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  1. 0:00Pay attention, because it's true.
  2. 0:01Barça has just fallen to Real Madrid
  3. 0:03in the first Clásico of the season, at
  4. 0:05their own home, in front of their own
  5. 0:06fans. And inside the blaugrana locker
  6. 0:10room, something that had been simmering
  7. 0:11for weeks has finally exploded. Hansi
  8. 0:15Flick blew up today, and it wasn't
  9. 0:17because of the referee, bad luck, or
  10. 0:19the opponent. He did it because of his
  11. 0:23own men, their attitude, their level of
  12. 0:25play, and the looks on some of his
  13. 0:26players 'faces on the pitch. And do you
  14. 0:29know who was the main person singled
  15. 0:31out tonight by Hansi Flick? Well, none
  16. 0:34other than the star himself, the one
  17. 0:36everyone is calling the next Ballon
  18. 0:38d'Or winner: Lamine Yamal. How is it
  19. 0:41possible that their best player has
  20. 0:42become, this very night, the main
  21. 0:44suspect in a defeat that stings the
  22. 0:46soul of every Barcelona fan? Is Flick
  23. 0:48really that fed up with him? What
  24. 0:51exactly did Flick say about Lamine
  25. 0:53Yamal that has made the next Ballon
  26. 0:54d'Or winner so angry? Stay until the
  27. 0:57end because I’m going to tell you
  28. 0:59everything that happened minute by
  29. 1:00minute, what almost no one dares to say
  30. 1:02on TV. And you will understand why
  31. 1:05tonight could be the beginning of an
  32. 1:07internal war that no one, absolutely no
  33. 1:08one, saw coming. Let's take it step by
  34. 1:11step, because this needs to be told
  35. 1:12slowly so you understand everything.
  36. 1:15Barça arrived at this Clásico like a
  37. 1:17train, a true steam train. League
  38. 1:21leaders, fully dialed in, scoring goals
  39. 1:23everywhere with a winning streak that
  40. 1:24makes you think the team is untouchable
  41. 1:26. The people were excited. Pundits were
  42. 1:30talking about how this Barça could
  43. 1:32dominate again like last season, when
  44. 1:34they ran over Madrid time and time
  45. 1:35again. And of course, the atmosphere in
  46. 1:38the city was like a party. Flags,
  47. 1:39scarves, the Camp Nou packed to the
  48. 1:41rafters, that smell of a Clásico that
  49. 1:42is like nothing else. Because a
  50. 1:44Clásico isn't just another game, you
  51. 1:46know that and I know that. A Clásico
  52. 1:49is "the" game, the most watched in the
  53. 1:51world, the one that stops entire
  54. 1:52countries, the one that makes your
  55. 1:54grandmother, who doesn't even know what
  56. 1:55offside is, sit in front of the TV to
  57. 1:57suffer. And this one had an extra
  58. 2:01ingredient, one that made it even
  59. 2:03spicier, hotter, more cinematic,
  60. 2:05because on the opposite bench, in the
  61. 2:08visitors' dugout at the Camp Nou, sat
  62. 2:10an old acquaintance, a ghost from the
  63. 2:12past, the man whom Barcelona fans hate
  64. 2:15more than any other in their history.
  65. 2:19Yes, we are talking about José
  66. 2:20Mourinho, who returned to Real Madrid
  67. 2:22this season and stepped onto that
  68. 2:24stadium again after more than 13 years.
  69. 2:2713 years without stepping on that grass
  70. 2:29. And do you know what that means for a
  71. 2:31guy like Mourinho? Wait, don't rush,
  72. 2:34because we're going to talk at length
  73. 2:36about Mourinho, as what he did at the
  74. 2:37end of the match will make your blood
  75. 2:39boil. The fact is that Barça came out
  76. 2:42to devour Madrid and for many minutes
  77. 2:44had them on the ropes. The team was
  78. 2:47passing, combining, attacking, and
  79. 2:48creating chances. Madrid, arriving with
  80. 2:51significant absences, held on as best
  81. 2:52they could, tucked back waiting for
  82. 2:54their moment. And then, in the 3rd
  83. 2:57minute, came the first warning of what
  84. 2:59the night would be like. A mistake by
  85. 3:02Madrid, a silly giveaway while trying
  86. 3:04to play out. The ball falls to Lamine
  87. 3:07in an unbeatable position, and the kid,
  88. 3:10instead of finishing, instead of doing
  89. 3:12what a future Ballon d'Or winner is
  90. 3:14supposed to do, fails to find his
  91. 3:16teammate inside the box and the play
  92. 3:18dies. A small detail, you might say,
  93. 3:22just another play. But believe me, that
  94. 3:25play, seen in light of what followed,
  95. 3:27was like an omen, as if football were
  96. 3:29warning you that this was not going to
  97. 3:31be the blue and garnet star's night. Do
  98. 3:34you want to know to what extent things
  99. 3:35went wrong for Lamine? Hold on, because
  100. 3:38the big part is coming now, as the
  101. 3:39match that Barça dominated turned
  102. 3:41around in the cruelest way. In the 41st
  103. 3:46minute, when the home team was at its
  104. 3:47best, came a bucket of cold water: a
  105. 3:49play down the wing, a cross that wasn't
  106. 3:51even a cross, a poisoned ball that
  107. 3:52rolls through the box and there he
  108. 3:54appears, Kylian Mbappé. The Frenchman,
  109. 3:59who was crouching like a predator,
  110. 4:00pushes the ball in almost by accident,
  111. 4:02almost with his eyes closed, and sends
  112. 4:03it to the back of the net. 0 to 1.
