It has been one of the most intense debates of the last weeks, but after his first goal with the FC Barcelona, the discussion on the best position for Philippe Coutinho could have finish. The Brazilian premièred like Barcelona starting from the right, and is that you adjust them of Ernesto Valverde have gone back to be decisive for the team.
It is an indisputable fact that the best version of the midfield player will arise when it situate in the left flank of the field, in the position that for the moment is reserved for the insustituible Andrés Iniesta. However, the technician has empeñado in showing that it can do them play at the same time, and that the presence of one does not mean that the another have to be condemned to the bench.
Given the discomfort that lived the ex of the Liverpool in his first apparitions by the right-handed, the Txingurri has found a solution, one that already has given him resulted this season and that went back to be determinant in Mestalla. Of the same way that did with Paco Alcácer, the extremeño gave the freedom to Coutinho to throw diagonals to the centre, a position in which there are more roads to goal and can take advantage of his arrival, pass and shot.
To compensate the drawing applied exactly the same variations that triumphed with the Valencian: Give the lane to a so deep side like Sergi Roberto, with more spaces to visit, and situate to Ivan Rakitic like cap, covering the backs in the trips and reinforcing the facet of closing in which so much it is shining in these last months.
And, of course, anybody can say that to Valverde have not gone out him well the played, because Alcácer found his place in the Barça starting like a theoretical midfield player -very remembered is his doublet to the Seville- and the recently arrived left his footprint in a so important clash like which sealed the enésima final in the Glass of Rey. The strategy works.
Polyvalent
After confirming that in the lawn the things go out the same that predicts in his blackboard, the míster continue affirming that it trusts the polivalencia of Coutinho. With the change of Iniesta by Paulinho, the one of River went back to his habitat natural, in the left, from where controls much more field and turns into an equal weapon or even more dangerous. The Barça follows adding arguments.