In the early morning of this morning Beijing time, La Liga played a 21st round of make-up matches, and Barca sat at home to meet Vallecano. Just six minutes into the first half, Alvaro Garcia scored with a shot that Vallecano made a fantastic start. And that goal was the only goal in the game. In the whole game, Barca scored 6 of the 19 shots on goal without gaining, while Vallecano scored with only 4 shots and 1 shot on target, and Barca has a lot to reflect on at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends.
Rayo Vallecano's goal was still very beautiful. In the 6th minute, Rayo Vallecano sent a long, over-the-top diagonal pass on the right side with precise guidance, and Alvaro Garcia inserted the ball in front of the goal, and the goal was completed from the stop to the goal, which was very classic and undisputed.
However, the referee's decision in this game was very controversial, and several penalties were against Barca, the most obvious of which was the missed penalty in the last moments of the game.
In the 90th minute of the game, Garvey entered the penalty area and was pushed down by Catena, the referee did not give a penalty, and finally awarded the Barça player for offside, this penalty naturally caused a strong dissatisfaction among the home fans of the Barça general, and even the Chinese fans who stayed up late to watch the game felt that the referee was "with a task" to decide.
Zooming in on this shot, you can see that Catena's push of Garvey is very obvious, and it is obviously powerful, otherwise Garvey will not fall to the ground, so that there is a chance to shoot and score. The missed penalty was too obvious.
Not only did the fans feel that the referee missed the penalty, but the referee experts at the time also thought so. In addition, the referee on duty gave the statement that it was offside, but from the professional marking situation after the game, Garvey did not seem to be offside.
Of course, fans also believe that Barca did not play well in this game, the offensive efficiency is too low, and the defense has loopholes. After losing to Vallecano this morning, Barca also set a number of humiliating records: (1) Double kills by promoted horses: Last October, promoted Madrid Vallecano also beat Barca 1-0 at home, and the last time Barca was promoted double kills dates back to the 1997-98 season. (2) This is the first time since 2003 that Barça have lost two consecutive La Liga home games and have been kept clean sheets, and if you count the Europa League home defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt, Barca have already lost three consecutive games at home.
In addition, for Barca, they can only score a maximum of 78 points this season, and even then this will be the team's lowest number of points since the 2007-08 season. Xavi has won 17 wins, eight draws and seven defeats in 32 games, or 53.1% of the wins, while Koeman has won 21 wins, 5 draws and 6 defeats in his first 32 games, with a win rate of 65.6%. Harvey's grades are actually not as good as Koeman's! The reasons are complicated, but they certainly have something to do with Messi's departure! Isn't that the case?