The previous time that Barcelona had taken a plane to land in Madrid it had been on March 20 and all Barcelona fans remember perfectly what happened. The win at the Bernabeu was indelible. There were four goals and could have been more. It turned out to be a dance with all the letters to a team that has won the League and is in the Champions League final and that day did not smell the ball. "Everyone fears Madrid and Madrid fears Barça," Thierry Henry defined this week. Nothing to do with what was seen on the trip to Madrid yesterday. In Getafe the Blaugrana (without 7 starters from 0-4) wandered, played in a civil service, to complete the process and settled for blatantly tying. They only shot Soria once. It was a pitiful attempt at Vaseline by Ferran Torres that did not even reach the goal.
There was nothing left of the Bernabeu dance. It was a complete alibe. And it hasn't even been two months. What a disappointment. what a disappointment
On December 2, 2001, La Vanguardia's counter-chronicle of the Alavés-Barça match was titled “Del rondo al odron”. With this non-existent word, formed by disarranging the five letters of a concept that is everything in the Blaugrana ideology, they wanted to attest that in less than two weeks, Barcelona had gone from silencing Anfield, to winning 1-3 at Liverpool in their field with an exhibition that was crowned with a goal with 29 passes for one minute and six seconds that closed the account –Overmars finished it–, to lose in Mendizorroza (2-0) forgetting to play. From that odron to this alibe there is very little difference.
It will be a coincidence or not, Barça played yesterday without Frenkie de Jong or Pedri. “The result favored both of us and we still played more on our field but we can't talk about biscotto at all”, Xavi made an effort to deny any pact with Getafe. “The tie was worth us and them. It's complicated because the players don't know what to do”, the coach tried to justify the toston. “With the second position we cover some minimum objectives required for Barcelona. We would have signed in November to enter the Champions League and stop the blow in such a difficult season”, recalled the Egarense.
With the League runner-up and the Super Cup guaranteed, Barcelona can now start thinking about the future and next season. “This week we are going to plan well. I am clear about my diagnosis and the sports management and the board of directors know it”, explained Xavi, who asked for “an effort to make the club solvent so that we can strengthen ourselves”.
“There are two and a half months left and we have to get to work now. We have to see how far we can go. We will prioritize. We will put an order to what the team needs to compete. Work to return definitively ”, claimed the coach, who is aware that a goal is missing. Among the goals in the Memphis League (12), Aubameyang (10), Luuk de Jong (6), Ferran Torres (4) and Dembélé (1) do not reach the 35 goals that the desired Lewandowski has celebrated in 34 games ( all) of the Bundesliga and that will surely give him the Golden Boot.
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