Youth for hope

Within the disappointment of losing a Classic, Barcelona can have reasons to look at the glass half full if you attend the performance and the behavior offered by the young footballers in his baptism of fire against Real Madrid.

The performance of players like Mingueza, Araújo, Pedri or Ilaix Moriba gives hope to a Blaugrana team that seems doomed to have to pull quarry in the next seasons before the difficulty signing. It does not seem that the Blaugrana finances can afford a waste to attract a world-class star to the Camp Nou. Nevertheless, that may be great news to give confidence to a series of players who left the Blaugrana flag high in Valdebebas.

If the Piqué injuries Y Umtiti that have left Barça lame in defense it is very likely that Oscar Mingueza was at Barcelona B playing for promotion to Second Division A or who would have followed the steps of Jorge Cuenca, who at the end of last season left the subsidiary to go to play Almeria, where by the way he has earned a place in the Spanish Under-21 team. Mingueza has settled in the first team and in Valdebebas completed one of his best matches in the first team being the author of the Blaugrana goal.

The same could be said of Araújo, a Proyect of very promising central that although had his failures before a crack world-class experienced as Karim Benzema, which surprised him with a fabulous spur finial, showed that the date was not too big for him at all.

Pedri, that he had already played the Classic of the first leg, but in a position that did not favor him at all, He was the best in the center of the Barcelona field, which is no small thing. He never burned the ball before the pressure of the white players and offered at all times as support from his teammates to build the game and directed the moments of siege to the goal of Courtois.

But the most shocking appearance of all it was Ilaix Moriba, another 18-year-old boy (the same age as Pedri and the absent Ansu Fati) in the last minutes of the party. Everybody could check in the minutes in which Ilaix was in the field what has been known in La Masia for a long time: what is a player of a huge potential, with a impressive physical ability and a cheek not befitting his age. As soon as he went out onto the field, he headed a ball that the Madrid goalkeeper caught and could become the hero of the night if in the last shot his kick would not have crashed on the crossbar.

All of them, plus the contribution of De Jong and the most sure Dest improvement, maybe the only one the party passed over, allow Barcelona to be optimistic in the face of future appointments. Got lost but there is future. And he's at home.