DBasia.news – Barcelona seem to want to reconcile their fate with Real Madrid, losing in week five of the Spanish League. If Los Blancos a few hours ago on Saturday (17/10) night were defeated 0-1 by the promotion team Cadiz, the Blaugrana lost 1-0 to Getafe on Sunday (18/10).
This result is certainly quite surprising if you look at the reputation of the opponent. This is the first time since November 2011, Getafe has been able to defeat Barcelona. Even though Barcelona appeared relatively normal. El Barca dominated almost all match statistics.
Barcelona was able to dominate ball possession with a percentage of 73 percent. Their amount of passes is also almost three times that of Getafe at 617 passes to 217 passes.
However, this statistical advantage seems to be just a pseudo domination. In fact, Barcelona had difficulty dismantling Getafe’s defense.
Throughout the 90 minutes of the match, Barcelona was only able to fire one shot at the goal. They even failed to do that throughout the second half.
On the other hand, Getafe was able to threaten Barcelona’s goal four times, which was escorted by Neto. One of them paid off in the 56th minute through Jaime Mata’s penalty.
Koeman himself tried to provide a defense regarding the difficulty of his team in dismantling Getafe’s defense. According to him, the opposing team did everything they could to stop the movement of its forwards.
“We know this is a challenging place to go to. But we tried to build up the game and move the ball quickly, but they continued to interfere with fouls,” Koeman said after the match.
The dull trend of Barcelona’s front line has actually been seen from the previous match when they drew 1-1 against Sevilla. At that time, they were also only able to fire one shot on goal.
This is a danger signal for Barcelona that must be corrected immediately. Moreover, next week they will challenge Real Madrid in a match titled El Clasico.