A Clásico, even those of a supposedly friendly nature, are fertile ground for tension because quarrels from the past tend to accumulate. Joselu He is barely in his fifth week as a member of the Real Madrid first team but the match against Barça in Dallas fuels the embers of recent friction with the culé team when he was a member of Espanyol. The Galician became a china in the Barcelona shoe, endorsed by an image, his ordering silence to the Camp Nou after making it 1-1 in the Barcelona derby last December. A moment that related him, in the same space and at a different time, to one of the most iconic gestures of Raúl’s career and of the history of the Clásicos.
It was a volcanic act, of rage emanating free. It was his first Catalan derby and he had never scored at Can Barça, and He silenced the stands. “It came out like this”, he later justified before the microphones. “You have a lot of adrenaline, you receive a lot of insults, they remember your relatives a lot and a lot had happened in the past 24 hours”, the scorer listed before the media, referring to the controversial precautionary suspension of Lewandowski’s sanction in the previous one, before signing: “In the end, you take out the anger that you carry inside…”.
A history of friction in which there was also some small hitch dialectic with heavyweights from the Barça dressing room. Specifically, with Piqué. Beyond the scuffles in the field that Joselu admitted during his visit to The resistance (”Gerard and I hit it off, I’m a striker who likes clashes…”), took advantage of the humorous space to throw a dart at the central defender. When David Broncano reminded him of the former Barcelona player’s statements in which he stated that he had more money than Espanyol was worth. Joselu, who was at Alavés at the time, answered the question sarcastically: “Given the expenses you have… it’s normal”.
That tug-of-war with Barça, because Joselu has always declared himself a “very Madridista” even though he was a member of other clubs in our League, left a moment that is probably still alive in the retina of the new white striker. Six months after taking their lips to silence the Camp Nou, Barcelona returned the visit and sang the alirón winning with a hard 2-4 that brought Espanyol even closer to relegation. But above all The controversial celebration of the title that the Barcelona fans undertook raised blisters among the parakeet fans, who made a I run from the potato in the center of the pitch and they were effusive in the midst of the drama that their great rival in the city was experiencing. Joselu lived it up close and a striker does not forget.
