The promises and the tutor
The white team is commanded by experienced and highly talented players such as Benzema, Modric, Kroos and Courtois. He also has young players with a long career ahead of him, such as Vinicius and Militao. But Barça have a present to cheer on and a future to be a wonderful team again. Ansu Fati is the standard of this group of young people who, accompanied and tutored by a coach like Xavi, will surely write outstanding pages in the history of the club. Pedri, Gavi, Nico, Araujo … And now also Ferran Torres (21 years old), who has just arrived and has played after overcoming an injury and passing the coronavirus, but he knows that Xavi trusts him so much that he he would hand over the keys to his house. When those who come out of injury pick up pace …
Dembélé, face and also cross
Dembélé is so unpredictable that no one ever knows if he will play a game in which he will be decisive or get entangled in a sea of ball losses and erratic decision-making. The Frenchman is still not renewed, while his agent is making unfortunate statements, but Xavi knows that, while wearing Barça, he is a player from whom he can draw juice. Seva has been the center of Barça’s first goal and has been the protagonist in many Barça attacking actions. For many moments of the match, the attack went on to look for the unpredictable talent of the Frenchman to intimidate Madrid. The problem is that all the virtues he teaches often end up tarnished by actions that are incomprehensible in a first-class player: either with the goal deflected, missing an easy pass or losing the ball in compromised actions (as in the play of the third Madrid goal).
La meritocràcia de Luuk de Jong
Despite being the author of Barça’s last two goals in the league, he had recently opted for Luuk de Jong. But Xavi had already warned in the pre-match press conference that the winners would play, and the Dutchman had won the start today. With more luck than success, he has seen the goal again. The Barça coach has also started Frenkie de Jong, whose footballer highlights all the dark work he does. But the Barça midfielder went unnoticed again and was overtaken by Modric and Kroos in the first half. If he was touched, why not start trusting Nico, who is one of Barça’s best this season? And don’t be fooled by Frenkie, if you don’t see how soon the transferable sign hangs around his neck.
Message to Dest and Umtiti
In the first game in which Xavi was able to count on practically the entire squad, with the exception of the injured Martin Braithaitwe and Sergi Roberto, the Egarenc coach had to leave players out of the call-up before the match. Apart from the midfielder Álvaro Sanz – a player who has the confidence of the coach but still has a long way to go – Xavi has sent Sergiño Dest and Samuel Umtiti to the stands. The American winger, despite wanting to stay at Barça, is one of the players that the coach has invited to leave this winter market. Umtiti’s case is well known: Barça would like to transfer him after extending his Erasmus in Barcelona for another three years in order to be able to enroll Ferran Torres.
.