The two aspects in which Barça de Setién improves on Valverde's

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 revolution that Quique Setién wanted to carry out was not possible finally, by what the team varied very little with regard to the seen with the Txingurri. Nevertheless, after the confinement owing to the pandemia, the FC Barcelona has not been able to carry out many of his parties. Something that has carried to the team to descolgarse of the fight by LaLiga Santander and to do think that, with Ernesto Valverde, the things were better.​

With the technician extremeño and with an equally grey game, the FC Barcelona was able to keep the leadership, something that with Quique Setién has not been possible. Nevertheless, there have been two appearances that yes have improved with the Cantabrian: the physicist, according to parameters of the GPS that the players carry during the trainings; and the defensive, since the team fits fewer goals and the majority are to unemployed balloon.

Uncertain future of Quique Setién

Of course, neither the physical parameters neither the defensive cover that the FC Barcelona of Quique Setién has not been to the height in important parties like the one of Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán against the Seville, neither in the one of Balaídos against the Celtic of Vigo neither in the one of the Camp Nou against the Athletic of Madrid. Three pricks that will cost a League and that will leave to the Barça.