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Rayo-Barça’s hot notes

BarcelonaBarça’s new defeat in the League. In this case in Vallecas against Rayo. It has been 20 years since Van Gaal’s time that Barça did not lose in this very special stadium. A goal from Radamel Falcao decided the game and Memphis missed the possible tie from the penalty spot. Then the hot notes of the match.

Barça are late. I remember Laporta in 2003. The one in the “virtuous circle”, who knew that if the first team went well the entity would be healthy. It took the president a long time to pay homage to himself. What discouraged him from making brave decisions? Eventually, however, he fired Koeman. Barça is a football club that needs to get excited on the pitch to aspire to everything else. Staying still and shielding oneself in the inheritance was a prelude to losing investors. And what’s worse, it could just disconnect the unconditional spoonful of the cause. Come on, Jan, we want to tell you good news.

The 14th of shame. The absences of Ansu, Pedri and Frenkie de Jong led Coutinho to Barça’s line-up in Vallecas. With a bespoke system, his beloved 4-2-3-1. But even so, he could not justify the salary of more than 20 million a year that bleeds Barça’s accounts. A figure, by the way, that corresponds to half of the total salary mass of the Madrid team. The Brazilian, stepped up and driving down, was taken easy by the compromised pressure of Iraola. So deep and reddening is its drift that it becomes difficult to think that one day, already without Koeman on the bench, it could be useful collectively.

The green sprout of every day. This humble section is getting bitter from defeat to defeat. I will be forgiven, but Barça have little reason to highlight successful aspects of the game. However, if one makes the effort to make positive readings, the good performance of Nico González is extracted from the party in Vallecas. Recovering from Koeman’s public reprimand for his mistake at Wanda, the Galician midfielder was the only Barça player to match Rayo’s intensity. In addition, he proved that he is a midfielder with route and enough technical resources to get his head out often in the rival area. He missed the goal.

Hateful comparisons. Rayo Vallecano incorporated a certain Radamel Falcao free transfer on the last day of the market. Yes, that goal scorer who made a fortune at Atletico Madrid. A 35-year veteran, the Colombian resigned with Galatasaray to take orders from Iraola, a coach with very clear ideas. On the same day, Luuk de Jong’s arrival at the Camp Nou closed. Almost two months have passed since the two moves and Falcao has already scored four goals in the League, one of which was against Barça. The comparison with the performance of the Dutchman loaned by Sevilla is discussed alone.

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