PORTO -- Barcelona has the eighth finals of the Champions League, at last, at last. After two terrible seasons in Europe, Xavi Hernandez's team finally managed to win a high-demand game on the continent. The Dragao Do and in front of a Porto that never gave himself up and ended up as surrendered as he was incredulous to the result.
He won the Bara on October 4, a year just after losing at the Giuseppe Meazza in Milan in front of Inter in what was a new chapter of that nightmare that caught him so continuously. Then nothing went right for the Bara, nor the arbitrations. Now it seems that it will be forever, with such a different team (they only repeated in the eleven Ter Stegen, Gavi and Lewandowski and a luck, too, changed.
In Milan, a year ago, he lost that Bara with a Calhanoglu goal in the length of the first time and in Porto beat this Bara with a target of Ferran Torres also in the added time of the first half. In Italy he had sent Xavi's team on the lawn and in Portugal he never gave that feeling. And in that match there was no clear penalty on Pedri that could have changed the history of the season. And in Do Dragao, when the Bara had the worst time, the VAR rejected a penalty that the referee had granted to the Porto, minutes before cancelling a goal to the Portuguese ensemble.
Football, it is said, is a mood and it is for one thing or another, this Bara is diametrically different from that of a year ago when he goes out to compete for Europe. For changing, even luck has decided, for the time being, not to turn its back on it.
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