As he did in the Super Cup, the Catalans justify the elimination with a supposed superiority
Sergi Roberto, De Jong and Umtiti, on Thursday in San Mams.
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A frustrated team.
“They already throw us enough shit from outside”
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Cup.
Iaki Williams seals the great rebel and eliminates Bara
In the Bara and in its poor surroundings, style has become a matter of faith for many: they prefer to play well and not win to win without brilliance. Surely, because it is taken for granted that an attractive football practically ensures victory. But in these first weeks of the year, the end of the Valverde era and the beginning of the Setin era, reality has been cruel to the Romantics. The two games in which the team seemed to meet again have ended not only with defeat, but have meant saying goodbye to two titles. The last, on Thursday, in San Mams.
The other encounter that desat praise, but that ended up causing a cataclysm in the whole Barcelona, was the semifinal of the Super Cup of Spain against the Atletico. The defeat, even though the image was much more positive than in the eliminations against Roma and Liverpool in the Champions League, caused the dismissal of Ernesto Valverde in front of Bara and the arrival of Quique Setin as his relief on the bench. In Jeddah, a series of mismatches and last-minute defensive misses led to the victory of the Simeone team, dominated until then. In Bilbao, on the other hand, they condemn the lack of forcefulness on their multiple occasions.
The azulgrana dominated the game. Statistics indicate that they had a possession of 68% and they looked for the goalkeeper defended by Unai Simn up to 11 times. The goalkeeper broke the clearest, which came from the boots of Antoine Griezmann, substitute start, and a Leo Messi who could not believe that the ball did not end up kissing the net. In what will end up being a tracing of the duel that both teams starred in the first day of the League, Gaizka Garitano's team was given a loner so much at the end, in a ball that Iaki Williams and Sergio Busquets fought for, to take the win. In this case, in time added.
The lack of goal that showed in San Mams once again called into question the decision of Barcelona not to incorporate a nine in the winter market, something that now, after the injury of Dembl, intends to correct quickly and running and with a much smaller offer : You can only sign in Spain. The 5-0 Legans in the round of 16 was only an exception. Against Granada (1-0) and Levante (2-1), in LaLiga, and against Ibiza (1-2), in the Cup, I won for the minimum. Against Valencia it remained unmarked (2-0). The arrival of a striker seems more urgent than ever.
Christophe Dugarry, who had a step as fleetingly as nondescript by the Barca club in 1997, resumed it very bluntly on Radio Monte Carlo: It is a clown club. Barcelona has many problems and, worst of all, it has a very bad image. There are too many people who do not have the elegance and class that should be. It is a club that has no class.
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