The striker scores two goals and hits the woodwork twice in the convincing win for the Barça team against Valladolid.

forward Robert Lewandowski to the strikers of another era, the one in which crow’s feet do not define the footballer, but rather his aura. His duty with the goal. The Pole flew against Valladolid to emulate the foreshortening of Cruyff initial bet Queen in 1973. And he twisted his sanity by pulling his spur into another unnatural position. The pink ball Joaquinsink to Masipand it ends where Lewandowski always marks the last frontier: the network. [Narracin y estadsticas: 4-0]

Jose Rojo Pacheta, with the 2-0 against, decided to turn around and return to his bench. The coach from Valladolid says that he lets himself be carried away by sounds, not so much by images. And that the Camp Nou, where his team suffered torture this Sunday, is capable of dragging you into extreme suffering when fans and footballers reach communion. It was what happened. There is little the people of Valladolid can do against this new Barcelona, ​​​​with a squad full of talent and irreverence that Xavi Hernandez sense begins. Her Bara already flies. And she makes it sin Pique No Jordi Alba.

It is true that competitive ability tends to be measured in high-level duels – the Champions League group stage, for example – but what was shown in their duel against Valladolid goes much further than all the green shoots. Not only because of that aggressiveness in the pressure that caught Pacheta’s men in their field or because of a dynamism that does not decrease. Finally, Xavi’s Barcelona intends to acquire its own personality, marked by the tremendous incidence of extremes -of the neatness and intelligence of raphinha to the unpredictability of Dembl-; the presence in the area of ​​an auctioneer, Lewandowski, who weighs both scoring (he already has four goals) and dragging traps; or the defenses that, in their elaboration task, draw an umbilical cord with the interiors, with eric garca spotting a pedri Y Kound learning to decipher gavi.

Kound’s debut

Despite months of asset sales or lever activation, which is what those who live in the box like to call it, there was not even enough for Jules Kound to be registered as a Barcelona footballer in the first two days. The former Sevilla player, confused in salary limbo, finally appeared as a right-back against Valladolid because the president joan laporta and its treasurer endorsed the inscription, s, with their own estate. Symptom of the urgency with which a club is being governed that rejects the temptation of the war economy in the hope that sporting regeneration will be immediate. The illusion, in this football, is paid. And Laporta, who showed up at the Camp Nou box with his eye to the virul but with a smile from ear to ear, must have been charged with reasons before his financial juggler’s maneuvers.

Raphinha, whose signing was questioned due to its high price or the identity of the commission agents, completed a stupendous performance while he had the strength. He made life impossible for Squire on the right bank and provided as many quality crosses as he could. I spotted Lewandowski’s head on the first big Barça chance, which ended with the ball hitting the post and the back of goalkeeper Masip. And Raphinha tried again, with an even more tense assistance, even better directed between the center backs and the goalkeeper. Although the coronation requires the flight with the raised leg of Lewandowski.

Dembl, who came to test the stability of the crossbar with a hard kick, was the one who found Pedri in a 2-0 with a coral aroma. Araujo robbed, Busquets made sense, Dembl accelerated while Lewandowski dragged, and Pedri, now alone on the balcony, sweetly defined.

Pacheta tried to get his people to react. That, despite the torment, they raised their chins. But neither Xavi’s changes reduced the pressure, nor Ter Stegen he lowered his arms -he took a goal from sergio len the first time the spotlight hit him – not even Lewandowski missed the opportunity to take his second goal with his back to goal. He put himself in front of her at 4-0 when Masip rejected a shot to the crossbar and Sergi Roberto had nothing more to accompany.

It was the colon to a day that Barcelona, ​​perhaps rightly, established as a starting point.