Europe is an ordeal for Barça

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Barça handed over the stands and pitch at the Camp Nou to Eintracht.

Many Barça fans disregarded the game, the board managed the box office very badly and the team was speechless at the start of the Easter weekend.

The German supporters did not hesitate to occupy the seats left empty by the Barcelona season ticket holders and the match turned into an ordeal for Barcelona.

The footballers got lost in a supposedly their stadium, converted into an opposing field due to social abandonment, portrayed when the

withdrew a few minutes from the Gol Nord, to the rejoicing of the spirited Eintracht.

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Ter Stegen, Eric Garcia (Luuk de Jong, min. 69), Óscar Mingueza (Sergiño Dest, min. 61), Alba, Ronald Araújo, Pedri (Frenkie De Jong, min. 45), Gavi, Busquets, Aubameyang (Adama Traoré , min. 61), Ousmane Dembélé and Ferrán Torres (Depay, min. 79)

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Trapp, Obite Ndicka, Almamy Touré (Makoto Hasebe, min. 98), Hinteregger, Ansgar Knauff (Chandler, min. 98), Rode (Ajdin Hrustic, min. 79), Kristijan Jakic, Filip Kostic, Daichi Kamada, Jesper Lindstrom ( Jens Hauge, min. 79) and Santos Borré (Ragnar Ache, min. 89)

Goals

0-1 min.

3: Filip Kostic.

0-2 min.

35: Santos Borre.

0-3 min.

66: Philip Kostic.

1-3 min.

90: Busquets.

2-3 min.

100: Depay.

Referee

Artur Manuel Soares Dias

Yellow cards Eric Garcia (min. 2), Kristijan Jakic (min. 23), Gavi (min. 27), Ajdin Hrustic (min. 82), Ousmane Dembélé (min. 93), Obite Ndicka (min. 94), Ansgar Knauff (min. 94) and Trapp (min. 100)

Red cards Obite Ndicka (min. 99)

The punishment referred to the worst Barcelona nights in the Champions League.

Europe is also a forbidden terrain for Xavi's team.

Although he has learned to win games, Barcelona still does not know how to achieve titles like the Europa League.

Frustration and impotence return in Barcelona after being expelled from continental tournaments by opponents who will hardly gain access to the throne such as Benfica and Eintracht.

The fiascos have been continuous in recent games, with and without the public in favor, always to the rival's slipstream, away from the best version of him in the League.

As happened for many years at Barça, the team feeds on the club at Eintracht.

Barcelona seemed occupied by the fans from Frankfurt.

Every citizen had found at some point in the day with hundreds of fans of the entity chaired by the emblematic Peter Fischer.

The white tide ended up taking the Camp Nou in a display that at times evoked the Barça march in the 1979 Basel Cup Winners' Cup. Ultimately, the challenge had its logic if one remembers that Eintracht Frankfurt is an undefeated team in its outings in the Europa League that went to meet an opponent who has not won any game at home, if the Camp Nou is understood as their own.

defensive failures

There was a lot of concern at Barça due to the strong adverse environmental load, the danger of the rival and their own defensive limitations due to the absence of the injured Piqué and the inconvenience of Frenkie de Jong.

The electricity of the meeting seemed to spread to Xavi when he opted for Mingueza and Gavi.

The choice of the side was very compromised because he had to defend the destabilizing Eintracht.

The instability of the Barça defense was confirmed as soon as the game began when Eric charged against Lindström and the referee awarded a penalty that Kostic converted.

The goal was celebrated with flares by a massive Eintracht supporter who had started their ritual with a whistle on the Barça anthem.

The framework did not exactly help the reaction of the Barça team, as impatient as threatened by the transitions of Glasner's boys, very well grouped and organized on their pitch from a defense of three central defenders and goalkeeper Trapp.

Eintracht not only closed well but also spread rapidly down the flanks with Kamada and Kostic.

The midfielders Gavi and Pedri did not come into play, there were hardly any inside passes and the only one who attacked was Dembélé.

The ball repeatedly bounced off a wall and was thrown for the Eintracht counter.

Barcelona's losses were the best ammunition for the Germans and the shots followed after half an hour in Ter Stegen's goal.

Busquets and Dembélé were wrong and Santos Borré did not forgive with a shot to the top corner to make it 0-2.

Knauff later failed to score the third to Barça's bewilderment, too fragile in their area and excessively revolutionized on the opposite court against a patient, direct and effective rival at the friendly Camp Nou.

The elaborate containment system set up by Glasner made Xavi's plan A useless.

Nothing new in any case if the script of the last Barcelona games is repaired.

The difference is that team B didn't work out against the Germans, penalized by Kostic's 0-3, and team C was only enough to achieve a decent result in added time: 2-3

Barça did not know how to face Eintracht.

Obsessed with convincing, he didn't even know how to win.

He never had the finesse and speed necessary to take down a solid and powerful rival, splendid in deployment, more effective in the second leg than in the first leg, if the round was a two-legged match, since the feeling is that Barça It was always in tow of Eintracht.

Europe does not want to know anything about Barcelona.

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