Pedri helps Barcelona

Soccer is exaggerated, both in conception and in analysis, because there is no way to understand it.

, the day before visiting Montilivi and with the leading team, said that not beating Girona would mean a "hecatomb".

It was not like that because Pedri is a blessing and because

's shoe twisted.

, who may end up being buried in an animal cemetery before someone is kind enough to give him the Nobel, he was always clear about how to deal with this type of story: «We storytellers do not have a very clear idea of ​​what we are doing.

When something is good we don't usually know why;

and when it's bad, neither.

Less pages, less straw ».

As in Girona there was plenty of straw and bad game, the story could only embrace the bewilderment and martyrdom.

Barça ended without forwards, locked in their area, raffling off the balls without rhyme or reason, but clinging tightly to the faith of the result.

Ousmane Dembélé

, perhaps the only footballer in which

are impossible, ended up wrapped in a blanket on the bench after 25 indescribable minutes that came to an end after a

broken by a tear in his left quadriceps.

At the best moment of his career at Barcelona, ​​in the midst of a wave of praise for his "adaptation" after six seasons at the club, and one year and two months after his last injury as a Barça player, the French winger returned to where used to.

The stage did not invite Barcelona to recreate itself in the contemplation of the navel.

Montilivi, stuck on a hill, is a centrifuge of icy air that forces the footballers to be as aware of the game as they are of the impossible fever.

But before a coach like

, one of those trainers who denies coincidences, he does not serve as a tailwind, but rather a meticulous preparation and execution of the match.

Girona, before individual errors condemned them, knew how to back down in the first half and take to the mountains in the second to lead Xavi's team into a war of nerves.

Barcelona missed some of the players who got a start rest, like

, their footballer with the best start, or Balde.

and the recently renewed

were his substitutes.

Pedri, who at the age of 20 was celebrating 100 games at Barcelona, ​​would also have had rest if Dembélé had not been injured on an afternoon that already looked very ugly for him.

And with

and

still sanctioned,

and

they had to assume responsibilities with little success.

The Brazilian winger was especially troubled, whose entanglements go from anecdotal to habitual when he is the one who has to advance and create, not finish.

In any case, and given the relentless leadership in pressure by

, Barcelona guessed few ways out of the mess while Xavi was carried away by demons on the bench.

The problem, at times, seemed not to be the game, but the conflicts.

The whirlwind

was in all the skirmishes -

took particular revenge on him with a good blow -, and Pedri was punished with a yellow card for protesting a hand from

that the referee did not see.

serious mistake

Barcelona could not grow from the static game, but from the pressure and theft.

Especially against a Girona condemned to advance with the wooden feet of their two substitute centrals,

and

.

A serious mistake by the latter in his own corner of the field allowed the Barcelona fans to finally sight the goal at the dawn of a second half that Xavi had opened with the inclusion of

for the inoperative Marcos Alonso.

Juanpe failed, the azulgranas took the ball quickly towards the edge of Alba, and the goalkeeper

's fingers folded in the center to the satisfaction of Pedri, so hot on the

.

But the goal did not liberate Barcelona, ​​much less, it agitated its monsters even more while Girona dared to get on their beards.

It was

's turn to take out a ball under the sticks that

tried to hole out.

Eric García, meanwhile, once again showed difficulties in managing defensive contacts with strikers stronger than him.

In a corner he grabbed Stuani without complexes, although neither the referee nor the VAR had any objections.

With the protagonists facing an unbearable emotional abyss at times -Míchel was expelled for protesting-, Barcelona made it clear that, even in the most unpleasant afternoons and in times of pure survival, you can be a champion.

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