Koeman's impotence in a Barcelona with the worst league start in 18 years

• Chronicle: Barça embraces anxiety: fourth day in a row without winning

Ronald Koeman

touched his face.

Forehead.

He ran his fingers over his eyes, as if he didn't want to look anymore.

He didn't want to get off the bench.

He was powerless in the face of what was happening a few meters away, where his players, with Alavés at a disadvantage defending in full in the area, were unable to score the winning goal.

"If you are going to criticize me also for my image, we better leave it," the Dutch coach shuffled after from the press room.

Impotence has a numerical appendage.

Add eight points in the first six days.

This is the team's worst start in 18 years.

A

, in that 2002-03 season cost the dismissal weeks later in Barcelona, with Joan Gaspart to command, also falling apart.

Life is circular and bloody.

This Barcelona, ​​after drawing at Mendizorroza, has added two points from the last 12 possible.

He tied against Sevilla.

He lost in Getafe.

It fell into the classic.

And it did not go beyond the tables in Vitoria.

Nothing seems enough to resume the path of victory in the League.

This Saturday he fired 25 times, 15 from inside the area, 10 from outside.

On nine occasions the ball was between the three sticks.

He also threw 12 corners.

Goalkeeper

, titanic under the sticks, could only be beaten once.

He succeeded

, the

.

The same one he hadn't scored all season.

And that he only had one goal in the last 19 games.

"I am not a player who usually fails a lot," the French striker clarified once the final tie was settled.

Although after the claim, the reality: "I have failed some important occasions in some games. And the team needs my goals."

Although Barcelona's problem with the goal is very structural in a club that pushed Luis Suárez out of the dressing room and was not able to sign a replacement.

And that's how Koeman understands it, to whom not even the corrections made after the break to solve Neto's error in both Vitoria (

,

and

came out en bloc for

,

and

) helped him to take the game.

The alibi of the clear missed penalty on

does not relieve either.

Balance and ball circulation improved in that second half.

De Jong, who retreated back to center post, dragged the group up.

It would not hurt to wonder, yes, if the footballer who should rule the entire midfield should end up playing defense.

Trincao was much more determined than a Dembélé who returned the way he used to, to tie the ball around his ankles without being able to advance.

even appeared afterwards

getting fed up with reaching the baseline.

Nothing was enough.

"It cannot be accepted that we fail so much"

"It cannot be accepted that we fail so much," the Barcelona coach claimed.

"Of course I am concerned, especially with the performance up front. It is not a matter of attitude or concentration. But it is something that we already suffered this week against Juventus. We must have more performance against the rival goal."

This Barcelona is a team that is still too contradictory.

The irregularity of the old guard (

,

,

) must mix with the impetus of young people like Pedri or

.

Busquets, admonished, does not match the double pivot system devised by Koeman.

Messi, who excelled in Turin thanks to the defensive benefits of Pirlo's Juventus behind the midfielders, crashed time and again in front of

wall

.

While there was no way to understand Alba's third consecutive title after overcoming his last muscle injury.

Ansu Fati, who was 18 years old, was inexplicably replaced by

in full final harassment by the Catalans.

The outcome brought as many occasions as grief.

Without a president after the resignation of

, without an election date due to the advance of the second wave of the pandemic, with the club on the brink of bankruptcy and a management commission forced to close a massive salary cut, the team of Koeman with trying to deny that this is a transitional season.

Or simple survival.

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