A multifunctional Barça: Beat Villarreal with less ball

If the absence by injury of Sergio Busquets in the FC Barcelona could remain marked in a statistics surely would be the possession of the balloon, and like this was. The Barcelona team went back to attain a victory in LaLiga, this time in front of the Villarreal by 0-1 and a figure that remained stood out of this party is that the culés lost the possession in front of the local team.

The ones of Xavi added exactly 46,6% during the 90 minutes in The Ceramics, where Frenkie of Jong and Kessié exerted this role of mediocampista more retarded, two profiles many more vertical and without the characteristic pause of Busi. The Barça lost in possession, as they reflect it the numbers, but went much more effective and dynamic to the hour to attack inside what is his style.

This is the first time in what it goes of season that the Barcelona club finishes with the possession against and only in seven parties had gone down of 60% of the possession in favour during the course. The lowest figure was in front of the Bayern home (52%), followed of 53% in front of Osasuna in LaLiga and in front of the Real Madrid in the Supercopa of Spain, in spite of that remembered recital in Saudi Arabia.

The last time that the Barça had lost the possession of a party was in December of 2021, in the sixth day of the phase of groups where the Bayern won by 3-0 in the Allianz Sand. Xavi, that finish to arrive to the bench of the Barça went home with the confirmation of his elimination of the European competition and with 48% of the possession.

A more lethal team

The another analysis that remained in evidence in the party, and with which confirms the greater effectiveness with a mediocentro as Of Jong, is that the Barça had six shots, four of them to door, whereas the Villarreal reached the 11 attempts, but only two of them in direction to Marc-André ter Stegen. The culés totalizaron 391 passes with 80% of effectiveness, almost identical to the percentage (81%) of the yellow, although with little more than 50 passes less during the commitment.