Barça abandoned aesthetics, taste and grace too long ago. Winning like this is already going well for his coach, Waiting for that “click” that the coach so advocates for, as if on the bench waiting for the arrival of the holy spirit, The team, controlled and improved thanks to the raw talent of Pedri, was at least able to defeat the minimized Osasuna. He marked Lewandowski, which is no small thing, and specified a boy with a gift, Lamine Yamal. Next Sunday, in the Super Cup final against Real Madrid, he will have to show if he can also win with his hands in his pockets.
Spread out on one of those thrones from which Arab dictatorships rise above the plebs, Joan Laporta grumbled uneasily. A few meters below, already on the Saudi grass, It is there, on the grass, where many of the evils that plagued the club were once again exposed in the first half. The lack of coordination and the absence of a recognizable identity weighed heavily.
Barça, unable to create between the lines throughout the first act Against an Osasuna team that had to defend itself with ten men belly up and belly down, they had the ball. Clear. But he displayed it with the same grace with which the disinherited displays the gold cords and the signet ring. Look what I have. When that was worthless.
Gündogan, Frenkie de Jong and, yes, Sergi Roberto, Barcelona’s hope in 2024 with the bracelet tied to his arm, did not know quite what to do. And not only because of the lack of mobility of his attacking partners, trapped between the double Navarrese defensive line, but because no concrete instructions came from the bench to find free spaces. Remember that thing about triangles and the free man?
Budimir’s dribble to Araujo
Even so, despite Barcelona’s ineffective conception of the game at dawn, despite the heavy rhythm of some footballers who agitated with the same panache as someone feeding pigeons, Xavi’s team enjoyed chances. For some reason this Osasuna by Jagoba Arrasate has little to do with the one that excited last season. But then the other great evil that Barça has penalized so much this season appeared, its lack of skill in the areas. In one’s own, Even Araujo could have been mocked in a bad way, cassock included, by a stevedore like Budimir – lucky for Iñaki Peña, who corrected the mistake as best he could.. In the other’s case, Lewandowski, before his release, finished with the conviction of someone who puts a weak hand in the salute.
Beyond a long shot from Ferran Torres, a header from Lewandowski after a corner and an attempted shot in the area by Sergi Roberto with the nail of his little toe, the Barcelona fans couldn’t find a way to that goalkeeper Sergio Herrera discovered the concern.
If anything, the concern passed to the Barça side when they saw how Raphinha pointed to the injury pandemic. A drama in a squad that is too short to face everything that comes at it and without many other solutions than to continue dreaming in levers ghost or in the president’s endorsements. Lamine Yamal, with much less pyrotechnics than Raphinha, at least knew how to show endless paths.
Barça did not even need to improve a lot to beat an Osasuna team that arrived in Arabia well aware of its limitations, as if that strange place where the gyrfalcons share the money every year were not theirs.
The Christensen Robbery
The matter was clarified to Barcelona in sufficient time. Arnaiz very poorly exaggerated a fall due to Christensen’s clean robbery. Gündogan was insightful in the inside pass towards Lewandowski. And the Pole, this time, did what is asked of a reference in the area. Control well – with your left – and finish better – with your right. The goal calmed the Blaugrana and fixed Osasuna in its sadness.
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Xavi was then able to begin offering forgiveness. João Félix appeared with a visible improvement in his attitude. And he was also able to film Pedri again, who usually enters and leaves the infirmary with the mechanical routine of someone who enters the subway whistling. The canary did the appropriate thing, putting light in the black holes, and extreme control in a section in which little happened. Xavi breathed with the improvement offered by the reservists and seeing Lamine Yamal say enough in the twilight.
Football is not that complicated and life is less twisted than we think. You only have to give the field to those who know how to play.