2023-12-13 23:55:52
BarcelonaUnfortunate defeat of Barça against Antwerp in the last match of the group stage of the Champions League. The Blaugrana were always behind a team coached by Mark van Bommel, with football, desire and professional dignity. Next, some hot notes.
Illusions on the floor Do you know how long it has been since Barça hasn’t won a game comfortably? Antwerp has the answer. Yes, almost three months have passed since Van Bommel’s team visited Montjuïc, a meeting that ended 5-0 in favor of the Blaugrana team. That was the last placid triumph. It’s been so long, it hurts. It was a time of flowers and violets. Of happiness because the Joaos were fun to watch, Gündogan raised the level in the area of three quarters, Ferran Torres did not make a fool of himself when he celebrated goals and Oriol Romeu was a colossus on the edge of Frenkie de Jong. Since then, the demolition of Xavi’s “under construction” Barça has gone faster than that of Limak and company at Camp Nou. And the worst of all is that no possible remedy in the middle of the season, with the holidays around the corner, Girona with seven points in the League and terrible feelings of play, invites optimism.
The face of disappointment. Among the absurdities accumulated since September, there is one that hurts particularly. With more than 30 years and a history of overcoming in his backpack, Romeu returned to Barça to try to replace Busquets, the anchor man of the team for 15 years. Deunidó with the challenge that Ulldecona took on, a midfielder less fine than the Valaisan, but educated in the positional game and backed by a great year at Girona del Míchel. After a rather hopeful start to the season, the Romeu stipend has thinned out like sugar and embodies the picture of a Barça in which no individual – except Ter Stegen, Iñigo or Gavi, injured today – performs at his level. Substitute for his own demerits, in Antwerp he missed two of the opponent’s goals. how serious In Montilivi he was much happier.
A way to empetize Xavi. The game was a formality because Barça did their homework against Porto two weeks ago, but it was poisoned long after the defeat against Girona in the League. Type of Xavi’s soft hand with his players, Laporta ordered him to call the players for the trip to Belgium. The technician, who feels discussed by the board, obeyed to the point that he lined up Lewandowski, one of the exempted. “We agreed with the president and with Deco,” explained Xavi about the change of plans. “We have not agreed on anything, the calls are a matter for the coach”, contradicted the sports director. Sad sequence with Laporta remembering Jesús Gil, Xavi losing his dignity in cabassos and Deco lobbying in a barroera fashion.
Two bearded men save themselves. Now that we already know that the presidential interventions are useless and remind us of the dark 80s, we have to continue analyzing the defeat in Belgian lands. Because not only did the plan to end the squad full of starters to avoid ridicule not work, but the only two footballers who earned praise were two of the teenagers who populated the initial call-up. On the one hand, Lamine Yamal, who assumed offensive production at all times – hello, Lewandowski – and assisted Ferran in the first draw (1-1). And, on the other, Marc Guiu, who scored the second equalizer (2-2) thanks to the art that the Pole has been resisting lately: headers. Oh, and bonus track negative for Cancelo, responsible for the 3-2 for not knowing how to throw an offside. Are we really going to keep proclaiming that he and Félix will be co-owners next summer? we don’t run
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