Too dependent on Lamine Yamal and caught up by their Madrid rivals, Barça is stalling in La Liga

Co-leader alongside Atlético (with one more match), its evening opponent, Barça is also second in the C1 league phase. Nothing to report on paper. In reality, however… Winners of only one of their last six matches in the Championship, the Catalans are skating hard. Jules Koundé and his teammates beat Mallorca on December 3 (5-1) but were stuck at Celta and Betis (2-2 each time), and completely stumbled on the pitch of Real Sociedad (0-1), against Las Palmas (1-2) and finally Sunday against Leganés (0-1), i.e. 5 points taken out of 18 possible.