King of Cups there is only one

Barça smiles again at the expense of an Athletic who is still on the canvas where Real Sociedad left him fifteen days ago. Koeman's team crushed Athletic in La Cartuja by 0-4, a win that, had Barça had a little more aim in the first half, could have been a scandal. Messi once again raised a title, scored two goals and together with De Jong he led a Barça that made it very clear to Athletic who is the king of cups.

Barça submitted Marcelino's team from the beginning to the end of the game. It took him an hour to achieve that dominance in goals, but when the first one entered, the rest fell as a divine punishment on some lions that came out to play with the backpack of the defeat of two weeks ago against Real too present. The Marcelino effect, who punished Barça so much in January, is going down while Barça's progression is absolutely inverse.

The final was just a question of knowing when Barça was going to score the first goal. Athletic was lucky that Barça did not see the door until after game time. If De Jong reaches the clearest chance that the Catalans had in the game, which was two minutes later, the punishment could have been very painful.

Before starting the game, there was the question of whether Koeman would bet on the defense of four with Piqué or would continue to bet on the defense of three with De Jong as central. The Dutch coach stayed halfway, like his team. The Dutchman came out with a defense of three with Piqué placing De Jong in the center of the field and sacrificing Dembélé to enter Griezmann.

On the Athletic side, the staging was as expected in tactical terms, but depressing in attitude. The luck that smiled at Marcelino's team in the first 45 minutes was to find a magnificent Barça in theory, but clumsy in practice. Excellent in hall bullfighting, but nefarious when it comes to going in for the kill.

Like that student who tries to get his driver's license and approves the theory the first time, but every time he tries to pass the practice he fails before parking the car, the first part of the Blaugrana team was like trying to eat a nougat without teeth.

The Barcelona team had a crush on Athletic for 25 minutes in which any team with aim would have crushed the rival. It was not the case of Barça, where De Jong shot the stick after five minutes, Dest was unable to turn his superiorities into danger, Griezmann was absolutely harmless even when the difficult thing was not to put her in and Messi lost himself in arabesques with Alba and continued wasting the faults that pointed out against him.

Once the Basques survived the departure of the stuffed wolf from Barcelona, ​​Marcelino's men felt more and more secure on the pitch. Iñigo Martínez warned in the typical lateral foul that Barça seeks to ruin and the Blaugrana team realized that his bland monologue reached the middle of the game without bearing any fruit.

It seemed clear that the worst Athletic could not do it for the second half and that either Barça would stop biting with milk teeth and pull out its fangs or the final was going to put it in a race against the clock in which as it the end of the game approached the more options I would have an Athletic who came out to play the second act without Muniain, absolutely unprecedented and clearly touched, being replaced by Lekue.

The start of the second half followed the trend of the first, with Athletic being a wreck in the hands of a Barça that continued to have its worst enemy in its lack of aim. Griezmann, Pedri and Busquets failed Unai Simon on occasions to despair until at 59 minutes Griezmann opened the can on a goal that was almost impossible to miss behind De Jong's center.

Released from that pressure, Barça jumped on the wave to annihilate Athletic in eleven minutes. Everything that took an hour to get in, spurted in a wild seven minutes. De Jong scored the second and collaborated in the third so that Messi would leave Marcelino's attempt to react to nothing, which introduced three changes at once that were useless. The Barça had put the fifth speed and Leo marked the fourth to pass of Alba.

From there, Barça found its image as a winner again and took off the loser mask that had been put on it for too long. Eight months after the defeat in Lisbon, Koeman manages to give joy to a fans that have deserved it for a long time after a very hard crossing of the desert. Athletic, for its part, was unable to lift a final that it began to lose two weeks ago.