Barça scores in rain and weather alert at Camp Nou

It wasn't A Night at the Opera, but it seemed like it: a terrifying Es-Alert on mobile phones just at the start of the game – four drops!, the spectators said to themselves instead of going home out of caution, civility and responsibility –, tribute with family to the model employee – the delegate Carles Naval –, deflated balls, Cantabrian defense commits two penalties, injury to Joan Garcia off the field of play, genius of the priceless Szczseny – tribute now! – threat of blackout of the Camp Nou lighting...

And don't miss the headline for weddings, baptisms and games like this: “Rain of Goals.” No less than nine...

Meteorology has become a very popular hobby in the country, like bolet hunting or human tower competitions. Thanks to technological progress, we all have an opinion and forecast about the weather in the next 12 and a half minutes, hence the impact of an Es-Alert on mobile phones, just when the 50,000 intrepid spectators were unknowingly preparing to witness one of the most entertaining and anecdotal matches of the season. Did someone go pick up the children? Did the competent authorities consider suspending the game, as they undoubtedly would have done with the school activity? And deprive the viewer of a shower of goals without leaving the couch? Noooo!

The game was sandunguero. Since school prehistory, one has not seen so many deflated balls (on two occasions the game had to be stopped). Barça brought gusts of hurricane-force wind and that fresh football that makes you forget how easy it is for your rival to score a goal. The management of the workforce seems impeccable because there is competition, and where there is competition, people are alert. Watching football from the bench is more boring than Barcelona at night.

Captain Raphinha and Joao Cancelo – a great winger from midfield – took the praise with three and two goals, respectively. A discovery about the false nine, although one continues to believe that not having a classic nine is a mistake, if one can speak of errors in a Barça that for the first time has accumulated seven victories at the start of the season.

A separate chapter for the German Adeyemi – as colorful as he is effective – and the candidate for the Ballon d'Or Lamine Yamal, that individual award that many fans of this collective sport are already fed up with. Thank goodness Lamine scored and put the sulking of the first half behind him.