As against Atlético de Madrid, Barça shot with a steady hand. Another demonstration of effectiveness. He closed one eye, pointed the other, and bang, bullseye. Yesterday was one of those days that cost him to fail when he looked at the door.
Against Napoli it was not like that. Against Napoli he seemed to shoot blindfolded. But there is a common thread in recent games. The goals that were within a few days and were diverted in others started from a competent construction of the game.
Sufficient vertebrate team performances begin to be chained to verify that Xavi he is doing a fine job and that his optimism about taking Barcelona to the promised land was not empty trumpeting.
His radiant and hopeful speech, received with some dose of skepticism upon his arrival, is now heard in a different way. Not as an ointment salesman, but as a solid trainer whose creed has made flowers grow out of cement.
Against Valencia he reaped the first comfortable victory. Good game and win. To return happy and with the confidence that they will travel to Naples with nails to hold on to Europe.
Lineup Changes
Xavi he again proposed variations in the lineup. Dembelefully forgiven. The superlative” pedri, as the coach defined it, on the bench. If you look at Manchester City from Pep Guardiola, overwhelm who plays who plays. The structure is imposed on individualities. can sit at DeBruyne, the most talented footballer. And nothing happens.
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Xavi You must aspire to something similar. That the knowledge of the positions and of the synchronized movements reduce the importance of the absences that the injuries or the states of form cause. Big teams work like this.
That does not mean that we do not look at the footballers, that the game belongs to them and they are the ones who decide matches with the success or failure in front of the goal, like yesterday aubameyang. OR Sunrise with assists. OR pedri with everything he does it with only 19 years. The boy smells like genius.