Blaugrana cavalcade – AS.com

Barcelona staged a parade in La Catedral with a new coach with Marcelino riding Pedri and Messi to win 2-3 a postponed match that corresponded to the second day of the championship. After a disastrous start, Koeman's team was activated to offer its best version and is already third in the standings, only behind Atlético and Real Madrid.

Barça started the game in San Mamés as it ended last season, sinking. Last year, the Barcelona team ended their last two visits to San Mamés by hitting the knee at the last minute, first due to a goal by Aduriz and then with an own goal by Busquets. As if months had not passed since then, the entrance scene at La Catedral was identical.

Two minutes later, a ride by Iñaki Willams portrayed the Barcelona defense together with special mention of Lenglet and beat Ter Stegen. Thus began a match that at the beginning seemed like it was going to be torture for the Barça fans, who were absolutely freaked out.

Athletic played two speeds above the Blaugrana, besieged the visiting goalkeeper's area with pecks from Williams himself or Muniain. Barça, for its part, saw how the history so repeated in recent games was on the way to repeating itself: a concentration error, starting losing and an exercise in impotence.

But this time, two luxury secondary appeared to change the scene. First it was Demebélé, who as he plays another game different from the rest of 21 players is unpredictable. The Frenchman broke the Basque defense with his rides and gave oxygen to a Barça in which Pedri emerged, a footballer scandal that grows more and more every day.

The canary tied the game at the end of the quarter of an hour when he went to look for a ball that was lost on the bottom line and that he recovered from Jong to the surprise of the Athletic defense, who wanted to compensate for the hell of his rivals in the initial minutes.

From the tie, Barça grew and Athletic doubted. Dembélé was a nightmare for his marker and Pedri put the magic with an assist from his back stepping on the ball that allowed Messi to finish off an empty goal and put Koeman's men ahead. The Argentine celebrated it by pointing to Pedri, the new partner who today is the best argument for Leo to stay at Barça.

Barça had chances to extend the advantage, but Unai was inspired by Griezmann, who regained ownership with good tone relegating Braithwaite to the bench and then he was lucky that a shot from Messi to pass the Frenchman was licking the stick.

Barça had arranged a disastrous start and now they needed to keep up with Athletic, who he forgave in the final stretch of the first half.

The game was resumed with the coordinates of the first half and Araújo had to save the goal from Williams' equalizer, but Barça regained control thanks to Messi. In the 53rd minute they annulled a goal for an offside of centimeters, six minutes later he fired at the crosshead and at 62 he scored the third from Griezmann's pass. Barça fueled like never in a long time and they also smiled on the pitch and on the bench.

An improper mistake by Messi in the last minute of the game, Giving away a ball that Muniain converted to 2-3, he gave emotion to a match that Barça was, once again, unable to finish quietly.