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Brightwhite is a top striker. Ousmane Dembele finally revealed himself … Griezmann finds himself … Our youth is super talented … Koeman found an approach to Messi … Barcelona fans rejoiced, drawing powerful conclusions based on matches against the weak Dynamo and “Ferencvaros”, in addition to “Osasuna”. The super streak on three legs (three overwhelming victories in the dry) raised the self-esteem of the Catalans to the skies, convincing them that the recent defeat against Atlético was an accident. But then December 5 came and the match against Cádiz …
The rookie of La Liga has earned the status of a storm of authorities But all the threat of the Andalusians usually manifests itself in other people’s fields. At their home stadium, this team scored just two points in the previous five games. Few believed that the Cadiz piggy bank would be replenished today. And the game did not contribute to it. In the first half, “Cádiz” had less than twenty percent possession of the ball, only hit a shot on goal by Ter Stegen … but he scored. After filming a corner, the ball from the near post was sent to the distant one, Oscar Mingez, in an attempt to deflect the threat, forcing his own goalkeeper to make a save, but Álvaro Jiménez played with ease and naturalness when finishing.
Barça got angry after that. The Catalans did not have enough speed and activity, but something prevented them from handling the ball correctly in the final phase of the attacks. Brightwhite’s scoring style, thanks to which he scored in the Champions League, disappeared somewhere. Messi hit a free kick hard, but bluntly (in the center of the goal), Messi even tried to turn the ball under the crossbar directly from the corner flag. What the guests did not think of.
“Cádiz” put the bus on, but the rival had no problems getting into the penalty area. There were problems with the finishing touch. Even de Jong, playing in the second half in the center of defense, shot on goal, but to no avail.
Koeman sat phlegmatically on the coach’s bench. It’s hard to say what feelings overwhelmed the coach. It is possible that at the end of the first half, the coach had the comfortable confidence that the situation could be corrected.
The second 45 minutes started at a rapid pace, but this pace was set by only one team: Barcelona. In the end, it was not possible to get what we wanted, but rather in quantity. An uncomfortable goal flew to the doors of Ledesma after a lumbago from Alba on the side and a rebound from Alcalá.
This moment could have turned into a turning point in the match, if not for the mediocre play of Langle and ter Stegen on their doorstep. Cádiz had nothing, Alba shot on goal, Langle made a mistake, Ter Stegen also made a gesture to pass the ball, De Jong was late with a slip and Negredo, who had appeared on the field a minute earlier, rolled a projectile in an empty frame.
You can imagine what kind of game came next. “Barcelona” squeezed the gate with his whole body. Moments poured out as if they came out of a colander. But it was quantity, not quality. As in the first half. Dest from the right edge of the penalty area “twisted” the ball too much, Griezmann from a lethal position for some reason hit right in the middle, Messi did not hit the wall from the free kick. Naturally, in conditions in which ten “Barça” players were on the wrong side of the field, “Cádiz” had a chance to counterattack. Ivan Alejo and Adekane ran off, but they did not bring their abilities to their logical conclusion.
But the most important thing is that Cádiz remained in defense. Without a coach in the technical area (penalty), without a single home win in the last five months (since July 4), without a single win over Barça in the last 29 years and with a fresh scalp from Real Madrid in the collection “El Cádiz achieved a feat …
And it was painful to look at Kuman. The Champions League is the only consolation so far.
Cádiz “Ramón de Carranza”
Cadiz – Barcelona 2: 1
Goals: Alvaro Jimenez 8, Alvaro Negredo 63 – Pedro Alcala 57 (author)
“Cádiz”: Jeremy Ledesma, Jens Jonsson (Augusto Fernandez 80), Fali Jimenez, Marcos Lopez (Pedro Alcala 31), Alberto Perea (Bobby Adecane 80), Yann Bodige, Alex Fernandez, Isaac Carquelen, Alvaro Jimenez (Ewaro, Alfredo 62) Jairo Izquierdo ( Ivan Alejo 81)
“Barcelona”: Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Serginho Dest (Trinkao 77), Sergio Busquets (Miralem Pjanic 78), Clement Langle, Philippe Coutinho (Usman Dembele 46), Lionel Messi, Antoine Griezmann, Jordi Alba, Martin Brightwang, Frankie OJ García (Pedri 46 )
Warnings: Clement Langle 61, Jordi Alba 86
