Barcelona pays for chaos in Granada

The weakness is revealed before the precipice. This is where fear drags you down, no matter how much your head tries to look up. Barcelona, ​​chaotic and unable to find calm in the ball, gave themselves up to a new exercise of survival. And it allowed Granada, in superiority thanks to the naive expulsion of

, to tie the game thanks to a whip from

to the squad. Even

, whom

had to deny on the line, sniffed a last blow that did not arrive. The border line along which

's team walks is so fine

that the game and hope are deformed in agony.

Let's look at

. All inconsistency. It is impossible to know what he wants, neither in football nor in life. He may not even know it himself. But it is at that moment in which the ball is going to arrive when the expectation turns into diabolical restlessness. There were few times that the ball passed under his sole when it seemed impossible for him to get out of control. The public of Los Cármenes took those episodes with laughter, although they also assumed a certain distrust. Because Dembélé, despite its expansive chaos, despite twisted dribbling and absurd cuts, believed he saw something that no one else could. Strange beauty. Strange torture.

Xavi's Barcelona had no choice but to surrender to Dembélé's illogical world. Because from the static game and given the extreme speed with which the players tried to close the plays, there was no way to penetrate the iron defensive structure of Robert Moreno's Granada, granite in its 4-4-2.

and

, the insiders at 4-3-3, always went to the spaces marked on the board by Xavi to generate superiorities. But they did it so fast that, when catching the ball, the partner with whom he had to look for the alliance had not yet arrived. The game of position requires a certain constructive pause that the Catalans, too young, too impetuous, have not yet been able to reach. At the time. Meanwhile, no one offers the creative criteria of

, who made his debut again in the League.

At 38 years old and as a winger.

Rubbery and at times unbearable, the game faced with the difficulty of the teams to take the areas - Barça was looking for the centers to

, Granada the races of

and

-, the attention fell on the referee

, who never he knew how to take the pulse of the game.

The referee team had to intervene soon in a play that could be capital.

Luuk, ready to continue with the good fortune found in Mallorca, once again stuck in an impossible crossroads between

and

, won his back against his peer with mischief and headed for goal.

His position was correct.

The VAR then intervened to warn González Fuertes of an infraction.

But in an earlier episode.

Gavi, before he offered the center of the goal, had run into

on the left flank, where he picked up the ball slightly advanced.

That was at least what the video refereeing tried to indicate with those lines that drag this sport to a scenario of geometric perfection.

Just what football is not.

The goal was canceled for offside.

De Jong, in any case, followed suit. He imitated a scorpion in an aerial and spur auction. And he claimed a penalty for a push in the Torrente area. In Granada, meanwhile, they complained about a hand from Busquets outside the penalty area and for a lack of Gavi to Milla, which he claimed was the second yellow card for the azulgrana. Gavi, penalized for a still uncontrolled impulsiveness, could no longer avoid it with ten minutes remaining after an unnecessary foul on former Barça player Collado. In the meantime, Ter Stegen had to take a saving hand from Darwin Machís.

If Barcelona wanted to get something out of Granada, they would only entrust the departure to Dani Alves, at 38 years of age, the most judicious footballer on the field. The Brazilian knew how to wait for the perfect moment when Luuk de Jong outwitted the defender. The Dutch stalk thanked the gift in his own way, with a head to the net that goalkeeper Luis Maximiano could not put at all.

Once in advantage, Barcelona was forced to resist.

And he would already do it with Lenglet, substitute for the injured Eric García, and with the hope that Memphis and Abde would achieve something of profit after their irruption from the bench.

It was not so.

Robert Moreno loaded his attack as much as he could.

Xavi preferred to remove Álvaro Sanz before Riqui Puig, nailed to the bench since his bad game in Mallorca.

And the red one to Gavi ten minutes from the end convinced the Catalans that, this time, it would not even be enough to bail out water.

Puertas confirmed it.

It was another afternoon in which Barcelona went from impatience to disorder.

From confusion to chaos.

Ugly preamble to the Super Cup dispute.

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