"Killer" Suárez wins the chambers with a doublet of gold (2-1)

Clearly with the aim of resarcirse of the defeat suffered in the Classical of League BBVA against the Real Madrid, the FC Barcelona of Luis Enrique jumped to the lawn of the Camp Nou this Tuesday with the "another" eleven of gala, with the only change of Ter Stegen by Claudio Bravo. The "Cholo" Simeone was not less and planted of exit to two players that had been doubts to the end, Godín and Carrasco, to try plant face to the culés and try take out a good result of the gone of quarter-finals of UEFA Champions League in the Camp Nou. A stadium, by the way, that did not doubt in pitar of massive form the hymn of the Champions when it began to sound by the speakers. When the collegiate Felix Brych gave the pitido initial, anyway, the Barça began to leave patent his extra motivation for the party, conscious that it needed a victory to the big to raise the spirit of the fans and restart the positive dynamics of the last months. And it is that the rojiblancos jumped to the field exerting an intense offensive pressure to hamper the exit of balloon culé, but did not achieve it in front of the fluidity of ideas in the first minutes of the ones of Luis Enrique, shutting to the Athletic in own area and moving the balloon of band to band, looking for a resquicio in the férrea defence visitor.

The first intentonas culés arrived of the boots of midfield players like Busquets and Rakitic, those who tried to connect with a "MSN" very very marked to the edge of the area of Jan Oblak, already went by means of some that another aerial balloon or fast combinations by raso. In the minute 5 of party arrived the first warning of Leo Messi. Anxious for marking the goal 500 in his sportive career, the Argentinian star tested fortune with a powerful shot raso from out of the area, that left to a metre and half of the left stick of the goal colchonera. The fans of the Camp Nou -that once again presented a good entrance- celebrated the attempt, manifesting also from the minute one his support to the team with diverse chants like "Barça, Barça!" Or the classical "Olele, Olala". To the Athletic cost him happen of half field, but when it did it arrived with many effective and forced to the Barça to back, with the "MSN" going down until field suitable for expecting a possible counterattack.

FC Barcelona and Athletic tantean, but do not dominate

With the step of the minutes, in any case, the Athletic was encouraging to go up lines and Fernando Torres starred a dangerous approach, that fortunately for the Barça finished in a barren centre to a centre of the area entirely desert of players rojiblancos. The party was alive and the two teams were tanteando still passed the ten first minutes. In the thirteen, however, a good centre from the left band of Jordi Alba finish in a finish at first of Leo Messi, the one who did not connect of the all well with the balloon and sent it too diverted, near of the pennant of corner. It was just before it lived one of the most special moments of the party, because in the minute 14 the fans of the FC Barcelona raised and began to applaud during a whole minute in homage to Johan Cruyff, in an act that seems that will have a lot of more echos along the next meetings that the team contest in the sanctuary culé. In fact, even the bench of the Athletic of Madrid applauded, conscious of the transcendence of the homenajeado.

On the terrain of game, the party was dynamic and moving by all the zones of the field, but without that any of the two teams achieved to have the sufficient fluidity in attack as to première the marker. This same could do Neymar Jr, the one who in the minute 19 finished a precise centre of Dani Alves of head, with the balloon brushing the crossbar of Jan Oblak. Until then, the Barcelona had hurt by the bands and seemed to have found a filón that explode, since of this form besides achieved desordenar to the athletic defence. To the Barça was missing him measure better the last pass and also the finish to goal, but until the minute 20 of the first part the performance of the team culé was being good. No of the all brilliant, but yes dominant on the lawn, generating danger and offering an image what less ambitious. Neymar Jr Was beginning to connect through several spectacular dribblings, whereas the member of the trident that less participatory was was Luis Suárez, very very fixed by Godín and Lucas practically in the penalty spot.

Fernando Torres, one of cal and another of sand

In the minute 24, Antoine Griezmann fraguó the first clear opportunity of the Athletic, with a shot from out of the area that, raso, upset slightly Ter Stegen, leaving diverted. It was the preamble of the first goal of the party, work of Fernando Torres. Pass milimétrico of Koke Resurrection so that "The Boy" defined to perfection, with a very shy defence of the Barça and leaving a lot of spaces between lines. 11 goals in 15 parties of Fernando Torres to the FC Barcelona along his sportive career, and the public of the Camp Nou that regretted but, a minute afterwards, encouraged still with more strength to his. The goal changed slightly the diagrams. The Athletic threw for backwards and shut , fortificándose backwards and expecting opportunities to the counterattack, whereas the Barcelona happened to have the absolute command of the game and to shut to the Athletic in his own area, bombing it with centres and intentonas of pass between lines.

In spite of this, the Athletic went on doing damage. A counterattack rojiblanco finished with a very dangerous shot of Griezmann, that was followed of a hand saviour of Ter Stegen so that it did not go up the second so much visitor to the marker. Jordi Alba hurt of the doll in a bad gesture when falling after this same played, but recovered quickly and could continue without problems. In spite of the fright of the shot of Griezmann, the reality is that the meeting would put something costs down for the FC Barcelona few minutes afterwards. Fernando Torres, that had yellow card, committed a hard entrance and to destiempo on Sergio Busquets, receiving deservedly the second yellow and leaving expelled in the minute 34. This involved that the Athletic happened to shut definitively in his own field and, of course, to lose time of all the forms habidas and for having. In the kickoffs of door, in the faults, kickoffs of band, protesting each action, trying look for the cosquillas to the forwards of the Barça... All the possible strategies so that the first time finish and, like this, can arrive to the changing room still by in front in the marker. And like this it was.

