Barcelona bid farewell to the old Camp Nou | Sports

The last score at the old Camp Nou was consistent with a day filled with affirmation from Barcelona: 3-0. The team thrashed Mallorca, Jordi Alba and then Sergio Busquets had their moment for an emotional substitution and farewell, and the Blaugrana people did not stop walking through the stands to remember with their mobile phones in hand the day they said goodbye to the stadium that opened on the 24th September 1957. The old Camp Nou will be renovated until it becomes the new Camp Nou in November 2024. Therefore, the day invited to comply with the best protocol: win, score the last goal —Gavi— and help Ter Stegen at Zamora and Lewandowski at Pichichi.

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Ter Stegen, Koundé, Alba (Marcos Alonso, 80 minutes), Alex Balde (Sergi Roberto, 16 minutes), A. Christensen, Busquets (Eric Garcia, 85 minutes), Gavi, Frenkie De Jong and Ansu Fati (Raphinha). , 79th minute), Lewandowski and Ousmane Dembele (Ferran Torres, 83rd minute)

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Dominique Greif, Jaume Costa (Rubén Quintanilla, 86 minutes), Valjent, Josep Gaya (Grenier, 45 minutes), Copete, Pablo Maffeo, Manu Morlanes (Giovanni González, 86 minutes), Dani (Ángel, 71 minutes) , Iddrisu Baba, Amath and Muriqi (Abdon Prats, min. 78)

goals 1-0 min. 1: Ansu Fati. 2-0 min. 23: Ansu Fati. 3-0 min. 69: Gavi.

Referee Jorge Figueroa Vazquez

red cards Amath (min. 14)

There were hardly any spectators on a day imbued with Barcelona fans, the surroundings of the stadium, the stands and the pitch where Mallorca appeared as a guest were painted in azulgrana. Even the fans dressed in azulgrana like the players in a day of culé militancy that reached its peak when the fans sang the Barça anthem a cappella. The musicality and choreography infected the team and ignited Lewandowski’s most artistic vein. The Pichichi of the championship (23 goals) offered himself as Ansu Fati’s assistant in two exquisite plays that ended in two goals from 10.

Within a minute of play, Lewandowski filtered a through ball with his heel to uncheck Gavi and the pass from the inside surpassed the goalkeeper’s exit so that it was finished off by Ansu Fati. The forward repeated after a delicious touch from Lewandowski, very well outlined to give continuity to an action by De Jong, always dynamic in a game that was played downhill for Barcelona. Mallorca has not left their area since they took the field with substitute goalkeeper Greif. He not only conceded a goal before he could open his mouth, but after a quarter of an hour he was left with ten due to the expulsion of Amath.

The forward entered Balde’s right ankle and the referee showed him the red card after consulting with the VAR. The winger, who left the field unable to walk, suffered a partial tear of the external lateral ligament and will be out for six to seven weeks according to the Barcelona medical report. The only news that came out of the field were the chances missed by the Catalans while the fans insisted on their chants, increasingly dispersed, after “Messi, Messi” —minute 10— and “A segunda oé, oé” —when Espanyol It started with a goal against in Mestalla. The blue and whites came back —in the end they were relegated— and Barça had stopped at 2-0.

There was no more challenge than to save Ter Stegen’s goal to dignify the Zamora Trophy. There are already 26 games to 0 in the League, just like Liaño in the 1993-1994 season, after his excellent resume —nine goals conceded in 30 games— had been blurred in the last three days, when the team let go after the alirón sung in Cornellà-El Prat.

It is still pending to score a free-kick goal after the last one scored was on May 2, 2021 at Mestalla when the sniper was Messi. Lewandowski’s attempt, however, ran into Mallorca’s crossbar when Greif seemed to have been surpassed. The third goal, the last of the game and of the Camp Nou, was scored by Gavi.

The midfielder crossed a left-footed pass from Dembélé in a play that was a nod to the motto on the champions’ shirt: “La Lliga és nostra. The future, too.” No one better than Gavi, an 18-year-old international whose professional contract is waiting to be registered in the League, to end a nostalgic evening —for the pitch, for Alba, for Busquets— and at the same time promising —for the stadium which will begin to be built while it is being played in Montjuïc— and by the young team that is announced with Gavi, Balde, Araujo, Pedri and who knows if also Ansu Fati, the scorer recovered against the invited Mallorca.

Aguirre’s team, which has completed a wonderful season, was passing through and left no message other than Amath’s kick to Balde. He never meddled in the Barcelona party that lasted until very late with several parliaments, sardanas and various songs, the end of the story of the old and long-awaited Camp Nou.

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