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Barça does not know how to win away from home. And that is costing him dearly. It has green shoots, red in the youngest, but also dry branches, almost rotten, that need to be severed urgently. Coutinho and Umtiti clearly demonstrated in Pamplona that their place is very far from the Camp Nou. As much as Xavi's men managed to get ahead up to two times, through Nico and Abde, the best of the visitors, the deficiencies in defense gave air to an Osasuna that, in the end, managed to win a draw (2-2) that dismounts the Catalans from European positions. [Narration and statistics: 2-2]
That the Barça team, right now, is a broken toy is something tremendously evident. The fracture, in this case, is generational. While the young people strive and hope, the veterans are not quite up to the task. The first part was a clear example of this. Abde brought out the colors again and again not only of the two Osasuna defenders who used to try to stop their internships on the left wing of the Barcelona attack, but also of an Ousmane Dembélé who, if he really wants to be the best in the world in his put, you will have to hurry to put the batteries. And a lot.
Two young players from the Barça youth academy, precisely Gavi and Nico, were the architects of the first goal of the match in an action that was borderline offside. A measured pass from the first sent him to the back of the net the second when the first 12 minutes of the game had barely been played. But the joy did not last long for Barça. Very little. Two minutes, practically. That was how long it took for another jug of cold water to arrive for Ter Stegen's goal. David Garcia, after a free-kick from Moncayola, to Xavi's despair, put the 1-1 on the scoreboard. Two veterans, Piqué and Busquets, angrily argued about the play. The defense, again, was almost trembling. Especially when Umtiti was involved. His departure from the club in the upcoming winter market seems clearly much more than a possibility.
Neither the subsequent attacks by Osasuna nor a more successful Abde when looking for the dribble than linking the last action managed to move the tie before the break. Barça, on the other hand, promised them very happy at the start of the second half. The Catalans got gold from an action much protested by Osasuna as a possible penalty. Martínez Munuera, however, vehemently denied the major. The ball contacted Busquets' hand after a clearance by Gavi and that, as pointed out by the Referees Technical Committee at the end of August, is not considered a punishable action. While the locals complained, the Catalans were planted in the rival area and Abde himself, behind Dembélé's center, crashed the 1-2 at the bottom of Herrera's goal.
The play was hardly an oasis to cling to in the middle of the desert.
It is true that Barça had options to sentence, but Dembélé and Luuk de Jong, time and time again, insisted on not finding the right key.
Osasuna, meanwhile, took advantage of this circumstance not only to reach the final moments with well-founded hopes, but they also knew how to exploit the everlasting nervousness of the Catalans in the rear.
They squeezed so much that, in the end, they won the fair prize of the tie with a shot from outside the Chimy Ávila area to rescue at least one point and plunge the Barça fans a little more into a crisis that seems to have no end.
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