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Arturo Vidal rescued Barça from Ernesto Valverde in the field of the colista. Impossible to find a better metaphor for these times.

It is the galactic Barcelona . The Barcelona that piles stickers without ton or are. The Barcelona that one day despised its origin, in short, the ball, to frolic with extreme resultism. The Barcelona that surpasses mediocrity whatever the country, the city or the countryside. The Barcelona in which the players take refuge after endless contracts, and see the costumes as a simple dressing room, not as a workplace. Barcelona in which the last job priority is football. The Barcelona in which the president prefers to transcend to govern. The Barcelona in which the coach suddenly dreams of emulating the Brazil of 58, with more strikers (four) than midfielders (two). As if Dembélé dribbled with Garrincha's crooked legs, Griezmann understood the game as Zagallo, or Luis Suárez could embocar at the same rate as Vavá. Messi , who has done enough to hide the cardboard-stone that surrounds him, is also 17 years old of that Pele . There was no sign in Brazil's Butarque of the World Cup in Sweden. There only Barça de Valverde appeared. There is nothing.

The first time he came to Leganés as leader of the League was again a nonsense. This same week, Gerard Piqué , from one of the rooms of the Magic Box where he has been solving the problems of his Davis Cup , maintained that if his team commanded the championship, criticizing the game made no sense.

As well. The Leganés shook the visitors without remedy during the first quarter of an hour. Busquets, despite De Jong's efforts to make life easier for him in a completely unpopulated center of the field, could not prevent the advance of Aguirre's men. Roque Mesa won his duel. Samuel Umtiti left at the wrong time chasing shadows. And Piqué, who came to the correction, did not dare to get too close to En-Nesyri , if he left it in evidence. Without noticing that the Moroccan striker could finish off at ease to the squad of Ter Stegen, nailed in his impotence.

The goal of the Leganés was nothing more than the logical consequence of what was happening on the grass. There was not a single pass line. Dembélé, which only improved when Valverde changed it to the left, was entangled 30 meters from the rival goal. Griezmann, deranged, threw unchecks again and again. Without measuring the times of who should pass. Without any intention of looking for short alliances. Luis Suarez and Messi, even if it was thanks to actions with the ball stopped, center and shot, at least, they threatened the redemption. That was the only way out before the null choral plan of a team that again exhibited serious shortcomings both in its tactical disposition and in the search for solutions in the static attack.

Busquets and Piqué fell again defeated, this time against Braithwaite and Oscar, who ended up finishing off. Ter Stegen joined the verbena trying to snatch En-Nesyri a ball with his head. The ball went by and luckily he had the striker picked it up already when he had crossed the border of the baseline. And the Moroccan, who insisted on his own, closed the first act leaving Piqué on the ground again. Barcelona, ​​until then, had only peeked through the foreign area through a header from Suárez after Dembélé center. Cuellar denied the goal.

If someone thought that the scenario would change dramatically in the second half, he was very wrong. And that Barcelona caught the draw quickly. After Piqué headed the post after a corner kick, Luis Suárez ended up hunting the goal. Of course, in the strategy and thanks to the foot of Messi. But sadness never left Barcelona.

Valverde, far from fixing the mess, entangled the game even more. Busquets got rid of him - he saw a card that would prevent him from playing against Atlético - and Griezmann to get Rakitic out of the scaffold and rely on chaos, heroics, or whatever Arturo Vidal brings.

The Barca coach will have no choice but to bless the Chilean, with the same goals since Griezmann (four), and who offered the victory to his team ten minutes from the end. Even if it was thanks to another twisted episode. Dembélé threw a corner and Arturo Vidal , who was waiting alone and offside next to the goal line, hit the goal. The Chilean avoided the infraction because whoever had touched the ball back had been a rival, Rubén Pérez. So Arturo Vidal only had to sigh because that strange shot, started with the left boot and finished with the right leg, ended where it should. Dembélé closed the afternoon as in the twilight of that first leg semifinal match of the Champions League that advanced the Anfield disaster. Crashing into the goalkeeper.

The Barcelona of Valverde and Arturo Vidal suffers more than lives. Nothing changes.

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