2023-08-27 19:28:24
BarcelonaJust three league days and Barça are already playing with fire. And he also plays with the hearts of his fans by achieving crazy triumphs in order not to lose points that could end up being key (3-4). In Vila-real, where Barça last lost in 2007 a few weeks before the birth of Lamine Yamal, Xavi’s team stunned everyone by combining in the same game an effectiveness in attack that seemed lost and an alarming defensive weakness. At times, the Blaugrana team, wearing white, has looked like a bad imitation. Soon after he was the champion again, playing with pride and character. Two souls live inside this team, capable of everything. In the end, the light prevailed, the energy of Lamine Yamal, a teenager who does not burn the ball at his feet.
A team still with homework to do, where one of the doubts will be to see how long Lewandowski will last playing as a starter. Despite finally being back with the goal, the Pole is not quite out of it. And Ferran Torres, every time he enters from the bench, asks for a pass. The Valencian seems to be ready to start. At the moment it is not. A Barça in which Marcos Alonso and Sergi Roberto have appeared in all the local goals, too slow, too lost. But a team in which Lamine Yamal has continued to reward Xavi’s confidence with his mischievous actions. The young man from Maresmen plays football with the same attitude with which many young people of his age score goals in a chair of their own, in front of a screen, as if everything were a game with the only priority being to be happy. Sergi Roberto and Marcos Alonso, on the other hand, suffered as did the victims of the courts of the Inquisition. The two faces of this Barça, fearsome and scared, soft and strong, young and veteran, beautiful and ugly.
In Vila-real, despite the fact that the scriptwriter of the match has put everything in favor of the Catalan team with a 0-2 not quite right after 15 minutes, the defense has cracked making Quique Setién dream by getting a small one vendetta after the months of ridicule he lived in Barcelona. He has not succeeded. The Cantabrian coach is out of luck, having been better until 3-2. Afterwards, he suffered the Blaugrana’s wrath.
A cross from Lamine allowed Gavi to make it 0-1 when his team was doing worse. De Jong then created the 0-2 move, which he himself sent into the back of the net after a lucky rejection. A game in which Villarreal had already had a goal disallowed and in which Ter Stegen had avoided two more went 0-2. It seemed unreal. Not even the home team, brave, deserved it. Barça, too unstable, neither. Barça has remained white, like the shirt, seeing how Villarreal crunched it taking advantage of the lack of forcefulness of Alonso and Roberto. In the first they did not know how to stop Foyth in a corner and in the second they ended up becoming a toy of Gerard Moreno, always ready, always mischievous. Sorloth was responsible for completing a beautiful move, one of those that Barça used to make. Now they do it to him.
Xavi, still sanctioned, looked worried. He didn’t get the bet on the bands right. In the middle of the field, Oriol Romeu has been too alone, overcome. De Jong has certainly stood out, but this Barça is still too dependent on certain proper names. Without them, it looks like a poor imitation of the La Liga champions. Men like Araujo, who raises the level in defense, and especially Pedri, mortified by injuries. How difficult it is to live without the canary. Without it, ideas and control are lacking. Without him, new leadership was needed, and these come from the Masia.
The entrance to the field of play of Ferran has begun to change the game. Other players would have given up when they saw how you have to warm the bench, but the Valencian wants to fight to be respected. Villarreal, too tired, has seen how Gavi and Lamine were unable to surrender. Eric, who came on at half-time for Christensen, brought order to the ball and in five minutes Ferran and Lewandowski turned the score around in two actions in which, again, Lamine was there. Maybe he still has to improve as a defensive assistant, as Pedraza has done a lot of damage for his side, but he is 16 years old, he will learn. What did people do when they were 16? He decides Primera matches.
The winning goal was scored by a Lewandowski who for a large part of the match did not manage to gain his pulse with the central defenders. You could see he was nervous, and he earned a yellow card for protesting. He needed to be able to score a goal like this, to vindicate himself, since new leadership in the team is beginning to be seen. In fact, the Pole did not want to give Ansu, who also needs goals, the 3-5, in an action in which he was hungry and failed. He knows that young people are knocking on the door. Youngsters like Fermin, who has debuted in the League with the same character that he showed in the American tour. Young people like Ferran, Lamine or Gavi. Now, they can change faces, that Xavi’s Barça remains the same: win games by suffering, gritting their teeth. Overcoming losses and own mistakes. It is the destiny of this team. Suffer. Well, not everyone. Lamine isn’t suffering, he’s having a blast.
Villarreal: Jorgensen, Foyth, Cuenca, Gabbia, Pedraza, Terrats (Denis Suárez, 69′), Capoue (Santi Comesaña, 69′), Dani Parejo (Brereton, 85′), Baena (Morales, 77′), Gerard Moreno (Ilias, 69′) and Sorloth. FC Barcelona: Ter Stegen, Sergi Roberto, Kounde, Christensen (Eric Garcia, 46′), Marcos Alonso, Oriol Romeu (Ferran Torres, 63′), Gündogan (Fermin López, 85′), De Jong, Gavi, Lewandowski and Lamine Yamal (Ansu Fati, 77′). Goals: 0-1 Gavi (12′), 0-2 De Jong (14′), 1-2 Foyth (25′), 2-2 Sorloth (39′), 3-2 Baena (50′), 3- 3 Ferran Torres (69′), 3-4 Lewandowski (71′). Referee: Alejandro Hernández Hernández (Canary Committee). Yellow cards: Lamine Yamal (44′), Foyth (48′), Lewandowski (48′), Terrats (53′), Gabbia (80′), Eric Garcia (82′) and Gavi (88′). Red cards: None. Stadium: La Ceràmica (21,679 spectators).
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