  113. 4:07Silence at the Camp Nou. A very ugly
  114. 4:09goal, a deflection goal, one of those
  115. 4:11that makes you scream to the heavens, "
  116. 4:13But how did that go in?" But the
  117. 4:15scoreboard doesn't ask how they go in,
  118. 4:17only how many go in. And Madrid took
  119. 4:19the lead without having barely done
  120. 4:20anything. And this is where the real
  121. 4:23drama begins, where the dark night of
  122. 4:25our protagonist begins. Pay attention,
  123. 4:27because before the break, with Barça
  124. 4:29pushing hard looking for the equalizer,
  125. 4:31came the play that will haunt Lamine
  126. 4:33for weeks. The play that all of Spain
  127. 4:36will be talking about, the play that
  128. 4:38has already become the meme of the
  129. 4:39night. Minute 43. Barça is attacking
  130. 4:44with everything. A great through ball
  131. 4:46from Fermín López, one of those that
  132. 4:48splits a defense in two, and the ball
  133. 4:50falls to Lamine at the edge of the box,
  134. 4:53virtually alone, one-on-one with the
  135. 4:55keeper. The chance to equalize, the
  136. 4:58chance to get the Camp Nou into it, the
  137. 5:01chance a striker of his caliber puts
  138. 5:03away with his eyes closed nine out of
  139. 5:05ten times, and Lamine misses it, but he
  140. 5:07doesn't just miss it in any way, no. He
  141. 5:10misses in such a scandalous, incredible
  142. 5:13way that the ball doesn't even go on
  143. 5:16target. A shot that goes wide, that
  144. 5:19goes flying off, that doesn't even
  145. 5:20worry the corner flag. The press has
  146. 5:23already christened it. They have called
  147. 5:25it the blunder of the Clásico. A crude
  148. 5:26, shameful waste, one of those that are
  149. 5:29not forgiven for a star. And you can
  150. 5:31imagine Flick's face at that moment on
  151. 5:33the bench. Can you imagine what the
  152. 5:35German was thinking? Wait, we’ll get
  153. 5:38to Flick and his anger, but first you
  154. 5:39have to understand the full context,
  155. 5:41because without context, you won't
  156. 5:43understand the scolding. Because Lamine
  157. 5:45Yamal is not just any player. Lamine is
  158. 5:49, today, the most protected, most
  159. 5:51pampered, and most defended footballer
  160. 5:53at Fútbol Club Barcelona. He is the
  161. 5:56boy who changed everything, who at 18
  162. 5:57years old is calling the shots in the
  163. 5:58locker room just like the great legends
  164. 6:00used to. Inside the club, they treat
  165. 6:02him like the great stars of the past
  166. 6:04were treated. Everything revolves
  167. 6:06around him. The system, the plays, the
  168. 6:09starting eleven, the schedules, even
  169. 6:11the team's mood, everything goes
  170. 6:13through Lamine. And Flick has been his
  171. 6:17great shield, his great protector. Do
  172. 6:21you know how many times Flick has gone
  173. 6:22to press conferences to cover for this
  174. 6:24kid? When they criticized him for his
  175. 6:28life off the pitch, for his parties,
  176. 6:30his drama, his injuries, Flick always,
  177. 6:32always stood up for him, he always said
  178. 6:34the same thing. I support Lamine, I
  179. 6:38support Lamine. What’s more, he even
  180. 6:41fought publicly with the Spanish
  181. 6:43national team because of him. When
  182. 6:46Lamine injured his groin at a training
  183. 6:47camp with Spain, Flick was furious and
  184. 6:49accused the national team of not
  185. 6:50looking after their players, of using
  186. 6:52him while in pain, of giving him pills
  187. 6:53so he would play. Do you realize the
  188. 6:56level of protection? The guy stood up
  189. 6:59to the whole federation to defend his
  190. 7:01star. And this very week, right before
  191. 7:04El Clásico, he did it again. He
  192. 7:05praised him to the high heavens once
  193. 7:07more. He said Lamine was having an
  194. 7:09extraordinary season, that his
  195. 7:11mentality was incredible, that he paid
  196. 7:13attention to every detail in training,
  197. 7:15that it was a spectacle to watch him
  198. 7:17work. He held him up as an example, as
  199. 7:20the future, as the leader. And what
  200. 7:22does Flick get in return tonight in the
  201. 7:24most important game of the year? Do you
  202. 7:26want to know? Then stay with me,
  203. 7:28because here comes the fireworks. What
  204. 7:30Flick gets in return is a game to
  205. 7:31forget. A Lamine who was missing,
  206. 7:33inaccurate, error-prone, who couldn't
