It gets small with the big ones

Koeman's Barça continues to live on the wire. He alternates meritorious performances and victories at the last minute with a lack of regularity that penalizes a team that lacks dominance in matches, especially the important ones against opponents who know how to hit at the right moment. Precisely, Barça is the victim of the weapon that it used best when it was the team that best knew how to read matches. Now, He plays them heads or tails and the outcome depends on his own or someone else's inspiration.

This lack of dominance of the scene has had repercussions that Koeman's team has been unable to prevail in the big games against rivals with whom it should argue face to face. The last example was the departure of the Cup semifinals played against Sevilla at the Sánchez Pizjuán, where the Blaugrana team did not play to have to need a comeback on the return. In many moments of the game, the Blaugrana dominated the rival, but were severely penalized by a team that did know how to be more effective.

Sevilla have faced Barça twice this season and both times have come out unscathed. In LaLiga he started a draw to one at the Camp Nou and yesterday in the Pizjuán he started a valuable 2-0.

Barça's mistakes in both areas condemned a team on both occasions that suffers too much if it doesn't have the night.

The same happened to Koeman's when they faced Atlético de Madrid when they lost 1-0 in an even game that decided a tremendous misunderstanding between Piqué and Ter Stegen that Carrasco took advantage of.

When Real Madrid visited the Camp Nou, the script was very similar. Match staggered, but without control that ended up taking the team of Zidane, much more solid in the control of the game. A history of errors and lack of control in both goals that was especially cruel in the final of the Super Cup against Athletic Club.

As an exception this course is the match in Turin against Juventus, that Barcelona won suffering because that day they also played heads or tails. Three goals well disallowed to one Juve that he could not count on Cristiano Ronaldo.

Portuguese He reappeared at the Camp Nou and there the Italians undressed a Barça that fell 0-3.

The Blaugrana team lives in a precarious situation that penalizes them and has grown a lot. The feeling is that little more can be asked of a team than He tries to compete, but against rivals of his entity, he sees how his mistakes fatally penalize him.

A circumstance that will be put to the test in an exam that does not admit hesitation. On Tuesday Paris Saint-Germain visits the Camp Nou. The Champions League is where the reliability of the teams is demonstrated. At the moment, Barça lives on moments, but not on continuity.