Very high lawn in Wanda to prejudice to the Barça

If somebody had doubts on how would find the FC Barcelona the lawn in Wanda Metropolitan this Saturday, the true is that it confirmed what comes being usual since the 'Cholo' Simeone directs to the group colchonero. The dishes, the tablewares and all the necessary for the practice of the football in the stadium rojiblanco -following with the irony that began Simeone-, were custom-made of the Athletic.

No in vain the height of the lawn in Wanda Metropolitan brushed practically the limit of what establishes the rule of LaLiga Santander. At most, the height of the lawn can be of 30 centimetres, and in Wanda Metropolitan went it of 26 centimetres, almost to the limit.

Of course, this hampered the game combinativo of the FC Barcelona and prevented that the ones of Ernesto Valverde could move quickly the balloon of a side to another, facilitating the offensive pressure and also the repliegue of the Athletic of Madrid.

The field was not dry, since the Athletic irrigated it hardly some minutes before the meeting, but only during seven minutes and of heterogeneous way, without that the lawn was the same of wet -and therefore of fast- in all the zones of the field.

The lawn high did not favour the show

It is not excuse, neither much less. And the reality is that, as well it said Simeone, each one is free to have this type of factors as it prefer when it play in own field, as long as it go in in the limits of the rule.

But the strategy of the Athletic of Madrid did not favour the show in Wanda Metropolitan, with few occasions of goal in the first-half and a very contested game in the centre of the field, with a lot of losses by part of the two teams. Pure strategy, after all. And lawful.