The Barça, between the flower and the faith

Luck smiled at Barça against him Valladolid. In fact it comes smiling at him in the end times. Perhaps, because it also works. Ronald Araújo, who had already visited the area before (well Koeman in doctrine) pursued a De Jong center in it minute 90 What Pique I had come in with everything to finish off a Antoine Griezmann center against him Seville. And how Jordi Alba had tied a impossible match for Barça, which was 2-0 and against the ropes and against Granada in the quarterfinals of the Cup. three critical moments, as in the Trincao goal against him Betis in the 88th minute in Heliópolis (2-3), it can be summarized that the Barça follow aiming for the double this season. Barça could be accused of having a flower. But if accused of that, it could also be remembered that a Villalibre goal in the 90th minute he deprived him of winning the Super Cup at La Cartuja in January. Or that a bad referee decision precipitated his 0-3 against Juventus and that deprived him of being first in the group stage of the Champions League.

Perhaps it is necessary to take refuge, as always, in the Aristotelian; and the virtue East in the middle. The Barça of this course walks between the flower and the faith. Luck sometimes has to be worked on. And Barça can be accused of fortune, even of disorder in many games. But you also have to applaud faith and will. That which has allowed him lift ten out of eleven points that he Athletic took him at the time; and not abandon himself as he did last year in LaLiga, or in Europe with that shameful 2-8. A attitude that, sadly, I know repeated at 1-4 against PSG in the first leg of the eighths. Against those dejected aftershocks on a team that had turned underdog, Koeman has bound the players to leave everything to the end. And it has given him revenues at very specific moments of the season that allow Barça, at this point, to be fighting for a double. And something more important than that. That depends on themselves. Surely, it is in his hands to overturn the balance more in faith than in the flower.