Jordi Alba took advantage of his minutes to unblock Barça in Montilivi

Although Alejandro Balde seems to have him won the titularity in the first-half of the season, Jordi Alba follows focused in taking advantage of to the maximum his minutes with the FC Barcelona. The side replaced to Marcos Alonso in the halftime and, beside Pedri, changed him the face to the culés. With his usual desbordes by left, the '18' could enable to the of Tenerife to convert the so much of the victory in Montilivi.

In a quite grey day for the Barça, the one of L'Hospitalet took advantage of the high pressure to find spaces by the left in the beginning of the second part. After a bad exit of the venues, Pedri, Ansu Fati and Gavi combined to a touch to find to Alba free by the band. With one of his typical centres by low, the goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga complicated leaving a rebound in the area girl that the '8' did not waste to open the marker.

They were the best minutes of the ones of Xavi in a dense party, conditioned by the intense cold in Montilivi and the early injury of Ousmane Dembélé, drop by a prick in the left thigh that, in principle, could leave him a pair of weeks was. Without forwards in the bench, Xavi sent to Jordi in place of Marcos Alonso cancelled in attack for desatascar to the team and win depth.

To fault of ideas, Alba bet by the speed and the balloons to the area, looking for the error of a saga of the Girona that lució unstable during all the party. Like this, the Barça was able to win one of these parties that define Leagues. When the game does not flow, the important is to be conclusive and solid backwards. Although it suffered in the final stretch, especially by left, the culés kept the zero and carried a valuable triumph home to consolidate the leadership.

Jordi Alba will follow giving 'fight'

For the player of 33 years, the one of the Saturday was his fifth assistance of the season in 18 apparitions, second in LaLiga. Xavi has bet by Balde in the appointments 'big', but Jordi knows that the calendar is demanding and, while it follow surrendering to good level, will have minutes in all the competitions. In defence follows leaving a lot of doubts by his slow shrinking, but in attack his cost is indisputable. If it fails the resolution, the '18' always can resolve with his played of all the life: the desborde and pass to the half, still without Leo Messi.