Watching Girona is quite entertaining. Their matches lack a set script: anything can happen. In Seville, in the match that had to be postponed yesterday due to the storm MartenThey salvaged a 1-1 draw that left a bitter taste, as they had victory within their grasp several times. They found themselves leading 1-0 in stoppage time, having protected the result like a precious treasure and squandering numerous chances. They were still winning, however, until a slip by Echeverri in the 92nd minute, when he had the ball under control and only needed to clear it, allowed Kike Salas to score a stunning goal. The frustration gave way to hope with a penalty in the 98th minute. Míchel quickly brought on Stuani, who was on the bench, but the Uruguayan was denied by Vlachodimos, the true hero of the match.

Barça's second defeat this week. After falling to PSG in the Champions League, The Blaugranas were thrashed 4-1 at Sevilla on a very unfortunate afternoon. With that scoreline, Real Madrid regains the lead in La Liga. Here are some quick notes.

Football is a strange game. In just one week, Barça has gone from celebrating Lamine Yamal's return by taking first place to losing it with a well-deserved defeat in Seville. A tragic week in which Flick's team has robbed themselves of much of the credit with two painful defeats. The one in Seville more than the one against PSG, due to their opponent and their play. Basically, Flick's team deserved to lose in a match in which not even poor refereeing decisions can explain the disaster. The first half was one of those that hurt the eyes. In the second, Lewandowski missed the penalty that could have tied the game. Shortly after, Carmona and Adams made it 4-1, knocking Barça out in a stadium where Sevilla had only won one game in six months.

After a year to forget, Sevilla are smiling with the arrival of a goalkeeper who has brought hope to the club coached by Matías Almeyda. Despite going a season without playing a single minute, Odisseas Vlachodimos arrived on loan at Nervión and only needed three games to become the new reference between the sticks. This Sunday, he will be in charge of stopping Barça's attack, which arrives at the Pizjuán as leaders (4:15 p.m., Movistar LaLiga).

When you're in a difficult situation, everything becomes inexplicable. Your brain plays tricks on you, making you believe you're worse than you really are. Reasoning, once brilliant—or so one would like to believe—clouds. Your legs become a burden. They move less, they move poorly. Life weighs heavily. Girona isn't doing well. Perhaps it will again, because La Liga has just begun, they're starting from a disadvantage of their own making because Míchel doesn't have the team built, and now the general mistrust has taken center stage. But they're not doing well today. The defeat to Sevilla (0-2) accentuates a crisis that keeps them bottom of the table, with a full record of defeats.

After Girona's 6-0 start to the La Liga season, and after Míchel Sánchez's complaints about the club's planning and the attitude of some of its players, the Rojiblanco transfer market has suddenly accelerated. The club, awaiting further departures, is negotiating the addition of at least five players with the intention of regaining its lost competitiveness. Amidst all the noise, the team also hosts Sevilla at Montilivi this Saturday (7:30 p.m., DAZN), in a match of particular importance because the Andalusians have also failed to score points at the start of the season.

Beauty will save the world and a good game will save Barça. The same week in which the public image of the club was sinking a little further, a night of madness opened the door to the final of the Copa del Rey to a Barça that rose from the ashes when it seemed eliminated. Turning the Copa into the tournament of miracles, with extra time and saving goals, Koeman's team got rid of Sevilla (3-0) in one of those matches that make you kiss those you shouldn't kiss, wake up the neighbours who do not watch football, and run down the corridor as if you were Dembélé. That's the Barça need, to jump for joy again like Piqué celebrating his goal.

Barça have feet of clay. Ronald Koeman's team is on the ropes in the Copa del Rey, the tournament in which it had placed so many hopes, forced to dust off the old manuals of comebacks in the stadium if it wants to be in the final. Without doing anything out of the ordinary, Sevilla complicated the tie by taking advantage of the defensive shortcomings of a Barça side that would have deserved better luck. But their attacks were no match for the defence of Julen Lopetegui's team, who planned the match as if it were an Excel spreadsheet, with the calculator, dosing the attacks and prioritising not conceding goals. It worked out well for the Basque coach (2-0).