LaLiga: FC Barcelona gambles away the lead in the city derby with Espanyol

Quote from Stewie Griffin

Despite all the often justified criticism of Lahosz, he whistled a lot of things correctly today. Penalty was clear, Joselu gets his shoe off. Alba has to shut up, without any reason he won’t have gotten the second yellow card. And the yellow-red for Espanyol and the withdrawn red were also okay, I think the intensity of the contact is far too little for an assault, even if the defender takes an extra step in the direction of Lewandowski.

Barca have to look at themselves here, despite dominating the ball, they created few chances and therefore gave up points.

Olivan should have gone yellow before grabbing Gavi by the neck. Counter thwarted by a tactical foul. In the second half, the same player stopped another counterattack with a tactical foul. Again no card.

Puado should have seen red after tackling Dembele.

I also don’t understand why Cabrera gets red straight away and then there isn’t even a second yellow card. Maybe it has something to do with the VAR.

But it’s not primarily about the many wrong decisions, but rather about his style and that he never had the game under control and the game didn’t flow as a result.

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