Limitations. After two steps forward, Barça gave one back against Betis. His defeat does not contain great mysteries either. His lack of senior players in the soccer hot zone is thunderous. Coutinho and Abde, one for a player in decline and another for a spirited player and with a touch of more, were little, and Memphis looks like a Quixote fighting against windmills. Barça could only shake up the game when the only player capable of things happening came out. With Dembélé he had the goal somewhat closer, but the Frenchman is not precise in the last pass or in the shot; and Pellegrini, in a detail of a good coach, He removed a striker and put Carvalho in to send Guarded to the left wing to help Álex Moreno. That slowed the thrust of the Barça and balanced the game. Smart, the Betis He waited for his moment to come and the Barça leave an ocean behind to win the match with a goal from Juanmi, who had already been a hero in the Camp Nou with the t-shirt of Malaga in 2015. He defined with very low pulsations, the best sign of a forward with confidence.
Deja vu. “This is reality and you have to assume it.” Wow. Xavi’s phrase was very reminiscent of what became almost a slogan with Koeman. In addition to a good handful of young people who have already stayed in the first team, The Dutchman will be remembered for the harshness with which he radiographed Barça, with and without Messi. And until, after repeating it so much, it stopped having strength and took away credibility in the dressing room, the speech had a very realistic point. Barça, which last year won the Cup and fought the League until the last stage, circulates six points from the Champions zone and looks at Madrid with binoculars.
To roulette. Xavi He repeats over and over again that he is honest and will be until the end, but it is difficult to accept that he really thinks that Barça can aspire to the League. Another thing is that if he repeated every day that “this is reality and we have to assume it” he would become Koeman, and his fans don’t want that. At the moment Barça, to which everything happens too (Gavi ended up in the hospital) has a final in a few days in Munich, about which it is difficult to be optimistic. There are those who already slide that the best thing would be to fall to the Europa League and, from that route, fight for the title and a Champions League place, which is taking a very bad color. But that does not link with the speech of greatness that he has brought Xavi. Dembélé’s coin will have to be thrown into the air. The Barça of “is what there is” had not left.
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