Barcelona paid the price for offensive sterility, not taking advantage of opportunities, and wasting the opportunity to move away from its rival Real Madrid by 15 points, by falling into a negative tie trap in front of its guest and neighbor Girona on Monday at the end of the twenty-eighth stage of the Spanish Football League .

Barcelona entered the match on the back of its severe defeat in the second leg of the Cup semi-final at home to Real Madrid by 4-0, which prevented it from trying to win the double.

Coach Xavi Hernandez was self-righteous so that this harsh fall would not affect the focus of his team in the league in order to take advantage of the service that Villarreal provided him on Saturday by dropping Real Madrid in his stronghold 3-2, to widen the difference that separates him from the royal club to 15 points 10 stages before the end of the season. .

However, offensive infertility prevented him from winning his fifth consecutive league victory and the fifth against Girona out of six matches he had with his Catalan neighbor at the league level (the other match ended in a draw).

Despite this disappointing tie, the "La Liga" title remains almost settled in favor of coach Xavi's men, despite some difficult matches awaiting them from now until the end of the season, most notably against Atletico Madrid III (stage 30), Real Betis VI (32), and Real Sociedad IV (35). ).

And with the continued absence of Frenchman Ousmane Dembele, who was injured against Girona in particular in January, and Badri, in addition to Danish defender Andreas Christensen and Dutch midfielder Frankie de Jong, Barcelona found it difficult despite its field advantage and contented itself with a point that made it 13 away from Real.

The start came strong from Barcelona's side, who was close to opening the scoring after a fatal defensive error, but the ball fired by Polish Robert Lewandowski from the outskirts of the area just over the crossbar before Ansu Fati followed it with an arc that passed by the left post (5).

And the defensive mistakes of Girona, who almost gifted his neighbor a naive goal, continued after Uruguayan defender Santiago Bueno made a mistake in returning the ball to his Argentine goalkeeper Paulo Gatsaniga, so he headed towards the goal before the latter intervened at the last moment to remove it (9).

And after a first attempt by Girona with a shot by Argentine Valentin Castellanos outside the three woods (12) and another by Ivan Martin with a shot from outside the area that passed by the right post (18), Brazilian Rafinha missed a golden opportunity to open the scoring for Barcelona (19) before the chances were completely absent from the two goals until the minute. 36 When the visitors' goalkeeper shone in repelling an attempt from a difficult angle for Rafinha, after a wonderful pass by Fati.

Barcelona followed it with a more dangerous opportunity for Uruguayan Ronald Araujo, who demanded and his companions count the goal, considering that goalkeeper Gatsaniga removed the ball after it crossed the line, but the referee demanded to continue playing (37), so that the negative tie remained the master of the situation until the end of the first half.

And not much changed at the beginning of the second half, which saw the entry of Ivory Coast's Frank Kessier instead of Sergi Roberto in the ranks of Barcelona, as the "Blaugrana" continued to press without effect in front of his guest's goal, so he almost paid the price if Castianos dealt well with the complete exclusivity of German goalkeeper Mark Andre. Ter Stegen, but he knocked the ball to the left post (56).

Despite the entry of Ferran Torres instead of Fati, Barcelona seemed unable to decipher the defensive code of his neighbor in light of the modest performance of Lewandowski, who was present absent in a meeting that Gavi almost decided at the fatal time in favor of the owners of the land, but he collided with the brilliance of goalkeeper Gatsaniga (4 + 90).

Barcelona ended the meeting with another missed opportunity, this time for Lewandowski, who turned the ball with his heel after a pass from Araujo, but the defender intervened in time to deny him the fatal goal (6 + 90).