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Self-esteem betrays Barça

2022-03-10T23:10:30.193Z


The azulgrana, overconfident, stumbled against a defensively well-organized Galatasaray in a very flat game at the Camp Nou


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Barça's winning and scoring dynamics ended unexpectedly at the Camp Nou.

The poster announced a simple and relaxing game for the fans after many demanding days in the League and in Europe.

Nobody doubted the victory of Xavi's team.

Confidence and self-esteem betrayed Barcelona.

The many and varied Barça forwards paraded around the field without being able to bring down their teammate Iñaki Peña.

The Barça goalkeeper on loan to Galatasaray crowned a very good performance by a team that is escaping relegation in its championship and, on the contrary, added its 11th match undefeated in the Europa League.

BCN Barcelona

0

Ter Stegen, Sergiño Dest, Ronald Araújo (Piqué, min. 45), Alba, Eric Garcia, Nico González (Busquets, min. 45), Pedri, Frenkie De Jong, Depay (Aubameyang, min. 60), Adama Traoré (Luuk de Jong, min. 79) and Ferrán Torres (Ousmane Dembélé, min. 45)

GAL Galatasaray

0

Iñaki Peña, Marcao, van Aanholt, Sacha Boey, Victor Nelsson, Kerem Akturkoglu (Baris Alper Yilmaz, min. 91), Berkan Kutlu, Feghouli (Alexandru Cicaldau, min. 78), Babel (Emre Kilinc, min. 67), Antalyali and Mostafa Mohamed (Gomis, min. 67)

goals

Referee

Benoît Bastien

Yellow cards Berkan Kutlu (min. 29), Depay (min. 34), Antalyali (min. 76) and Alba (min. 88)

Although he gave the game a lot of thought, Barcelona never found a way to dislodge Galatasaray.

Domènec Torrent's team did not make a single defensive error.

Very organized and well worked, the Turkish squad calmly resisted the insane outrage against Barça and is happy to bring the solution to the tie to its intimidating pitch in Istanbul.

The return is not easy after the annoying first leg for Barça.

The opponent, the competition and also the Barça moment invited the coach to rotate while waiting for the initially more demanding appointments, none like the one on the 20th in Madrid against the emperor of Europe and the leader of the League.

Absent Gavi due to suspension and Alves for not being registered, the changes were as selective as they were harmful because Xavi protected the backbone —Piqué-Busquets and Aubameyang— and the team was left without a pass and orientation thread, always well contained by a neat Galatasaray.

Dome, the Galatasaray coach who has trained with Guardiola, set up an express line-up to face Barça because he knows the Camp Nou solfeggio very well.

The objective was to keep the door open for the second game in order to please the noisy Turkish fans because the priority is to revive the team in the League.

This explains why they tried to be a practical and very flexible squad, not so ambitious in pressure, very focused on not making mistakes, neat with and without the ball, especially aware of Barcelona.

It is not known to what extent Galatasaray surprised Barça.

The azulgrana attacked in a reckless manner, inaccurate, lacking coordinates and with no other reference than

Ferran 's false

9 position.

Barça worked like a washing machine and only breathed with Adama.

There was no one to unbalance or put an inside pass in Dome

's dense defense

.

As uncomfortable as it was impatient, Barça fought with the ball, very thick and repetitive in losses, luckily for Peña.

Excellent Inaki Pena

The goalkeeper made his debut at the Camp Nou in the 26th minute with a stupendous intervention after a free-kick taken by Memphis and repeated it just before half-time with a shot from the Netherlands international striker.

The best occasion, however, was Akturkoglu.

The skillful winger, known in Turkey as Harry Potter, slipped down the left flank, broke Dest and his shot was touched by Eric Garcia's boot.

Araujo's failed drives became the best ammunition for Galatasaray.

The Turkish team began to gain ground and the azulgrana became so insecure that Xavi had to mediate during the break and bring back the players who set the style: Piqué and Busquets and also Dembélé.

The azulgrana needed order, fluidity and also surprise to change the surprising script of the Camp Nou.

Barça lit up the stadium with a more orthodox and energetic game, opening the field at both ends and Iñaki Peña better focused.

The goalkeeper was splendid against the Barça charge redoubled with Aubameyang.

Galatasaray's defensive exercise, however, was much more solvent than Barça's offense.

The center-backs never won, and neither Adama nor Dembélé connected with the strikers, nor with Luuk de Jong's resource.

The centers never had quality and the chances were few, the substitutes as sterile as the starters, all out of the wave and rhythm, incapable of correcting themselves after wasting time, as if they thought they would win the

Dome

troop with the cap .

The setback will put an end to Barça's delusions of grandeur.

The team is not here to take any game for granted, and even less so against rivals like Galatasaray.

He needs to recover his humility and intensity to continue in the League and in Europe.

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Source: elparis

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