Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has turned into the new reinforcement of the FC Barcelona for the second and more important stretch of the season 2021-2022 and is a player with more lights that shadow, but to the that Xavi Hernández will have to look for how 'fit it' in his approach in the team blaugrana. Task complicated for the one of Terrassa.
The gabonés can be key so that the Barça achieve to his antidote to the fault of goal, because it is a forward that when has continuity can surpass the twenty so many by season. Trusting that in the next months 'wet' in ten or twelve opportunities will be an absolute gain for the Barcelona picture. Splitting of this, can be very key to litigate by the place in the 'zone Champions' and surpass a few phases in Europe League.
Aubameyang Has the advantage that it is a forward that is very versatile and that does not have problems in playing in the approach of three forwards (3-4-3 or 4-4-3) but also when it plays with two tips (4-4-2 or 3-5-2). Has tendency to fall in his game by the band, something that showed very well in the Arsenal. In the Barça aims to play 100% as 'nine' fixed.
In this sense, Aubameyang is a player that offers 'always' to the space and the one who stands out by his reception in career and far of the scope of the defence. Can 'play' like this in the Barça? It is the question to resolve, because this caracterísitca supposes a big disadvantage for the idea of positional game that Xavi Hernández wants that it exist in the Barcelona picture.
It is necessary to take in account that in the positional football there are moments for the fixation of the nine and others to throw splits to the space. Like this then , pploughs Aubameyang and Xavi will be key the arcertar the 'timing' of the desmarques and his directions. A task that 'will force' to the trainer egarense to work directly with the forward.
Therefore the desaconsejó Xavi in 2020?
In this sense, is worth it that during the 2020, when the Barça was interested in the incorporation of Aubameyang, Xavi Hernández warned to the Barcelona and recommended not insisting by the gabonés or by Sadio Mané: "Mané and Aubameyang kill you in open space, but the Barça needs players that move well in short spaces. It is not easy to remember players that have adapted well to the Barça. Eto'Or was perfect and now Luis Suárez".