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Whether the match is played during the day or at night, the Coliseum Alfonso Pérez is a hostile environment, and Barça has once again learned this the hard way. It's simple, before tonight, the Blaugranas remained in four consecutive matches without a victory in Getafe. A series which therefore stretched with this draw (1-1). However, Hansi Flick's men had, it seems, taken this meeting the right way: dynamic passing circuits, aggressive football, and above all a very early goal. Its author? Jules Koundé, who has obviously found a sudden taste for goal after having already scored midweek against Betis.
Put into orbit by the excellent Pedri, the Frenchman tried twice to deceive Soria. He first stumbled upon the Spaniard, before taking advantage of his hand fault to push the ball into the back of the net (10th, 0-1). Predicting that Barça would have control of this match against a team grouped together was not really the most daring bet. And it even made one wonder if Getafe's objective was not to lose by the smallest possible margin, as Bordalas' men let their opponents maneuver as they pleased for more than half an hour.
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Raphinha was very close to making the break, but his header from a cross from Koundé exploded the small outside net (33rd). Unsurprisingly, we seemed closer to 2-0 than 1-1, and yet… Two minutes later, Getafe's anti-football was rewarded. The former Barça player, Alena, found Coba at the far post, who saw his shot poorly repelled by Pena. It was the opportunist Arambarri, formerly of Bordeaux, who came to sanction the Barcelonans to equalize (35th, 1-1). On the Catalan side, Yamal was very active, if not productive, for once. The Catalan prodigy tried to make the decision alone on several occasions, but was not always escorted by success in the last gesture, nor in his choices. Lewandowski was very discreet, we barely saw him in the first half. His only real situation was a header too crossed, which no one was able to recover at the far post (40th).
Returning from the locker room, the locals were back with their double-decker bus, and they were not doing anything by half measures: 10 players grouped together with the obvious desire to keep the score. Barça logically struggled to find the gap, and when the situation was right, Soria pulled out all the stops, as with this strike from Olmo (79th). Sometimes, Yamal reminded us that he didn't need much to make a tusk curl, just to rub the lamp. Even without being at his best, the Catalan prodigy was close to turning the match around with this famous Messi-style cross to the back post, which almost became his special. But Raphinha hit the wrong net again (84th). The match ended with an almost awkward number from Bekhoucha, provocative for his first professional match, and a bad actor who didn't really make us want to be seen again, in the same way as a Getafe – Barcelona match. Accounting, this operation does not do Barça's business, victorious only once in its last 8 matches, and now third, five points behind Atlético, and possibly 7 behind Real Madrid, in the event of a victory tomorrow against Las Palmas. Getafe is 16th.
