No one expected that a Spanish national derby that should have been Mars hitting the earth would end in a 0-4 defeat for Real Madrid. When Xavi was a player, he led Barca to the Santiago Bernabeu to a 6-2 victory. In that game 13 years ago, Harvey gave two assists in the first half. And this morning's four-goal victory, there is also a player who copied Xavi's feat, he is the French winger Osman Dembele. He assisted aubameyang and Araujo in the first half to complete the goal, paying tribute to his mentor with practical actions. However, this also makes Barca extremely entangled.
It was a bit of an unexpected race, with Real Madrid losing number one striker Benzema and left-back Mendy before the race, while Barca were fully loaded, but as a La Liga leader who rode the top spot in the standings, Real Madrid was still favored. However, after the opening, Barca launched a fierce attack on the main guest, the forward trident Aubameyang, Ferrantore and Dembele all had very good shooting opportunities, and Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois did everything in his power to save the goal. However, in the 29th minute, his goal was still broken, Dembele crossed from the right and Aubameyang's close-range header broke the deadlock. Nine minutes later, Dembele opened a corner, Araujo's header extended the lead, and Dembele also completed an assist to score twice.
In the second half, Aubameyang and Ferrantores passed each other in four minutes, and Barca won 4-0. In this campaign, Barca had a 60% possession rate, scoring 4 goals on 10 of 18 shots, and if it were not for Courtois making 6 heroic saves, Real Madrid would have lost even worse. Dembele played 80 minutes and delivered a game-high 2 assists, 4 breakthroughs and 3 key passes, in addition to 3 shots on goal and 2 steals, and he scored the second highest score of the game with 8.4 points, behind Aubameyang with 2 shots and 1 pass.
After this game, Dembele has reached 9 La Liga assists this season, and in the last 5 league games, he has had 7 assists and 1 goal, and the statistic of 8 goals alone is amazing, and the former xiangqiu king is back.
However, the better Dembele performs, the more tangled Barca become. The French winger's contract expires after 3 months, when he will be able to join any team for free. Previously, dembele's contract renewal negotiations with Barca had broken down, and the two sides were very different on salary treatment. Barca even said that if Dembele wants to stay at Camp Nou, he must accept a lower salary than the contract extension offered before, an arrogant gesture of loving to stay and not roll. In fact, barca executives even thought about banning Dembele completely, but Xavi eventually considered rejecting this proposal from the perspective of the team.
Now, Dembele has completely exploded, and without injury troubles, he can be described as a fish in the front court. This kind of performance will obviously make him more favored by European giants, and it is not a big problem to get a lucrative fat contract this summer. And Barca want to keep him, but also must show more sincerity, salary cut and contract extension is estimated to be no play, Dembele is not the previous No ball to play Aubameyang, not to love to facilitate the return to La Liga Ferrantores, and his explosive role on the field is not the elderly Alves and the physically explosive but technically messed up Grogger Traore can be compared. To put it bluntly, Dembele is more grateful to Harvey than to Barca. Therefore, Barca, which has completely lost the initiative to renew the contract, will either give Dembele an acceptable contract extension by default, or watch him switch to other teams, of course, Xavi will be very unhappy.