Can Barcelona defend its title this season?
Yes, we are witnessing the hard struggle of the La Liga champions. Barcelona could only win all 3 points against home team Osasuna thanks to a penalty. I wonder how they can play poorly when they have a perfect squad in every position. But no matter what, Xavi and his team won 3 points to continue chasing their great rival Real Madrid on the La Liga rankings this season.
Xavi Hernandez fighting to meetup his early priorities this season, there's absolutely no time for reluctance performances. This is the time for the blaugrana to put in everything in their forthcoming games, because Real Madrid are not backing down, ready to push up their game to the next level. Barcelona are definitely going to defend their La Liga title this season, it's going to be really tough competition between Real Madrid and them. Regarding yesterday's game for the blaugrana, everything planned out really good. Osasuna were obviously fighting for a draw tie in Estadio El Sadar but it was too late because they made a big mistake by recording on a red card from the referee, Ortiz Arias Miguel Angel.
It seems so, now Real Madrid and Barcelona have the quality/performance of the teams that are not much different and whoever is able to improve the team's performance even higher will be the champion, for now the two are still quite balanced.
In the last few matches we can see Barcelona and Real Madrid having a hard time winning even though they are playing against teams far below them.
The victory that Barcelona achieved when they visited Osasuna's headquarters could not be separated from the red card incident received by one of the Osasuna players which was very profitable for Barcelona and the decisive goal from the penalty spot.
In my opinion, Real Madrid is only weak in their front row because Vinicius is injured. However, Barcelona has a lot of lines to improve and Barcelona's performance is not that good at the start of this season, in my opinion.