LONG (AND COMPLICATED) ROAD AHEAD
Barça, without 'top 4' in the League or the Champions League and with much to improve in 2022
Published:31/12/2021 - 18:19h
Updated:31/12/2021 - 21:34h
FC Barcelona closes 2021 with very mixed feelings, but with a more than clear message: There is much to improve next year, in which we will have to fight for four titles
It has been a first stretch of the season 2021-2022 very complicated for the FC Barcelona (as well as all the year) and finish with a sensión more than agridulce. The team finishes the 2021 out of the Champions League, after being deleted in the phase of groups, and also without 'top 4' in LaLiga. The next year will be odd, of some way, because the Barça 'will debut' in the Europe League, but the north of the Barcelona is in improving the feelings and results, in addition to achieving titles.
The Champions League, without place to doubts, has been the strongest hit for the Barcelona. The Bayern and Benfica left to the Barça without eighth of final and it will be necessary 'conform' with the Europe League. It has been an eliminatory that, obviously, left 'touched' to the team to sportive level, but also to the club to economic level, place will leave of ingresar until 30 million euros, which were foreseen in the budget for this exercise.
In LaLiga the situation also has been dramatic. In the end of this year, the Barça finds in the seventh position of the classification, to 18 points of the leadership that is occupied by the Real Madrid (46) and waiting for the dispute of the nineteenth day of the championship, just after the New Year. Up to now, the culés have accumulated 28 units (of 54 possible) in 18 parties. They have been seven victories and ties, in addition to four painful defeats for the culés. The most impressive has been the quantity of marked goals (29) by 22 received. Atypical numbers for the Barça and that desvelan the big problem of the culés of face to goal.
They have been difficult months for the Barcelona team and has remained showed something: the crisis is not alone subject of trainer. In this time, have gone through the bench Ronald Koeman, Sergi Barjuan (in three parties) and now Xavi Hernández, the 'commissioned' to give back to the culés to the glory, but with the three have repeated many of the problems of the team, to defensive and offensive level. The Barça 'work' the parties, looks for to propose and dominate, but goes out punished in the areas (one and again).
If there is a good news, nevertheless, has been the big influence of the youngest players of the staff. The Barça, in this season 2021-2022, has been directed by Araújo, Gavi, Nico González, Abde, Jutglá... Players that do not happen of the 22 years that have served of leaders in front of the 'absence' of the players that, after the exit of Leo Messi, were called to be the engines of the team.
Hopes in the 2022
With the reinforcements for this month of January and the recovery of several players that have been, practically, all this season in the infirmary, the 2022 antoja like a year in which they will have a lot of changes and improvements in the team. It will be key the recovery of Ansu Fati and Pedri González to promote to the team.
In the case of the forward, everything seems to indicate to that is in the last phase of his recovery, but will not be back immediately, whereas the one of Tegueste carries some days training with the rest of his mates and could go in in the next announcements.
