The weakness is revealed before the precipice. That's where fear drags you down, as much as the head pretends to look up. Barcelona, chaotic and unable to find calm in the ball, surrendered to a new survival exercise. And it allowed the Granada, in superiority thanks to the naive expulsion of Gavi, tied the game thanks to a whiplash to the squad. Even Montoro, who Ter Stegen had to deny on the line, sniffed a last blow that did not arrive. It is so fine the border line by which the Xavi Hernández team walks that the game and hope are deformed in the agony. [Narration and Statistics]
Let's look at Ousmane dembélé. All inconsistency. It is impossible to know what he intends, neither in football nor in life. Maybe neither he knows it. But it is at that moment in which he is going to get the ball when the expectation becomes a diabolical concern. It was not a few times as the ball passed under him when it seemed impossible for him to escape the control. The public of the chames took those episodes to laughter, although it also assumed some distrust. Because I was dying, despite the expansive chaos of him, despite the twisted dries and the absurd cuts, believed to see something that nobody else could. Strange beauty. Strange torture.
He had no other to Xavi Barcelona to surrender to the illogbish world of Delmbéé. Because from the static game and before the extreme celecerity with which the players tried to close the plays, there was no way to penetrate the rapid defensive structure of the Granada of Robert Moreno, granitic in his 4-4-2. Nico and Gavi, the interiors at 4-3-3, always went to the spaces marked on the blackboard by Xavi to generate superbatties. But they did so so fast that, when catching the ball, the partner with whom he had to look for the Alliance had not yet arrived. The position game requires a certain constructive pause that the azulgranates, too young, too impetuous, have not yet been able to reach. At the time. Meanwhile, nobody offers the creative criterion of Dani Alves, which premiered again in the league. With 38 years and as lateral.
Gummy and moments unbearable the party at the difficulty of the teams to take the areas - Barça was looking for the centers to Luuk de Jong, the Granada the races of Machís and Luis Suárez - the attention fell on the referee González Fuertes, who never He knew how to take the pulse to the game.
He had to intervene soon the arbitration team in a play that could be capital. Luuk, ready to continue with the Buenaventura found in Mallorca, nailed again at an impossible pathway crossing between Ibrahimovic and Bergkamp, won his back on his paillery and heated a goal. The position of him was correct. Intervened then the VAR to warn González strong from an infraction. But in a previous episode. Gavi, before he gave the center of the goal, had run into Jutglà on the left flank, where he picked up the ball slightly advanced. That was at least what tried to indicate the videoarch with those lines that drag this sport to a scenario of geometric perfection. Just what is not football. The time was annulled over the game.
De Jong, in any case, he followed him. He imitated a scorpion on an aerial and spur shot. And he claimed a penalty for a push in the torrent area. In El Granada, while, they complained for a hand of Busquets outside the punishment area and for a lack of Gavi in Mile, who claimed the second yellow card for the Barça. GAVI, penalized by an impulsiveness still uncontrolled, could no longer avoid expulsion to ten minutes from the end after an unnecessary missing to the former collated azulgrana. Meanwhile, Ter Stegen had to take out a Savior Hand from Darwin Machís.
If Barcelona was intended to get something from Granada, I could only trust Dani Alves, the footballer on the field with more criteria. The Brazilian knew how to wait for the perfect moment in Jong mocked the defender. The Dutch stem thanked the gift to him, with a testarazo to the net before which nothing could put the goalkeeper Luis Maximiano.
Once in an advantage, Barcelona was forced to resist. And I would already with Lenglet, a substitute for injured Eric García, and hoping that Memphis and ABDE will achieve something of profit after its irruption from the bank. It was not so. Robert Moreno charged how much he could. Xavi preferred to take Álvaro Sanz before Riqui Puig, forgotten on the bank because of his bad game in Mallorca. And the red Gavi convinced the azulgrana that, this time, it would not even be enough to shrink water. Doors so confirmed it.
It was another afternoon in which Barcelona went from impatience to disorder. Of confusion to chaos. Ugly preamble to the dispute of the supercopa.
Date Of Update: 08 January 2022, 15:10
