Barça embraces anxiety: fourth day in a row without winning

Turin, a city with a dark history, had served as a momentary balm for this Barcelona that rebuilds on the fly, but the return of the League once again ripped open its tender scars.

He tied in Vitoria, against an Alavés who played half an hour with ten, and accumulates four days without winning, already embedded in the lower-middle zone of the classification.

With two games less than most, yes, but seeing him there in the table is equally impressive.

And Koeman no longer has any certainties, because it is no longer known if this is the Barça of a languishing Messi or the one that seems promising but still beardless of

.

Surely neither one nor the other and hence the mountain peaks of this Barça to which the League is getting complicated too soon.

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So close was Alavés that at times Messi received the ball and, when he looked up, he discovered himself locked between four or five fierce opponents.

The Argentine star felt condemned to practicing claustrophobic football, from which at times he tried to escape, testing to see if any of those defenses were traversable.

But Alavés was a solid body, not gas, well programmed by

to carry out only two actions: defend and counterattack.

And since Barcelona's football was disjointed, slow and run over-clumsy, in short-, the first of their missions was much easier than expected for the Albiazul team, so they allowed themselves the luxury of lavishing themselves on the second of them, thinking that perhaps something will fall, like someone shaking a robust apple tree.

And yes, something fell because

wrong

and the goalkeeper, who was not where he should have been, tried to do what he should not and Rioja swiped the ball to do what he should, score in an abandoned goal. to their fate.

Penalty not awarded to De Jong

Not one more than possible penalty from Ximo Navarro on De Jong that was not sanctioned served as a mitigating factor for an obtuse first part of Koeman's team, present in Mendizorroza with an eleven that, in the absence of Ter Stegen and Coutinho, could well be a gala .

who seemed to play badly on his own were at half-time those marked by the shipwreck, returning to recycle De Jong as a center-back and drawing a midfield with Pedri and Messi exercising inside ahead of Pjanic .

But the spark that Barça needed to fan its football bonfire did not come from Koeman's lighter, but from his rival's.

the meeting time and a few seconds later Griezmann equalized the score, picking up a ball that shot out of a fray, as if it were shrapnel, to sting him over Pacheco.

The red and the draw reinforced the narrative of Barça ball dominance -the last minutes were a desperate siege in which Pacheco made incredible saves- which was already reigning in the match, in which the teenagers Ansu Fati -on his 18th birthday-,

wrote the most brilliant paragraphs, while Messi felt his football reduced to onomatopoeia of frustration.

This Barça every day is less his, without even knowing very well if that is good or bad for the Catalans.

Apparently in Mendizorroza, at the moment it is bad.

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