The momentum of the World Cup, key for Jordi Alba at Barça

In spite of having suffered a surprising and early elimination of the Glass of the World with the selection of Spain, Jordi Alba has known to claim and now will look for to convince to Xavi Hernández to do with a place in his eleven headline. The left side showed a good performance during the commitments of 'The Red' in which it was to the height in several facets of the game, so much in defence as in works of attack.

The Barcelona defender saw minutes in the four meetings contested by the combined national, only in front of Japan had to jump to the lawn from the bench. Likewise, it left his offensive contribution with two assistances, one for Marco Asensio in the debut in front of Costa Rica, where also did to the referee sentence the penalti that later would convert Ferran Torres, and another for Álvaro Morata in the crash in front of Germany.

Now, the carrilero will be in 'way Barça', looking for reconquistar a square that has belonged him during several seasons. In fact, already before the stop mundialista had been headline in the three last commitments of the Barcelona team: in front of Valencia, Almería and Osasuna. His next step will be to be 'to tope' for the party in front of the Espanyol in the reinicio of the activity liguera, in which the culés will have to preserve the peak of the classification.

Likewise, Alba neither presents any physical obstacle, by what all will depend en última instancia of what have the trainer, the one who now will have to decide with which names will go out in the demarcation of left side, a square litigated by Marcos Alonso, the one who has been also in the axis of the defensive line, and a surprising Alejandro Balde that comes to do his debut in a Glass of the World.

The defensive options of the Barça

Culminated the Glass of the World, open new possibilities for Xavi in defence. The celebrated tournament in Qatar gave signals of improvement in the cases of Andreas Christensen and Jules Koundé, by what in the case of the central alone Ronald Araújo would not be available. The left lane will be litigated between Alba, Alonso and Balde; no like this in the case of the right side, where the Barça has to find a solution in the market.