  207. 7:35hit a barn door, who didn't show up
  208. 7:37when the team needed him most. And
  209. 7:39watch out, because it wasn't just that
  210. 7:41glaring miss everyone is talking about,
  211. 7:42it was the whole game. It was a Lamine
  212. 7:45who got stuck on his dribbles, lost
  213. 7:47silly balls, didn't make runs, and gave
  214. 7:48the impression of being on cruise
  215. 7:50control. And here’s a detail you
  216. 7:53can’t miss, a detail that heats up
  217. 7:55the atmosphere even more, because it
  218. 7:56turns out that this week, before El
  219. 7:58Clásico, Lamine had hyped up the match
  220. 8:00with his mouth. He had dropped one of
  221. 8:03those cocky lines he likes so much. He
  222. 8:05said, speaking about Cucurella, the
  223. 8:07Madrid fullback, that he was going to
  224. 8:08eat him alive. Word for word, "I'm
  225. 8:10going to eat him alive." That Cucurella
  226. 8:12would play the first game, but by the
  227. 8:13second one he'd be on the bench because
  228. 8:15he was going to have him for lunch. A
  229. 8:18boast, one of those arrogant claims
  230. 8:20that if you back it up on the field,
  231. 8:21you're a phenomenon, but if you fail,
  232. 8:23it comes back to bite you twice as hard
  233. 8:24. And what happened tonight? Well, the
  234. 8:28one who ate Lamine alive was precisely
  235. 8:30Madrid. The one who ended up shutting
  236. 8:33his mouth was the rival. Because
  237. 8:34talking is very easy, kid, but then you
  238. 8:36have to get out on the grass and prove
  239. 8:38it. And tonight, there was absolutely
  240. 8:40nothing to prove. Imagine the ridicule,
  241. 8:42imagine the embarrassment. You puff out
  242. 8:45your chest all week, promise to eat
  243. 8:46your rival, and then you miss the
  244. 8:48clearest goal of the game all by
  245. 8:49yourself in front of the keeper. Do you
  246. 8:51think Flick wasn't thinking about that
  247. 8:53quote while watching his star crash and
  248. 8:56burn again and again? Wait, it gets
  249. 8:58even better, because while Lamine kept
  250. 9:00missing and missing, on the other side,
  251. 9:02on the rival team, there was a guy
  252. 9:04doing exactly the opposite. A guy who
  253. 9:06doesn't talk, doesn't make promises,
  254. 9:08doesn't puff out his chest in press
  255. 9:09conferences, a guy who simply scores
  256. 9:11goals. Kylian Mbappé, Lamine's eternal
  257. 9:15rival. The Ballon d'Or race has the
  258. 9:20entire football world going crazy. And
  259. 9:24look at the contrast, because football
  260. 9:26is sometimes very cruel and ironic,
  261. 9:27right before the Ballon d'Or, just when
  262. 9:29everyone is debating if the award goes
  263. 9:31to Lamine or Mbappe. The Frenchman
  264. 9:35takes the field and makes a statement
  265. 9:36that echoes around the world. Mbappe
  266. 9:39didn't fail. Mbappe didn't forgive.
  267. 9:41Mbappe was ice cold. And as if that
  268. 9:45weren't enough, his second goal, the
  269. 9:47winning goal, was also his 100th goal
  270. 9:48in a Real Madrid shirt. 100 goals,
  271. 9:51unbelievable, a legendary record. While
  272. 9:55one missed the impossible, the other
  273. 9:57made history. And of course, the
  274. 9:59narrative writes itself. The press is
  275. 10:01already saying it. Mbappe won the duel
  276. 10:03against Lamine right before the Ballon
  277. 10:05d'Or. Mbappe got his revenge. Mbappe
  278. 10:07responded on the pitch to all the
  279. 10:09arrogance of the week. And where does
  280. 10:11that leave our protagonist? Well, in a
  281. 10:14very uncomfortable position, in the
  282. 10:15crosshairs of all the criticism. But we
  283. 10:18still haven't reached the worst part of
  284. 10:19the night. I haven't told you yet how
  285. 10:22the match ended, and how it ended is
  286. 10:23the most painful thing for a Cule,
  287. 10:25because Barca, despite everything,
  288. 10:27didn't give up. In the second half, the
  289. 10:30team pushed, pressed, and in the 61st
  290. 10:32minute, the reward arrived. Raphinha,
  291. 10:35the Brazilian who never gives up,
  292. 10:37pushed the ball into the net to make it
  293. 10:391-1 on the scoreboard. The Camp Nou
  294. 10:43went wild with the equalizer, it was a
  295. 10:45game again, and for a few minutes,
  296. 10:47Barca was superior; Barca grazed the
  297. 10:50second, Barca deserved to take the lead
  298. 10:52. There was a header that the Madrid
  299. 10:56keeper saved with a miraculous hand.
