The FC Barcelona plays big part of the season in the party of the Wednesday, corresponding to the turn of eighth of final of the Champions League. The rival will go back to be the Olympique of Lyon that, in spite of that showed to be an inferior team in the meeting of gone in French earths, also taught the nails in some played that put in check the goal of Ter Stegen.
Seeing the last parties, does more than obvious that the FC Barcelona has to recover the defensive reliability. The past Saturday, Raúl Of Tomás, forward of the Ray Vallecano, tricked the defensive surveillances culés to mark a golazo to the contragolpe in a played individual. Days before, in the semifinals of Glass of Rey, the Real Madrid did not mark, but arrived with occasions very clear to Barcelona terrain.
It is not any secret that the Olympique of Lyon has footballers very fast and that they can be lethal with spaces. Nabil Fekir, Memphis Depay, Traoré or Martin Terrier can put the boots if they find spaces to the back of the defence. Some spaces that are doing too usual in the last parties of the FC Barcelona.
In fact, there is a quite raw data for the team of Ernesto Valverde in LaLiga Santander: In the 14 parties contested in the Camp Nou, have fit 16 goals. An average of 1.14 so many fit by each duel that does not have to repeat against the lioneses. Besides, only it has kept the goal to zero five times.
The data do evident also that there is a problem backwards that it did not exist the past season. The FC Barcelona suffers in the Camp Nou to contain the rival attacks and has to put end to the bleeding if it wants to win titles. Especially the Champions League, a competition that penalises to the maximum any distraction.
The Barça also has to watch with the losses
To improve in the defensive appearance, will be key also minimise the losses of balloon in dangerous zones of the field. It is not the same to lose the balloon in the frontal of the rival area that do it in the central zone, since the metres to visit also vary a lot. Thus, it does not be necessary to lose the balloon in the initial transitions.