While it had the possibility of establishing a new record at the start of the La Liga season, FC Barcelona got its feet wet this Saturday. The Blaugrana poorly negotiated their trip to Pamplona, where they came up against a particularly tough Osasuna team.
Flick played with fire and got burned
The Catalans have never conceded more than one goal this season in the league. This time, they conceded four at once (2-4). An astonishing excitement, but which can be explained by the desire that Hansi Flick had to run before the resumption of the Champions League.
The main executioner of the Barcelona people was Ante Budimir. However, the Croatian international had not scored for several months. Opportunistic, he was able to take advantage of the largesse in the opposing defense to take back without control a cross from Bryan Zaragoza (14e). And in the second half, he victoriously converted a penalty to give his team the break (72e).
Barça completely overwhelmed
Between Budimir’s two goals, Zaragoza (ex Bayern) also shook the nets of Inaki Pena, the replacement for Marc-André Ter Stegen. In front of his bench, Flick remained passive in the face of this chain of events. At the break, he made no changes. With the reduction in Pau Victor’s score (53e), one might have thought that he was right to be patient. But, it was only a furtive burst and his Barça fell back into its mistakes in the process. Five minutes from the end (84th), the visitors even took a fourth goal with a magnificent strike from outside the area from Bretones. Fortunately, the returning Lamine Yamal then limited the damage with a splendid achievement.
The Catalan team had the opportunity this Saturday to increase its lead over Real to 7 points and thus calmly watch the capital derby this Sunday. In the end, and having failed in her task, she finds herself trembling at the idea of having only one unit ahead of her sworn enemy after the day of the weekend.
