Classics and novices

The social and political climate is polarized in extremes and the Classic also, in its own way. Barcelona and Real Madrid only seem to attend to the intensive care of the usual, Messi Y Pique on one side, Bouquets Y Benzema of the other, and at the blow of electroshocks, with Ansu Fati Y Vinicius like shocks to bring two teams full of apathy back to life. Classics and novels.

Of Messi and Ramos, little can be added. That the first one unblocked the premiere in Barça's Champions League and that without the second, the camero, Madrid made more waters than the Titanic against Shakhtar. As classic as the Classic. The Argentine, 26 goals against Madrid; Ramos will surpass an institution, Gento, in duels against the great rival, with 43 Clásicos. In this category there are also two moving with many wars on their backs although without much sporting weight right now, Piqué (37 Classics) and Benzema … and Modric. The Croatian (35 years old) warned after the damage in the Champions League. “Against Shakhtar I am not up to par, but El Clásico is always different and we will be at the level of the match,” he assures.

Other things are young people. With the middle class without showing their heads (), the chiquillería does claim a large portion of prominence. Many eyes look at 22 culé. “Ansu Fati is the heir of Ansu Fati”Luis Enrique said recently to highlight the new Spanish sensation. The X-ray of his hatching impresses and his goal against Ferencvaros, too. But as he grabs the throne, the staff is from Messi.

Ansu is among the finalists of the Golden Boy, like Vinicius. Vini there he continues, fighting against the goal (less and less) and against the distrust of his coach, but it is indisputable that Madrid is another with him. Against Shakhtar and in a night of dogs, Modric paved the possible white reaction but it was the Brazilian who really understood how Madrid's European comebacks are. He went out, ate the Ukrainian team in the pressure and finished it with the goal: all in 12 seconds of stopwatch. Although Zidane continues to go to the disciplined Rodrygo and encouraging Vinicius' tactical rectitude, it is the latter who injects his lack of control into Madrid more asleep in front of the rival goal. He is the Madrid top scorer and there are three goals in his last four games, two of them (Valladolid and Levante) essential to get his team out of the quagmire. The goal is getting bigger and bigger: last season he needed seven shots per goal (36 kicks, five targets) and now he is worth three (nine shots, three goals). Vinicius is no longer meat of meme.

Koeman seems less hesitant with his younger youth. He trusts Ansu and Pedri, who are not even of legal age. Ansu has feeling perpetual with Messi and the canary takes advantage of De Jong's weak momentHe even scored 5-1 at Ferencvaros before leaving the Camp Nou with the supermarket bag as a toilet bag to get into a taxi. As it is. While he seems to be heading towards a future as fruitful as that of his namesake Pedro, now in Roma, which he was inspired by when he was a child in Tenerife. “When I share a dressing room with Messi he will give me something,” he admitted last year, already signed but on loan in Las Palmas. Now you will have to control your pulsations again, it is your first Classic.

What happened yesterday and today, what happened today and also tomorrow, the first Covid Classic moves in poles, between absolute seniority and the innocence of youth. Or a mix of both.