Luis Enrique’s trap

Barça, removed from Champions. Four years later, another painful 1-4 at home against PSG. This time, there was a reason. Before the expulsion of Araujoin the 30th minute, Barça won 1-0 thanks to a genius of Lamine Yamal. After the Uruguayan center-back’s red card, the French steamroller began. The Qatari team based in Paris has a great team, they still have the best player in the world (waiting for his first golden ball including the t-shirt Madrid) and has a very good coach. Luis Enrique He stopped a trap against Barça and did it in vain. He meant to let whoever got the ball from the back always Araujo. Mbappe covered Cubarsi, Barcola in Koundé and Dembele in I canceled. Barça’s three midfield players couldn’t even receive the ball because they were suffering from suffocating man marking.

Only De Jong iI tried to accept it, neither Peter neither Gundogan They can touch him. And, each time, PSG left him behind. Araujo so that he, the least skilled with the ball at his feet, could play it. And, for the first time, the trick of Luis Enrique It seems to be going badly. In the 12th minute, Araujo know how to give it long and to the advantage Laminate Yamalwho, at the age of 16, showed Europe that he was a world cracks. Barça scored a goal the first time they set foot in the rival area. But Luis Enrique He remained calm and strategic and continued to inform Araujo Who has the meter to get the ball. And the Barça He continued to take the bait and then came the error that sealed the tie. A bad pass Ronald in Lamine Yamal was, in two attacks, the fatal counter-attack of boat and the eviction play. From 0-1 to 2-1, only the PSG he finished in goal, eight times in a row. Luis Enrique I got what I wanted, corrected and increased. And those Xavi They only come out of the cave when they need a goal, no matter what. The pity is that the details marking the qualifying rounds all came out wrong yesterday. Conceding a goal from a poorly defended corner (as in Romeas in Anfield) or the absurd punishment of I canceled punished almost as much as the deadly red of Araujo.

If on the way, the PSG He hit post twice yesterday Gundogan 2-2 but the ball hit the post. The result is difficult, but the image of the team has nothing to do with the last 1-4 against PSG. Of course, continue whistling the anthem of Championsnine years in a row, leads to arbitrations like the Romanian one Kovacs. Five yellows and three reds for the home team isn’t bad for a resume. I wouldn’t be surprised if he received a few entries Paris for the inauguration of Olympic Games. You know how it goes: the Barça won his first Champions shortly before becoming an Olympic venue. Will he achieve the same PSG and the city of Paris? Opportunities, sometimes, are made.

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Signed Ewa Pajor, a great scorer

Another good scoop from MD, another good news for Barça. The women’s team took, for the next season, the forward of Wolfsburg, Ewa Pajor. The Pole will join Barça for 500,000, the biggest transfer paid by the team that turned professional in 2015, thanks to Jordi Mestre. The news has two positive aspects: the winning team is constantly strengthened by the top players, so that the intense competition in the squad stimulates the best performance of each one. It is also good to know that the Barça of schemes in the safe, is in a position to make this signing which, within women’s football, is in the ‘top ten’ of the most expensive signings. On the other hand, the news of the acquisition of Pajor Comes when the contract has not been renewed or Alexia Putellas nor of Mariona Caldentey. The Pole is not here to occupy the position of either of the two, but the agents of the two stars – local and global – can raise their finger to say: is there money or not? Surely, sooner than later, these two configurations, symbolic in aesthetics, appropriate in football terms, will come.

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The unlimited chaos of the Spanish Federation

something very sacred Spain, like football, is in the worst hands. And, importantly, the racket must be so big that no one seems to want it – except for a journalist whose career has been made as Carlos Herrera– face a Royal Federation that smells singeing. Or dead. Or poof. The stench can be felt many blocks away. Las Rozas. Rubialesafter the kiss Jenny Nice and his quinqui behavior in the box at the end of world, he cast in the office. He will not resign and CSD and UEFA must make an effort to remove him. Then, the prosecutor’s office will take care of him for ‘Operation Brody’ or for what he planned to bring Pique, the Spanish Super Cup in Arabia. He remained in position Peter Rocha, one of them. Queer. And even more so when he delayed calling the election, when he presented false endorsements and, when, without a rival candidate, he would sit on the throne as President. About the bell, Rocha He was accused, he did not get his way and now the RFEF is in the hands of a management commission. And FIFA shudder to see the massive mess of a Federation that, along with the Portugal and the from Moroccowill organize the 2030 World Cup Turn off and let’s go.

BAD MILK

1. After seeing the Inigo Martinez at the Cup celebration party Athletic Club, Did you forget which team you deleted? Barça of competition?
2. After seeing the Inigo Martinez camouflaged at the barge party, I wonder if Dembele would come in disguise to do the parade of champions, if the Barça won the Champions League.
3. Budimir has 15 goals with Osasuna. Almost half of the scores of the group of get lost in the League. Beyond the borderline ridiculous missed penalty, always on my team.
4. In some simulations we are given a bird’s eye view of the new Camp Nou then, you will see the new ceiling painted in blue and white. Shall we rent a stadium in spanish or it will revert to the original project colors, the sa Barça?
5. He is serious Barça will reject an offer of 60 million for Raphinha?