League defeat of Barcelona l The price of procrastination

The Barcelona insists revisit those times that seemed to have been forgotten.Times when refereeing errors-like the classic Perez Lasa most depressing of the decade-appeared as an alibi to poor play. Years when forces were spent in the complaint, not the effort . The club seems determined to continue walking backwards, as if his past successes have not served to learn from past mistakes. Even the violent flares in hand, again to roam the Camp Nou with a price tickets friend in hand . Regression is worrying and the remedy, complicated. At such times, it would not hurt to remember the day that Pep Guardiola triumphantly inaugurated the great cycle of Barcelona on June 17, 2008, before a photograph of Ronaldinho and Deco lifted the European Cup won in 2006. The picture could not be more metaphorical.Because the glasses can be raised in Paris, Wembley or the corner bar. "This team will run, will work. forgive not guess right the players during a game, but that does not strive" . That was the proclamation on which reinvented Guardiola at Barcelona. A Rexach and Cruyff used to be content to hear the whistle of the ball to know that the players were serving in the rondo . Because that style of play calved between Michels, Johan, Rijkaard, Guardiola and Tito, based on speed, precision and a touch game, is completely unaffordable without the sacrifice of all parts. The problem is no longer the defensive line pressuring rival, so the ball is always controlled light years away from the danger zone. Without uncheck prioritize players driving execution. Reluctantly, the ball is only a supplement, whereas before it was the reason for everything . Okay.Little can be done to the forced absence of Tito Vilanova. Not even seem sensible to blame Jordi Roura, who has no other than acting as mere transmitter of orders that come from New York. Instead the players, the first to bet on a sort of self to get by, have chosen to let go. The negligence does anyone vulgar. Even Messi, whose attitude in recent games starts to worry . This Saturday at the Bernabeu, without a label as stifling as seen on Tuesday in the Cup or even in San Siro, also preferred walking to running. Well away from the area, near the center of the field. In areas in which players try to become invisible, as if the problem was not with them. In a time when the team was urgent to find referents, the world's best player dodges the focus . With or without fever. It did little stir Roura also left the team and went to Puyol, Cesc or Xavi injured.Thiago , far from demonstrating that one day will be the team who governs,lost up to 11 balls . A Villa, much as I tried in the end, still not catch your fitness discreet . While Mascherano could do little to set a defensive network that continues to be a disaster . Proved embarrassing to see how the line, always uncoordinated and staggered fit the offside, how Dani Alves defended his eyes to Morata, or how to Piqué returned to win the game.For high and low . After Valdés at sundown decided it was time to berate the referee even knowing that it could cost a handful of games in fallow , Roura went to the press room at the Bernabeu to say I was more than satisfied with the attitude of his footballers. Better that the speech in the locker room has been another very different. Because football is not accustomed to have pity.