MATCH TO DRAW CONCLUSIONS AT BARÇA
The thickest Barça of the season did not have its first chance until the 89th minute
FC Barcelona achieved a victory that, surely, it did not deserve. Xavi Hernández's team played a very 'poor' game, but fortune was on their side. Ronald Araújo was the hero on a night in which self-criticism is more than necessary
The FC Barcelona has signed a very grey night in San Sebastián. The ones of Xavi Hernández arrived with the challenge to break the series of 17 parties without losing home of the Real Sociedad and, although they have achieved it, remain a lot of reflections on the way because the performance has been decaffeinated, without shine and in which had fortune with the goal of Ronald Araújo in the last minute of the meeting that was validated by the VAR.
Already in the Classical (and in several parties of this season), the Barcelona showed that it cost them generate self-evident occasions of goal. In front of the Real Madrid did with the command of the meeting, but the occasions were to dropper. The denouement was the most negative, with the doublet of Jude Bellingham that supposed the traced back 'in extremis'. Against the Real Sociedad changed the libreto, but there are similar conclusions. The Barça was not able to generate approaches to the area of Remiro and added the ingredient 'extra' that it was clearly surpassed by the venues.
The Barça, inferior by 88 minutes
And it is that to the ones of Bailiff was missing them fortune to win to the Barça. They added occasions with a lot of ease and tested to Marc-André ter Stegen with too much frequency. It did big under the three sticks to add his sixth goal to zero, but is a situation that would not have to repeat so much. The defence was desconectada, with too many errors and a lot of passivity. Take Kubo, Oyarzabal or Ander Barrenetxea posed in the area in two or three touch and did to suffer to the Barça.
If to this add him that the Catalans did not do to work to Remiro until the minute 89, the history is more critical still. Along the clash, added approaches without danger: A finish of long distance of Cancel that it left high, an attempt of Gavi that did not know to define, a direct fault of Raphinha that left very above the crossbar and a finish of Ferran Torres to the clouds. In 88', the Barça did not generate at all.
Araújo Dressed of hero 'inmerecido' for the Barça
The fortune is that they did not tire to insist and finished carrying the victory. When the clock brushed the 89', Ronald Araújo tested luck with a finish from long distance that taponó Remiro. Instants afterwards, Pedri González filtered a good balloon so that Gavi confined in the area and crashed with a big stop of the guardameta... Until Ílkay Gündogan, as the one who all sees it, percató of how Araújo desmarcaba in the area. It commanded him a precise centre so that it finished to goal. The balloon went in, but there was suspense by a possible offside. The VAR did justice for a Barcelona picture that, without deserving it, carries three vital points.
