So Barcelona got beat out by Athletic Bilbao for the rights to the Spanish Super Cup. More accurately, they get embarrassed. The first game was a 4-0 drubbing that absolutely no one saw coming, and the next was embarrassing for what happened, and what didn’t.
People, us included, expected Barcelona to make the tie competitive in the second leg, regardless of the 4-0 hill they had to climb in order to win on aggregate. Head coach Luis Enrique was even quoted saying that he was convinced that his team would meet the challenge that awaited it in the second leg. They didn’t; none of that happened.
Instead, we got a peach of a Messi goal that teased us into affirmation just before half-time. Then a resoundingly cynical reality check as Barcelona defender Gerrard Pique got sent off 10 minutes into the second half. The last nail was hammered into the coffin in the 74th minute when Bilbao’s Aduriz scored the kind of goal that would probably have had Barcelona fans yelling in frustration were it not for their team already being down by 3 goals.
Let's just say Barca probably could have used Pique's help.
But the story of the game was not the lackluster showing or that death sentence of a goal; it was what Pique did to get sent off, thus erasing all but the most miraculous of possibilities for a comeback.
Or rather, what he said.
Pique was taking some serious offense at something that the sideline ref had did, or was doing, when he dropped this bomb:
“I s--- on your w**** mother"
That’s according to referee Carlos Velasco Carballo’s official report of the match.
That came in the second leg of the very same tie in whose first leg Pique dropped this gem:
“Six Refs. Six refs and no one see it? For f***’s sake, man.”
People get sent off for repeat offenses all the time. These offenses are just laced with F-Bombs, and not late slide tackles.
It should be said that Pique's teammate, Sergio Busquets, didn't think that Pique would say something as lewd as what he said to get his red card, but added, "we will see what the truth is."
Pique has been banned for 4 games by the Spanish FA.
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