BARCELONA – CÁDIZ Cádiz makes Easter, while Barça makes the monkey

It is not that Barcelona resigned yesterday from any hope of reaching LaLiga, it is that they once again questioned the possibility of finishing second after tripping against Cádiz, who achieved a historic victory at the Camp Nou by 0-1. On Easter Monday, a holiday in Catalonia in which the godparents give the Easter cake to their godchildren, Xavi’s team made the cake for Sergio’s team, which with this victory leaves the relegation zone.

Barça’s failure is explained by a lack of aim that closes a fateful week for Xavi’s men, who have hit an indisputable slump since they beat Madrid and Sevilla. Now it will be necessary to suffer in the next days to maintain the position of Champions.

As happened last year, Cádiz turned out to be poison for a Barcelona that seems to collapse in the final stretch of the championship after showing signs of recovery just before dying. The same as a year ago. And exactly the same in the final desperate approach that was based on accumulating strikers in an industrial way.

It was to be expected that Barcelona was weighed down by Thursday’s elimination against Eintracht, which was an acceptable sporting failure because this is sport and a very serious institutional one. But if there is someone in the Barcelona galaxy who, for better or worse, is impervious to any stimulation, positive or negative, that is Ousmane Dembélé.

The French winger would play just as well or badly the day it was announced that a meteorite was going to hit the Earth. He goes to ball him. Dembélé was the best of a Barcelona that initially tried to stifle Cádiz, but before Cádiz’s defense it went from more to less. All the advantages that Dembélé got after haggling Espino in every possible way were wasted by his teammates. And when he wanted to finish it, the feeling was confirmed that Ousmane is a player who overflows with both legs and then fails with both indistinctly.

The solution of placing Memphis as a center forward in Aubameyang’s position did not work out, Ferran Torres was annulled by an almost debutant like Raúl Parra and Barça became smaller as the minutes passed.

Instead, Sergio’s Cádiz, which presented a line-up with many substitute players, knew how to defend itself with a trademark order of the house. Sergio is great at managing sacrifice and if one day he had talent in his hands he would be a coach who would make people talk.

In fact, the clearest chance of the first part was from Cádiz, but Rubén Sobrino failed against Ter Stegen, who in that first act put the fans’ hearts in a fist (little) with a couple of controls that were on the border between quality and unconsciousness.

Sergio’s plan worked as soon as the game restarted when Lucas took advantage an anthological catalog of indecisions by Eric and Lenglet in the small area that should be taught in football schools as what you should never do if you are a defense to score 0-1.

A blow to which Barça could only respond with Dembélé, because other main players like Frenkie de Jong were walking corpses. The Dutchman, who should not have played against Eintracht due to illness, confirmed that he was not fit for a match and all the solutions that Xavi tried were absolutely unsuccessful. Neither the accumulation of forwards, nor the Luuk letter solved the drama of a resigned Barça.