Barcelona denies its demons

Asked by some of the foremen of Barcelona about the events that have taken place in recent days, the message hardly differs from that proclaimed by Gerard Piqué on Friday night at Sánchez Pizjuán, where the Barça team lost a tie that ended up costing them the lead in the standings. after the triumph of the Zidane team in Anoeta. “It will be very difficult to win this League. Why? Because Real Madrid is going to win everything » , maintains a Barça leader. Without further ado. Thus, priority is given to channeling a feeling of contentment that is embedded in a second reading. Although in reality it is only one. The thesis: "The arbitrations, although they do not have to favor them, at least they are not going to harm them."

Barcelona is looking for an enemy. In this external case. Something inherent in that football that does not admit failure. Without repairing the Catalan team, yes, in all those demons that have been cornering the club since it conquered the 2015 Champions League in Berlin. In the 2011-2012 season, when José Mourinho's Real Madrid was rushing to interrupt Barça's triumph cycle, Pep Guardiola made statements very similar to Piqué's: «We will not win this League. I don't think we'll ever catch them . So it was. The now-City coach spoke those words after the white team managed to win in Vallecas in a game with several controversial decisions, making Barca's victory at Calderón useless. Real Madrid won the championship reaching 100 points, with nine of advantage over Barcelona.

Eight days remain to be played, with Real Madrid and Barcelona equalized in the table, although the final draw would give the title to those of Zidane thanks to their victory in the Bernabéu classic. Despite the fact that the situation could not be more even in a championship in which the agony is rediscovered every three days, in the Barça dressing room they point out several episodes that make them pessimistic. Like the goal annulled Rodrigo with 0-0 in the duel against Valencia in Valdebebas and, especially, the three bordering actions of Anoeta . Namely, Llorente's penalty to Vinicius, the goal annulled to Januzaj by interference of Merino - who started from offside - and the goal awarded to Benzema after he controlled the ball in the border area, between the shoulder and the arm . The referee responsible for judging the match, the Catalan Xavier Estrada Fernández, did not go to review the VAR images and considered both his judgment and the recommendations made by the Valencian referee Juan Martínez Munuera from the VOR room to be good.

Trapped in the memory of 2015

The temptation of the arbitration alibi is high. Even more so when your own problems can be blurred in a media storm that usually takes all sports debate ahead. But this is a Barcelona that has lost 23 of the 45 points away from home. A club that decided to terminate the contract of a coach, Ernesto Valverde, whom he sustained after the collapses of Rome and Anfield, but who was fired eight months later. When his team was leading the League and after falling in the semifinals of an overseas Super Cup. This is also a Barcelona caught in the memory of its last Champions: eight of its starting footballers in Pizjuán (Ter Stegen, Piqué, Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets, Rakitic, Arturo Vidal, Messi and Luis Suárez) played in the 2015 final . Vidal did it with the Juventus shirt.

Added to this is the inconsistency of Setien's proposal, which has not been able to emerge victorious from any of his capital appointments since he took over the team . He lost at Mestalla (2-0), also at the Bernabéu (2-0) and did not go beyond the draw at Pizjuán (0-0). He was also defeated in San Mamés (1-0), a fall that cost the elimination in the Cup. While San Paolo, in the eighths of the Champions League, took a draw (1-1).

From aesthetics to survival

When Setien was hired by Barcelona after Xavi Hernández, Ronald Koeman and Mauricio Pochettino rejected the offer, they were reunited by Barcelona managers in the boardroom. They had to see a video in which the Cruyffist ideology was noticed in the Setien government work. Aesthetics and quarry. But as happened during the Valverde stage, the Cantabrian coach has ended up assuming survival as the only plan . In Seville, and before the loss of Frenkie de Jong, those responsible for building the game were Ivan Rakitic and Arturo Vidal. Dazzling Ansu Fati against Leganés stayed on the bench. Hierarchies were prioritized again. Luis Suárez played the 90 minutes despite his evident signs of fatigue. And Braithwaite, who should be no more than a patch that covered the poor sports management, ended up being a starter in one of the games of the year. Ahead of Antoine Griezmann, the signing of the season. Still disoriented and without position.

Setién, during his appearance before today's match against Athletic, let his dissatisfaction with the arbitrations at Real Madrid flow: «Everyone saw how the match went and each one will draw the conclusions that they consider most appropriate. As for Piqué, he has always seemed to me to be a very intelligent person ». However, he limited self-criticism to unsuspected limits. So much so that he rejected any inconvenience in the seniority of his staff [seven of the holders in Seville were over thirty]: «I am not at all concerned about the average age. The normal thing is that, with more years, one decides better ». He ignored the little commitment to La Masia: "If he really saw that the youth squads would do better, they would surely have more minutes." To reach the sentence: "I do not agree that we have a soccer problem." The enemy is sought elsewhere .

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