ElPozo inflicts Barça’s first defeat of the season

The azulgrana team conceded two goals in less than a minute passing through the 7th minute and failed to draw

Jesús Velasco’s team hit the woodwork twice and more than deserved a more positive result

With almost twice as many shots and clear chances as his rival, Barça fell this Friday without deserving it on the court at ElPozo Murcia Costa Cálida 2-1 in his first defeat of a course in which he had won absolutely everything, including the Catalunya Cup.

Therefore, a small wake-up call for the reigning champion and league leader, who must change the chip and focus now on the Main Round of the Champions who will play next week in Maltese against the host St. Luxor, the Dutch Hovocubo and the difficult Slovenian Dobovec.

They faced a leader with full victories and the penultimate classified with only two draws, but these types of matches are different and no one doubts that Javi Rodríguez’s men have to go up and even more so with the Kazakh-Brazilian in their ranks after serving 15 games of suspension.

The clash began with arrivals by both sides, Dyego crashed into former Barça goalkeeper Juanjo in the first minuteGadeia and Taynan tested Dídac in the 6th minute and the Barcelona goalkeeper made a great diving shot from Marcel in the 6th minute in the prelude to the first two local goals.

In a long shipment, Dídac and Catela did not understand each other with the bad luck that the goal clearance touched the Andalusian and meekly slipped into the goal. It was 1-0 and only 40 seconds later between the lax defense of the former Viña Albali Valdepeñas and Darío’s brutal right hand made it 2-0 in the 7th minute.

Taynan’s vehemence and enthusiasm in his return revitalized ElPozo, which grew a lot especially when he was on the track. The ex-Kairat player was able to score in the 8th minute and from then on the match became a monologue for a Barça squad that only lacked a goal.

Sergio González was unable to beat Juanjo in the 9th minute, immediately afterwards a missile from Dyego deflected him off the crossbar by Felipe Valerio and in the 11th minute the referees forgave Taynan the yellow card with one of those arbitrations that kill futsal. With their permissiveness, González Moreta and Moreno Reina turned the match into a wrestling battlealthough at least they were consistent with that criterion.

Adolfo hit the post in the 12th minute and Pito couldn’t beat an excellent Juanjo in the 15th minute. The locals only offered a cavalcade of Darío to which Dídac responded well before a last visitor arreón with very clear chances for Sergio González (up to three), Sergio Lozano and Pito.

And futsal things, Barça took advantage of their first arrival in the resumption with Adolfo signing the 2-1 after a rebound. And from then on, the work of Javi Rodríguez was seen at the break, since ElPozo stopped Barça’s dominance and was much better in the following minutes.

Gadeia and Bruno Taffy twice created serious problems for Dídac and finally the leader reappeared in a quick action in which Adolfo shot high when he was alone against Juanjo. There the ‘myth’ resorted to the goalkeeper-player to prevent the dynamics from changing and found the fifth visiting foul with 7:07 remaining after the referees forgave him twice faithful to that ‘Zen’ criterion. The locals were also planted with five with 6:10 remaining and Sergio González touched the sixth seconds later. I said, very consistent arbitration but with a harmful bar for this sport.

Dyego donned the goalkeeper’s shirt four minutes from time and the truth is that the defense far outclassed a slow and predictable attack. Yes indeed, Catela still had time to fail in a very good position what would have been the tie. It was not the game of Cadiz.