Xavi could use the 'Eric García formula' to give Jordi Alba more minutes

In front of the lacks of the current staff owing to the injuries and the competition to do with a fixed square in the alignment title of the FC Barcelona, Xavi Hernández has had to resort to some modifications to take advantage of to the maximum of each one of his effective, as already it did it when having to Eric García in a more advanced position.

This experiment has not gone out of the all bad, by what the míster could be testing with other similar changes. One of them would benefit significantly to Jordi Alba, the one who increasingly seems to lose terrain in the left side, demarcation for which Alejandro Balde and Marcos Alonso seem to be the main options.

The new role of Jordi Alba

During the party in front of the Girona, in spite of finishing with a tie without goals and desaprovechar the opportunity to extend the brecha on the Real Madrid in the table of classification, Jordi Alba does not have desentonado, adding a total of nine successful passes and generating occasions of risk for the contrary team.

Of this way, can continue exerting the functions of asistidor of face to the goal, remembering his best seasons in which it was used to to combine with Lionel Messi. With this, Xavi would have of a formidable offensive piece taking advantage of the qualities of the of L'Hospitalet, whereas Balde would commission to fulfil his functions in the saga.

There is not conflict Alba-Balde

No necessarily the presence of one suppose the absence of the another. In front of the Girona, both players have known to understand in several actions. In front of this panorama, Jordi Alba would not see forced to abandon the club in summer, and his wish is to continue in the Barça, when seeing displaced of his natural position by Balde and Alonso.