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In the best first part since LaLiga resumed, the afternoon that Luis Suárez returned to resemble himself and scored two goals, the day that Setién finally lined up Riqui Puig and Ansu Fati from the start, Barça threw it all away in the second and tied in Vigo against a Celta who smelled blood and kept biting until he had the prize of the goal of the tie Iago Aspas of lack. And it could have been even worse because Nolito in injury time missed a clear opportunity against Ter Stegen. Real Madrid can put the land in the middle on Sunday if they manage to win against a distressed Espanyol, on the brink of the abyss and who has thrown Abelardo in despair.
Setien’s team was unable to take advantage of lTwo advantages that he had on the scoreboard and that started the electric match with a shot by Piqué to the crossbar in the 6th minute. In the 20th minute, a genius from Messi taking advantage of the telele that he provokes every time he takes a free kick ended with Suarez’s first goal headed. The Argentine assisted him while Celta placed a barrier of three, another two behind and two on each goalkeeper’s post. Everyone watching him and him focusing on the neighbor. At that time everything seemed to be facing Barça, who looked like another with Riqui Puig and Ansu Fati in eleven.
The energy and self-confidence of the young people was contagious and the team played fast, upright, more cheerful. The main victim was Griezmann who returned to stay on the bench just like in Seville -the two most difficult starts on the calendar- and who only played ten minutes in Vigo. The Frenchman has lost the favor of Setién who no longer has a pulse to take away his stripes. The star signing of last summer has been starred.
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El Barça’s dogs
The second half started with the draw of Smolov in the 50 ‘after a failure by Umtiti who was the only Barça player who was unfortunate in the first one. Celta was gaining ground and eating at Barça when the mirage suddenly arrived, a goal that Luis Suárez invented by himself, corping in the area, turning around and shooting with the left. It was the 67th minute and the goal should have helped him tidy up, calm down and close the ranks. But nothing, that there is no way. It is no longer that they do not want to own the ball, but that they even give it away and the changes of Setién (Suárez for Griezmann in 81 ‘and Riqui Puig for Arthur in 86’) failed to fix the mess.
Barça got out of control in a second part in which they showed that does not give for more, There is no other wax than the one that burns or anyone who manages to amend it and in the 88th minute a foul on Rafinha that Piqué protested ended with the goal of Aspas as the barrier opened. The faces of the azulgrana were a poem aware that they were leaving the league title on Madrid on a platter. Nolito did not know how to give them the lace.
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“The coaches are for something …”
With the frustration of having put everything on his side, Luis Suárez was asked just after finishing the game at Movistar how he explained that 23 points out of 48 were left away from the Camp Nou this season. And the answer was as is: “There is something for the coaches to analyze this type of situation. We try to give everything. ” The Uruguayan’s message went directly to the bench, while Setién spoke after some “precipitations and losses”, although he was still determined to keep the good image in the first half and offered no arguments to explain the collapse of the second.
There are explanations that may seem too simple, but it is not by chance that Barça sinks when Messi is not at his stratospheric level. The Argentine has returned from the meltdown. He tries, but it does not come out and his earthly version without being a disaster is far from giving Barça to score three by three. And they do not give for more. It is that sad.
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