  300. 10:59There were chances, there was football.
  301. 11:03It seemed like the team was going to
  302. 11:04turn it around, that the night was
  303. 11:06going to be saved, that the nightmare
  304. 11:07would become just an anecdote, but I
  305. 11:09told you before, in El Clasico, when
  306. 11:11things go wrong, they go completely
  307. 11:12wrong. And in the 87th minute, when the
  308. 11:16match was dying, when it already
  309. 11:18smelled like a draw, the executioner
  310. 11:19appeared again. One of those plays that
  311. 11:23kills you. A counterattack, a stroke of
  312. 11:26genius from Bellingham, a pass back
  313. 11:28from Camavinga, and there he was again,
  314. 11:30Mbappe, to push it into the net and
  315. 11:32plunge a dagger into the heart of the
  316. 11:34entire Camp Nou. 1-2 final score.
  317. 11:39Madrid took the Clasico at Barca's home
  318. 11:42. The unbeaten streak was over, the
  319. 11:44party was over, the dream of the
  320. 11:45perfect night was over. And then, in
  321. 11:48that moment, what all of Barcelona
  322. 11:50feared happened, what turned the defeat
  323. 11:53into humiliation. Do you want to know
  324. 11:55what Mourinho did? Brace yourself,
  325. 11:57because José Mourinho, the man who
  326. 11:59hadn't set foot in that stadium for 13
  327. 12:01years, the villain, the provocateur,
  328. 12:03the specialist at heating up the
  329. 12:05classics, jumped up from his bench like
  330. 12:07a lightning bolt. He started running
  331. 12:10down the sideline like a 20-year-old
  332. 12:12kid and launched himself onto his knees
  333. 12:14on the grass of the Camp Nou, sliding
  334. 12:16across the pitch with his tongue out,
  335. 12:18fist clenched, celebrating like a
  336. 12:19madman in front of all the rival fans.
  337. 12:23On his knees at the Camp with his
  338. 12:25tongue out, a gesture of brutal
  339. 12:27provocation of the kind only a guy like
  340. 12:29Mourinho would dare to do. It was his
  341. 12:33ninth victory over Barcelona and he
  342. 12:34celebrated it as if it were his first,
  343. 12:36as if he wanted to rub it in the faces
  344. 12:38of all those who hate him. Imagine the
  345. 12:41scene, imagine the pain. The eternal
  346. 12:44enemy, the one who forged his dark
  347. 12:45legend in that very city, returning 13
  348. 12:47years later to win, humiliate, and
  349. 12:49celebrate on his knees in your own home
  350. 12:51. For a Barça fan, that is one of the
  351. 12:54most painful things that exists. And
  352. 12:57now add everything else to it. Add the
  353. 12:59defeat. Add the broken unbeaten streak.
  354. 13:01Add Mbappé scoring his 100th goal. Add
  355. 13:04the embarrassment of the minute. Add
  356. 13:06the arrogance of the week that amounted
  357. 13:07to nothing. You now understand why
  358. 13:10Flick left that field with a face that
  359. 13:12said it all, why they say he is—well,
  360. 13:14now let's get to the heart of the
  361. 13:16matter. Now we can. Because you have to
  362. 13:18put yourself in Flick's shoes. A coach
  363. 13:21who has stood up for his players a
  364. 13:23thousand times, who has protected his
  365. 13:25star player to the point of fighting
  366. 13:27with his own country's national team,
  367. 13:29who has built a championship team that
  368. 13:31arrived as leaders, unbeaten, dialed in
  369. 13:33, and suddenly, he sees all that
  370. 13:35crumble in 90 minutes for an issue that
  371. 13:37drives any coach crazy: attitude and
  372. 13:39performance. Because a defeat can be
  373. 13:42understood. In soccer you lose, it's
  374. 13:45part of the game, but what is
  375. 13:47unforgivable, what still tears him
  376. 13:48apart inside, is losing like this,
  377. 13:50losing by missing the impossible,
  378. 13:51losing by gifting goals, losing without
  379. 13:53the intensity, without the spark,
  380. 13:55without the rage that a match like this
  381. 13:57demands. And Flick, who is a man of
  382. 14:00character, a German of discipline and
  383. 14:02order, someone who doesn't mess around,
  384. 14:05is not a man to stay quiet when he sees
  385. 14:07his players not competing as they
  386. 14:09should. Do you really think a guy like
  387. 14:12that just sits back calmly after this?
