Barcelona’s first game of the 2023-24 season might very well be the worst: the defending La Liga champions played a truly horrible match against Getafe at the Coliseum Alfonso Pérez, with a goalless score that doesn’t really tell the story of how bad the game was. In a match filled with dirty tactics from Getafe and no tactics whatsoever from Barça, the highlights were three red cards, a lot of elbows thrown and another excellent cameo by Lamine Yamal that is the only positive from an otherwise disastrous season debut for the Catalans.
FIRST HALF
Getafe had one goal in the first half: they didn’t want to play footbal or offer any kind of threat going forward; all they wanted to do was to be as physical and annoying to frustrate Barça’s players and cause them to lose their heads.