It was a night of celebrations and an intimidating and proud performance for Barcelona.
Antoine Griezmann celebrated his 30th birthday with a goal, Lionel Messi his absolute record of 768 games with the Barça shirt with two goals and an assist to Sergñe Dest, who thus debuted on the scoreboard in Laliga.
All this helped Ronald Koeman celebrate the extension of home victories of the Catalan team again with the 6-1 thrashing of Real Soceidad.
Barcelona celebrated a thrashing victory in San Sebastián to climb another step and no one still believes around Camp Nou.
Ten goals in the last two games and five consecutive victories since that unthinkable draw at the Camp Nou against Cadiz have relaunched a Barça that is enjoying its happiest moment of the season and that responded to the tight and hard-fought victory of the Atlético over the Alava with an overwhelming triumph over a Royal Society that faced him at the start, but ended up kneeling in front of an undisguised display.
Koeman, after touching and retouching the scheme, seems to have found the philosopher’s stone for this Barça that from the three centers, with Frenkie de Jong little delayed, has forgotten the doubts to turn everything into certainties.
For the third day, the Dutch coach repeated the lineup and without realizing that this new scheme penalizes the game by bands, it stands out superbly that this 3-5-2, with Messi behind the tips, has become , or so it seems, in an indisputable scheme.
From that 1-1 against Cádiz, which continued on the calendar in the tough 1-4 against PSG in the Champions League, the accelerated football of Barça is a constant with a phenomenal start to the two consecutive games against Sevilla, with a momentous victory for Pizjuán to relaunch the League and win a magnificent comeback in the Cup.
With 10 days to go before the end of Laliga, no one could today indisputably bet on Atlético de Madrid, which already before winning by the minimum in Alava (victory rescued by the penalty that stopped at the last minute Oblak) , made it clear that he is going through a particularly difficult time in both game and results.
Real Madrid grit their teeth with Karim Benzema as a stiletto and Barça enjoy a football catapult reminiscent of the second half of the 2003-04 season.
The difference is that, currently, he does not have to overcome a clear disadvantage and that with 30 points ahead and after adding 37 of the last 39 or linked 18 days without knowing defeat, the dream is contemplated closer than ever.
Barça intimidate and do it superbly.