THE BACK CULÉ ACHIEVED ANOTHER ARC IN ZERO
Araújo and Christensen, at one with each other and insurmountable behind
Published:26/01/2023 - 02:26h
Updated:26/01/2023 - 02:26h
Xavi Hernández seems to have found his ideal defender after the World Cup break. Against Real Sociedad, Ronald Araújo and Andreas Christensen responded to another 'final', although there was a mistake by both in the plugin
After the World-wide, Ronald Araújo and Andreas Christensen have consolidated , beside Jules Koundé, as fixed in the eleven of Xavi Hernández. The Uruguayan attained to leave backwards his injury in the right thigh and the own has attained the Danish, affected in the first stretch of the season by a sprain in the right ankle that forced him to ausentarse in seven parties in, just when the '4' saw forced to go through the operating theatre.
In front of the Real Sociedad, the one of Rivera accompanied to the ex player of Chelsea like head offices, with Koundé in the right band. The donostiarras arrived little in a very physical party in the lost to Brais Méndez before the rest by expulsion and, with exception of a finish to the crossbar of Takefusa Kubo, the arch of Marc-André ter Stegen did not suffer sobresaltos in the first time.
After the 1-0 of Ousmane Dembélé, the Barça relaxed and a distraction between Christensen and Alejandro Balde was about to to cause the tie of Alexander Sorloth on the hour of game, but the Norwegian did not attain to define and finished high. It was the only distraction of the saga culé led by an Araújo impasable and Andreas solvent in the exit by low. The Danish was substituted in the 90+1' and, just afterwards, the tie 'txuri urdin' was when falling in a corner.
The ideal pair for Xavi in defence
In front of the doubts of Marcos Alonso and the bad moment of Eric García, is clear that so much Christensen like Araújo are, in this moment, intocables for the big appointments. The one of Lillerod great an assistance in 14 apparitions (911 minutes), whereas the charrúa has collaborated with a so much in 11 official apparitions (957 minutes). The 'reinforcements' wintry, luckily, were home.
After the party, Xavi took out breast by the performance of a team that adds already 15 fences invictas in the season in all the competitions. "We do not have an eleven type. At the end today we had to attack of a way and defend of another way. We repeat the eleven of the Supercopa, because I think that all partly also were very well, but all the players are apt to play in this team", explained the egarense. The Saturday, in Girona, sure there will be rotations to compensate the wear of a very hard month for the group blaugrana.
