The Barça of Ernesto Valverde runs less, but better

In spite of the drops, the visit of the Juventus to the Camp Nou in the first day of the Champions 2017-18 had turned into a marked date for the FC Barcelona, that suffered in his meats the good do of the valid runner-up of Europe with an elimination in the past season. The impotence of the past eliminatory left step to the lights in this course, and part of the success is due to the hand of Ernesto Valverde.

In his arrival to the Barcelona bench already warned that his intention was to improve to a team that already did a lot of things well, and with small but effective adjust his task is beginning to accumulate successes. A light change of position for Leo Messi and the forwards, and a lot of space for the sides have resulted key for a mejoría of game and of results.

Without going more far there is a significant data that signals the identity of this new Barça, and is that his party was the only of the eight that contested the Tuesday in which both teams visited less than 100 kilometres. With 87,982 for the Juve, the Barcelona showed that it does not do lacking to run more but better, and is that they accumulated 84,621, quite a lot less than in a past crossing in the Camp Nou in which they registered 109,717... And a result of 0-0.

More together and more passes

The intention of Ernesto Valverde, something that for the moment is achieving, is to avoid some correcalles that prejudice to his and benefit to the rivals with a better physicist. Play in less terrain and moving more the ball is something that does to shine to footballers like Andrés Iniesta, that surrender better more arropados, and is another data that extracts of the statistics in Champions. The Barça goes back to be the one who more tarpaulin has in the passes -90%- in passes completed- and there is a tendency to connect more in short that in long. And it works.