The telluric forces that move football have no mercy on Barcelona, ??wrapped in a never-ending spiral of disasters. They conceded four goals in San Mamés and Vila-real scored five in Montjuïc. He has lost both games and the landscape is becoming increasingly bleak. Even the brightest notes, and there are quite a few, dissipate in a storm that increases day by day the instability of the team and the club.
In a week that has deepened its injuries, Barça leaves room for optimism, although everything indicates that in the long term. La jovenalla, a group of teenagers unknown to the general public when the previous season ended, joins the team in a dramatic situation and everyone is surprised by their wit, presence and competitive vigor. In Lamine Yamal, Cubarsí, Fort and it is possible that in Guiu, the shirt does not fit them. On the contrary, they fill it in such a way that it will be impossible to dethrone them. They have arrived to stay, but not as secondary, but as headliners.
In two successive and extremely painful defeats, Lamine Yamal has become the undisputed beacon of the team. Against Villarreal he made a sensational performance, one of those that mark the before and after of an aspirant figure. He played his third straight game as a starter and finished it off with a bang. He appeared in the season as a fascinating talent, he began to listen to the song that you need to take care of him, he lost the title, then the minutes and the youthful excitement, decisive in any teenager and especially in those who want to eat the world .
Lamine Yamal ended up as another substitute on the bench, terrible news for him and for Barça, or at least for its current edition. In happier times for the team, a footballer like Lamine Yamal can find himself against the thick walls that erect the big stars, the real ones, and the few cracks that they leave for the youngsters to break through, but at the front this Barça does not have this class of figures.
Football pound for pound, Lamine Yamal is superior to everyone around him in the squad. He couldn’t spend another minute on the bench, nor run the risk of burning out as a player. In Barça’s most dramatic moment, the same striker who inspired us at the start of the season has reappeared. He is the same 16 years old as he was then, but his position in the hierarchy has changed.
The same striker who was looked after a lot from time to time on the pitch is starting to become the main focus of the game. As in Bilbao, Lamine Yamal’s response against Villarreal was extraordinary. To his renowned wit he added an overflowing competitive spirit. He asked for them all, took advantage of most of them, transmitted passion and made Alberto Moreno, the veteran full-back, go wild.
Lamine Yamal’s final confirmation came on a day of defeat. This is how extravagant the current Barça is, unable to sustain the course, not already in the season, but in the matches. Every match is a box of bombs. He failed in the first half, taken by his looseness of ideas, the defensive shortcomings and the underbelly of his midfielders, but he reacted with rebellious ardor in the second half. Gündogan and Pedri accompanied Lamine Yamal in the offensive, which was about to close with a shocking victory, one of those that instantly fuel optimism.
At Barça, however, he is not accompanied by the magic of epics and drum-beating goals. Shadows weigh more than lights, mistakes than successes, weakness than health, disorder than balance. In the final minutes he threw away a probably crucial victory. He went from 3-2 to 3-5 in the blink of an eye and brought back to the stage the deficits that afflict him: a goalkeeper under suspicion, defensive tenderness, disorganization and a coach tortured by an environment that already can’t stand it anymore His exasperation in front of the television camera – “It’s a shame, it’s a shame” – is the expression of his martyrdom, publicly confirmed in the announcement of his upcoming farewell.
