Barcelona 1-Granada 1 | Araújo saves a Barça in the UCI

Barça was in the UCI, on the canvas, in the tubes, in the sale, ready for papers or whatever they want to call it. And more than Barça, it was Koeman, who looked more outside than inside because in the 89th minute he lost and it was Araújo, the new idol of the Camp Nou, who drew a match against Granada that painted a tragedy.

There are immutable laws of life and one of the most solid is the one that proclaims that if something goes wrong, it is always liable to get worse. And Barça, which is a faithful follower of any pessimistic current, applied the aphorism with enthusiasm from the outset.

Despite presenting a revolutionary line-up with an almost youthful defense with Dest, Araújo, Eric and Balde, the Blaugrana team conjured up any attempt to get excited with a back and forth boycott by two sacred cows. Busquets was weaker than jelly in defense of Granada's first corner kick, in which Machís did with him what he wanted and focused so that Ter Stegen, once again, saw the ball pass in front of his range of action, which was finished off by Domingos Duarte.

Two minutes, 0-1 and the Camp Nou began to sing the whistles before what was coming. When the skin is burned, and at Barça it is red hot, any touch is twitching. And the Camp Nou is no longer for mandangas. It was whistled after Domingos' goal, Coutinho's second loss of the ball was whistled and as they whistled, the respectable whistled until the change of Balde, who was injured before finishing the first half. The Camp Nou public is currently an angry man on a bus early in the morning on a Monday waiting for someone to step on him so he can start a fight.

With this idyllic panorama, Granada played a risky card. For football he could have given the finishing touch to Koeman's team, as demonstrated by Jorge Molina's shot in the 12th minute that went over the crossbar, but Robert Moreno's opted for the systematic loss of time, which angered (still more if possible) to the public and allowed Barça to go after the rival Nor was it based on corner kicks and side fouls.

Sergi Roberto shot the crossbar, Maximiano showed off a header from Araújo and a shot from Dest, who was Barcelona's deepest attacker.

Granada had a second part of resistance left and Barça urgently. To face it, Koeman had already warned that the airway was the most suitable, so the presence of Luuk de Jong was more than obligatory. The Dutch striker started in the second act for Sergi Roberto, with which Barça changed the system to play a 4-2-3-1 with which he began to spoil Granada.

The Nasrid team resisted the attacks led by Dest and Memphis, the only offensive arguments of a team, apart from Araújo's air power.

Before the game time was over, Gavi entered through Coutinho, fired with a division of opinions. The youth squad contributed strength, but the chances continued to arrive based on stopped balls, corner kicks and fouls that never found their goal. The nerves were taking over the Camp Nou and in the absence of a quarter of an hour Koeman played the hell out giving entry to Riqui for a disastrous Busquets and Piqué, who when he left nobody knew if he was doing it to finish off or to defend. It was to top it off, the Catalan joined as a second center forward with Luuk de Jong to try to catch one.

Luuk had it at the exit of a corner kick, but he absolutely only missed two meters from the goal. Ten minutes from the end, Barça came to play with three center forwards (Piqué, Luuk and Araújo) in search of an aerial miracle. The only thing missing was to get Umtiti out. And from so much going the jug to the fountain, Ronald Araújo, in the center of Gavi, scored the tie in the center of Gavi. It was the award to a player who probably represents the complete opposite of Barça culture and football cuquismo, but that he fights until the last second of the game. A player who removed Koeman from the ICU.