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Ansu Fati returns joy to Barcelona
You have to go back many years to remember a Barcelona that played so much so early in the season, and it is that a defeat today would have practically sentenced their classification to the knockout stages of the Champions League.
This is how the Spanish came out eager to eat the game, but it was uncertain whether this young team was capable of responding to a clear, constructive and solid idea. This is how Sergi Barjuan's team showed high intensity in the first minutes.
The Barcelona team basically gambled on their continuity in the European competition against Dynamo Kiev. The youngsters from Barça put it all in and were the protagonists of the game, but without getting depth and without being close to the rival goal to be able to do damage, but giving everything as if there were no more opportunities.
A very neat team
You could see a very orderly Barcelona dedicated to its performance on the court, so much so that even Lenglet played decently, marking anticipations and controlled starts, something that had not been seen with Ronald Koeman.
A team that showed a lot of order in the first minutes, but something that was lost with the passing of the minutes as well as the intensity with which they started the game. Dinamo not only endured the pressure, but the first clear chance of scoring was for them, a ball that Ter Stegen would take out with his leg.
It can be said that luck accompanied the Barcelona goalkeeper in this play, since De Pena's shot had been deflected in Gavi. While Shaparenko had forgiven twice. Barcelona seemed between the ropes, they defended themselves as always.
It took ten minutes of considerable suffering for Barjuan's men to begin to discover the weaknesses of the locals, despite the fact that Dinamo was not much superior, with only little they showed that they could do enough damage.
While Barcelona was shown without many intentions or friends of hitting or dangerous arrivals, there was no forcefulness in the shots. It was as if the desire at the beginning had disappeared. A Barcelona that was very lucky not to start losing the match. What would have made them an uphill game.
A Barcelona without desire and the possible arrival of Xavi
As Ronald Koeman said "This is what there is" and whoever the coach is, the players will be the same, so it will be difficult to get all these young people to be able to maintain the same intensity for a whole game.
While a heavy rain fell in Kiev, Rafa Yuste was accompanying Joan Laporta in the box, who in the next few days will travel to Doha to close what will be the signing of Xavi Hernández. But the truth is that Xavi will continue to have the same players, so the Spanish task will not be easy at all.
It must be remembered that Xavi Hernández is still an inexperienced coach at the international level, so now the club did not have a practically novice team, but a novice coach who will take on his first real challenge in football, so believe in miracles is not always the right thing to do.
The mistakes of Dynamo Kiev that saved Barça
After going to rest, Barcelona coach Sergi Barjuan did not present any change in his team, so the Catalans entered the field with the same eleven vague and weak players. You could see a team that was late to duels and constantly lost them.
For several moments in the game, Dynamo Kiev grew and understood that they could do damage, but the lack of clarity of goal for the locals prevented them from scoring the first goal of the match, constantly forgiving and finishing their attacks very badly.
From minute 55, Barcelona began to wake up a bit, but they were unable to finish off the rival goal. Out of nowhere, the referee whistled a penalty on Ansu, but the VAR would correct it, a move where Barça thought they found the light of the match, but that would not be the case.
Dembélé would enter through Gavi and return to the court after 135 days of injury, from that moment the team pressed more and managed to step on the Ukrainian area a little more, but they could not finish off the rival goal.
When everything seemed to remain the same, the young man and future promise of Barcelona and world football would shoot the goal of his rivals from the penalty spot at minute 70, a penalty that just a few minutes ago they had denied him, and now they are giving it to him.
A goal that allowed Barcelona to get ahead of the market and not be so far from their chances of reaching the knockout stages of the Champions League, taking into account that they have to play against Bayern.
Despite the young age of Ansu Fati, this young man seems to throw his team on his back every time he is on the pitch, so Barça cannot expect someone so young and with such a future to be in charge of directing and get the team ahead.
Despite all the drawbacks of Barcelona and not showing good football as we were used to, they have achieved a fortunate victory, a bit undeserved, but they continue to believe in miracles and still have opportunities to advance to the round of 16 of the competition.
