technician egarense so that the Madrid did not go out, that before the 3 minutes arrived the first controversial action of the party after a centre of Gavi that hit directly in the hand of David Praises. The main of the party, Martínez Munuera, and the VAR considered that the arm of the Austrian was in natural position and signalled that there was not penalti.

A lot of faults and individual duels

The first chamber of party had, definitely, big quantity of 'battles' on the field. Vinicius And Araújo as they always were to the his, whereas by the another sector, Carvajal tried to brake to Balde, as well as an always dynamic Gavi. Raphinha By his part tried descifrar the defence of a Camavinga that to the 5 minutes had fallen lesionado of his right thigh, but opted for being still in the meeting.

The minute 10 and 11 would have two played very clear for each team, although characterised by the little fortune to the hour of the final definition. First Sergi Roberto received a pass genial of Gavi inside the big area, but his shot went out very feeble. Less than a minute afterwards, Araújo would save to the Barça after a centre of Rodrygo that would have found totally only to Vinicius, and with Ter Stegen already defeated.

In the middle of these played, arrived the ovation of the Camp Nou for Leo Messi, that keeps on being a proper name for the summer culé. After those 'almost goals' of culés and merengues, the party would develop his tonic main with brush them and crashes between rival players, of course with Vinicius and Gavi like protagonists in several occasions, in front of that in the 26' would arrive his 'duel' definite, in which both finished admonished, to the equal that already was Xavi from the 16' protest to the main referee.

From those almost 30 minutes of meeting, the Madrid understood that it could not follow remaining badly stopped in the contragolpe and preferred to begin to administer better the time to try finish the first time, at least with the tie. The libreto of Ancelotti resulted to perfection when, after a big volley of left-handed of Lewandowski and a covered of Courtois, the whites would go up with a contragolpe administered between Vini and Karim Benzema, the one who weighed very little in the first 45 minutes.

They appeared the 'holy cows' of the Madrid

The second time would begin with an almost identical intensity, doing that any lover of the football thought in that it never finished the meeting. The Barça wise very well that needed a fast goal if it wanted to be again with a foot in the final and like this went out to the field. The midfield was a much freer zone that in the end of the first-half, and there Luka Modric began to have much more leadership in attack.

The Croat tried a pair of played in speed to the area culé, something that finally would bring his fruits when in the minute 50 the mediocampista triangularía with Militao and Valverde, for later find to a Benzema totally only some steps more atras of the penalty spot. The French would not forgive a so clear action and would leave enmudecido to the Camp Nou with a 0-2 that few saw to come.

Without the conditioning of the goal of the visitor, the Barça wise that with a goal was again with the eliminatory equalised. With this in mind, Ronald Araújo would begin to be a right side much more offensive and even would throw of class in front of his compatriot Valverde to leave it on the lawn with an unexpected dribbling. The charrúa would shoot to the arch of big way, but Praises would finish diverting the balloon, although the referee has not signalled the shot of corresponding corner.

In the previous to this big attempt, already Courtois had had a second important stop in the meeting, and some seconds later would be a viewer of luxury in front of a big finish of Raphinha, that did not finish to surpass to a Camavinga that was out of position. Toquellas win of the Barça to discount would receive a hard hit when in the 58' the Madrid would receive a penalti in favour.

Vinicius Followed tried to surpass to Araújo, and feeling the need to collaborate with his mate, an errático Kessié tried to do a coverage on the Brazilian and finished with a pizotón unnecessary on the attacker madridista. Benzema Confirmed his mejoría in the second stretch of the meeting and would convert the 0-3 of the Madrid deceiving to a Ter Stegen that did not have too much that do in any of the three so many merengues.

It lost all the much more closed sense of what at the end was

When it was near to arrive the hour of meeting, the eliminatory went in in a dynamics of 'KO' for the Barça, that although had the entry of Ansu Fati to try begin the traced back, saw like the Madrid followed more near of his fourth goal. With a libreto very similar would follow the following 15 minutes, in which ingresaron also Eric García and Ferran Torres, but without being able to change what proponia his own team, neither neither the rival.

I remain all this very very exemplified when already in the 81' Vinicius would take advantage of win them to mark of the Barça to find totally only, once again, to Benzema and sealed the elimination of the Barça, after a first time in which it was very upper to the whites. The end of the party would remain framed with Vinicius and his win to be leading in each moment, and until going out of change tried to create conflicts where really did not exist.

Technical index card of the party: FC Barcelona 0-4 Real Madrid

  • FC Barcelona: Ter Stegen; Araújo, Koundé, Marcos Alonso (min. 66, Eric García), Balde; Busquets, Sergi Roberto, Kessié (min. 60, Ansu) Gavi; Raphinha (min. 66, Ferran) and Lewandowski.
  • Real Madrid: Courtois, Carvajal, Militao, Praises, Camavinga; Kroos, Modric (min. 87, Tchouameni), Valverde; Rodrygo (min. 74, Rodrygo), Vinicius (min. 86, Ceballos) and Benzema (min 89, Nacho).
  • Referee: Martínez Munuera.
  • Incidences: corresponding Party to the turn of the semifinals of the Glass of the King 2022-2023
  • Goals of the party: 0-1, Vinicius Jr (min. 45+1), 0-2, Benzema (min. 50), 0-3, Benzema (min. 58), 0-4 (min. 81, Benzema).

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