• Chronicle: Eibar is also choking on Barça

If a culé had been asked 12 months ago if he thought a world pandemic was more likely in 2020 or that

Braithwaite would consolidate as Barcelona's starting center forward

, at least he would have doubted.

And he would have worried, of course.

If they were to tell him that both things were going to happen, as it has been, surely he would have asked for a change of club and planet.

The Danish striker is, despite himself, a walking summary of what the Barça team has become and, in a way, what it threatens to be the day that Messi, in the stands against Eibar, is definitely not there.

It is by no means the culprit of Barça's ills, but it is a symptom that helps to explain the Barça crisis.

His effort is undeniable - the same cannot be said of several of his colleagues - but his talent is insufficient to carry out the role he has been entrusted with.

In the absence of a 'nine' of greater solvency, the Danish has

seven consecutive starts in the League

, ten in the last eleven games, also adding the Champions League.

The most recent five he has played whole.

And loaded with confidence, he grabs gallons even to shoot penalties.

In Kiev, Griezmann gave him the responsibility.

This Tuesday against Eibar, he directly grabbed the ball after the VAR corrected Alberola Rojas.

And sent him away.

"Griezmann missed one recently and Braithwaite got one in the Champions League, that's why they decided that he would throw it," Koeman explained.

He thought he would find a rematch right away, but just as the VAR had given him a chance, then he took it from him.

He scored

after a pass from Junior Firpo

- preceded by a great opening from Pedri - but did so offside.

The Danish did not get to finish off the goal legally in the whole game, during which he only touched the ball 23 times.

Dembélé, in 24 minutes, did it 39 times, aside from scoring the tying goal.

"We have not looked more deeply," claimed Koeman as the main problem for his team in the first half.

In spite of everything, the coach considered that Barça played "a good game" and raised a conformist speech that, he says, tires him out even listening to himself: "My feeling is ...

How is it possible that we have not won?

It is not that complicated either, but we missed opportunities, we missed a penalty and we gave away a goal in his only shot on goal ».

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