For la Liga giants Barcelona, as early as Bartomeu at the helm of the club, the overall strength has been a cliff-like decline, fortunately, the team was still Messi, relying on the argentine king's super personal ability, this lonely La Liga giants can still have a certain combat effectiveness in all competitions, but with the departure of Messi this season, the team can not see the hope of impacting the championship, before the final round of the Champions League group stage defeated Bayern Munich, Directly led to their reappearance in the Europa League after 21 years, the domestic arena Barcelona was also far behind the old enemy Real Madrid, impacting a Champions League qualification, has become Barcelona's main target this season, in the seventeenth round of La Liga, Barcelona away to Osasuna, this campaign two young players Nico and Abde goals twice helped the away team to take the lead, but in the last moment Avila's long-range shot, helped Osasuna equalize, In the end, the two sides shook hands 2-2, Dembele left the game injured, Umtiti also made a mistake to let fans laugh at the familiar plot, and if Barcelona can't stop this decline, it is likely to make the Europa League a luxury next season!
Although Barcelona still adhere to their own style of passing football, but they have difficulty in converting the advantage in possession into a winning position on the field, in this game with Osasuna, a similar situation was played again, the whole game Barcelona's possession rate reached 62%, but only formed 9 shots, and only 2 shots hit the target, while the passive Osasuna also completed 3 shots within the goal frame in the game.
The biggest gain of this game for Barcelona may be the play of two young players, in the 12th minute Garvey in the midfield to pick out the cross in the box, 19-year-old Nico Gonzalez got a one-handed opportunity to face the goalkeeper, facing the attacking goalkeeper's calm poke to help Barcelona get a fantastic start, and after the home team equalized, the 20-year-old Abd stood up again, Dembele broke through to the right bottom line after the cross in front of the goal, the back point of the Abd volley to help the team rebound again, but after taking the lead Barcelona's complete inability to control the rhythm of the game was the reason they couldn't take all three points on the road.
And the two controversial players Dembele and Umtiti also disappointed the fans once again, the injured Dembele was injured in the last moments of the second half, unable to insist on the game was replaced by coach Xavi, and Umtiti, who debuted for Barcelona this season, became a time bomb for the team's defense, and Umtiti's return pass in the 20th minute of the first half almost gave the opponent a big gift, and Osasuna's last-minute goal was also refracted into the net after Umtiti. This is also the reason why many Barca fans expressed helplessness after the game and were familiar with the plot.
After the end of this game, Barcelona is temporarily in the eighth place in the table with one less match, and the new season has fallen to playing in the Europa League, which has disappointed and dissatisfied many fans, but from the current situation, if they can't play better under Xavi's leadership, they may even not qualify for the Europa League next season!