Getafe makes Barça frantic

It doesn’t matter how many times Barça has fallen into the same trap, they always do the trick again. The Blaugrana cannot find the antidote to go play at Bordalás’ home. Nobody gets on the Blaugrana team’s nerves like Getafe does. Although this time Flick’s team took an early lead. But those from the south of Madrid have the ability to make Barça frantic. The Catalan team started well, then turned off, turned back on and ended the decisive minutes out of their depth. The final result, a draw (1-1) that leaves Barcelona missing the LaLiga train. They have only won one of their last eight games in this competition.

Due to its bad head, Barcelona stood in Getafe without margin for error. Atlético’s defeat in Butarque gave him some encouragement, which also served as an example, but without being able to allow himself to slip up in the end. For this reason, Flick used his most recurrent team while Bordalás did not disappoint and had an eminently defensive team with Djené in the midfield.

Barcelona was perfectly aware that to get something out of Getafe Something extraordinary had to happen, score a goal for example, because it had been four years since the Blaugrana had scored in the Coliseum.. And the goal came early and with something unusual. For a start Pedri’s magical pass between the lines and then the appearance of Koundé in the center forward position pTo pick up the ball, turn and beat Soria in two moments. It seemed that the complicated part was done.

But Getafe demanded and immediately took the game to their field. Without fouls (only one called in the first half), with suffocating pressure and with the simulations of an Aleñá to whom an imaginary enemy threw acid in the face every time there was a divided ballGetafe took the game to their home ground. Barça did not have any rhythm and everything at that moment was in an accident in one of the two goals.

Raphinha had the chance to score the second with a header from the center of a Koundé who was unleashed in attack, but his shot crashed into the side of the net and gave him an option until in the next play, Arambarri tripped over a ball that Iñaki Peña had taken from a shot by Coba to score the tie. The game returned to square one with the addition of a new chance – and in Getafe they are very expensive – for Koundé and Araújo who did not know how to hole out before half-time.

Getafe had deactivated the rhythm that Barcelona exhibited in its last two games and Flick had the changes to reverse the situation. At the beginning of the second half, Getafe seemed to be in their element and Barcelona were looking for the exit from a labyrinth.

Flick appealed to De Jong to find the missing thread and left Casadó in the locker room. Getafe’s exit was, however, better than Barcelona’s, but unfortunate. Arambarri had the second in his boots, but in that play he was injured and left his place to Yellu.

And there Barça began to press. Lamine began to appear and for the first time of the night, what Barcelona wanted began to be played. Flick shifted into another gear and brought in Dani Olmo to increase the revs.

Bordalás did not get nervous. Dad had a plan and he took Carles Pérez and Álvaro out to fish in the wide green sea ahead of them. But the real plan was behind and yet to come.

Barcelona dominated the game at will during the second half, but without clear scoring chances. Soria prevented a goal from De Jong from a long shot. Lamine was more committed to creating works of art than scoring goals and Raphinha missed another goal that was the preamble to the final minutes. Those in which the invisible man who throws acid in the faces of the locals appeared again. And Getafe got Barça out of their wits. And maybe the race for LaLiga.

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