Barça regains confidence in defense just before the season starts

The victory of the FC Barcelona in front of the Mallorca (1-0) left very good feelings in the defensive for the ones of Xavi Hernández. The team kept his arch in zero by third consecutive party and, besides, seems to recover the balance in the just saga when initiating the final stretch of the season. After the turn of eighth of Champions, in front of the Naples, the Barça only will have ten days of League by in front to try save the 2023/24.

"We are well in the defence of band, Andreas wins us duels and plants well... It is a central more playing of pivote and gives us defensive solvency. The feeling is good. We have improved and therefore we win parties", argued the technician egarense after the triumph in front of the Balearic group. Besides, it went back to elogiar the work of Pau Cubarsí, without subtracting merits to the rest of a saga that has appreciated a lot the return of Marc-André ter Stegen.

"We can not be unfair, Gündogan, Cancel, Iñigo and Ter Stegen also have been well. But they are differential. Today Cubarsí has not lost any duel. It is intelligent, knows when bump and when no. It could lose the duel today and has not lost any. Has hierarchy, pause, always looking for the free man, looking for gone out of balloon... It does not seem that it be 17 years old", it explained the one of Terrassa.

Christensen has had a lot that see with the mejoría defensive of the Barça

Another key factor to give solidity to the team in defence goes through the role of Andreas Christensen like pivote. The Barça needed of a '5' able to give a hand in the recovery and tranquility in exit, two works that the Danish has fulfilled of remarkable form in a position that is not him of the all unknown, considering that in Chelsea was used to to play like líbero in a line of three beside Thiago Silva and Antonio Rüdiger.

The presence of the of Lillerød in the half has given balance to a team that lucía always split in the shrinking, conceding too many spaces every time that the rival contragolpeaba. The 'dirty work' of the '15' also has given break to Frenkie of Jong (until his injury) and to Ílkay Gündogan. Even Joao Cancel and Koundé have been more comfortable with the coverage of the Danish, although the Frenchman does not have so much offensive deployment.

The return of Ter Stegen also has been key

Another differential appearance in the mejoría of the Barça has to see with the return of Ter Stegen. Further of the three so many conceded by the German in his comeback in front of the Granada (3-3), from here the '1' has given the usual security in the arch, with an alone goal fit (in front of the Celtic) in the last four days of League. The another goal that suffered the Barça from the return of the captain was in the gone of chambers in front of the Naples (1-1). Definitely, the saga culé is much more reliable with the presence of Marc-André.