The Barça, touched before the Clásico
Nothing else to assume the bench of the FC Barcelona almost a year ago, Xavi Hernandez could not avoid a disaster in the champions League with a 0-0 against Benfica that left the team at the expense of a crush on Munich. On the street. This time, with two matchdays to go, a miracle is needed to prevent another early exit from the group stage. The blow is very hard for a project born to no longer be in transition and return to the elite this season. It will not be in Europe but it can be at home. There is barely time to recover from the debacle, only salvageable in the event of a miracle Victory Pilsen before him Bury and win against Bavarian at the Camp Nou, and what is to come does not invite optimism either, but it requires much more. And from now on.
Yesterday, the team returned to work at the Ciutat Esportiva with the same long faces from the night before, although with no room for more regrets. The Bernabeu awaits on Sunday (4:15 p.m./DAZN LaLiga) against the European champion, also level on points with the azulgrana at the top of the table. The outcome of the Clásico can mark the immediate present of a Barca needed more than ever a reaction. Behind closed doors, the assumption of reality is evident. After a blank season, the current one is only saved by conquering The league and more with a very improved workforce after investing 158 million fixed euros. There is a long campaign ahead with 30 league games to play, Europa Leagueme, Copa del Rey Y Super Cup on the sidelines, and months to recover once the injured recovered. The example of the previous course is a demonstration of how the scenario can change even though the wardrobe still does not find regularity in a context that does not allow patience.
The disappointing mid-October that takes the Barca. “Three weeks ago we were flying,” he acknowledged. xavi after suffering 1-0 against Celta last Sunday, anticipation of the new continental disappointment against Bury. The team turned out to be another bath in reality, leaving the hopeful image shown in Munich despite losing 2-0 a month ago. However, already in the Allianz Sand he sinned Barca of the endemic evils that further exploited the Buryalso deprived of important men (Lukaku, Brozović Y Belt) like the Catalans.
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Bad start after the break like in Munich
If he Bavarian brought down the Barcelona with a goal in the 50th minute and the second in the 54th minute, the Italians took over the immensity of the Camp Nou roaming freely before the mental fragility of a team that lost focus again after 1-1 in Barella in the 50′. The unforgivable mistake Pique letting the ball pass also multiplied the general confusion. lautaro martinez scored the 1-2 in the 63rd minute taking advantage of a previous gift from Sergio Busquets. The long shadow of the chain of European disappointments took its toll on the team’s ability to react.
And also from xavi hernandezwho lamented at a press conference how the virtues of Bury They ended up killing Barça despite having talked about it and studied it days before. It’s not the first time. even the Vallecano Rayin the midst of last spring’s collapse after the debacle against the Eintrachtwon (0-1) in the Camp Nou with a clearance of Alvaro Garcia already analyzed previously, as he himself admitted Busquets. “We had seen the goal play 200 times in the video,” he assured sergi that night.
The own azulgrana captain did not hide the day before yesterday, after the sad tie against the Burythat “it is clear that it does affect” the classic. Too long ago, precisely since March 20 last in Chamartinthat he Barca he doesn’t suffer a disconnection in a big game. That 0-4 should serve as an impetus for a new era but it is no longer valid. Once (almost) out of the championseverything starts over from scratch Bernabeu in a duel that can vary in one way or another the state of mind of the squad and Barcelona fans.
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