Barça commit suicide – AS.com

Barcelona had one last bullet and used it to commit suicide, losing to an inferior Osasuna in a match in which the Blaugrana took 45 minutes to realize that their prestige was at stake and they ended up throwing away the dignity that was supposed to them. It was difficult to make a regrettable course worse, but the Blaugrana achieved it in a performance so flat that it reveals the farce of a speech that has been supported by pins from the beginning of the championship and that was getting worse until living an astracanada that summarized in 90 minutes the season of a team that went out to play with one knee on the canvas and that accepted its fatal destiny against a team that was not playing anything.

Barça could not be asked for a miracle, but an attack of shame had to be demanded that came late and badly and that benefited from the game being played behind closed doors. Yesterday's grotesque was one of those that ended the town at the doors of the box burning everything.

Setién returned to give a twist to a team that has gone over the top. The blaugrana set is a leaky faucet giving the image that by tightening the joints a bit with a wrench they fix the humidity and when you want to notice the floor has flooded. Barça is running water everywhere.

Without Suarez, without Busquets and without Alba in the starting eleven, Barça continued to be the drama of the last days. Setien can now defend at each press conference that his team plays bells and that the reason for not defending the leadership he inherited is the success of Madrid and the lack of marksmanship, but it no longer creeps.

Osasuna, who was not playing anything, submitted Barcelona to a first 45 minutes exactly the same as those that the Blaugrana suffered in the first part of the match against Espanyol. The difference is that Arnáiz holed her and the Blue and Whites did not know.

After a dreadful first half in which Barça benefited from the closed door because the match would have been of the period, the team from Blaugrana went to rest staging what everyone suspected. The fight for the championship was a dream of the most candid fans. A dream that the players, as Suarez made clear in his interviews this week, the locker room did not share.

The vital signs of Barcelona throughout the first 45 minutes were almost non-existent and were limited to two foul shots by Messi, one to the crossbar, which were the only proud starts for a team in demolition. There were 45 minutes to try, at least make up a tremendous embarrassment.

Barça came out in the second half with an attempt to start to make up the disaster. Braithwaite scored offside, Messi again despised another fault and Herrera conjured another attempt by the Argentine.

At game time, Setien brought in the old guard. Suárez and Vidal entered through Braithwaite and Semedo. The Uruguayan, as soon as he stepped onto the field, caused a foul that, this time, Messi turned into the equalizer goal. At the fourth came the goal of the Argentine.

The game was definitely broken after 77 minutes when the referee, at the request of the VAR, he changed the yellow to Gallego for a red elbow to Lenglet, but the final siege of Barça before ten was as messy as inane and Osasuna took advantage of it to give the lace to a team in destruction.