Europe is a torment for Barcelona

Barcelona no longer knows what to do so that Europe stops being a torment.

If in Munich he played well and lost, in Milan he played much worse and also lost.

Neither the new order, nor the new footballers, nor the new schemes free a team from the ordeal that continues in the same, suffering in the temples of the continent and entrusting its fate to

.

Metaphor of bewilderment.

Beyond the fact that the referee closed his eyes before a hand from

in the addition,

did not know how to attack Inter's

and took a defeat that left Barça on the brink of the abyss.

A new fall against the Italians next week would once again condemn the European suburb.

The mist that descends through the sky of the Giuseppe Meazza, so intimidating, enveloped the screams of some fans who dragged the Inter footballers in waves.

It didn't matter that the

team had just lost three of their last four Serie A games, or that coach

was so discussed that the local press was already showing him the scaffold.

But nobody interprets survival better than an Italian.

Inzaghi rejected fanciful ideas to dedicate himself to simplicity.

's iron foot to the long shots

, and, without

, he sent

and

running .

Xavi, on the other hand, was betrayed by his personality.

He rescued that 3-4-3 with which he always dreamed of building his work, without taking into account that in places like San Siro few things matter more than the clarity of ideas.

was subjected

in the area.

In any case, the bulk of the Barcelona footballers did not interpret a plan that went through the square in the throat of the field (

and

as pivots,

and

as midfielders inside), for a line of three in the rear that completed

, and for placing

as a left-handed winger.

A gibberish given that the plan had to change quickly to 4-3-3 in the few seconds that Inter threw the transition.

This is how Barcelona was left naked when they did not know how to defend the action with which Inter caught the first goal of the game, when the first act was already fainting.

Marcos Alonso, as had been happening until then, could not arrive in time to defend

, the lane player on his side.

Little more could be claimed from the Madrilenian, forced to be aware of too many things.

The local attack was repelled towards the edge, where no one was paying attention to the player with the best long shot of the game.

What things.

, who had already forced

to show off at dawn, hit this time with his hammer blow.

Sergio Busquets did not arrive on time.

And that Barcelona had already been warned.

While Xavi despaired at the lack of ideas from his team, Inzaghi celebrated each of his team's feats.

In one of them, and after Correa played it with the control oriented towards Eric García, the Barça center-back took the ball with the palm of his hand.

Unabashedly.

Eric, however, escaped the penalty because the VAR warned the referee that Lautaro was offside at the start of the play.

The Slovakian Vincic, yes, went to the monitor before the indignation of Giuseppe Meazza.

The referee took center stage again in the second half, just when Dembélé seemed to have finally taken the pulse of his sanity.

The winger, who had already shot at the post, finally focused with discretion.

Onana came out fatal, and Ansu, who had gone out on the field for Raphinha, jumped without looking.

The ball hit him in the hand, forcing the judge to invalidate Pedri's goal.

Xavi was taken by the demons.

And he charged himself with more reasons when he saw how in minute 91 the referee ignored a hand from Dumfries in the area, as clear as Ansu's.

To the Barça the world came to him on top.

Again.

Barcelona only fits into Lovecraft's stories, where fear is confused with incomprehension: "The logical place to find a voice from other times is a cemetery from other times."

How many cemeteries are left?

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