Ansu avoids a scare – AS.com

When a desperate team like Leganés scandalously forgives its first options to put the leader on the ropes, inertia dictates its sentence. And that happened at the Camp Nou, with Barça more than mediocre, who added three points after winning 2-0 at Leganés clinging to the duet of Ansu and a sporadic start from Messi. Barça reaffirms its leadership, but loses integers in the bag of sensations. He leaves the game against Leganés with more doubts than he entered.

The idea that the match was a transition stage on the way to Seville could cost Barcelona a memorable scare. The Blaugrana team benefited in the first part of playing behind closed doors, because the murmur of the stands would have been scandalous and a prelude to the whistles of a fans that would have despaired in the first 45 minutes. It was shown that the media fireworks unleashed after the Mallorca game was simply the inertia of a campaign based on the motto “we are like motorcycles”.

Setien's rotations, halfway between the social peace required by the presence of a youth squad, the disciplinary one that demanded to maintain Semedo's punishment and the media that forced to give Griezmann a new opportunity not to open a melon that already stinks, was a failure.

The first part of Barcelona was a horror from cover to cover. In defense he suffered an exit with two occasions from Guerrero who caught the defense looking at the shrews. In the 11th minute, the cucumbers missed a counterattack of three against the goalkeeper that Lenglet double-deactivated, under sticks ultimately. Two minutes later, Guerrero shot the stick in another song. If behind Barça it was a nap, in the center of the field it was nothing. The pace was maddening. Nor Messi, who within half an hour was positioned as a midfielder, encouraged the show. Ahead, the picture did not improve. Griezmann was giving a helpless recital again and only Ansu Fati tried to accelerate the rhythm of a flu team.

And it had to be the boy, who seems to be marked by fate, who turned Barça's first chance in 42 minutes of play into a goal by surprising Cuéllar with a dry shot from the front of the area. A goal that made up a horrible first part of a Barça that lived 45 minutes on the wire. And what is worse, giving a worrying image.

The meeting resumed based on the script of the first part. With Barça without giving any sign of improvement and before that Setien could not think of anything else but to put Suárez on the field, a coherent decision, but in exchange for withdrawing Ansu, something that could only be understood from the political management and never from performance.

Suárez's entry, as usual, encouraged Messi and the Argentine woke up. First he assisted Semedo so that he could give a goal made to Griezmann that the VAR annulled for centimeters offside of the Portuguese. A minute later, Messi started and was subjected to a penalty less clear than the fouls he received before entering the area. The Argentine transformed it by liquidating the party. After both, Aguirre already thought about the next day and reserved players and Setién took Riqui Puig and the game was languishing. Barça reaffirms the leadership, but it still does not convince.