  388. 14:13Do you think he says nothing? Not a
  389. 14:15chance. A coach with fire in his veins
  390. 14:18after a classic like this walks into
  391. 14:20the locker room with steam coming out
  392. 14:22of his ears. And even though the locker
  393. 14:25room walls don't talk, even though no
  394. 14:26one is going to publicly share word for
  395. 14:28word what was said in there, anyone who
  396. 14:30knows the slightest bit about soccer
  397. 14:31knows what happens in a situation like
  398. 14:33this. The serious faces, the silence,
  399. 14:37the looks, the manager pointing out
  400. 14:39what cannot happen again, and at the
  401. 14:40center of it all, inevitably, the
  402. 14:42figure of the player from whom he
  403. 14:44expected the most and got the least.
  404. 14:47And who was that player tonight? You
  405. 14:49already know, I don't even need to say
  406. 14:51it, but wait because here comes the big
  407. 14:53question, the million-dollar question.
  408. 14:55Is Lamine Yamal to blame for this
  409. 14:57defeat? That is the question on
  410. 14:59everyone's lips tonight. That is the
  411. 15:01debate that will set the talk shows on
  412. 15:02fire tomorrow. And here I have to be
  413. 15:04honest with you, because I'm not one to
  414. 15:06single out just one person without
  415. 15:08thinking. Let's really analyze it from
  416. 15:11both sides so you can draw your own
  417. 15:13conclusion. On one hand, those who say
  418. 15:16yes, that Lamine is the one to blame,
  419. 15:18have strong arguments because he missed
  420. 15:20the clearest chance of the match,
  421. 15:22because if he scores that goal, the
  422. 15:23game changes completely. Barça goes
  423. 15:26into the break tied with morale through
  424. 15:28the roof. And maybe today we would be
  425. 15:30talking about a victory, because a
  426. 15:32future Ballon d'Or winner, the
  427. 15:33franchise player, the one who earns
  428. 15:35what he earns and carries the weight he
  429. 15:37carries, has to show up in big games.
  430. 15:39And in the biggest one of all, he
  431. 15:41disappeared, because he also talked up
  432. 15:43the game beforehand and then didn't
  433. 15:44back it up with his feet, and in soccer
  434. 15:46, that comes at a high price. Those who
  435. 15:50think this way say Lamine has believed
  436. 15:52his own hype too much, that the parties
  437. 15:54, the posturing, the star life are
  438. 15:56taking their toll, and that tonight we
  439. 15:58saw a kid more focused on his image
  440. 16:00than on giving his all for the team.
  441. 16:03Harsh, right? Well, wait, because now
  442. 16:04comes the other side of the coin, and
  443. 16:06it’s quite something too. Because
  444. 16:08those who defend Lamine, who also exist
  445. 16:10and are many, say something else. They
  446. 16:13say you can't saddle an 18-year-old kid
  447. 16:15with the blame for an entire Clásico.
  448. 16:17And they are right about one very
  449. 16:19important thing that many people are
  450. 16:20forgetting tonight in the heat of the
  451. 16:22moment. Lamine has been carrying an
  452. 16:25injury, a problem in his groin area
  453. 16:27that has been bothering him for weeks.
  454. 16:30An injury that already made him miss
  455. 16:32several games, that has lowered his
  456. 16:34level, and doesn't let him be at 100%.
  457. 16:37In fact, he had already looked
  458. 16:38lackluster in previous games, far from
  459. 16:40the beastly level he showed at the
  460. 16:41start of the season. Is it fair to
  461. 16:44demand that a wounded footballer
  462. 16:46perform as if he were perfect? That is
  463. 16:48another question that today's match
  464. 16:49leaves behind. And there's more,
  465. 16:51because Barça didn't lose just because
  466. 16:53of Lamine's miss. Barça conceded two
  467. 16:56goals, two. And in both there were
  468. 16:58defensive errors, there were lapses,
  469. 17:00there was a team that wasn't sharp at
  470. 17:02the back. The first goal was a ball
  471. 17:04that strolled through the box without
  472. 17:05anyone clearing it. The second was a
  473. 17:07counterattack that killed a high and
  474. 17:09out-of-position defense. Is that
  475. 17:11Lamine's fault? Obviously not. And then
  476. 17:14there's the other guy, the one who
  477. 17:15really won the game, Mbappé. Because
  478. 17:19no matter how much your star misses, if
  479. 17:20the opponent has a guy who scores two
  480. 17:22goals and doesn't forgive a thing,
  481. 17:23you're bound to lose. Soccer is 11
  482. 17:26against 11, and a single man doesn't
  483. 17:28lose a match. Anyone knows that. So,
  484. 17:31whose fault is it? The one who missed
  485. 17:33the goal? The one who defended poorly?
