BarcelonaA 0-0 draw full of passion and emotion between Barça and Girona at Camp Nou. With this score, the Blaugrana are a little further apart from second place in the League and the white-and-reds distance themselves from the relegation zone. Next, some hot notes.
The tree deserves to be shaken. In a Barça key, the season has entered that typical valley phase without life or death matches. With a 13-point advantage at the top of the League, the issue will be to see when the mathematical cry of “champions!” will be produced. The wait could be long considering the playing time of a team squeezed like an orange and without its most talented footballers. That’s why it would be good if Xavi started to give hints for the future or, at the very least, dare a little more with the young people. That Pablo Torre continues to have no minutes despite the avalanche of losses in the middle of the field is quite sad. And that Alarcón does not have any time to demonstrate why he has been in professional dynamics for two months, as well.
Pity of the fair play. What fun Arnau Martínez makes. Formed in the Barça squad, he is the most goalscoring winger in the League and, certainly, the most creative. It is not surprising that Míchel, his coach, puts him as the fourth man in the middle of the field to have superiority in the construction. And it doesn’t sound eccentric that Xavi has it on his shopping list either. At only 19 years old, and despite his clueless air, he is one of the most interesting Catalan footballers today. It’s a shame that Barça, who are over the salary cap, can’t afford him for having stretched their arm more than their sleeve with decisions such as the renewal of Jordi Alba until 2024 or the addition of Marcos Alonso. It’s the competition that Kounde, who is down, needs.
Another mistake from Espanyol. We are referring to David López, MVP of the match according to the League. The defender from Valais is having a formidable season at Girona, the club that picked him up a few months ago when Espanyol, the team of his life, decided not to renew his contract. In Montilivi, he has become a key piece to raise the level of the defensive line. Meanwhile, in Cornellà-El Prat, they would like to repatriate him for his footballing attributes and also for the spirit he transmits on the pitch. When the season ends – hopefully with the white-and-blue staying and the three Catalans in Primera – there will be time for someone to explain such absolutely reckless sports management.
April 12, 2023. If in Madrid the interweekly focus will be on the Champions League, in Barcelona you will have to pay attention to the highly anticipated appearance of Joan Laporta to discuss the Negreira case. Two months after the scandal broke, the Barcelona president has contributed nothing but victimhood to detail the payments to the former referee, in which he is involved for his first term at Barça (2003-2010). It was leaked from the organization that the press conference would be on April 12, this Wednesday, but it has not yet been called. Will it be the good thing now that the suspicion of buying referees in exchange for that of corruption between individuals is extinguished? Or precisely this fact will postpone the relevant explanations? The questions are piling up, Jan.
