Colosal failure by Barcelona at home, against one of the weakest teams in the category, which It was enough to score a goal as soon as it started after a corner and trust everything to his goalkeeper in the few opportunities that Barcelona generated (clear, but very few) to win a historic victory and force a colossal ridicule of the leader, who had seen the previous night how Madrid tied and could increase their advantage. Unforgivable. AND Araujo will have to wait to reappear.
Oanother setback at home, second in a row after the match against Las Palmas, with a difference: the Canarian team He contributed football. And, furthermore, in the final stretch of that match there were two clear penalties to hold onto to look for an explanation. This time there are no valid explanations.
Gran mental and energetic gap of a unrecognizable Barcelonawhich has been giving away the advantage it had acquired in the hectic start to the League. He has run out of strength, as if this endless phase of the pseudo-Champions League (which in reality serves no purpose other than to establish the pairings for the qualifying rounds) was draining all his energy.
Osomething they expected, without a doubt, the fans who decided to brave the cold and go see Barcelona-Leganés. Right off the bat the game, already unpleasant in itself and with a kind of Uncle Honorio's Charanga like single ambient focusso to speak, in the space that until recently occupied the Grada d'Animació, became sullen and unpleasant.
Muy Breaded Barça presented itself. Peña had to avoid Munir's goal in a drive in an initial defensive mistake, but at the exit of the corner After the goal gave way, Leganés went ahead on the scoreboard with an impeccable header from Sergio González, free of marking due to the general apathy.
Btook that action so that the game was unfathomable. It was Koundé's turn to mark, but he got lost and Eric couldn't get there, blocked. From there, row. But the muscles were atrophied. Neither ideas nor rhythm. And the little rhythm that there was Leganés broke it with constant loss of time.
Rthe alarms went off when Lamine Yamal gave a scarewith a sprained ankle in an action with Cissé. The drama was accentuated. Along the way, a Barça that, by dint of stepping opposite field, generated chances, more out of insistence than lucidity.
EAs for Barça's 'nine', he has run out of gunpowder. Lewandowski had two very clear: only before Dmitrovic with a pass from Raphinha, he finished off the dummy; and, later, he made a great acrobatic control after a good pass from Pedri, but his shot was as faulty as the previous one and Dmitrovic again rejected it with his foot.
Moh concentrated, the pepinero goalkeeper was the hero from Leganés and spectacularly took a good first-time shot from Raphinha after a cross from Balde.
EThe Brazilian was the most active of the Barcelona eleven along with Lamine Yamal, who already in the wide discount of the first half (five minutes due to the visitors' endless waste of time) he went with a dry dribble from his partner and shot with his left, but high.
CWith all the work to do, Barça returned to the game with more spirit and Koundé narrowly missed the ball as soon as it started after good play by Raphinha. But the ideas were still rusty and The high was short-lived..
Al Leganés opened the doors of an absolutely unexpected miracle and, as the minutes passed, became more and more impenetrablewhile every opportunity was taken advantage of to lie down on the ground and waste time.
Ni Lewandowski nor Dani Olmo had contributed anything, one between the lines and the other, at the point of finishing. So Flick, from the Montjuïc room in which the match continued, he communicated with Sorg, in the technical area, and brought Ferran and Fermín into playthe two players who had given such good results in Dortmund also coming off the bench. But not even for those.
USELESS SIEGE
IIncredibly, the minutes passed without Barça generating any chances, beyond two actions in which the public asked for penalties, both non-existent. The first, a Raphinha's fall after slight contact; and the second, in an action by Koundé with a clearance from a corner by Javi Hernández, which the Frenchman did not even protest.
Cwith the need for avoid an unacceptable stumbleBarcelona was still committed. An action by Raphinha with a pass to Ferran led to a pass to Koundé, whose cross shot He barely left. Unsuccessful and disorderly siege in the final minutes, with a shot from Fermín that went in and a foul at the edge of the area in the last breath that Raphinha sent out.
TECHNICAL SHEET
FC BARCELONA: Pena (1); Koundé (2), Eric (2) (Cubarsí (1), 74'), Iñigo (1), Balde (1); Casadó (1) (Pau Víctor (1), 80'), Pedri (1); Lamine Yamal (1) (Gavi (1), 74'), Dani Olmo (0) (Femín (1), 66'), Raphinha (2); Lewandowski (0) (Ferran (1), 66')
CD LEGANÉS: Dmitrovic (3); Adrià Altimira (1), Sergio González (2), Jorge Sáenz (2), Renato Tapia (1) (Darko (1), 45'+1), Javi Hernández (2); Munir (1) (Nastasic (1), 59'), Neyou (1), Cissé (2) Raba (sc), 82'), Òscar (1); Miguel (1) (Diego (1), 59')
GOALS: 0-1, Sergio González, 4'
ARBITRATOR: Quintero González (0), Andalusian Committee. Card to Cissé (75')
ESTADIO: Olympic Lluís Companys de Montjuïc. 39,523 spectators
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