  486. 17:35The coach who didn't know how to react,
  487. 17:37or simply Madrid, who were smarter and
  488. 17:39colder? Stay with me because now it's
  489. 17:42time to talk about something that
  490. 17:43changes everything, about the pressure
  491. 17:45this kid carries on his shoulders that
  492. 17:46no one takes off, because you have to
  493. 17:47understand something fundamental about
  494. 17:49Lamine Yamal. This kid is under
  495. 17:52pressure that almost no one in the
  496. 17:54history of soccer has had at his age.
  497. 17:57At 18, they've tagged him as the best
  498. 17:59in the world, the heir to Messi, the
  499. 18:01savior of Barça, the next Ballon d'Or
  500. 18:04winner. The entire weight of the club,
  501. 18:07the fans, and the expectations of
  502. 18:09millions of people falls on a kid who
  503. 18:11is still growing. And of course, when
  504. 18:13you put such a giant backpack on
  505. 18:15someone, every mistake is multiplied by
  506. 18:17a thousand. If an average player misses
  507. 18:20that goal, well, tough luck, maybe next
  508. 18:22time, but if Lamine misses it, it’s
  509. 18:24front-page news, a scandal, the
  510. 18:25laughingstock of the Clásico, because
  511. 18:27the golden boy is forgiven nothing; the
  512. 18:29golden boy is expected to be perfect
  513. 18:31every Sunday. And that is precisely the
  514. 18:35problem, the underlying drama of this
  515. 18:37whole story, because Flick knows it.
  516. 18:39Flick knows his star is overloaded,
  517. 18:41injured, and pressured, which is why
  518. 18:43for months he has acted as a wall, a
  519. 18:45shield, a protective father. But it is
  520. 18:48one thing to protect your player from
  521. 18:51outside criticism, and quite another to
  522. 18:53know what a coach feels inside when he
  523. 18:55sees that same player not deliver in
  524. 18:57the key match. That’s where the crack
  525. 19:01lies, that’s where the relationship
  526. 19:03that seemed indestructible might start
  527. 19:05to crumble, because even the most loyal
  528. 19:07protector has a limit. And the question
  529. 19:10we are all asking is, has Flick reached
  530. 19:12his limit tonight? Has his patience
  531. 19:13finally run out? Hold on, there’s
  532. 19:16still more to this. You really have to
  533. 19:18get inside a coach’s head to fully
  534. 19:19understand it. Flick arrived at Barça
  535. 19:22and turned it into a machine, a
  536. 19:24championship team that steamrolled
  537. 19:26Madrid time and again last season. He
  538. 19:30earned everyone’s respect, the fans '
  539. 19:32affection, the locker room's trust, but
  540. 19:34football has no memory and what you did
  541. 19:36yesterday is useless to you today. And
  542. 19:40this season things are tighter. Madrid
  543. 19:44has returned hungry, with Mourinho
  544. 19:45lighting the fuse, with Mbappé at a
  545. 19:47stratospheric level, and a stumble like
  546. 19:49tonight's at home, in the Clásico,
  547. 19:51puts brutal pressure on Flick; because
  548. 19:53the league is tightening, because
  549. 19:54doubts are beginning to emerge, because
  550. 19:56the usual critics, those who were
  551. 19:58waiting for Barça to fail, are already
  552. 20:00sharpening their knives. And in that
  553. 20:04moment of maximum pressure, a coach
  554. 20:06needs his best players to step up,
  555. 20:08needs his stars to carry the load, and
  556. 20:10if the star slows the team down instead
  557. 20:13of driving it, well, there you have the
  558. 20:15perfect cocktail for an explosion.
  559. 20:18That’s why, when they say Flick blew
  560. 20:20up after the loss, it’s not an
  561. 20:22outlandish exaggeration. It’s the
  562. 20:25logical reaction of a man who has given
  563. 20:27everything, who has protected his own,
  564. 20:28and who tonight didn't see the response
  565. 20:30he expected—not from Lamine, nor from
  566. 20:32several others, because mind you,
  567. 20:33Lamine was the most criticized, but he
  568. 20:35wasn't the only one who was off his
  569. 20:37game. There were more missing players,
  570. 20:40more mistakes, more people who didn't
  571. 20:42step up on the big night, and for a
  572. 20:44demanding coach, that hurts even more
  573. 20:46because it’s not just one person's
  574. 20:48problem, it’s a team-wide issue. And
  575. 20:52do you know what the most worrying
  576. 20:53thing of all is? That this isn't the
  577. 20:55first warning sign; let me tell you,
  578. 20:57because if you look back, this Clasico
  579. 20:58wasn't an isolated incident. Barça was
  580. 21:02already struggling, coming off a tough
  581. 21:04loss in Europe, a match where they
  582. 21:06weren't sharp either, where their seams
  583. 21:08were showing, and in just a few days,
  584. 21:09they chain together another stumble,
  585. 21:11another blow, this time on the worst
  586. 21:13possible stage. Two losses almost in a
  587. 21:16row for a team that seemed untouchable.
