Barcelona cannot stop, unable even to avoid defeat at the Camp Nou against Osasuna in another unbearable match . And in silence, fortunately for its managers and its players, he said goodbye. Nothing was this.

Josep Maria Bartomeu, president of the club, thought that the team would take a "new impulse" -as the gyrfalcon defined it- when in January it occurred to him to fire Valverde and hire his fourth option, Quique Setién. With Barça still leading the championship and the Copa del Rey still to be resolved. Already in July, and at the expense of the duels without return of the Champions League, there is some evidence. The Cup, nice dressing, vanished in the same dawn. The League, which was once so lazy to celebrate as a matter of routine, has gone seven points apart at the hands of Real Madrid, which has won three of the last 12 editions . And the game, which has been criticized for the last two years for its poor aesthetics and extreme pragmatism, has not only not improved, but has exposed the shortcomings of a rickety backbone.Because Berlin 2015 is just an old photograph. And no one notices that memory is built on, never lived .

To understand what was happening in the game, you didn't even need to take a look at the grass, you just had to attend the stands. Arthur Melo, Juventus footballer in Barça clothes, opened his mouth wide and took off his shoes. It was his way of rebelling against sleep in an unpresentable scene . In front of the Brazilian, Setién tried to correct the incorrigible. Because there is no way for your team to flow in attack and not break down in defense. Much less when the rival on duty, in this case Osasuna, raises a defense of five that requires breadth. When this Barça only proposes narrowness.

Substitutes four of the capitostes of the house -Jordi Alba, SergioBusquets, Arturo Vidal and Luis Suárez-, the team was not enough with the verve that Riqui Puig and Ansu Fati were trying to oppose. Everything tangled in the throat of the field, with Messi gesturing his helplessness every time he tried to sneak away from his rivals while watching Braithwaite not return a single wall. How Semedo, who was to double him, never appeared.

It was precisely on the shore of the Portuguese side where Estupiñán slipped freely. It is true that no one helped Semedo in a two against one of his own training football. The center of the Osasuna lane at the near post deconstructed Piqué, who was left with one leg behind him, and revealed Junior and Rakitic's lack of appetite for Arnaiz's goal .

By then, Messi, fed up with everything, had already decided to make war on his own. He reached a tie on the fourth free kick . And he was about to propitiate a goal from Braithwaite, annulled for offside like another to Luis Suárez, who had entered half an hour from the end. The expulsion of Enric Gallego with an elbow to Lenglet not only did not change the night, but also led to the goal at twilight of Roberto Torres.

Messi never stopped running. But not even someone like him has the remedy for so much disability. For so much decrepitude .

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