BarcelonaBarça suffered their second defeat of the season in the League when they lost 1-0 to Real Sociedad with a goal by Sheraldo Becker at the Reale Arena which will bring controversy for the goal disallowed to Robert Lewandowski for offside because the images show that the Pole was in an enabled position. Next, some hot notes.
Technology is human. The semi-automatic offside tool was sold as the solution to the problem that has plagued so many millimetric (and metric) refereeing errors throughout football history. But everything seems to indicate that at the Reale Arena this technology erred as if it were human when it confused the right foot of Real Sociedad defender Aguerd with the right foot of Lewandowski in the play in which the Polish striker scored a 0- 1 that did not go on the scoreboard because the VAR warned Guillermo Cuadra Fernández of the technology verdict. Either Lewandowski wears a number 60 or the RFEF (the refereeing authority) will have work to do this week to justify the technological and human error.
We don’t play with Laminedependency. When Leo Messi had some indisposition, penalty, discomfort or injury during his last years at Barça, the culer fan trembled. The little guy repeatedly had to put the team on his back and without him the shortcomings that hid his presence came to light. Lamine Yamal is progressing very adequately with respect to the ability to decide matches, but it would be unfair for Flick’s Barça to consider that there is Laminedependency despite the fact that the two defeats and the two worst performances in the League coincide with the two times that the seventeen-year-old genius, who was sidelined in San Sebastià due to discomfort in his right ankle, has not been a starter.
Closet cupboard bottom. The absences of Lamine Yamal and Ferran Torres were insufficient for Hansi Flick to give an opportunity as starters to Ansu Fati or Pau Víctor, the two natural strikers he had on call. The loss of the player from the neighborhood of Rocafonda de Mataró was replaced in the initial lineup by Fermín, a midfielder. It is a new sign that the German coach would not go to the end of the world either with an Ansu (he played the last twenty minutes in San Sebastià) who is light years away from before he was injured or with a Pau Víctor (he played the discount) that the goal scoring facility was left on the US tour.
The romance novel ends. From 2010-2011 to 2016-2017, visiting the Real Sociedad stadium, then named Anoeta, was a horror story for Barça. In that period, he accumulated eight trips between League and Copa del Rey in which he did not know the triumph. Two draws and six defeats. One of them, the 1-0 in the 2014-2015 season in the League, led to the advancement of elections by Josep Maria Bartomeu and the dismissal of sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta. But, until this Sunday’s defeat at the remodeled Reale Arena, Barça had gone on a string of eight visits without losing to San Sebastià between 2016-2017 and the present, with seven wins and a draw. So far
