The defense is returning to be the great 'Achilles heel' of Barça

The FC Barcelona of Ronald Koeman is having a lot of problems in this first stretch of season. The culés do not finish to find to taste in the terrain of game and gives the feeling that the players have not understood still what wants his trainer of them. The game, except some exceptional party, keeps on being very poor, but still like this is not the most worrisome of this Barça.

Definitely, it is in the defensive phase where the Barcelona are leaving more than wishing and are losing more points. Between Champions League and League, the Catalans have fit a total of 16 so many in 16 parties contested. They are too many goals for a group that in attack, without Luis Suárez, without the lesionado Ansu Fati and without the best version of Leo Messi, no longer carries the danger that carried antaño.

It is true that the blaugrana still have gunpowder and that they can decide meetings from the individualities, but also is truth that the rivals are used to to have three or four opportunities of goal by crash almost each day. In other words in a lot of occasions to the Barça force him to mark no less than 2 or 3 targets, something that in a lot of commitments finishes being impossible and therefore it finish losing.

The injury of Gerard Hammered​, the one of Ronald Araújo, that was more than a month 'KO', and the continuous physical problems of Samuel Umtiti, although they have influenced, neither much less are the main reason of the evils in defence of the barcelonistas. The reality is that the Barcelona defends badly in group and that it is surpassed in too many occasions of midfield to backwards. Koeman Would have to find the solution to this problem jointing more his centre of the field.

Nevertheless, the level of concentration of the own players also is leaving a lot that wish. Being more concentrated had avoided the absurd goal of Negredo against the Cádiz, with error in chain of Jordi Alba, Lenglet and Ter Stegen; the penalti of Of Jong in front of the Getafe; the debatable maximum penalty of Lenglet against the Real Madrid; the so much of Carrasco against the Athletic after error of Ter Stegen; or the 'sung' of Net against the Alavés.

The Barça has to be much solider

They have been too many individual failures very avoidable that it is necessary to correct immediately. Improving this, the Barcelona would take a step forward in the defensive section, but still like this would need to give more to avoid situations like the one of the 0-2 against the Juventus, with a finish entirely only to few metres of his goal. The team has to be solider, defend more staggered, the defence has to follow to his marks and, in summary, all have to give more than himself. Now it touches him to Koeman put of his part and work so that all this suceda sooner that late.