  588. 21:20And in football, that’s a sign that
  589. 21:22something isn't working, that there are
  590. 21:24cracks, that the team has relaxed or
  591. 21:26has run out of gas. Flick himself
  592. 21:29warned about it in the lead-up. He said
  593. 21:31they had to defend much better than
  594. 21:33they had in Europe. He warned them, and
  595. 21:35his players failed in exactly the same
  596. 21:37way again tonight. They conceded again,
  597. 21:40they made the same mistakes again. Can
  598. 21:43you imagine the frustration of a coach
  599. 21:45who points out a problem, calls it out
  600. 21:47in public, and then watches as his
  601. 21:49players trip over the same stone again?
  602. 21:52That drives anyone crazy. That is what
  603. 21:55truly infuriates a manager. Not the
  604. 21:59occasional mistake, but the feeling
  605. 22:00that the message isn't sinking in, that
  606. 22:02they aren't listening to him, that the
  607. 22:04dressing room has become complacent.
  608. 22:08And when a coach feels that, when he
  609. 22:10feels he has lost control of the
  610. 22:11message, that's when tough decisions
  611. 22:12are made—decisions that maybe no one
  612. 22:14expects. Will there be any changes to
  613. 22:16the starting eleven? Will there be a
  614. 22:18serious wake-up call? Will there be
  615. 22:19consequences for those who didn't
  616. 22:21perform? All of this will be discussed
  617. 22:23in the coming days, and you'll be among
  618. 22:24the first to understand it because I'm
  619. 22:26telling you right here. But keep going,
  620. 22:28because the juiciest part is yet to
  621. 22:30come, and there’s a detail that makes
  622. 22:33all of this even more explosive, more
  623. 22:35like a soap opera: the very special,
  624. 22:36power-driven relationship between
  625. 22:38Lamine and the club, because Lamine
  626. 22:40isn't just anyone you can bench without
  627. 22:42a second thought. Lamine is Barça's
  628. 22:46most valuable asset. He is the face of
  629. 22:48the project, the one who sells shirts,
  630. 22:50fills stadiums, and attracts sponsors.
  631. 22:53And in modern football, that gives you
  632. 22:55tremendous power, power that goes
  633. 22:57beyond sports. Lamine at the Camp Nou
  634. 23:01has a weight that few have; he is
  635. 23:03untouchable for many, and that is where
  636. 23:05the most interesting tension is
  637. 23:07generated because what the coach wants
  638. 23:09is one thing, and what is convenient
  639. 23:11for the club, for the offices, for
  640. 23:12those who truly rule above the manager,
  641. 23:15is another. What happens when the coach
  642. 23:18is angry at the star, but the star is
  643. 23:20untouchable? What happens when sports
  644. 23:23clash with business and the media? That
  645. 23:27is the silent battle fought in all
  646. 23:29major clubs, and Barça is no exception
  647. 23:31. Flick can be as angry as he wants,
  648. 23:34but he knows perfectly well that
  649. 23:36touching Lamine is playing with fire,
  650. 23:38and that is why, publicly, he will most
  651. 23:39likely continue to protect him,
  652. 23:41continue to stand up for him, continue
  653. 23:42saying things like: "I support Lamine
  654. 23:44and I will protect him," because that
  655. 23:46is what he has always done, because it
  656. 23:47is the smartest thing to do to avoid
  657. 23:49starting a war. But behind closed doors
  658. 23:53, that is a different story. That is
  659. 23:55where the truths that never come out in
  660. 23:57a press conference are cooked up. And
  661. 24:00that difference between what is said
  662. 24:01outside and what is felt inside is what
  663. 24:03turns tonight into a real ticking time
  664. 24:05bomb. Hang on a little longer as we
  665. 24:07reach the end and I will give you my
  666. 24:09verdict because after everything I've
  667. 24:11told you, it's time to take a stand,
  668. 24:12time to give an answer to the question
  669. 24:14we started with. Flick exploded. Yes,
  670. 24:17inside, for sure; outside, maybe not.
