“There are other situations in which the VAR could have entered and has done so in the 97th minute …”

The madness of Montjuïc was translated into seven goals and an end with suspense that opted the balance in favor of Barça with the penalty scored by Raphinha in the 98 minute.

Fifteen minutes of electricity changed the 1-1 with which the first half to 3-3 ended that seemed definitive until that maximum penalty in the extension. The response of Barça was crucial after the two goals of advantage that the celestial team reached. A good part of the comeback of the comeback was Dani Olmo, who entered with Lamine Yamal in a double change just when the crash unleashed and Celta seemed to take the game. «We really wanted to win. The first minutes have not been the best, but the team’s response, with the help of the public, has been very good. We deserved it. The Spanish international was placed between the lines to connect with Pedri and Jong, it was the author of the 2-3 and who caused the decisive penalty when the party agonized.

That penalty, like the 3-3 of the draw, took the firm of Raphinha. The Brazilian assumed gallons against Lewandowski’s casualty, who withdrew with discomfort in the back of his right knee, and with this double already adds 29 goals during the season. «He is a very important player. l always has that positive thought that manages to spread the rest of the companions, ”said Hansi Flick, Barça technician, in the mixed area when talking about the reaction of the team. «The team never surrenders and that is the mentality. The embedded goal, the second, is a mistake. I remain anyway with that response of the players in the final stretch of the game ».

On Lewandowski’s possible injury, caution: “They will test him and we will know something else.”

In Celta the sensation was bittersweet, especially for a Borja Iglesias who signed a deck-in-trick deck that eventually served nothing. The Galician striker joined a select group of players capable of scoring three goals to Barcelona in his stadium, a list in which Luis Aragonés, Puskas, Baltazar, Packet Higuera, Pantic, Shevchenko, Forlán, Mbappé and Benzema are also. However, he could not celebrate as he wanted: “I imagined it better with 1-3,” he admitted. “Knowing the difficulty of playing in this stadium and enduring such a result, I’m sad in the end.”

Claudio Giráldez, coach of Celta, lamented the management of his 1-3 team. «We have been able to kill them and we have not done it. We have stayed halfway and we would have had a dead time well. We lacked legs. You have to get used to this type of parties to maintain our idea longer ».

There were no criticisms of the penalty for Dani Olmo, although to arbitral action in general. “I think there have been situations in which the VAR could have intervened and has done so in the 97th minute.”

“There are factors that do not depend on us sometimes but it is not time to talk about it,” said Pablo Durán, who could have forced the expulsion of Íñigo Martínez after a grip from the Basque Central. “He tells me that if they shoot me, he is missing.”

A possible penalty was also claimed for a szczesny swipe on Mingueza in the last minutes.