BarcelonaVictory for Barça against Osasuna in the semi-finals of the Super Cup. On Sunday there will be a classic in Riyadh to settle the first trophy of the course. The Blaugrana, who went from less to more, prevailed with two goals in the second half from Lewandowski and Lamine Yamal. Next, some hot notes.
The molten leads. There is no better summary to explain Barça’s moment of play than what Sergi Roberto embodies. Salvator on the day of Almeria with a surprising double, the Barça captain, whose contract expires in five months and has not received a firm proposal to renew, is almost the only footballer in the squad who is performing at the level ‘waiting for him in this agonizing and pasty transit of the team for weeks. Around him reigns the unsatisfied expectation with cases as silent as troubling as Balde’s. Where is that electric side that was eating the whole band? If last year he had legs that compensated for his lack of touch when it came to centering, today he walks directly with molten lead.
More numbers than incidence. Back on the scale of expectation, Gündogan is falling halfway. He is playing everything in his first season at Barça, and his performances are impressive: three goals and seven assists (the last against Osasuna). But even if everything he does makes sense, even if he appears in his own and rival’s field to build or destroy for pure football sense, his incidence in the collective game is still not the desired one (nor is that of De Jong, let’s say at the outset). We are talking about the captain of the European champion City, a dominating midfielder who takes 20 million gross per season!
The great pending subject of Xavi’s Barça. Great teams are built from the middle of the field. And Barça’s accumulates more numbers and names than synchronicity and complicity. Getting Gündogan to make his teammates better should be one must for Xavi, that if he understood one thing when he played it was precisely that. It is not understood that the egarenc is tied up in press conferences with the goal-scoring success, the intensity, the chest and the necks and other inelegant explanations. It is true that Lewandowski is rusty and that João Félix and Raphinha are club signings, but there will be no possible excuse in the face of the privilege of having Gündogan, De Jong and Pedri (may it not happen again) and not building a less opaque Barça with them .
Changes are for something. Without regularity in the game, Barça found the reaction from the changes introduced by Xavi during the match. Lamine Yamal, author of the sentence, improved the accelerated (and injured) Raphinha; Pedri added neatness in the management of favorable possessions and João Félix, again punished on the bench, left details of his attacking talent as Osasuna looked for an equalizer in the final minutes. By the way, when the Portuguese was ready in the side, bets were made on the substituted player: Lewandowski deserved it, but in the end Ferran Torres came out. What would have happened if the Pole had not scored in that interval of doubt? What is certain is that his performance, at that time, was suspended.
2024-01-11 20:58:18
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