This is the worst position Barça have been after 10 games since 1971 and no team has won La Liga from so far behind
Ronald Koeman spent much of Saturday night just sitting, staring at his feet, which was probably better than looking at his team. Out on the grass before him they were busy bringing any lingering hope of winning the league to an end six months early and in a way so absurd, so stupidly familiar, as to be almost funny – if you’re not their coach. One down through an eighth-minute own goal from Óscar Mingueza, another one from Pedro Alcalá had just brought them level and offered a way back, when it happened again: the moment that gave Cádiz victory, a portrait of Barcelona’s crisis that came as a comic strip.
Jordi Alba took a throw, which he sent back into his box, bouncing awkwardly in front of Clément Lenglet on his weak foot. Stumbling, Lenglet couldn’t control the ball or, for a moment, his feet. He watched it go by and, more alert than any of them despite having been out there just 30 seconds, so did Cádiz substitute Álvaro Negredo, setting off after it. Marc-André ter Stegen swiped at it, sending the ball spinning off his opponent into the six-yard box. Where Negredo gently applied the brakes as Frenkie de Jong slid by like a cartoon character off a cliff, taking Barcelona’s season with him. The goal open, with his first touch Negredo rolled the ball into the net to make it 2-1 and, arms wide, ran to the corner grinning.
Another absolute disaster at the back for Barca!
Negredo takes advantage of a gift, and Cadiz go straight back in front pic.twitter.com/N1xBSFOMrF
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