Red carpet to Eintracht: Barça bled to death in defense

The FC Barcelona lived an authentic 'nightmare' in the party of turn of the quarter-finals of the Europe League. The group blaugrana was surpassed by the Eintracht Frankfurt in every aspect of the game, where the Catalans did not know to impose but until the last minutes when they looked for the 'epic'. The team of Oliver Glasner was a 'eddy' in attack, 'overwhelming' to any one dress of Barcelona that crossed them on the way.

From the previous of the meeting knew that the Catalans would have a bad time deep down. The injury of Gerard Hammered, added to the drop of Dani Alves by not being inscribed, to Sergiño Dest that arrived with the 'just' to the duel and the bad level showed by Clément Lenglet in the meeting in front of the Raise, generated of all less optimism in the barcelonismo. Xavi had to improvise with Óscar Mingueza, that did not come to have a lot of minutes, in the right side and the team noticed it.

The defence of the culés was a 'tear'. The Germans had both 'motorways' by the sides, and the central did not give guarantees of at all. The first goal came of a penalti 'childish' committed by Eric García. The central youngster Spanish propició a very clear agarrón to Jesper Lindstrom, midfield player of the Eintracht, that the referee of the party did not doubt in earning. Of the same form, in the second and third goal neither Mingueza neither the defenders of the team went out to presionar to Santos Erased and Kostic, those who commanded two zapatazos to the network of the goal of Ter Stegen, that was 'victim' of the bad level of the retaguardia.

The statistics leave clear the wide superiority that had the 'eagles' in attack, thanks to the advantages offered by the defenders. The germanos shot 15 times to goal, and 7 of these shots were between the 3 sticks, where finished colándose 3 of them. Besides, the ones of Frankfurt shot 8 times inside the area and 7 out of the same, leaving in evidence the spaces propiciados by the defenders culés.

'Fall' the 'wall'

The Barça seemed to have found the solution his defensive problems. Before the turn in the Camp Nou, the Barcelona and Marc-André Ter Stegen had achieved to leave his goal to 0 in 5 of the last 10 meetings. Besides, it had received 'only' 7 goals in these, improving what came showing from the arrival of Xavi. However, in front of the Raise by League and in the crash in front of the Eintracht, the culés received 5 goals, that could have been more than not being by the good moment by which happens the put Teutonic of the Catalans. They go back the problems to Can Barça.