Barça, looking for a goal without Robert Lewandowski

It remains very little for the return of the FC Barcelona to LaLiga after the 'holidays' by the World-wide of Qatar. The team trained by Xavi Hernández will take action the next 31 December to confront to the RCD Espanyol in the big derbi Catalan, in the Spotify Camp Nou. For that then, will be able to have all his footballers, but will have a drop more than painful, the one of Robert Lewandowski.

The ariete Polish will lose the next three parties of the Catalan picture after it confirmed his sanction. Lewandowski Was expelled in the visit of the Barça to the Osasuna, in The Sadar, by double yellow, but a controversial gesture caused that the Committee of Competition punished it with a sanction that, from the Barça, consider very excessive. Although the culés want to arrive to all the possible instances to try that the number of parties reduce , everything seems to indicate that Xavi will not be able to have he.

This, without place to doubts, will be a big hit for the Barcelona, especially because up to now Lewandowski was being the big offensive engine of the team and leader goleador. The statistics like this confirm it and are 'overwhelming': it Has marked 18 of the 45 goals that the Barça has added in the first stretch of the season, that is to say, 40% of the Barcelona celebrations have carried his name (something that, in any case, remembers to the times of leadership of Leo Messi in the Barcelona picture).

In LaLiga is where his impact has been bigger: 13 goals in 14 days contested, with goals in nine parties. Like curious data, every time that saw goal in the championship, the Barça achieved the victory. The rest, remember 'ACE', finished in three triumphs, a tie and another defeat (against the Real Madrid, the only in what it goes of League). Of there that his absence in the parties against Espanyol, Athletic of Madrid and Getafe was a capital problem for Xavi Hernández.

And it is that the trainer egarense will have like replacing him in the alignment, place Ferran Torres, Ansu Fati and Memphis Depay can play as '9' and fill his gap, but: they will be able to cover the quota goleadora of the Polish forward? There it is where grows the uncertainty because, for the moment, Lewandowski has them eclipsado to all completely in what to figures goleadoras refers .

In the staff culé, in addition to 'Lewy', there is other twelve footballers that have seen goal, but the difference of targets is impressive. Ferran Torres and Ousmane Dembélé are still in the ranking, with five goals each one, whereas Ansu Fati and Pedri González add three each one. Other references in attack, like Raphinha and Memphis, have worse registers: two for the Brazilian and one for the one of Low Countries.

Which will be the plan of Xavi?

With all this on the table, Xavi will have to contrive a plan in which to the Barça do not cost him arrive so much to the rival area. It is not a secret that Lewandowski has 'invented' a lot of goals and has given an extra life to the culés, by what the trainer egarense will have to cover his absence with an extremely offensive team in which there is not an only goleador, but varied.

It will have to insist, also, in the strike in the middle distance. It is a resource that the Barça is not exploding as it would have to, although has players for this (Busquets, Pedri, Raphinha...). Likewise, the exert that it can have Dembélé in his return after the World-wide (with the doubt of when will go back) will be key, put up to now is being fundamental for the attack of France... And it would be a relief that also went it in the City Condal.