BARCELONA, Spain (AP) – Barcelona and Real Madrid lost for the first time this season on Saturday to modest opposition from the Spanish league, widening doubts about their blocked attacks in the early champions’ league matches and their own “Classic” clash.
Barcelona suffered their first loss to Ronald Koeman in the 1-0 loss to Getafe, just after Madrid fell 1-0 home through newly promoted Cadiz.
The attacks of the stars of the European powers are chained through their opponents. While Getafe live up to its reputation as one of The most productive defensive groups in Spain in the Barcelona final, Madrid was sloppy and slow against an animated Cadiz who is back on the most sensitive flight after 15 seasons.
Sevilla also lost on Tuesday before visiting Chelsea in the Champions League, leaving Atletico Madrid as the Spain team to celebrate a victory. Bayern Munich will be measured on Wednesday.
GETAFE HEADLOCK
Barcelona didn’t get many chances, but they were good. Lionel Messi hit the right at 20 and Antoine Griezmann missed a wonderful opportunity in the part hour.
After that, Getafe tightened their scoring and Barcelona didn’t threaten again until Djene Dakonam was about to score a pass to their face when he cleared a crossbar.
Jaime Mata traded a penalty in favor of Getafe in the 56th minute after Frenkie de Jong committed a foul on Dakonam on the edge of the area while looking to transparent a loose ball.
“We knew it was going to be a tough match,” Barcelona midfielder Sergio Busquets said. “We wanted to play at a faster pace and tried, but once they got ahead of themselves, it’s gotten even harder. continue painting to improve. This is just the beginning”.
Barcelona will receive Hungarian Ferencvaros in the Champions League on Tuesday.
GRIEZMANN’S STRUGGLE
Griezmann’s struggles continued for another match. French coach Didier Deschamps said last week that he could not see why Koeman was betting on Griezmann on the right side rather than in the middle of the attack.
Koeman attempted to move Griezmann to a leading role at Getafe, but Griezmann did little for his cause with a flagrant failure. He’s been goalless this season.
MADRID’S MALAISE
Zinedine Zidane lost his team’s opposition to Cadiz.
Directed by 35-year-old striker Alvaro Negredo, Cadiz more damaging than Madrid, especially in the first half when visitors may have come in with a two-goal lead.
Negredo prepared Anthony Lozano to score the goal of the match against Thibaut Courtois in the 16th, Sergio Ramos had already stopped a shot from Negredo and Courtois made several more stops before the break.
Karim Benzema had Madrid’s clever chance of equaling with a shot in the crossbar eight minutes from the end.
Ramos took a hit to the left knee in a clash with Lozano that forced him to be replaced at halftime, questioning his availability for madrid’s first Champions League match against Shaktar Donetsk on Wednesday.
“There’s no explanation for what we did today,” Zidane said. “We played a bad match, especially at first, but bad in every single sense. We didn’t push, we had difficulties from start to finish. . . Our rival deserved to win. If they had scored two or three in the first half, it would not have been a surprise. “
It is cadiz’s first garter triumph in Madrid after losing 11 and missing one of his last visits.
ATLÉTICO ends the drought
Luis Suarez scored an early goal for Atlético to win 2-0 for Celta de Vigo and end the team’s devastating drought.
Suarez made his debut for Diego Simeone by scoring two goals in a 6–1 loss to Granada after signing for Atletico from Barcelona, but since then, the Uruguayan striker and his teammates have tied for 0-0 against Huesca and Villarreal.
Suarez returned to the board when he scored with a pass from Manuel Sánchez in the sixth. Yannick Carrasco added a purpose in the discount time when he took the lead in a rebound after teammate Joo Felix hit the crossbar.
Diego Simeone may simply be without Diego Costa at Bayern, who asked to be replaced by what gave the impression of being a left thigh injury at the beginning of the middle of the moment.
Lucas Torreira made his athletic deyet in the middle of the field after coming on loan from Arsenal. He played well, but also finished the game with physical problems.
FIRST LOSS FOR SEVILLA
Granada beat Sevilla 1-0 after Yangel Herrera broke the impasse with a headbutt 8 minutes from the end.
Joan Jordan left Sevilla with a disadvantage after two warnings for consecutive fouls in the first half’s time off.
It is Seville’s first defeat in Liga since February.
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