Frenkie de Jong arrived at the Camp Nou a few months ago to learn the trade of leading the creative zone. The starting point was not easy. His all-terrain version at Ajax proved that he combines the art of teaming up and maintaining the tactical order that Barça style demands with the relevant and always conditional debates on the orders of the coach.
The Dutch international showed yesterday against Napoli that the commitment of the sports management will be good in the future, leaving behind a season of adaptation. The situation that the club has gone through has not benefited him to finish defining his role, between an interior with arrival and the natural relief of Sergio Busquets, who continues with the label of essential. The casualties of the Bay and Arturo Vidal promoted yesterday the most territorial De Jong, pressing, climbing meters and asking for more participation in the decisive meters of the field. He was the best alongside Sergio Busquets and a discreet Ivan Rakitic who also came out in the penalty shootout that transformed Insigne. De Jong needs confidence and minutes. The injury that left after football resumed post-confinement by the coronavirus sent him at times to the starting box.
The express physical preparation indicates him as one of the most fit midfielders in the squad alongside Riqui Puig, who ironically did not have minutes in the second game of the round of 16 of the Champions League. Both aim for decisive in the final eight of Lisbon.
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