Barcelona pair Gerard Pique and Ousmane Dembele have taken their respective locations entrance and centre within the headlines, on the again of the membership’s exceptional downing of Actual Madrid on Sunday evening.
The most recent version of El Clasico – Spanish soccer’s most fiercely contested rivalry – was in fact performed out a short while in the past.
Heading into proceedings, it was hosts Actual who had been seen largely as favourites, sitting fairly a full 9 factors clear on the La Liga summit, while driving excessive on the again of a 5-game win streak throughout all competitions.
In flip, regardless of the latest upturn in kind being loved by Barcelona, few might have predicted simply what was set to return subsequent.
As one-sided an affair as possible performed out over the course of the 90 minutes on the Bernabeu, culminating in guests Barca rising on the correct facet of a whopping 4-0 ultimate scoreline.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang continued his positive begin to life in Catalunya with a brace, added to by strikes on the a part of each Ronald Araujo and Ferran Torres, to spherical out the night’s scoring contained in the opening 5 minutes of the 2nd-half.
Barca are BACK! 🔵🔴
A shocking flick from Aubameyang for the help and Ferran Torres smashes it into the again of the online to make it 3-0 🔥
An unbelievable efficiency from Xavi’s facet on the Bernabeu 👏 pic.twitter.com/zTCaV6I4TF
— Premier Sports activities (@PremierSportsTV) March 20, 2022
Ousmane Dembele, in the meantime, too carried forth his latest resurgence by way of assists for each of the Blaugrana’s first two targets.
And, within the course of, the Frenchman joined none apart from his supervisor within the historical past books of El Clasico, as one in all solely two Barcelona gamers to notch two assists contained in the opening half of motion on the Bernabeu for the reason that flip of the century:
2 – Ousmane Dembélé 🇫🇷 is the second @FCBarcelona participant to offer two assists in a primary half of #ElClásico on the Santiago Bernabéu in all competitions within the twenty first century, after Xavi Hernández 🇪🇸 in Could 2009. Stellar. pic.twitter.com/z1Oos803bP
— OptaJose (@OptaJose) March 20, 2022
‘Again’
On the again of the motion coming to a detailed in Madrid on Sunday, it ought to subsequently come as little shock to listen to of murmurs starting to unfold like wildfire that Barcelona, following a prolonged spell of turmoil each on and off the pitch, seem primed to imminently reestablish themselves amongst the elite of not solely Spanish, however European soccer as an entire.
And one particular person evidently in full settlement with such an evaluation is the aforementioned Gerard Pique.
Taking to his private social media platforms within the instant aftermath of his facet’s Clasico rout, the Blaugrana icon unveiled a easy 3-word message, merely assuring that ‘we’re again’:
We’re again.
— Gerard Piqué (@3gerardpique) March 20, 2022
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