Espanyol denies Barça

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Valverde finished the derby begging his players to run at once. That they rebelled before the competitive craving of their rival. But Barcelona , which after a sad start seemed to have found a remedy in the blows of genius of Suarez and the furious irruption of Arturo Vidal , returned to the streets. De Jong was expelled. The team broke in two. And Espanyol , wholeheartedly at the proximity of the cemetery, reached the prize for which he had sweated so much. Monito Vargas invented the pass. Wu Lei crossed and was left with a tie that in Cornellà knew glory. The Catalans now share leadership with Real Madrid . Although with the same bad face with which he closed the year.

Barcelona started the derby threatening its crash. And nobody is surprised that he who appeared as the first classified in the hollow of Cornellà played with fire. The blue and white team, a group that has not been able to win a single game in its stadium in 18 days, a colista that seeks to avoid extreme unction, knew how to perfectly execute the survival plan plotted by its new coach, Abelardo Fernández . Valverde, on the other hand, consisted of the same old draft. With Messi and Suárez nailed in the ownership with two days of training. With a single emergency plan. Arturo Vidal to the rescue. And the traditional attempt at redemption on the edge of the precipice. Barça have started losing in eight of their 25 games.

There was nothing more to attend to the celebration of David López before his fan in the inaugural goal to understand the value of the players who not only grow up at home, but end up making it their own. The Barcelona player, who Abelardo recovered for the midfield after years locked in the defense, grabbed the shield before the misunderstanding of a good part of the Barça players. The Masia and propaganda, an endemic evil still to be resolved.

The Valverde team stepped on blue and white ground without the passion required by the citizen derby. A dangerous attitude against a Espanyol who, sheltered in his 4-4-2, was very clear about what he should do: cut off the advances in the throat of the field, quickly remove the ball from above so as not to accumulate losses in compromised areas and, Above all, squeeze the strategy. Abelardo demanded his men not to recline, to try to push something higher. But the locals felt relatively comfortable in the face of Rakitic's ineffectiveness, and De Jong's difficulties in connecting with Griezmann and Luis Suarez. Messi watched everything from a corner of the field, waiting for better times.

He rediscovered the fans of Espanyol the pleasure that this sport can provide when he saw Marc Roca screw the ball to the head of David Lopez. He ran like a demon to the heart of the area while Luis Suarez was stuck in the race back. The head could only have the network as a destination, before the gesture of impotence of Neto in his league premiere as Barca. Abelardo's had hit the target in his first shot at the door of the game.

He needed Barcelona half an hour to understand that the price to pay for the laziness would be high. Valverde sent Arturo Vidal to warm up, the Catalans, who until then had only looked at Jordi Alba , also activated Sergi Roberto . Messi stretched. And Luis Suarez, perhaps the only footballer in the world capable of frolicking awkwardness and genius, said the comeback.

The Uruguayan began his fight with a fantastic shot with the outside after leaving Bernardo taking root. The ball crashed into the stick. I would no longer forgive Suarez at the start of the second act. Alba, who martyred the young Víctor Gómez, focused on the area aware that Suárez would go to the first post. His shot with the right booty, without letting the leather caress the grass, collapsed Diego López.

And Espanyol, despite his tremendous effort, struggled to bear the tremendous weight of anxiety. Suarez, in ecstasy, focused this time with the outside. An indecipherable technical gesture for everyone around him. It was then that Arturo Vidal broke in to put his advantage ahead.

But Valverde lost De Jong by double yellow in the first expulsion of the Dutchman's career. And Espanyol, to the limit with Vargas and Wu Lei, would end up catching a Barcelona unable to give more of itself.

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• Arturo vidal
• Luis Suarez
• Jordi Alba
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