REAL SOCIEDAD – BARCELONA Barça changes the style for the epic in the siege of Anoeta

No style, no position game, no magic square, no DNA, no possession, no style, no bosses. Barça achieved three fundamental points (0-1) at Anoeta after suffering the unspeakable defending against an absolute siege while his players were falling injured. What they have done so many times to the Blaugrana, they applied it to a Real team that discovered that when necessary, Barça knows how to appeal to “another football” and Xavi, if necessary, can also be Nereo Rocco. Style is fine, but epic works too.

As usual, Barça entered the game cold and had to endure the downpour from Real, which sank Xavi’s team based on very intense pressure. As proof, the fact that until the sixth minute the blaugrana did not go beyond midfield.

The culé team could not find a way to get out, neither long nor combining because the Barcelona players had a rival stuck in their shirt.

Having overcome the initial push from Real, Barça already began to see what color Remiro was dressed and he rebelled thanks to Gavi, the only player who played at the pace the game demanded. After Dembélé from the small area alone before the local goalkeeper crossed a ball to the base of the post, the young Barcelona player He continued to believe in the play when all his teammates lamented the wasted opportunity. Gavi stole the ball as if it were his and had been taken from him by the upperclassmen in the yard. After recovering it, he enabled Ferran, who classily pumped the ball so that Aubameyang headed the Julio Salinas style on the goal line.

Aubameyang, who still does not have continuity in the game, is justified based on goals, he already has 11, and it is the reverse of a Dembélé who participates much more, but who falls apart in front of the goal.

Real Sociedad continued with its plan and Barça’s shins trembled behind. The turnovers compromised a defense, in which Araújo and Sorloth disputed the heavyweight final and Piqué endured physically diminished. But it is what it is, Piqué lame is still the best defense of the team.

Barça had in their hands the possibility of securing the game with the spaces left by Real, but neither De Jong, nor Ferran nor Auba were accurate. The same as Isak, who in the last minute of the first act had the tie in his boots. The alarms went off on the culé bench. The state of Piqué, who continued on the field after the break, would depend on whether Barça was going to suffer a lot or a lot. It was the second.

In two minutes Sorloth had two very clear chances. The first failed after colliding with Araújo, who bought tickets for the penalty and the second because he fell on his bad leg.

But Piqué was not the first to fall. In full realistic gale, with throwing of objects included, Araújo was injured and Alba’s condition was doubted, which for a moment went from asking for the change to sprinting while Piqué played increasingly limited.

More than a defense, Barça had a congress of rheumatics, but they held on thanks to Ter Stegen and some actions by Piqué a la Cascorro. Barça’s area was El Álamo; Pique, Davy Crockett and Ter Stegen Jim Bowie. La Real, played A cutthroat and did not seem willing to take prisoners.

Barça was already defending itself using everything it had at hand while pieces were falling. Piqué lasted until 80 (15 more than Alves) and Lenglet entered to give the thing more intrigue. If anyone could shoot himself in the foot, it was the French. Barça was already surviving by making barricades with furniture and using reservists and minors. Luuk de Jong came out to defend high balls, The kick and forward became the only tactic and theThe 10 minutes of extension made the victory more epic. No one complained about the style in a game that if another coach signed him, he would be summarily judged tonight. But Barça is not here to get fine.