Vermaelen No desentona in his première suspender belt with the Barça

It had to expect a year and nine months to go back to enfundarse the T-shirt of the FC Barcelona in LaLiga, but after so much inactivity, Thomas Vermaelen surpassed the expectations. Turned into the only alternative for Mestalla by the drops of Gerard Hammered and Javier Mascherano, the Belgian left good feelings doing couple with Samuel Umtiti.

Of course, everything is simpler when it plays at the side of the French, but the one of Kapellen was well so much to collective level like individual, answering with tarpaulin to the majority of the envites of the forwards valencianistas. So much in static as to open field took almost always the best decisions, and the team appreciated that it kept , as in the last months, a flawless security backwards.

That Vermaelen has improved from his last party with the Barça is a fact, and is that it showed a physical tone -that allowed him adjust better in the tactical- more worked that in the Glass of the King in front of the Murcia. It was a more demanding duel against an applicant to LaLiga, but the defence showed that Valverde has more options in the changing room and even allowed the luxury of rondar the goal, finishing a kickoff of corner that finally went him high. 

A borrón

If something has to forget Thomas Vermaelen of his performance against Valencia is his presence in the 'photography' of the goal of Rodrigo, in one of the first approaches of the 'che' in the second half. The centre of José Luis Gayà did not reach it Ter Stegen, the same that the Belgian did not arrive to cover to a forward that escaped him by some centimetres, the just to put the foot and complicate him the life to the Barça.