Learn to play against rocky rivals and not being flat

The Barça remained without equalising the record of the Tata Martino of eight victories followed to start with the League, but took out a tie that can be very valuable for a future. The ones of Valverde improved the image offered in the first-half with the entrance of Deulofeu and Roberto, that gave air and speed to a right band, until then, practically unpublished.

In the first part the Barcelona seemed an encefalograma flat. Few ideas, slow association, invalid verticality. And like this it costs a lot break the always leathery defence rojiblanca. The Athletic had twenty minutes of constant attacks and after two paradones of Ter Stegen, Saúl marked the first with a derechazo from the frontal of the area.

From here it happened to the wall that Simeone always puts when the marker is of his favour. And the Barça had few resources to arrive to the goal that defended Oblak. Iniesta slow, Rakitic too retarded and Messi very alone. Gomes, disappeared in fight. It needed a reaction. And Valverde found it with Deulofeu and Roberto in the second part. The '20' put the centre measured so that Suárez marked the tie.

From here to the end it could have won the Barcelona, but the reality, if it does a balance generalised, is that the ones of Valverde gave samples to be a team that expects, with too much dependency, an isolated action of Messi. The other, too flat. If we think in the Champions League can be traumatic.

The Champions requires of alternatives

The Barça follows working to improve and find alternatives to his usual diagram of game to be able to be unpredictable. This explained Ter Stegen in an interview in the 'UEFA'. Valverde Wants to endow to the team of more solutions for punctual parties and moments in which it require played more than blackboard. Of the contrary, the Barcelona will have difficult to raise the Orejuda, since it requires to go incorporating new concepts futbolísticos. In this is Valverde.