The strength was enough only for a draw. Real Madrid is satisfied.

Exactly 7 months ago, Barcelona smeared Girona in the first full-time meeting at the "Camp Nou" - 6: 1. Fans of La Liga groaned: now all the Catalan derby will be like this? It's boring. One-sided crushing we in the matches with the Espanyol will see. From the new meeting the Catalans did not expect anything interesting - well, except that the humiliation is worse than last year's. But in vain.

Barcelona began properly. Messi twisted the defense of Girona with dribbling, and soon scored his first goal without a beard. He became for Leo 34 in all tournaments - there is no one else in the top 5 European leagues.

At the 35th minute referee Gil Manzano it seemed that the defender of Barça Clément Lenglet hit his opponent with his elbow. Wrongful episode Manzano wanted to consider in detail and called for help VAR. A couple of minutes to think about - then in the face Lenglet stared first in his professional career red card.

The moment is very controversial. The main question was whether the elbow movement was intentional. And in this there are big doubts. At half-time, the Barcelona players called on Gil Manzano to answer in the podtribunnom room: they have accumulated a lot of questions to a man who suspiciously often execs guys in blue garnet. He had already driven out of the field Sergi Roberto, Luis Suarez and Neymar. And the fans of Barcelona got to the archive screens from Clasico two years ago - there Messi, Marcelo, his elbow, but for some reason no red card.

As a result, Girona took advantage of the numerical advantage and for the first time in history received points in the match with Barcelona. Immediately after the final whistle, Messi very angrily spoke with Gil Manzano - it is understandable, in the table with the Real is now equality.

Yesterday in an interview with the coach of the Spanish national team Luis Enrique said about new technologies:

"VAR - the best thing that happened with football". 

It took only 24 hours, and thanks to the new context, the phrase of the ex-coach Barça acquired a truly post-ironic meaning.


How do you think, the fair decision was taken by the referee after watching the VAR?