Espanyol takes a bite at Barca

The unreliability that is showing the FC Barcelona when away from the Nou Camp last night found a touchstone in Cornella-El Prat, where the RCD Espanyol managed to hit a good bite to his eternal rival in a game he never lost his face and ended up tied at the end.

Barca was unable to break the strength of all parrot despite the fifteen minutes ahead on the scoreboard with a goal from Fabregas. The framework proposed by Mauricio Pochettino in midfield Barca midfielder handcuffed, unable to find the third man to create superiority. The midfielders showed their usual permutability but continued aid to be offered some other Espanyol players passing lanes closed.

Barca had an unusual problem: Xavi and Messi play bad day. Especially bad was the performance of the Argentine, blinded and misguided in attack and virtually ineffective in combination with the core. Furthermore, it appears that one does not notice when her immobility in defense gets goals, that is, almost always, but these games sure your coach, teammates and the fans miss a little more blood. If the problem is in your physical condition, we must remember the stupidity to fulfill the whim of playing the butler duel a few days ago.

Espanyol or imprisoned or committed suicide leaving behind up like a chicken without a head. Pochettino cooked a dish with the best ingredients from all those who have hurt Barca this year (and not talking about loss of points). He mixed a first line of very high pressure, to drown out from behind the club, with a good retreat to your area when that first line was exceeded. Barca was unable to dominate the race and, in the course of minutes, the parrot took the game to the scenario that most suited them.

At halftime the Espanyol managed to create a battery of times that the club did sigh to hear the beep of the recess. In the second part, repeated the same script and Espanyol grew minute by min. Pochettino took a risk with the entry of Alvaro Vazquez Romaric because Barca could have given him the advantage he needed in midfield, but the courage and Argentine coach's tactical intelligence had its reward: Xavi and Cesc failed to catch him point Iniesta, Barca best last night, while Espanyol won entry depth of his young squad.

So, despite the Blaugrana two balls crashed into the pole, the feeling was transmitted from the lawn is that it was Espanyol who deserved more. Finally found the reward for their efforts with a header after a cross Vazquez poison Thievy hairstyle. In the final moments Piqué another ball crashed into the wood and, when Peter finished off the rebound, Raul Rodriguez was stopped by hand. The referee saw it and the game ended in a draw, a result that rewarded the competitiveness of Espanyol and punished the mistake and the warmth of Barcelona as a guest.

Of the eight games he has played in the league away from home has lost points in five (four draws and one loss), a deficit that keeps you from a mother who, despite their defeat against Barcelona at the Bernabeu itself is setting the pace needed to put Barca in a situation that no longer depends solely on itself.

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