Although the visit of the FC Barcelona to the Villarreal has concluded with a marker of 1-3, the ones of Unai Emery have surpassed in two statistical sections to the Barcelona, even treating of lines in which the Catalan team is used to to show upper until in the defeats: the possession and the passes.
Although the trainer egarense has defined to himself same like a 'obsessed by the possession of the balloon', the meeting closed with light a command by part of the 'yellow submarine'. In total, the ones of Emery were the owners of the ball along a 50.6 % of the party.
Nevertheless, the culés had more the spherical during the first-half, although with a very narrow advantage: 51.9% by 46.6%. But the improvement in the performance of the venues allowed them revertir these once finalised figures the party, what speaks of the intensity of the crash. In the case of the Barça, the final percentage was of 49,4%.
The Villarreal, better in the passes
Regarding the passes along the duel, also there have been figures very tightened, grieve four marked the difference in favour of the Villarreal. The ones of yellow attained a total of 412 passes, whereas the Barcelona kept slightly down with 408.
Besides, the Villarreal finished also being upper in it tocante to the precision of the passes, that in his case was of 84%, whereas for the Barcelona this figure reached 81,1%. In spite of the victory, Xavi has to take into account these data of face to the next parties, especially for the hard crash in front of the Bayern in the Allianz Sand of Munich.