Quique Setién in a match of Barça in LaLiga

HE TRIED TO IMPLANT HIS STYLE

The frustrated revolution that Setién tried to carry out at Barça

Published:18/06/2020 - 08:58h

Updated:18/06/2020 - 10:02h

Quique Setién arrived to the FC Barcelona in January with the idea to carry out a revolution in the team. Nevertheless, to the two weeks saw that it would not be possible

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The past month of January, the FC Barcelona took the decision fulminante to sack to Ernesto Valverde, after the team fell deleted of the semifinals of the Supercopa of Spain against the Athletic of Madrid. The Barcelona club tracked the market, tanteó several options and, by distinct reasons, the elected finish being Quique Setién, without experience in a big but with a philosophy that fit to perfection with the club.

The challenge that the Cantabrian had by in front was capital, since it had to assume the reins of a powerful team, with the requirement to win titles and without time to prepare it everything by means of a pre-season. Setién Went in in the team showing his personality and, from the start, implanted a distinct diagram to the of his ancestors that based in a line of three central defences, carrileros long and two attackers.

With this tactical drawing, Setién had achieved to adapt his ideas to the Real Betis and thus it also tried to use it in the FC Barcelona with the aim to recover this game of possession and position that the team had lost after drops like the ones of Xavi Hernández or Andrés Iniesta. Alas, the idea of the santanderino did not obtain good results, by what finally had to go back to rectify and bet again by the 4-3-3 classical.

The journalist Sique Rodríguez, of the Chain Be, explained in the program 'The Crossbar' that the current trainer of the Barça did not take too much in seeing that it could not carry out the revolution that expected in the team. "Setién Arrived preceded of a fame of brave and revolutionary and in two weeks darse that his ideas can not them apply in this team, that has gone 'valverdizando'. Now it treats to survive and win some title", explained.

The one who expected and the reality

In addition to this modification in the diagram, the arrival of Quique Setién seemed that it went to bring a lot of changes. With the Cantabrian, expected , for example, that a midfield player like Arthur Melo took a main role or that there were more opportunities for a youngster like Riqui Puig. Nevertheless, in little time already saw that the revolution 'setienera' that expected could not carry out.

At the end, the Cantabrian has finish playing exactly with the same men with which played Ernesto Valverde, without too many changes in the game of the team. Setién Has the same 'intocables' that the Txingurri in the eleven and the youngsters did not have prominence before the change of rule by the coronavirus. As it said the mate Sique, seems that no longer there are priorities in the style: the titles will mark the difference.

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