Barcelona wobble on their way up the Tourmalet but emerge unscathed at top

The Camp Nou trembled with fear as Valencia dominated but Barça found the grit to secure a vital win that suggests the title may be edging towards Catalonia
• Match report: Barcelona 2-0 Valencia

Luis Enrique said he wanted the Camp Nou to tremble and tremble it did, just not the way he hoped. Saturday started with Luis Suárez scoring at the south end in the 55th second and ended with Leo Messi scoring at the north end in the last second. In the 92 minutes and four seconds between those goals, they suffered. Eventually El Mundo Deportivo cheered “a happy ending” and, surveying the final scene, there was something a bit cinema about it: an explosion, the hero lying on the ground motionless, slowly opening his eyes, looking around, and realising that somehow, with implausible inevitability, he’s still here. He’s survived; they’ve actually done it. Now here come his friends, running towards him, relieved and elated, hauling his exhausted body off the floor and embracing him.

Or something like that.

To win you have to know how to suffer

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