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In today's football, the personality of each team is a faithful reflection of the spirit of their coach. Valverde is a serious, melancholic, almost gloomy man and his imprint is reflected by the team. A Barcelona without fiber, without passion. Not even revealed by the wonderful irruption of Ansu Fati .
Not with Messi , but with Ter Stegen , the sad Barça came out alive by miracle. A penalty that miraculously stopped the German goal, a crossbar and four occasions, three of them Reus mollares, could have given him a scandal result for Dortmund.
But the ball never entered the goal of the miraculous Ter Stegen. Saved by luck, saved by the excessively tachycardic attacks of a Borussia who always reached the goal of Barcelona, as a soul that the devil pursues.
It costs a world to Barcelona today to move the ball as before, even every day that passes makes the wonderful pressure on the enemy of yesteryear worse. It is more than likely that the Gordian knot is represented by the emergence of De Jong , who has tactically decomposed the symmetry that Valverde seeks. You tried to embed it on the right side of the center of the field. But the Dutchman does not swallow. It does not find its position. Too many years of being the epicenter of Ajax. That is suffered by Busquets , who ultimately paid the blame for the disproportionate chaos in the construction of Barcelona. Everything to end who has to play instead of De Jong. That is, Rakitic , the unjustly insulted.
Then there is Griezmann's position, who doesn't even know where he plays. Nor does Valverde know if it is a half-point, a battering ram or a hindrance. The truth is that it leaves Suárez with less space in the area, despite being the only one that has the verticality and the perfume of the goal.
I thought that with the departure of Messi and with the perfection of Ter Stegen Barcelona would be redeemed in the last 30 minutes. It was more ordeal. Because Messi, with a few extra pounds, no competition rhythm, with more years, could not be the eternal savior. A pity
Dortmund always played precipitously, with a lot of verticality, but Alcacer failed, who only had one chance and very rare. The team of that good coach, Lucien Favre , is sometimes confused with his own game speed. It was an unbridled, intense, crushing colt, but without the luck of the winner, perhaps too nervous to dream of beating Barcelona.
The Valverde group does not know how to win outside the Camp Nou. What's more: it looks like another team. A set without the classic football vein of Barça of the best years. I believe in Ansu Fati. Neither more nor less than because of the current eclipse of stars we have to believe in the phenomenon of Guinea. Even now, with so few years, when it still cannot be the joy of an excessively depressed team by a coach as dreary as Valverde.
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