Ray 1-Barça 0 | The Barça goes down in Vallecas

Barça is a dying man buried facing the ground who tries to get out of the pit digging down. Each movement of the team worsens the previous one and the team continues adrift without system, game or results. The 1-0 defeat in Vallecas against Rayo certifies that this project that started off unbalanced is no longer being sustained anywhere. After four days as a visitor, Barça has only scored one goal and does not know victory. Barça, at the end of October, made it clear in Vallecas that they are leaving LaLiga.

Living in permanent self-deception does not come for free. That Barça finished the Classic three days ago scoring with a good grade and saying that it was on the right track is paid. The lack of self-criticism culé had as a consequence a continuation of the inane speech of the second part of Sunday against Madrid, but this time it was Rayo. A team with a plan that initially stripped a harmless Barça in front and soft in the back. A group without a plan, without leadership and lost.

Today, this Barça is something like those companies (gyms, electricity companies, content platforms, furniture warehouses, car insurers or whatever they want to market) that make an irreplaceable offer in order to attract customers. In the case of the Blaugrana club, it is highly tempting: “at the first shot, we assure you the goal.” That is not even more than one month free. Because the free month of the month, then they charge it, but the goal in favor does not take it away from anyone.

In Vallecas, Barça once again conceded a goal in the first shot on goal from the rival for the fifth time in a row. A lost ball by Busquets before Trejo’s push served Falcao to raffle off Piqué and put the ball out of Ter Stegen’s reach half an hour into the game.

Until that moment, Barça depended on Nico, who returned to ownership and tried to organize a team in which the first swords were shipwrecked from the goalkeeper to the center forward. Neither Memphis, nor Coutinho, nor Piqué, nor Busquets, nor Alba appeared in a match that Rayo was taking forward with legs and order.

Barça’s only occasions ended up at the feet of Dest, who seems to be shooting a video to cover only the end of the year summary of the most grotesque failures one meter from the goal of 2021.

The conclusion of the first part of Barcelona in Vallecas came to be the repetition of what happened against Real Madrid among other rivals: to beat Barça you have to do the right thing, because they will complicate themselves, especially Coutinho, who specializes in slowing down any play. The Brazilian is a machine for losing balls, a sack of stones on the back of his teammates, a scribe with a goose quill in a digital world. An anachrony in current football that, yesterday that he had a hundred games as a Barcelona player, has a single supporter, which curiously is the Barça coach, who has given him more opportunities than Platanito.

With Barça lost and Koeman trying to find ways in the jungle by retesting players like Demir who seemed to be in the archive, Barça came to find a door in the labyrinth in which he had gotten into. Memphis appeared by surprise in individual action and was brought down in the area. As if it were the schoolyard, which is more or less what Barça plays, the Dutchman argued that “they do it to me, I shoot it” even though Kun offered to shoot it. The result of the maximum punishment was at the level of the culé disaster with Memphis failing sadly and driving the last nail into the coffin of the Blaugrana team, which was absolutely unable to even scare Rayo in the final minutes, in which the tie was as close as 2-0.

Definitely, Barça gets off this train in Vallecas and is now looking for a light at the end of the tunnel.