• Leganés 1 Barcelona 2. Barça does not play, wins

Between the Butarque de Leganés stadium and the Caja Mágica, where the Davis Cup is being held these days, there is less than a quarter of an hour's drive. So Gerard Piqué, after giving his face to the media once the football agony against the day laborers of Javier Aguirre was over, did not cost him much to continue his business activities. The meeting with Barcelona concluded shortly before three in the afternoon. Even the clock did not show 16.00 hours when the central made an appearance in the pavilion, where it will not move until tonight and thus be able to close without difficulty the event for which he has been working for months. Because, in effect, Ernesto Valverde gave a party this Sunday to his players, who will not return to the activity until eleven o'clock on Monday morning to prepare Wednesday's duel against Borussia Dortmund. Piqué, by the way, will not play. It is sanctioned. Yes, Griezmann should do it, who also did not return to Barcelona with his teammates and stayed in Madrid.

«If I am tired? The trips from Barcelona to Madrid are 40 minutes. I go and come back. It's like going to Tarragona by car. Does that affect? We give a lot of hype to this. For what I am and what I represent. We are in a circus. You give an interview to one media outlet and the other one kills you. It is not serious. I just hope people respect me. Piqué, who said he felt backed by both the coach and the club, follows his.

That's life, not only in Barcelona, ​​but in any elite club. Only the focus, always capricious, does not point until there are no traces of disfigurement. While it is true that Barcelona improved in Leganés the performance of last season, not at stake, but in result (2-1 then, 1-2 this time), does not offer any guarantee. It is no longer just an aesthetic issue, but the manifest depersonalization of the Valverde team, which survives thanks to the stopped ball (six of the last seven goals came like this, including Butarque's two) . And that, as much as his coach piled up four strikers, he finds no other way out than Arturo Vidal's extremist football.

Valverde complained about the wind. Also of the lawn. He acknowledged that the image of his team had not been good. But, once again, he prioritized the result. «If there are green shoots? We were losing and we won. It has not been a brilliant match, but there are times when you have to win one way or another. Of course we could not play well. But let's keep the good. We have to go happy ».

Valverde did not explain why Arturo Vidal already has the same goals (four) as an Antoine Griezmann who already renounces to understand the game of his teammates - he was replaced 35 minutes from the end -, why the center of the field has stopped having any impact -from the double pivot formed by Busquets-De Jong it was passed to one with Rakitic-Arturo Vidal- , why Arthur enters and leaves the calls without apparent explanation, why Dembélé continues at the same point as the day he first arrived once to the team, or why there is no other option as third central than Samuel Umtiti, twilight again in Butarque.

Coach, soccer players and managers look at the scoreboard and breathe relieved. Although the screen threatens to collapse from one moment to another.

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