There is no way Barcelona can enjoy a round day. If against Levante he found a Pyrrhic victory, hanging from the crossbar at the end of a heart attack and unworthy of his theoretical superiority, against Real he was released with a first half worthy of praise … To end, again, asking for the hour.
There is no way to teach the team Koeman to defend himself with the ball to avoid substances. Need to maintain the result and understand that maintaining control of the ball is the best way for the opponent not to be able to squeeze it, Barça insisted on quickly maintaining transitions that, with fatigue, led to ball losses that provoked the rival attack without time to position itself in defense … And to the suffering.
Mir Stegen miraculously saved a shot from Isak seven minutes into the 90s and when the fourth referee showed the table with five minutes of elongation the nerves grew exponentially among the local footballers, both physically and mentally tired.
Did Barça deserve suffering? Pay for your lack of action at the door. Against Real he opened the scoring for a winger, Alba, and heard a second line as De Jong but neither showed up in the Messi shot, nor did he access Braithwaite. Griezmann was the squaring of the circle: well in the game, competent in the combination and the unmarking, even in his defensive performance, his ability to shoot was to cry, reaching to miss a goal in the goal cow in which the easiest thing was to put the ball in the goal and not give it to the rival goalkeeper.
Griezmann is the image of the offensive despair that grips Barça, which from so much failure, so much forgiveness, leads to suffering that should not be reached. And even less so after showing good feelings in the field. And doing so in front of a rival, leader, who showed packaging in his game and solvency in his football bet.
The first comeback of the Koeman era, the first of the team since he got it against Betis at Villamarín back in February, catapults the hopes and restores peace for a few days. This weekend, in front of Valencia, I will have to go one step further … Or go back to the doubts.