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Still lucky that Alves has not returned for a holiday: the hot notes of Villarreal

BarcelonaBarça’s first victory away from the Camp Nou in the League comes in December. A 1-3 win sealed in the final minutes, with some moments of anguish and a hint of controversy. Then the hot notes of the match.

Memphis, per fi. Barça had four chances in the first 20 minutes of the match at La Ceràmica. And of the clear ones. None of them went to the net, which Villarreal took advantage of to grow. It is indisputable that, with Xavi on the bench, the collective image has improved. But the numbers are unbeatable and show the team is suffering to see door. When the culerada signed the tie in Castellón, Memphis, criticized in recent days, finally sharpened his aim. Not even to pay homage to Koeman, his defender, and make the 10 million of the coach’s discharge more digestible.

A feeling. Barça’s dazzling start had a clear protagonist: Ez Abde. Xavi awarded the great second half of the Moroccan in the derby with a title in Villarreal, the first in the League. The coach’s bet went well. The young winger suffered with Pedraza on defense, but on offense made a display of nose and resources to unbalance on the right side. All the plasticity he lacks facing his opponents with a curved body is too much for him to even head over in a corner over towers like Albiol or Capoue. Good smell, that of Ramon Planes, who signed him on the horn on 31 August.

Problems on the sides. In his presentation, Dani Alves said that he was not returning to Barça for a holiday. Still lucky, because right now he would be a starter on the right wing, where Dest is not stabilizing, Araujo loses properties and Eric Garcia and Mingueza suffer at the slightest demand. On the left, Jordi Alba is the only natural option, and his substitute theorist, the young Alejandro Balde, did not even travel to Villarreal. Alba could not finish the match at the Ceramics and Mingueza, converted for urgency, was portrayed in the goal of Chukwueze’s tie. Homework is piled up in Sant Joan Despí.

Xavi’s flower. Messi and Griezmann scored a lot of goals and Ansu, all smelling, is injured. Okay: mini-point for “it’s what it is”. But with a little more audacity and voracity, the entry into play of the arbitration debates, the square and the bevel of the VAR and the insinuations of villarato, who go up and are lazy. Because it is as obvious that Barça is progressing with Xavi as, in the last two league games, the border actions have favored Barça. In La Ceràmica, Soto Grado could have perfectly whistled a penalty by Piqué in the first half and another by Eric Garcia to catch Albiol after a corner.

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