Siege without respite of the FC Barcelona to the Athletic

In the second half, the Barça already knew what expected him, but at least had had time to rest mentally and order the ideas. The Athletic of Madrid followed losing time every time that it stopped the game, whereas the Barça tried to surpass his own ghosts to elaborate a more dangerous game to the goal of Jan Oblak, something that did not achieve. In spite of being with ten, the Athletic followed generating danger during the first minutes of the second half. In the minute 48, a centre raso of Carrasco from the right band strolled by the small area of the FC Barcelona, fortunately without striker. A minute afterwards, however, a centre of Neymar Jr finish with a shot of Chilean of Leo Messi, that left was brushing the right stick and raised of his seats to the public of the Camp Nou, much more encouraged after this occasion. And after the following, because the Barça had activated suddenly. Neymar Jr, with a shot with thread from the left part of the area, crashed in the crossbar the balloon, personificando the worst fears of an Athletic to favour of the Barça.

Shortly after this played, Luis Suárez was about to to receive in the small area, but the defence rojiblanca achieved to repel the danger. Simeone, that was seeing concerned the panorama, decided to take out to Carrasco of the terrain of game and plant to a midfield player more, Augusto Fernández, with the aim to follow baling out the danger as if it was water in a ship that sinks . It did not have too effect the change in first instance, as Luis Suárez finished of head a centre from the left band that Jan Oblak cut across. Two minutes afterwards was Messi the one who tested it again, with a dry shot from out of the area that achieved to divert the guardameta rojiblanco, in a refuse that it repelled Godín before it arrived Neymar Jr to sign the goal of the tie. The Barça had to the Athletic shut in a siege without respite, but did not attain until the moment put the ball inside the goal in spite of the high flow of clear opportunities of goal. All were "uys" and "ays" in the terracings of the Camp Nou, that sang without stopping to encourage to the Barça and whistled during the few seconds in which the Athletic had the balloon.

Luis Suárez, the son of the goal

In the minute 61 of party, Neymar Jr went back to star a shot with thread from out of the area that went back to leave diverted brushing the stick, but was the anteroom of the first goal of the FC Barcelona against the Athletic, work of Luis Suárez. The Uruguayan forward of the Barça, in a played enrevesada, found a shot diverted of Andrés Iniesta in the interior of the small area to command it at the end of the goal of Oblak, putting the tables in the marker and desatando the joy contained of the terracings of the Camp Nou. The Barcelona exploded of anger, so much in the field as in the bench, and Luis Suárez carried the balloon to the centre of the field to continue besieging immediately the goal rojiblanca. Rafinha Alcántara ingresó in the terrain of game by Rakitic, returning to a party after having happened six months lesionado, and being the protagonist of one of the most positive news, therefore, of all the day. The Barça followed tightening and, in the minute 67, everything was opened. 

During the coming minutes, the FC Barcelona followed attacking but finding less than before the goal of the Athletic of Madrid... Although it was a mirage. Because, at least it expected it the Athletic, a precise centre and endemoniado of Dani Alves found the head of Luis Suárez, the one who with a twist of perfect neck marked a delight of goal, signing a "doublet" that served to put to the FC Barcelona by in front in the marker. The Barça happened to dominate the marker of form adjusted, but in spite of this wanted to fraguar a bloodletting in the electronic and continued attacking and generating show, the only that knows to do.

The Athletic followed trying lose time and the Barça was not the same of effective that in the previous minutes of face to goal. Luis Enrique took out to Burn and Sergi Roberto by Iniesta and Busquets, consecrating of this form a centre of the radically different field to the that had begun the meeting. The intensity, during the last minutes of party, was going down progressively and seemed that the two teams began to conform with the result. The Barça protested a possible penalti to Leo Messi in the minute 85, but Felix Brych no pitó at all and asked to the Argentinian star that raised . The third goal did not arrive, but was not because the FC Barcelona did not try it. At the end, victory adjusted of the Barcelona that does not sentence the eliminatory -neither much less-, but that serves to have the wind in favour of face to the party of turn in Vicente Calderón, the Wednesday of next week.

Technical index card of the party: FC Barcelona 2-1 Athletic

FC Barcelona, 2: Ter Stegen; Alves, Hammered, Mascherano, Alba; Busquets (Roberto, 80'), Iniesta (Burn, 83'), Rakitic (Rafinha, 64'); Messi, Neymar and Suárez.

Athletic, 1: Oblak; Juanfran, Godín, Lucas, Filipe Luis; Gabi, Koke, Saúl (Correa, 90'); Carrasco (Augusto, 53'), Griezmann (Thomas, 73') and Torres.

Goals of the party: Fernando Torres, 25'; Luis Suárez, 63'; Luis Suárez, 73'.

Referee: Felix Brych.

Incidences: corresponding Party to the gone of 1/4 of Champions League, contested in the Camp Nou.

Next party: Real Sociedad vs FC Barcelona (League BBVA J32)