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PEDRI IS TOO ALONE

This Champions League shows how much Barça needed Bernardo Silva

Published:13/10/2022 - 19:38h

Updated:13/10/2022 - 22:49h

The last draw of FC Barcelona in the Champions League, which complicates the classification to the round of 16 more than necessary, makes it clear that, despite the fact that the Blaugrana revolutionized their squad, another 'differential' factor was missing

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The FC Barcelona has very, very expensive happen to the eighth of final of the Champions League. The team trained by Xavi Hernández did not happen of the tie in the visit of the Inter of Milan to the Spotify Camp Nou in a party that left many distinguished and a deep disappointment because it can happen what so much had feared the team: remain went in the phase of groups of the continental tournament again. It would be a bajón historical for the Barcelona entity.

The culés save a last bullet: that the Inter of Milan do not win to Viktoria Plzen and that the culés impose in front of the Bayern of Munich. It is a stage very, very complicated, because the Barça does not depend on yes same and will touch him see with a lot of nerves the party of the Tuesday in Giuseppe Meazza (18:45 hours CEST) to see if, to the 21:00 hours, still has opportunities of colarse in the following round.

The crash in front of the picture 'nerazzurri' has left a lot of distinguished and left in entredicho the performance of the team in what it goes of season. And it is that, although the culés have one of the most complete staff of Europe, still have to paginate between himself and is not something that happens in three months. The way still is long (but expectations were very high, also) and remains in the air the 'doubt' of if the Barça needed in the summer a piece more... And all the focuses are in Bernardo Silva.

The Portuguese, further of Lewandowski or Koundé, was the big obsession of Xavi in the summer, but was a directly impossible operation by the economic factor. Silva, in any case, had all the ballots to fit in the system of the trainer egarense and 'handle' the centre of the Barcelona field beside Pedri González. It was the opportunity to joint to two 'crazy' of the offensive game that stienen good technical, that are able to add to the attack, leave of rivals, arrive from second line...

And it is that now, regarding roles, Pedri sees very alone to the hour to generate superiorities in the centre of the field. It has turned into the only able to give him felt to the game of the Barça. Against the Inter remained more than evidenciado the capacity of the culés to connect between lines and impose from the medullary. Sergio Busquets was not able to organise the game and direct it, whereas the dynamism of Gavi is not 'sufficient' for what want to Xavi in his game.

A piece 'extra' already is necessary

The Barça will experience a lot of changes, probably, from the blackboard. Xavi Hernández is forced to give him a dump to his team and, especially, that know to impose mentally. Something that was impossible against the Italians. But neither there are doubts that, to short or average term, the Barcelona will need to a player so that the team go back to be ordered with the balloon... And it can compensate.

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