Barcelona, ​​​​with more shadows than lights: ends up calling time against a fourth-place team with players from the Kings League

These are not peaceful times, much less in Barcelona. The fact is that for some time now Xavi’s team has not given guarantees and also this Sunday they made it clear once again that he is not living his best moment: For the 16th round of the Copa del Rey, they beat Barbastro, of the 2nd RFEF (fourth division), conceding 3 to 2.

With many substitutes, without traffic lights and with more individual categories than collective associations, Barsa advanced to the group against a team that had among its ranks: Adriá De Mesa, who converted injury time on the hour mark and until a few weeks ago was playing in Gerard Piqué’s Kings League. That is, he went from streaming to playing against one of the most important teams in Spain.

Fermín López had scored the only goal of the first half, with a shot from the center of the area when he was surrounded by his rivals (19′). Raphinha scored the second goal in the 51st minute: he pushed a ball passed by Héctor Fort to Piacere at the far post.

But Barbastro did not give up and in the 59th minute closed the net with a goal from Adrià De Mesa, the now famous former player of Piqué and Ibai Llanos’ championship. With ten remaining, Israel García’s header almost equalised.

Calm came in the 88th minute when the Polish Robert Lewandowski extended Barça’s lead by exchanging a penalty for a goal. But, when the score is 90+3 and there is no more time to do anything else, Marc Prat scores again for Barbastro, again from a penalty.

“We see that it is difficult for everyone and today it was difficult for us. It was a match in which goals were scored but because of our mistakes we suffered more than normal,” admitted Barça coach, Xavi Hernández.

Xavi can’t find the way

To Barcelona’s lackluster performance, Culé is going through an unprecedented record in the club’s history: he has not won with more than one goal in 20 games. In this period the Blaugrana team has accumulated 12 wins, four draws and four defeats. With the fundamental fact that he is very far away in the fight for La Liga…

The distance of seven points from Girona and Real Madrid exacerbates the football crisis of Barcelona, ​​​​who have in mind the duel of February 21st for the first leg of the Champions League round of 16, against Napoli. And as if that wasn’t enough, Culé wins with the right players against a fourth-ranked team. Oh Xavi…

Barcelona’s record without victories by more than one goal

Celta de Vigo (3-2), Mallorca (2-2), Sevilla (1-0), Porto (1-0), Granada (2-2), Athletic (1-0), Shakhtar (2-1) , Real Madrid (1-2), Real Sociedad (1-0), Shakhtar (0-1), Alavés (2-1), Rayo Vallecano (1-1), Porto (2-1), Atlético Madrid (1 -0), Girona (2-4), Antwerp (2-3), Valencia (1-1), Almería (3-2), Las Palmas (2-1) and Barbastro (3-2).