BarcelonaBarça beat Mallorca 1-0 at the Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium. The Blaugrana consolidate their position in the Champions League places and continue with the distant hope of fighting for the League title thanks to a genius from Lamine Yamal in the second half. Below, the highlights of the match.
This Barça lives in monotony. The first 70 minutes of the Blaugrana team against Mallorca were the continuation of last week’s game in San Mamés. A bland approach, no spark of improvisation, slowness in moving the ball, lack of mobility on the part of some players, apathy on the part of others. There is no way that Xavi will find the key for his team to change the desperate dynamics of the season. Meanwhile, time passes, titles slip away and the fans resign themselves.
Xavi’s determined commitment to young people. It rarely makes sense to express rational assessments of the work done in the world of football (which contradicts the name of this section), but it is advisable to put them on the table at the end of the course, and it is usually still more appropriate to sentence them after a few years. In any case, it is a unanimous agreement that Xavi has fallen far short of expectations at Barça. But some seeds you plant may be strongly valued a few years from now. One of them is Lamine Yamal, and today he decided the game with a flag goal.
Marc Guiu ahead of Vitor Roque. In a game of playing carobs, three footballers aged 18 or under were in the headlines: Lamine Yamal himself, Pau Cubarsí and Marc Guiu. One of the surprises of the starting eleven has been the inclusion of the 18-year-old striker from Granollers. It was expected that Xavi would make rotations considering that Naples arrives in Montjuïc on Tuesday, but the logic led to think that, in case Lewandowski had a rest, his replacement would be the striker who arrived this winter market for 30 million euros fixed plus 31 in variables: Vitor Roque.
Raphinha’s invention and scare. With Pedri and Frenkie de Jong out due to injury, Xavi had the option of starting Fermín or Oriol Romeu in midfield. Instead, the one chosen to accompany the Christensen-Gündogan duo was, surprisingly, Raphinha. The one from Porto Alegre forced a penalty, but the action meant that he hurt his right ankle (in principle, nothing serious) and Gündogan, moreover, made a mistake from the eleven meters. The need to resort to inventions like this and Christensen’s as a pivot to try to improve performance is a sign of the lack of resources in the Barcelona squad.
2024-03-08 21:56:20
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