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Barça does not know how to play without having fun.

His vision of football is built by gloating and for that he needs players like Pedri and Gavi on the pitch.

The brazen team that lit up under Xavi's influence can't live without them.

They had to appear to alleviate the suffering in Orriols, to avoid the second consecutive stumble, overcome three penalties and, above all, a Levante that, for 50 minutes, undressed him, stole every ball he tried to amass and condemned him to search another effective method to win the match.

That without Pedri on the pitch was an odyssey.

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Commanded by Morales, with few flourishes out of conviction and necessity, the Granotas short-circuited a Barça that fell into their trap again and again.

Accustomed to giving battle to the giants, and although the priority is to get out of the season alive, nobody in the Ciutat gave up fighting the fashionable team they had against the ropes.

The perfect metaphor that salvation, like victory, will be the forgiveness of all sins, which have been many and capital this year in offices and on the lawn.

Morales warned at 20 seconds, taking advantage of Alves' overconfidence with a horizontal pass just outside the box.

Too much relaxation in a field where he has received eleven goals the last four seasons.

He tried to baste Barça with such little precision that the Granotas were worth just stealing and running.

That was the tactic, as basic as it was effective in the first half.

While Xavi shouted to his men that they had to come back each time, Morales kept driving Araujo and Alves crazy, affected by a sprained ankle.

Nico did not appear, Dembélé was stopped by Son and the best pass Ferran received was given by Ter Stegen so that he could crash it into Cárdenas's body.

Éric García did appear to avoid taking a Maradonian goal from José Luis Morales.

The captain outwitted Araujo on the right, saw the corridor, sneaked in with dodges and his shot was deflected just enough by Ter Stegen's foot to allow the defender to take him out under the same sticks.

Barça was desperate without finding a way to stop the penultimate classified disguised as its worst rival in recent weeks.

Pedri, without a boot, during the match against Levante.AP

Try to revive Levante now that Alessio Lisci has settled on the bench.

Brash and stubborn, the young Italian manager does not want a shadow role.

And he didn't have it at least until he came back from the locker room.

The game was in the pocket of their players in just five minutes and they lost it in as many.

Ferran had a header at the beginning of the second period, but it was the Granotas who scared.

Munuera Montero did not hesitate to call a penalty from Dani Alves to Son that Morales turned into an advantage that they could not miss, because they had earned it by hand.

Three minutes later, he again marked the eleven meters due to an elbow from Éric García in a fight with Roger.

He wanted to throw him the gunman.

It meant opening the game in the channel, leaving Barça knocked out and continuing to keep the dream alive.

All this weighed on his boots and the ball, with a shot of little faith, ended up in the hands of Ter Stegen.

And then everything changed.

Xavi activated his bench and gave Pedri and Gavi free rein.

Barça changed and began to have fun.

How not to do it when these two players are on the field.

The canary was the protagonist, something that is no longer a novelty.

He teamed up with Dembélé to serve Aubameyang's equalizer.

As it was not enough, Gavi slipped to the bottom line to offer a ball to the heart of the area that, with a touch, sent there to where Cárdenas could not stretch.

It seemed that the worst was over.

Barça had given away the entire first half, from start to finish, but had corrected their mistakes just at the right time to deal a blow to Levante.

It is not the same to be run over by a gamer and superior rival than to have been able to deactivate and embarrass him.

However, when it seemed that everything was written, the referee Munuera Montero appeared again to see a penalty from Lenglet to Dani Gómez, who had just entered the field, which this time Melero did not miss.

Historical that Barça had three maximum penalties against them in a match and that did not mean that they were defeated.

When the tie already left the azulgrana without the second position due to a late reaction and it barely served the granotas to rearm morally, Jordi Alba appeared in the race to find the head of the giant Luuk de Jong and give Barça a victory very sweaty.

Orriols has not been friendly territory for a long time, but this talented Barça knew how to escape from that influence with ease.

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