Barça is a calamity. Falling in front of Celta in a last collective nonsense perhaps no longer had so much importance. Nor saying goodbye to a league that lost the same night it disintegrated against Granada. It is the frustration that leaves its mark. See
Messi
leave the stadium sunk, not knowing what the hell to do from now on. See
Ter Stegen
paralyzed, as if he refused to live all this. See
Griezmann
and
Dembélé
buried on the bench due to their nullity. And to
Braithwaite
, the team's only center forward, missing a goal without anyone being surprised. Barça has been this. Yes. A calamity.
The Camp Nou gave off sadness even before the show started. No one on the streets was waiting for the team. No cry of encouragement was going to come from the empty stands. Nor of reproach. Messi stepped on the pitch without having said a word about his renewal. Whether he stays or not, this pandemic football does not allow footballers to say goodbye, who have learned to run naked. And to feel alone. Ter Stegen is, a lost soul in recent times. So is the coach. To
Ronald Koeman
being an icon has been of no use to him. When push comes to shove, the Wembley hero has been treated like anybody. Its technical deficiencies are manifold. He is also the technician of the former former regime. But leaving it out in the open while the team could still aim for more than just indifference was not a good idea.
Deciphering Barcelona against the excellent Celta de
Coudet
was so evident that perhaps it would have been enough to review many of their games this season. The Barça team is a group that has good intentions at the beginning. At times it even plays well. To a large extent because
Sergio Busquets
has risen against the passage of time. But Barça is so fickle in its efforts, so disconcerting in the occupation of spaces and so fragile in the areas that any setback returns it to the slaughterhouse. He fails too much in attack, no matter how high Messi's production is. And he continues to tremble in defense, no matter how much Koeman takes his three centrals to the epitaph.
So a more than correct first half in which Dembélé offered overflow as a lane and Messi, with a header, scored his thirtieth league goal of the season was marred by another of those ridiculous and incomprehensible actions that have penalized Koeman's so much this season .
Santi Mina
fired from the front of the area with little hope that it could go further.
I hammered
, unscrewed,
He stepped forward to get in the way.
Who knows if the figure of the center-back blocked Ter Stegen's vision or if the goalkeeper was caught off-foot.
The only certain thing is that the goal remained still in the center of the goal.
As if he had decided to stare at Medusa until she turned him to stone.
Defeated even before the ball passed him on the way to the net.
The doorman seems to have lost his faith.
The weakness of Ter Stegen, one of the few realities that Barcelona was supposed to have, feeds that inner demon of the club that ends with everything.
Riqui Puig
knows it well
.
A year ago, when he hugged
Quique Setién
, he must have been the team's great hope.
This season has been spent between the stands and the bench.
Become an irrelevant footballer for his coach.
Koeman, insistent in his commitment to
Ilaix Moriba
,
saw fit
to rescue Riqui from the dark zone to try to lift the duel against Celta.
For this he had to mediate
Pedri's
accumulated fatigue
and
Frenkie de Jong's loss
due to
suspension
.
It didn't work for him.
Nothing was going to change the fate of the Catalans.
Celta, who was only worth the win to rush some European options that died at Villamarín, played without complexes and with that joy of which there was no trace on the Barça side.
Even
Denis Suárez
, in search of the winning goal, allowed Ter Stegen some forgiveness.
The final stretch was already a total nonsense for Barcelona.
After his soccer players of revolutions, it was only necessary to see
Lenglet
crown his horrible year with an expulsion after taking out
Iago Aspas
and
Kevin Vázquez
.
Or Martin Braithwaite missing a sung goal before Santi Mina lowered the blind after a cross from Solari.
This Barcelona does not give for more.
And you can't say goodbye in peace.
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