Koeman’s sins

The Barcelona made a fool of himself again in the Champions League. The Benfica he overwhelmed the culé team at the Estadio da Luz with astonishing ease. The approach of Ronald Koeman He failed again, was unable to find solutions neither tactics nor on the bench and saw how his counterpart in the rival team, Jorge Jesus, I gave him a review on the Lisbon rug. The sins of the Dutchman were the approach and his insistence with the three centrals, his null reading of the game and the changes that only reduced his team’s capacity.

That Koeman has the hours counted in the Barcelona it is nothing new. Surely, if his dismissal was less expensive for the delicate culés coffers, the Dutchman today would not still be sitting on the bench at the Camp Nou. In Lisbon, the Dutchman dug his umpteenth grave in another black party where his sins and tremendous stubbornness have led him to this “critical situation” mentioned by a Sergio Busquets who sees what one day he helped build collapses.

From an hour before the game, when he announced that eleven would be the one who would go out to play at the Estadio da Luz, the first sins of Koeman. The Dutchman, in another key game for the future of the club, was once again betting on the old guard despite how well Plan B worked days ago and the youngsters with it. 4-3-3. He recovered his system of three centrals, with lanes, a playmaker and two very mobile forwards. The 3-4-1-2. What worked in many moments last season does not start this one. Mainly because the players are very different.

Veterans went out into the green. Pique led the rear with Araujo and Eric Garcia. Sergi Roberto He was a lane again after his black night against Bayern. Recovered From Jong and Pedri in the medullary next to Busquets and Memphis and Luuk were the forwards. It didn’t take three minutes Darwin Nunez to smash the approach of Koeman. The Benfica I found the back of Eric Garcia, which was a flan both in the marking and in front of the Uruguayan bicycle, which broke him to beat low to To have The steps.

Everything i had planned Koeman it was falling apart. The Barça he was knocked out and the Dutchman was forced to rectify or, at least, to try. The coach sent to warm up Gavi, that boy who had been giving such good results but who at the moment of truth was not able to put it in the beginning. Pique he was chosen to put the young man from La Masía on the field, given his yellow and danger of expulsion. He reformulated his eleven and placed From Jong as a free center-back to get the ball, just when the midfielder was carrying the most danger, generating in the rival area.

And the break came, time to touch up things and give directions in the changing rooms. But Barça came out worse, sleepy and at the mercy of a Benfica that kept going to more. Consumed the first quarter of an hour of the second half it seemed that the culés returned to find a great occasion of Sergi Roberto, just when Koeman he made a triple change that ended up knocking out his team. One minute after jumping on the grass Coutinho, Ansu The fate and Nico the second of the Benfica work of Rafa Silva. The locals took advantage of the lack of control to make a dent.

With the Barça beaten, knocked out and sentenced, Ronald Koeman he was not able to redirect his own, who went from bad to worse with the 3-0 of Darwin from the penalty spot. Neither To have The steps had his night, which are already big words. To top it all, the Dutchman made an inexplicable change with the time almost consumed. He took out of the field Sergi Roberto and put Mingueza, a few minutes after the expulsion of Eric Garcia. The Barça finished without shooting for the second consecutive game in Champions. Koeman sinned and he Barça with the.