04/29/2021 17:34
Clarín.com
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Updated 04/29/2021 5:34 PM
And suddenly everything gets messy again.
Piqué seeks the homeland as a center-forward, Messi walks surrounded by rivals, Koeman is expelled and suffers from the audience, Umtiti is paying and logic is destroyed because football lives from moments like these.
Granada, who had lost the 26 times they visited the Camp Nou, turned the game around to Barcelona
, took all three points and prevented them from climbing to the top of the championship.
History was written to become
a chapter that could be key to direct Messi's continuity at the club
. It is that among so many rumors that are mutating day after day, with supposed offers that arrive from Paris, temptations that appear from the United States or current wishes from Manchester, the landscape in which it moves began to clear and appeared even more seductive if the destinations of the League, which seemed lost, passed into his hands.
If a year ago, the arguments to send the burofax overflowed in all areas of the club,
the present offers good signs with the change of leadership,
a team on the rise that shouted champion in the Copa del Rey and that in the local tournament, So far this year, he had only lost one game, the classic against Real Madrid.
Until at the best moment Granada arrived.
Piqué went for the homeland Photo: EFE
Until 90 minutes of logic became 16 of surprise with two lethal counterattacks that combined defensive decouples -Mingueza failed in the partial draw of the Venezuelan Darwin Machís and between Umtiti and Piqué they left the field open in the center of the area for 2-1 by Jorge Molina, headlining - and offensive precision from
a challenger who threw down two hands and knocked out the favorite at home and broke the bets
.
Until that blast, Barcelona had fulfilled the script that the party had pre-established.
From highest to lowest, it is true.
He won 1-0 with Messi's goal.
But he could have expanded the advantage in the first half in which
Antoine Griezmann dressed as an assistant
, Frenkie De Jong showed a phenomenal display from area to area, Sergio Busquets handled the strings as in his best times and Leo Messi defined the goal in the first clear chance he had.
Messi's goal, Barça already wins 1-0 pic.twitter.com/XXCMSR2ZvJ
- FC Barcelona México 🇲🇽 (@BarcelonaEsMx) April 29, 2021
Did you trust Barcelona?
Possibly.
Don't you have the defensive strength to defuse the isolated chances your opponent has, no matter how weak?
Also. Is your firepower in attack less effective than in the past? Yes, because Jordi Alba could not penetrate in his classic overflow play on the right, Messi once again left a free kick on the barrier of those that before ended in celebration and
there are several youths who show talent but not constancy like Dembelé, Trincao or Dying
.
In December, Barcelona was 12 points behind the leader, Atlético de Madrid
.
At that time, he thought he could find the incentive to get the season on track in the Champions League, but
PSG brought him back to reality with a very hard blow to eliminate him in the second round
.
It wasn't a knockout
.
In the last three months,
the Cholo Simeone team left 19 points on the road
.
There were 14 games, always as a leader, in which he got 23 of the 42 points he played, with six wins, three losses and five draws.
In the same period,
Koeman's team added 34 points
: they won 12 games, drew one and lost only two, the classic against Real Madrid and this clash against Granada.
When it seemed that he was celebrating, Messi, again with a lost look. EFE / Alejandro Garcia.
A defeat out of context, hard
.
Not only because it prevents Barcelona from jumping to the top and taking the reins when
the League is missing five dates and in two it must receive Aleti
, who breathes and continues to command.
But because
the history of the reconstruction had already been written
.
Already throbbing a sweet season finale after a start full of bitterness and uncertainty.
Football made it clear once again that it is not an ideal ground for sentencing
.
Granada, which in February could not endure the feat in the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey and found a fierce comeback from Barcelona that went from 0-2 to equality in 90 minutes and ended up celebrating 5-3 in The extension, now takes a sweet revenge and celebrates for the first time in its history at the Camp Nou.
Koeman's team is in the running, he can still shout champion in the League and add one more seasoning to Messi to forge his continuity.
But what was a fundamental step forward turned into an unusual stumble.
And
the certainties will have to continue waiting
, to the beat of rumors, speculation and an uncertain future, both for the team and for the Argentine star.
"Machís" Venezuelan professional footballer
It is a trend because he scored a goal for Barcelona at the Camp Nou in the victory of Granada pic.twitter.com/qVoD6kjEbV
- Why is it a trend?
(@estendenciavzl) April 29, 2021
Double failure of Piqué in the second goal of Granada.
First by not clearing into an area where the attack is disabled;
and later losing the reference of Molina, which ends absolutely only behind his back.
pic.twitter.com/wFuTjK4eii
- mr.
mØnk (@soccermemoriess) April 29, 2021
