“Sometimes it is good for you to suffer,” Antoine Griezmann said when this game came to an end, supporters at the Camp Nou departing relieved.
Barcelona had suffered, that’s for sure; whether that is good for them is another matter.
Quique Setién’s side had beaten Getafe, opening a 10-point lead on the team just below them and for the moment going joint top with
Real Madrid, but the look on Lionel Messi’s face did not speak of total satisfaction. This had been hard, a game that had seemed set to escape Barcelona early on and might have done at the end.