The FC Barcelona lived a series for the forget between the 12 and the 16 October. The Barcelona square suffered a pair of 'tropiezos' in front of the Inter of Milan and the Real Madrid in which they were two 'final' for the team. The tie in front of the 'neroazzurri' left them subjects to a miracle to classify to the eighth of final of the UEFA Champions League, whereas the defeat in Santiago Bernabéu moved them away of the tip of the table, which belongs to the whites with 3 points of difference.
Further of the results, the feelings in the team were negative. The bajón of performance lived after the stop of selections and the individual errors punished in demasía to a group that arrived to the key week as you lead of the championship and with big possibilities to happen to the following round in the European competition. By this reason, Xavi Hernández, that had been very autocrítico in public and privately, took a step forward for 'espabilar' to his staff.
The egarense threw of blackboard and made a series of variants so much tactical as in the eleven headline in the duels in front of the Villarreal and the Athletic Club of Bilbao so that his team answered. Like this then , the trainer culé 'agitated the tree' and entered until five changes in his alignment regarding the team that went out in front of the merengues to confront to the 'underwater' yellow, in a clear sample of his need of reaction.
Of this way, Frenkie of Jong occupied the place of Sergio Busquets in the axis of the medullary, fulfilling with grow his work like recuperador and repartidor of game from the bottom. Likewise, Raphinha and Dembélé were substituted by Ferran Torres and Ansu Fati, those who offer greater inner game when being extreme with tendency to go to inside, supported besides by Jordi Alba that 'tired' to unfold by the left to add an alternative more in offensive. The change of pieces allowed to modify the pressure on the exit of game of the rival, that saw surpassed from the first minute. The bet of Xavi went out to perfection.
His second proof of 'fire'
After defeating to the 'groguets', the Catalan square would see the faces in front of an Athletic Club always complicated. The group directed by Ernesto Valverde is a 'bone' hard of 'roer' for the culés and each season supposes an obstacle to surpass. Besides, they arrived to the Camp Nou with 48 hours more than rest, by what the proof for Xavi and his team was not at all simple.
For this reason, the egarense and his staff technical studied painstakingly a series of tactical alternatives for desorientar to Valverde. Like this then , Hernández showed his side more 'innovative' and the Barcelona went out to the terrain of game with four mediocentros with the end to control the medullary. While Busquets and Of Jong did charge of the containment of the square, Pedri acted like false extreme by the left, leaving to Dembélé like the only pure extreme in the eleven.
Again, the technician hit in his decision and the bilbaínos were 'arrollados' from the first minute with a stellar performance of the French. "We put a half more and here find superiority", ensured Xavi, that did not doubt in elogiar to his footballers when manifesting that "it gives him a lot of importance to the paper of the trainer, but the merit is of the players". However, it is more than clear that the intervention in his diagram has been key for the recovery of the best Barça.