Even if won't say it publicly, he Barça has already thrown in the towel in The league and he is mentally beaten. Except miracle never seen in the competition, a loss and a draw for Madrid against Villarreal and Leganés combined with two Barça wins against Osasuna and Alavés in the last two games, will finish second and will lose that title that he had recovered with Ernesto Valverde, that in the two seasons that allowed him to finish he was champion and that was leading when the directive, in a crazy flick, dismissed after defeat against el Atlético de Madrid.
Well now LaLiga is not here either and Barça will play the season in Championswhere he has a devilish party against naples in eighths before the eight final in Lisbon. It is the moment, then, of look at Europe. And that starts with dose the minutes of the players in both next days. Not it will be so against Osasuna, a match in which Barça is obliged to win so that it is Madrid who wins LaLiga without it being given away. But yes against Alavés. Players like Piqué, Alba, Vidal, Busquets, Vidal Messi or Suárez (if he has secured the Pichichi with which he will break Zarra's record) they could rest in Vitoria. If, of course, Setien has enough players and does not want disturb the subsidiary.
But more than a matter of physical dosage, It is a mental matter. At Barça, the race for LaLiga with Madrid has been a tremendous wear physical but above all psychological that, together with the one who dragged confinement and defeat on the pulse with the whites, will cost to overcome. You will have 20 days to clear your mind and activate the Champions chip where, even if you went well against Napoli, would be forced to face a very hard road, with the Bayern how first rival. It is also the last cartridge that remains for a computer that could go blank for the first time in thirteen years and that it would generate more than an earthquake in Can Barça in bad times, those of the post-Covid. From top to bottom, Bartomeu would be exposed, Setien's head would be on a silver platter but, beware, it would also begin to point to a locker room that he has not been able to endure the race for Madrid and has ended up falling. It is an unknown how Barça will respond to this penultimate mental blow.