BARCELONA – Barcelona is back the way it used to. Without a shot, without a goal, everything that can be expressed in the field is diluted into nothingness and Xavi Hernández’s team is condemned to nothing, well tied up by a Real Betis who knew how to endure his supersonic exit and in just twenty minutes he took the measure, he treated him calmly and seriously and ended up destroying him with the goal of Juanmi.
The Xavi effect ended badly in Barcelona. It started with good feelings … And a penalty victory, against Espanyol; He did not go beyond the draw against Benfica, with a good game but condemned by that terrible lack of goal, and won, with fortune and effort in Villarreal in what the coach himself considered the least clairvoyant game since his arrival on the bench. And in the fourth test, in the fourth match, it was shown that this Barça so immature and with so much room for growth is still light years from what is understood should arrive.
Thinking, it is assumed and although the coach suggested otherwise in the previous one, in the Bayern Munich final next Wednesday, Xavi removed the eleven and gave Coutinho confidence in the lineup for the first time. And the Brazilian responded with an hour of match to forget, again. He appeared lively, convinced, daring and participative … And he turned off in a bad way to leave with nothing to say.
As for the half hour gone Gavi On a stretcher, shocked by a hit to the head, Barça’s lights went out. Riqui Puig He took his place and missed a new chance to claim his claim, going unnoticed amidst the general torpor of a game that the Barça team dominated for just twenty minutes to devote themselves to a task with all the ambition but without any precision.
Barça wanted to play for the bands and Betis knew how to protect them with magnificence. Barça wanted to combine quickly and Betis knew how to keep their position in order not to suffer. Barça did not know how to look for the last pass, he did not know how to find the auction and there it was condemned to disaster as time went by.
DEMBÉLÉ … AND JUANMI
Betis added five consecutive defeats against Barça since their last triumph, precisely at the Camp Nou, in November 2018 but this time Manuel Pellegrini, who accumulated eight defeats in a row against the Barça team, knew how to find his weakest points.
It did not allow him to maneuver in the center of the field, where the work of Andrew Saved it was superb, and even less offered holes for the auction. And if it is already difficult for Barça to finish off … if it does not find spaces, the drama is accentuated to the limit.
A long hour of play, which is said soon, took the Barça team to put to the test Rui Silva and it was through Ousmane Dembélé, who in just three minutes caused more danger than the entire team in the previous half with two shots.
The French abroad wanted to revolutionize the party and they did, but Betis responded with agility with the entry of Christian Tello and the multiplication in defense of Marc bartra, which bored Memphis Depay and returned the tone to his team until a counter caused by an error of Jordi Alba ended with Juanmi’s shot to the net. Saved, Canales, Tello, Juanmi … And goal. 0-1 and the depression that takes over a Barcelona that for each step forward takes another two backwards …
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To Barcelona the illusion that arrived with Xavi is extinguished