Autumn has come before Real Madrid and Barcelona before the trees. What makes a couple of days seemed like a League of two is again tightening and full of doubts to the big ... and their coaches, identified after two setbacks in Seville and Leganés and to waste the advantage that separated them from their pursuers. As in the typical humor scene. When they looked through the binoculars, they saw the rivals away; when they are removed from the eyes, they appear breathing in their noses.
Madrid played for the third time in the season. Every time he faces a rival who can look him in the eye, he has returned home with his head down. Atlético, Athletic and Sevilla have doubled the knee of the Lopetegui team, who marveled at the Champions League debut against Roma and, in contrast to that brilliant performance, now depressed with gray and antiquated performances, an apathetic Madrid, a Madrid desganado that looks so much like the one that threw the last league that the only thing that changed on the lawn of the Pizjuán was the color of the third kit.
In Can Barça things are not better. Two consecutive setbacks in two matches that are marked in green phosphorus when knowing the league calendar, two matches of six points that has turned out to be one after drawing at home against Girona and losing to Butarque against Leganes. Two unexpected slips that prevent those of Valverde from taking distances with an erratic Madrid. The rotations are killing the azulgrana team, which was presented with Munir and Vermaelen south of the capital, who tested with Arthur, Vidal and the expelled Lenglet in the previous day and has not found in any of them a positive reason to think that the regiment of volunteers can be a replacement for the fire brigade.
The errors in defense are bleeding Barça and Madrid, with Piqué and Ramos, who have so often shared the qualification of the best central team in the world when they joined in the national team, in the pillory. Four goals in two days has fitted the azulgrana team. Three took the memory of the visit to Pizjuán the white square.
A few days of seeing the faces and with an immediate calendar of aúpa, the tremor produced by the first draft of autumn can dissipate if you swallow the following matches as if they were antibiotics or get entangled if the results do not accompany. Until that October 28 in which there will be no excuses for hobbies.
And in the two families the same thing happens, when there are problems, you look at the presider of the table, the coach. Valverde and Lopetegui are touched by the setbacks of their teams. At the moment it is just a spark at the end of a road full of branches and dry leaves. But in these big teams any breeze turns into a gale and before you know it the barn has burned down.