With rotations and with more goals that brilliance, the Barça has solved a new clash suspender belt with a victory home in front of the Eibar. The changes in the eleven, beside the descartes in the announcement and the injuries, have caused that there was not any leading born centre in the alignment, but the Catalans do not have resentful in any moment.
In spite of having to Paco Alcácer in the terracing and to Luis Suárez in the bench, Ernesto Valverde has showed that his team does not need strikers to be conclusive, and that with giving it to Leo Messi sometimes does not do fault at all more. It did long that the Barcelona did not present an eleven that bet of way so clear by the '10' like reference, and his good operation is been due to several reasons.
The first and clearer is that the new system does not depend so much of a '9' pure, but that the movements between the footballers generate spaces that can take advantage of the Argentinian, that enjoys of maximum freedom to move . This is simpler with pieces like Gerard Deulofeu and Denis Suárez, that do not close so much to the area and free more roads of entrance in the contrary defence.
Besides, in the case of the Eibar, the mobility of Paulinho has been key to baffle to the rival defenders, since the Brazilian started from the average but has incrustado in several occasions in zones very deep of the attack, doing that the opponents retreated metres and allowing that from backwards went out the balloon with more ease.
Suárez, in doubt?
If in the last days already had argued his low performance, the rest that Ernesto Valverde has given to Luis Suárez also can have contributed to the doubts on the Uruguayan. After a time in which it had been key in the operation of the team by his capacity in the pressure and his utility to the hour to fix defences, his task has lost something of value with the new system, and more still with the goals that has cost him his fault of adaptation. It will be necessary to expect to the next weekend to see if the one of Jump goes back to the eleven, and if it is able to recover his fearsome smell in a derbi Catalan of première in First.