Jordi Alba, exultant: the most offensive defence of the League

Jordi Alba is one of the players that has had to reinvent because of the change of diagram that has implanted Ernesto Valverde in the game of the team. The Catalan side, however, is showing his best version in the present campaign, since it has of total freedom to go up to the attack by the left lane.

To his 28 years, the side of L'Hospitalet lives the most brilliant moment of his career regarding performance. The 'Txingurri' has achieved to squeeze all the juice of the skills of Jordi Alba to turn into it one of the big arms of the team by the left flank of the attack of the FC Barcelona.

The zaquero Catalan has posited as to the most offensive defence of LaLiga Santander. And it is that practically it happens more time attacking and offering desmarques of split that defending to his markers. The defensive commitment of the players of the medullary Barcelona give to Jordi Alba the possibility to go up to the attack with players that save him the back.

In previous seasons, the demarcation of extreme by the left was occupied by Neymar, something that subtracted him depth to Jordi Alba and that forced him to be much more attack to the defensive coverages. Nevertheless, the drop of the Brazilian and the decision of Valverde of not planting to a fixed attacker in the left flank does that Alba have the possibility to win depth with his incursions.

Connection with Messi

Another of the benefited of this factor is Leo Messi, with the one who Jordi Alba is connecting a lot of more times that in previous campaigns. In front of teams that defend en bloc together and shut in his area, the option of the factor surprise by the left band of the Catalan side serves to open the field and to take out to rival defences of the cave, something that helps to generate spaces. In fact, Jordi Alba recognised after the last party of LaLiga in front of the Villarreal that is used to to look for to Messi when it centres.