2023-05-23 23:52:42
BarcelonaThe ball was rolling in Valladolid and the match was followed with more interest by the Espanyol fans than by those with a Blaugrana sentiment. A Barça with little more at stake than “prestige and image”, in the words of Xavi Hernández himself, only took two minutes to score the first goal of a game in which the champion resigned and made a fool of himself (3 -1). If the Blaugrana won, they would paradoxically do a favor to their eternal rival: the team from Vallisole is in the dispute for permanence, like parakeets. If he lost, it would sink him a little further into the complicated struggle to avoid Second Division hell. In the end, Valladolid wins, Barça and Espanyol lose.
In fact, chants had already been made from the stands in the last match at the Camp Nou asking Nuevo Zorrilla not to win. A roar that ran among the fans and that Xavi justified in the public “rivalry” between both teams, but he assured that his team would go out to compete in Valladolid. Nothing could be further from the truth because Barça signed a painful performance. A good change of play by Aguado, a footballer who will not make a career for his physique but for his handling of the ball, ended with a cross from Darwin Machís that Christensen finished off as if he were a center forward. The problem is that he did it by sending the ball into his goal. The match had just started and only one minute and forty seconds had passed. The home fans, who were displaying garbage bags to protest the referees, had not yet put them away as they were already celebrating the first.
Barça’s disinhibition was such that Valladolid, a team that has the honor of being in the top 5 of the teams with the least goals in the League, had enough to dedicate themselves to serving long passes to make the second. A move from central Javi Sánchez’s own field was picked up by Cyle Larin behind the passive Blaugrana defenders and assisted by Gonzalo Plata before Eric Garcia, Busquets’ discreet substitute at center back, committed a penalty as fair as it was easy to whistle. Larin didn’t miss from the penalty spot: 20 minutes and Barça were making Pucela look ridiculous.
Only after the second local did Xavi’s team try to react. The fact of conceding two goals in such a short time made the champion recover his pride and start to wake up. Raphinha, with two opportunities that ran into a good Jordi Masip, was the most insistent Barça player. The Barça exporter, however, when he shone the most was in a shot from Christensen’s corner, which, this time, he hit the right goal. The Sabadellian’s feline save prevented the Dane’s goal after a precise service from Pablo Torre, who was just playing his first game as a starter in the League.
Like all of Barça in general, the Cantabrian midfielder did not have a night to remember because the team’s reaction was a mirage that vanished just after the break. Raphinha is one of the few Blaugrana who saved the approved in the general resignation in Valladolid. When he was substituted, the Brazilian displayed an inner shirt with a message of support for Vinícius Júnior after the racist abuse he received at Mestalla. Before that, Xavi had already changed Sergi Roberto, as a precaution, and Ter Stegen, who had already scored five goals and will still end the season complicating the Zamora trophy for the goalkeeper with the fewest goals.
Barça make a fool of themselves in Valladolid
The worst night, however, was experienced by Eric. Martorell’s doesn’t convince the coach as a central player, but the game at Nuevo Zorrilla as a pivot doesn’t help him either. He took the second home team’s penalty and broke the offside of Valladolid’s third goal, completed by Gonzalo Plata. Because the second half was Dantesque for Barça and a party for Vallisoletans, who could have made the score even bigger if it weren’t for the fact that they sent two shots off the post. With all the fish already sold, Lewandowski hunted down a good pass from De Jong to make up the score a little and take another step towards the sentence of the little guy (he leads with 23 goals). An anecdote for a champion who has resigned for the rest of the season.
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