Xavi’s Barcelona is demonstrating a capacity for resilience beyond any doubt. When things get darker and the casualties accumulate, the team shows its pride, takes a step forward and is capable of getting out of the most complicated stakes alive. The clearest example was experienced this Thursday, with Barcelona storming the Bernabéu, despite having weight losses, and achieving a victory of great merit at the home of their great rival, which places them in an unbeatable position to play a new final this season.
A piece of information that reveals the capacity for sacrifice and work of this team when it comes to overcoming adversity is that they have managed to recover with dignity and more than gracefully from the absence of their reference in attack and top scorer, Robert Lewandowski, who has already added 25 goals this season.
The Polish international has been absent six times, either due to injury, suspension or rest. Well, in each and every one, the blaugrana have ended up imposing themselves on their rival. The most striking cases were the three consecutive ones in LaLiga, where Lewandowski could not participate due to being sanctioned. Neither against Atlético, nor after Getafe nor Girona, the Pole was on the field. Despite this, Barcelona managed to add the nine points, tracing the result, that is, winning by the minimum, with the great merit that two of the three games (Atlético and Girona) were away. Dembéle (Atlético), Pedri (Getafe) and again Pedri (Girona) were in charge of opening and closing the result.
Before these three games, Barcelona had already been able to beat Viktoria Plzen in the Champions League group stage (2-4), where the Pole stayed in Barcelona to take a breather, nor against Intercity in the Cup (3 -4), where he did not travel either.
And this Thursday the team’s resilience has been confirmed once again, by being able to beat Real Madrid at the Bernabéu without the presence of their top scorer, although on this occasion The feat is greater, if possible, since the most unbalancing player, Ousmane Dembélé, the most creative and talented, Pedri, and one of the most solvent defenders in the squad, Andreas Christensen, were not there either..
Everything indicates that Lewandowski will not arrive against Valencia this Sunday either, with an overload in the hamstrings, so Barcelona will have to face their seventh game without the Pole, although seeing the level of efficiency of the team there is not much reason to worry.