  671. 24:20He will let it out little by little
  672. 24:21with that German coldness that
  673. 24:23characterizes him. A coach doesn't
  674. 24:25leave a Clásico that calm; it's
  675. 24:27impossible. The attitude, the level,
  676. 24:29the mistakes, the feeling of a team
  677. 24:31struck down—all of that must have
  678. 24:33made his blood boil, and the players
  679. 24:34know it. In that locker room tonight,
  680. 24:38it was cold, very cold. And is Lamine
  681. 24:41Yamal the culprit of the defeat? This
  682. 24:44is where I'm going to be honest with
  683. 24:45you, because I don't want to feed you
  684. 24:47any lies. Lamine is the main target,
  685. 24:50the face of the dark night, the star of
  686. 24:52the mistake that everyone will remember
  687. 24:54. And yes, his game was bad, very bad,
  688. 24:57unworthy of someone of his category.
  689. 25:00And yes, if he scores that chance, we
  690. 25:02are probably talking about something
  691. 25:04else today. But guilty, or should I say
  692. 25:08solely responsible for the defeat, no,
  693. 25:10he is not; because a Clasico isn't lost
  694. 25:12by an 18-year-old kid hampered by an
  695. 25:14injury. It is lost by a team that
  696. 25:18defended poorly, conceded two avoidable
  697. 25:20goals, didn't know how to kill the game
  698. 25:22when it was theirs to win, and ran into
  699. 25:24a stellar Mbappe and a Mourinho who won
  700. 25:26the tactical and psychological battle.
  701. 25:29Lamine was the visible face of the
  702. 25:31failure. Yes, the lightning rod, the
  703. 25:33one who will take all the heat in the
  704. 25:35newspapers and on TV tomorrow. But the
  705. 25:38failure was collective, and whoever
  706. 25:40doesn't want to see it that way is just
  707. 25:42looking for an easy scapegoat to avoid
  708. 25:43looking at the real problem. And the
  709. 25:46real problem is that this Barca has
  710. 25:48suddenly shown weaknesses it didn't
  711. 25:50have before. It has lost its aura of
  712. 25:52being untouchable. And for Flick, that
  713. 25:54is what is truly keeping him awake
  714. 25:56tonight. Not Lamine's mistake, but the
  715. 25:58feeling that his team has taken a step
  716. 26:00backward at the worst possible moment.
  717. 26:03So, the next time you hear someone say
  718. 26:04that Lamine lost the Clasico all by
  719. 26:06himself, you already know the truth.
  720. 26:08You already have the full picture
  721. 26:10because I just told you the whole story
  722. 26:12, without filters, without
  723. 26:13half-measures, the way I like it. And
  724. 26:15now comes the best part of all, because
  725. 26:17this is far from over, not by a long
  726. 26:19shot. This defeat, this anger from
  727. 26:22Flick, this pointing fingers at Lamine
  728. 26:24is just the beginning, because from now
  729. 26:27on the truly interesting stuff happens:
  730. 26:29the reaction, seeing how the team
  731. 26:31responds, seeing if Flick makes
  732. 26:33decisions or if they silence him from
  733. 26:35above, seeing if Lamine recovers from
  734. 26:37his injury and shuts people up or if he
  735. 26:40continues in this spiral of mistakes
  736. 26:42and pressure. We'll see if this crack
  737. 26:45closes up or turns into a chasm. And
  738. 26:49above all, there is the Ballon d'Or,
  739. 26:51with Mbappe having made a statement
  740. 26:53today that will resonate in every vote.
  741. 26:56This is a snowball that has just
  742. 26:58started rolling, and I'm going to tell
  743. 27:00you every step, every move, every
  744. 27:02secret cooking in the offices of Barca
  745. 27:04and Madrid. So you know what you have
  746. 27:06to do if you don't want to miss
  747. 27:08anything that's coming. But before you
  748. 27:10go, I want to know your opinion because
  749. 27:12this is worth debating for hours. What
  750. 27:14do you think? Is Lamine Yamal the one
  751. 27:16to blame for today's defeat, or is it
  752. 27:18unfair to pin the whole thing on him?
  753. 27:21Is Flick right to be angry at his
  754. 27:23players' attitude, or did his own game
  755. 27:25plan fail him? And what about Mourinho?
  756. 27:28Did you find it provocative to slide on
  757. 27:30his knees celebrating at the Camp Nou,
  758. 27:31or is it just Mourinho being Mourinho?
  759. 27:34Leave your opinion down in the comments
  760. 27:36, I read them all and I love seeing how
  761. 27:37you get heated over these topics. And
  762. 27:40if you've made it this far, if you
  763. 27:42liked the analysis, you know what to do
  764. 27:44: hit subscribe, turn on the bell so
  765. 27:46you don't miss the next video, because
  766. 27:48what's coming this season between
  767. 27:50Barça and Madrid is going to be a real
  768. 27:52war. See you in the next one.

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