FC Barcelona: Why now is an unpredictable team?

Arrived to the equator, the season of the FC Barcelona is marked by the irregularity and the vaivenes. With a complete turn of the League for contesting, in addition to the final phase of the League of Champions and the decisive rounds of the Glass of Rey, is difficult to know if the campaign 2020/2021 of the club will finish with titles or with a new disappointment by second consecutive year.

After the odd and difficult previous campaign, the vaivenes have been constant. The team began very well, generating illusion, but went in prompt in an irregular dynamics that moved him away of the first places of the classification of League. Instead, the course in the phase of groups of the League of Champions was a walk triunfal (with five victories in the five first parties), until the grave trip final in front of the Juventus, that cost the first place of the group. The rival of eighth will be the fearsome Paris Saint Germain, with Neymar, Mbappé and "old enemies" as I Gave María or Mauritius Pochettino, new technician parisien.

A Russian mountain

The case is that the season of the team is a continuous Russian mountain that alternating phases of good game and results, in which Koeman seems to give with the key, with curves in which the team derails. The Barcelona is a team impredecible even for the house of bet more prestigious. What is occurring?

In the sport of high level take part crowd of factors, from the physical preparation and the cycles of performance (the seasons prepare to reach the beak of form when more it suits, generally in March-April), to the emotional (for example, the fault of concentration) or the pure casualidad. Five centimetres more to the right or to the left can mean a goal or a balloon to the stick and, with this, attain the victory or no. In situations very balanced the errors penalise more than ever.

In the final of the Supercopa of Spain, the Barcelona stroked the title in the minute 89, what had supposed, besides, an important injection of morals. However, a centre crossed in the last minute meant the tie for the Athletic of Bilbao, that culminated the traced back in the extention with a terrific goal of Iñaki Williams.

New trainer, elections, the doubts of Messi…

In addition to these intangible factors, there is a series of elements that contribute to that the current project of Ronald Koeman keep on being, for now, an unstable project.

- A new trainer: the arrival of a new trainer supposes that the players have to adapt to his tactical system and to his form to work. In a season compressed by effect of the pandemia there are fewer trainings to deepen and assimilate these notions. To this adds that the Dutch has showed dubitativo with the system, that has happened of the classical 4-3-3 to the 4-2-3-1, going through the employment of three head offices, with a 5-3-2. A lot of variants for a team in training. Neither it has helped the fact that the club have not satisfied his requests to incorporate players like Eric García or Memphis Depay.

- Injuries of important players: if a player began standing out this season, that was Ansu Fati. However, the Hispanic-guinean broke the internal meniscus of the left knee and will not return until March. Gerard Hammered, that was to big level, fell lesionado of gravity when hardly they carried two months of competition. And other players called to play an important paper, as Phillipe Coutinho and Sergi Roberto, also have suffered injuries of long length. This has prevented to the technician have some of his best men to apply his plans and has tightened the depth of the staff.

- The doubts of Messi: although the implication of the captain and better player of the world keeps on being maximum, is obvious that the continuous runrún on his course does not help to that the team centre . The Argentinian wanted to leave the past summer and still has not renewed. It remains free on 30 June 2021, and in an interview with Jordi Évole did not guarantee his continuity, that will decide along these months.

- A young staff and inexperta: the Barcelona has done a bet by the renewal, after the disappointment of the past year. They have arrived a lot of youngsters, some of them of immediate performance, that can consolidate a base for the next years. Pedri, Ansu, Araújo, Riqui Puig, Trincao or Dest are called to play in the Barcelona by a lot of years. Beside Dembelé, Lenglet or Of Jong conform a very young base and are guarantee of future. However, still they are inexpertos in parties of maximum tension and requirement.

- The electoral process: to the sportive doubts, the club adds the institutional unsteadiness, increased with the resignation of the ex-president Josep María Bartomeu. The club has been directed since by an agent with capacity limited of action. It supposed that this interinidad would finish on 24 January, date of the elections that would decide between Joan Laporta, Víctor Font and Toni Freixa. But the pandemia has gone back to trastocar the plans, and the elections will have to postpone.