There are games that do not depend on the schedule, however strange it may be (2:00 pm), but on the circumstances, and Barça was pressing for a victory against Osasuna.
The team's need coincided with Griezmann's urgency.
Away from Messi's court, excellent as a thinker, and reinforced by a classic 9 -Braithwaite-, the Frenchman completed a marvelous performance as an executor, the best of Barça.
A match came out for the Catalans to ask because Griezmann stood out and Messi paid tribute to Maradona with a fourth goal that he celebrated while showing a Newell's vintage jacket with Diego's 10.
Maradona played five goalless games in 1993 with
Ñuls
, Messi's team, who was five years old at the time and had not left Argentina.
The Rosario is looking for his place at Barça today after expressing his desire to leave the Camp Nou.
Messi did not stop thinking about Maradona until 4-0 and Griezmann went out of his way to play a game like the one he found against Osasuna.
The same result from Kiev was repeated at the Camp Nou.
It was not just any day because Barça was celebrating its 121 anniversary and it was also the tenth anniversary of the 5-0 endorsed by Mourinho's Madrid.
The party was spoiled with the injury of Lenglet, which leaves Barça without centrals due to the losses of Piqué and Araujo, also Umtiti.
BCN
4
-
0
OSA
BarcelonaTer Stegen, Óscar Mingueza, Sergiño Dest (Júnior Firpo, min. 60), Alba, Clement Lenglet (Aleñá, min. 66), Coutinho (Ousmane Dembélé, min. 60), Pedri (Busquets, min. 45), Frenkie De Jong, Braithwaite (Trincão, min. 60), Griezmann and MessiOsasunaHerrera, Roncaglia, Nacho Vidal, Unai García, Raúl Navas, Oier (Brasanac, min. 63), Jony (Alvaro Armada Juan Cruz, min. 22), Íñigo Pérez ( Roberto Torres, min. 62), Jon Moncayola, Rubén García (Barja, min. 73) and Ante Budimir (Enric Gallego, min. 73)
Goals1-0 min.
28: Braithwaite.
2-0 min.
41: Griezmann.
3-0 min.
56: Coutinho.
4-0 min.
72: Messi.
Referee Antonio Miguel Mateu Lahoz Yellow cards Messi (min. 73)
Koeman is more aware of the forwards than of the defenders because he is driven by the rush to win, to cut differences with Madrid and Atlético, to star in the
highlights
of the day, to be in the pools of the pre-candidates for the Barça elections .
Right now, the team lost in the standings, the coach is more interested in goals than the game, which explains a lineup full of attackers ready to shoot non-stop, finished off by Braithwaite, the 9th that makes sense to 4-2-3. -1.
The presence of a striker is as essential as it is difficult if you want to fit Messi-Coutinho-Griezmann.
Messi returned from the exit to the right side and Coutinho moved to the left while Griezmann was gladly behind Braithwaite.
In exchange for loading football on the inside, the coach dispensed with pure extremes like Dembélé and opted for a midfielder, none as total as De Jong if the Dutchman is a midfielder capable of playing for two and three, nothing to do with the trio of singular media in his own and in that of others that elevated Barça: Xavi-Busquets-Iniesta.
To the aid of De Jong came a footballer who is used for the thin and the thick, in the bands and in the center, in the middle and in front: Pedri.
Arrasate did not seem very concerned about Koeman's plan but applied himself with a versatile and worked formation, very capable of defending with two and three centrals and attacking with quick transitions, very balanced if you look at his statistics before the game: he fits and he scores few goals (nine against eight), equaled on points with Barça.
Although the Navarrese squad did not renounce to step on Ter Stegen's area, and was even able to score in a foreshortening of Budimir, he could not decipher Griezmann's movements, attentive in the unchecking and diagonals, also pending the deep rises of Jordi Alba and of Messi's deep and measured passes.
The ease of Griezmann to get out of the offensive funnel of Barça contrasted with the little presence of Pedri, away from the area in which he is unbalanced, more defense than forward, advised in each break by Messi.
On the 10th he worked as a thinker and assistant while the role of striker was reserved for Coutinho.
The Brazilian also did not manage to sink a honeyed center of Alba.
The ball, however, remained loose, at the mercy of a striker who is interested in goals and not plays, like Braithwaite.
The Danish shoved the ball in a double shot, the last one with his thigh, when Messi was about to put his hand in tribute to Maradona.
The tumult favored run-over football and goals like Braithwaite's.
The alternative was the shot from outside the area, a specialty in which Griezmann stood out, smart in winning the space, delicious in the 2-0 hit.
The Frenchman hooked a rejection on the front with his left foot and crowned the excellent Barça association he formed with Alba and Messi.
The game seemed resolved at halftime and Koeman removed Pedri to put Busquets on.
The scoreboard demanded more government and possession, a point of calm after the rhythm of the beginning, when the exchange of blows favored as expected the strongest, Barça.
Fluidity then replaced intensity at Barcelona.
The circulation was high and Griezmann did not stop distributing candies, powerful in the recovery, generous in the 3-0 so that Coutinho could finally score at an empty door, surpassed Herrera.
The fourth was Messi, as the day demanded, dedicated to the memory of Maradona at the Camp Nou.
Osasuna was the stone guest, weak in areas, fought even with the wood that protected Ter Stegen.
The Barça joy for the goal of 10, accurate in his far and crossed shot, compensated for the bitterness due to Lenglet's injury, which leaves the team with only one central defender: Mingueza, from the subsidiary.
Barça needs a defender after finding a 9 -for the moment Braithwaite-, around which four goals have fallen in two games and the best version of Griezmann has emerged while Messi presented himself as a Barça thinker.
Sometimes the anonymous ones are essential in a team with many celebrities like Barça.
