At the Coliseum Alfonso Perez on Saturday, Barcelona faced Getafe in the Spanish League. Here’s the result, what happened, and what we learned from the draw.

Big Changes From Ronald Koeman

The local press believed Koeman would not comfort any player yet, but he did, and also changed the squad.

Sergino Dest had to make his debut at left-back anyway, due to Jordi Alba’s injury. However, there were also starts in 2020/2021 for Osman Dembele and Pedri in 4-3-3.

Simple 10-minute opening

There are no clear chances for either side, but there were some promising signs in a pair of runs that Dembele and Messi managed to pull off, with the latter twisting the players inside and out.

Before the match begins, open up

Getafe came ahead with Nemanja Maximovic, who had space but fired directly on Neto in the 18th minute.

But then, the gentle act of Pedri saw him find Dest on the edge of the box, which was starting to come alone. The American released her to his captain, who was allowed to tear off with a trademark curled blow that set the woodwork.

Three cards in less than 30 minutes

And at the rate at which this was going on the physical side of things, the red card seemed to have been a gift at some point. For many, the hosts should have reduced their number to nine men as Alan Neum and Eric Capaco were particularly involved in controversial incidents involving Messi crushing the former elbow.

Antoine Griezmann hit the bar

Dembele was criticized for a heavy first touch and a mistake on a previous break, but the next day he made the pass right at Messi squared who discovered the other Frenchman running on target.

Unable to maintain his goal and revive the trend of Barcelona account opening in 2019/2020, Grisei still hasn’t missed the point in this campaign.

Each square in half the time

The positives were the Pedri effect and the increased confidence of Dest, but it was Blues Griezmann and Dembele left the side down. They are clearly low on spirits and it looks like they’ll be the first husband hooked by Koman in the second installment.

The worst possible start to the next 45

It took about 10 minutes after the referee whistled at the start of the second half, but when de Jong overthrew Benum, who was already supposed to be fired from the proceedings, Getafe was awarded a penalty kick over Jaime Mata.

Barcelona trailed in the second game in a row

Luc de Jong scored early for Sevilla in the final round, before Philippe Coutinho almost immediately equalized, this would be another test of Coman’s team character with just over an hour.

Ansu Fati and Philippe Coutinho were Cooman’s first changes

Rightly cut Dembele, Griezmann escaped execution at Pedri’s account. Let’s see what the superstar performers can bring up to date in the Dream Team Legend era.

Fati struck one bone, and Neom apparently had one to pick

Fati stood over the teen and yelled after one fight, and also tried a long-range shot.

In the end, Neom finally goes to the book to make a mistake on Sergio Busquets.

There was very little fighting in Barcelona

He struggled to build something after Mata’s goal, and it looked as if they didn’t know they were trailing 1-0.

Another secondary double for Koman

Pulling Griezmann out of his misery, Martin Braithwaite also got rare access and joined by Francisco Trinkau as de Jong knocked out the left stage.

4-1-5

With Busquets the only remaining midfielder, Barcelona had to break here with as much firepower as possible.

Kocho made it two

Braithwaite gave the ball away in Getafe’s game with a misplaced pass to Trincao, and the resulting reaction resulted in Cucho nearly being penalized for the foul when Neto sent his shot into the crossbar.

Later on, he was clean in goal after running from the halfway line. But like Griezmann from an almost identical place, he put too much power into his untargeted attempt.

Riqui Puig was the fifth and final change to Barcelona

With an extra three minutes remaining plus added time, there wasn’t much chance of a La Masia fruit influence.

Six minutes of extra time. Nothing yet

Barcelona raised the stakes somewhat, with Jean Dakonam hitting the bar in a moment of madness, but Getafe held on to the upset.

Barcelona missed a golden opportunity

Likewise, Real Madrid felt embarrassed by Cádiz earlier, as Bayern could enter El Clásico by three points at the top.

Instead, they take ninth place, although there are other opportunities to head to the top.

The run of the unbeaten team came to a halt, and Koeman tasted defeat on the eve of the biggest match in the club football and group stages of the Champions League.

Perhaps some are tired of their international duties, so the Dutchman needs to motivate his troops to rush and get them back on the horse.