Òscar Mingueza, during the Bayern-Barça of the Champions

'PROBLEM' FOR THE BARÇA

Mingueza, with no place as a central and no level as a side

Published:9/12/2021 - 19:15h

Updated:9/12/2021 - 19:15h

Last year, together with Ronald Araújo, Òscar Mingueza appeared as a 'fire extinguisher' for the first team. One year later, his level is debatable

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Any player of the FC Barcelona has 'saved' after the elimination of the Champions League in phase of groups. Neither the footballers, neither the trainer or technical body and neither from the offices. The new 'humiliation' of the Barça is a summary of what lives the club and is a reality innegable. Now it remains to see how it reacts the team and if it can have some positive change, but for the moment only remains space for the analysis, the self-criticism and a new 'bathroom' of reality, the onceavo from the season 2015-2016.

All the Barcelona picture was a despropósito in the Allianz Sand and remained the feeling that si the Bayern needed to annotate 8 goals, could do it without problems. There was not resistance some and again, as always, the defence and the attack remained in the eye of the hurricane. Near of the area of Ter Stegen situated Araújo, Hammered, Lenglet and Jordi Alba, but the left side had to withdraw by injury to the half hour of party. Òscar Mingueza went in to substitute him and remained like one of the big signalled of the enésima humiliation of the Barça in Europe.

There are not doubts, neither can deny , that Mingueza is a central very stood out and that the past year 'saved' to the Barça when more lacks had in the axis of the defence. It served of 'it turns off fires' and a player with a lot of character that invited to the illusion. Like head office is remarkable, too much if it wants , but like side is one 'catastrophe', so much by the right as by the left: it is unable of 'hold' to his rivals. And it has checked it one and again in this season. Against the Bayern has not been the exception.

It has not been the only guilty, fits to remember, but his continuity in the Barça is in a point complicated because it does not have hollow in the team. And of there there is not more than where 'take out'. In the action of the first goal, after Robert Lewandowski tricked to pleasure to Gerard Hammered, sent a centre to the area where expected Thomas Müller to the 'coverage' of Mingueza and Lenglet, with the just side behind him. It did not jump, it did not look for to defend the balloon. It remained expecting. The same case with the French. The attacker of the Bayern cabeceó to pleasure to put the 1-0.

It is a history that repeats split after party, in different zones of the area and with more or less doubts. But raisin all the nights. Mingueza Is very far to be this player that ilusionó in his beginning, by the position or the confidence, but left to be it. And now, with the open panorama for the 'operation cleaning' that want from the offices of the Camp Nou, does not result descabellado the possibility that the footballer of 22 years abandon the club.

Possible exit in January?

Now it remains to expect to know if Xavi Hernández explains or no with him. It fits to remember that to finals of the month of April of this year, the FC Barcelona did effective the option to extend his agreement until 30 June 2023, awarding him a clause of rescission of 100 million euros. In his moment, the confidence from the offices has been maximum, but positions in the door of the exit by two reasons: it does not surrender as it is had to and neither has 'hollow' as central... It is missing the final denouement.

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