As the smoke (very little smoke) dissipated from Barcelona's 1-1 draw with Granada, the numbers behind what the Catalan media called "catastrophe" and "total chaos" were revealed.
During the 90 minutes at the Camp Nou Barça, he raised 54 balls to his opponent's pitch - the highest figure this season in the big five leagues - and the highest for Barcelona in five years.
46 of those elevations came in an open game, Serginio Dust alone raised 16 times to the field, and only once found the head of a player from his team.
Out of Barça's six threats to frame five were of defensive players, and out of 639 dedications the players gave to each other, 293 went backwards.
Not to mention that in the last 15 minutes Luke de Jong and Gerard Pique played in the lead, and that the equalizer was scored by the outstanding Ronald Araujo.
"That's what it is," concluded coach Ronald Koeman, who came down for defense at the press conference held at the end.
The local media did not like Barcelona's style of play, and the arrows of criticism were directed at the Dutch coach.
Koeman, as mentioned, chose to defend himself in words;
"Looking at this staff, what could have been done? Playing Tiki Taka when there is no space? No," he said, "We should have changed the style. If Anso Patti and Osman Dembele were fit, it would have looked different, but without them I would have had to explore other directions. "It's not Barcelona that was here eight years ago, and if you do not understand that, then it is no longer my problem."
In this matter, it is easy to agree with Koeman.
The great economic crisis affected the quality of the staff, and indeed it was not easy to make the transition full of Messi and Mantua Griezmann to Luke de Jong and the talented Yosef Damir.
And yet, with all the discounts that Koeman gets due to the injuries and the situation, the question arises as to whether it really should look like this, or as in the insulting 3-0 win over Bayern Munich in the Champions League.
The Dutch coach's claim that there is really no other choice would have been conceivable if Barça had played badly in a good way.
That is, if this practicality were to bring in line.
Right now, with the exception of some moments from the opening round against Sociedad, Barça are just not playing well.
She is unconvincing defensively, certainly not offensively, and all that can be noted favorably in her context are impressive personal appearances by Memphis DePay and Ronald Araujo.
Barça absorb against Granada.
"Players do not know what they are doing," Gettyimages
Xavi and Conte on alert
"The players did not know what they were doing against Bayern and did not know what they were doing against Granada," Garcia Piamenta, a former reserve team coach, harshly criticized.
"Right now, offensively and defensively, this is not the Barça we want to see."
Former player Angel Picchi Alonso added: "Barcelona's game is a complete mess, all the players are running away from the positions and everyone is trying to run forward."
According to commentators, and also according to the fans, Barcelona can and should play differently.
The problem, then, is the coach.
Grande has already moved Coman's chair once.
In the final rounds of last season she won 1: 2 at the Camp Nou, a result that led to the loss of the title and made Joan Laporta consider a substitution on the bench.
There was talk of Xavi or Massimiliano Allegri, but these did not come and the Dutchman opened the season when the whole world knows he is not particularly desirable.
Since then, Koeman seems to have realized that all he has left is to go with his truth, according to which in the current state of affairs Barça cannot continue the path of Cruyff and Guardiola and play Tiki Taka.
Today she needs Luke de Jong and elevations to the plaza.
The failure of this idea at 1: 1 on the eve of Sukkot led to Grande shaking Koman's chair again.
Conte, last year at Inter.
Will arrive at Camp Nou ?, AFP
Xavi, Roberto Martinez, Jordi Cruyff, Yogi Lev, Antonio Conte and others have been mentioned as candidates to replace the Dutchman, who currently remains "at least until the game against Cadiz tomorrow". It seems that if Koeman is still striving to stay in the role, he has only two options: either play bad and do it well, or play good so that evil can be accepted.
