BARCELONA-ELCHE Gavi’s gang saves Barça

Gavi’s gang, who leads a generation that nobody expected, rescued Barça so that the Blaugrana team added three essential points. Barça right now depends on a 17-year-old boy whose influence in the game is such that the team is one of him forward and another, much worse, his backward. Gavi led a magnificent start for Barça, which went ahead 2-0 from the start. And when Elche drew in the second, taking advantage of the weakness of the veterans, Gavi reappeared and led the team back to a 3-2 victory.

In the previous game, Xavi had publicly regretted that there were players at Barça who did not understand the positional game. The day that was fulfilled the 10th anniversary of Barça’s 4-0 victory in the Club World Cup final in Yokohama In one of the greatest displays of positional play by a team that played without forwards, Barça recovered vital signs thanks to two cubs.

Jutglà, who when Barça erased Santos from the field was 12 years old and Gavi, who was 7, led a team that lives from an unforeseen generation that is consolidating without anyone waiting for them.

Players like Gavi, a scandal in the midfielder, where it was a delight, Abde, Jutglà, who joined the cause as a center forward after playing a minute in Pamplona and scoring in Arabia, they pulled a car that needs more help from their elders. They lead a generation that awaits Ansu and Pedri, and that has Nico, Araújo or Ilias.

Only Busquets and Alba, very comfortable playing ahead, give solidity to the building that this unexpected fifth is building in a Barça that looks like the Festival of Children and Youth.

Dembélé keeps trying, but he is still the chef who prepares a spectacular dish, but when it comes time to serve it, it falls to the ground. If he finished what he begins, he would agree with his believers, who hope one day for the spirit to become flesh.

With these ingredients, Barça played a more than satisfactory first 45 minutes. This time, the initial push didn’t evaporate as the duel progressed. Jutglà scored on a millimeter offside after two minutes on the first ball he touched, but after a quarter of an hour he scored with his head off a corner. Barça’s first corner kick goal this season.

With the advantage on the scoreboard, Barça began to feel comfortable and Gavi, at 19 minutes, scored a huge goal after receiving from behind, overflowing his marker with a heel control and eliminating the center-back who came to the aid of his teammate.

Elche, unlike other Barça rivals this season, did not know how to take advantage of the courtesy opportunity that the Blaugrana team gives to the rival after scoring a goal. Roco in the first half after a lateral foul and Lucas Pérez at the start of the second wasted two clear chances. Again, everything that worked from Gavi up was still too unstable from Gavi back.

Barça’s weakness behind was cruelly portrayed by Elche as soon as Francisco brought Tete Morente and Pere Milla into the field, who in one minute returned Barça to its worst nightmare tying the game in a succession of errors of attention, attitude and capacity that dThey exposed Dembélé, Lenglet and, above all, Ter Stegen.

With Barça lost and the officials back in the canteen and the worst omens for the Blaugrana team, it was again Gavi in ​​command of his pandi who took command of the operations and after a huge new move he assisted Nico to mark the third five minutes from the end, to which he They added six in addition that passed without too much stress. Thanks to the Gavi gang, of course.