Xavi's Barça, the 'king' of strategy: It is the season with the most corner goals since 17/18

The season of the FC Barcelona is arriving to his final, after 'fall' very soon of the career by LaLiga and Champions League. To the ones of Xavi Hernández corresponds them do the works to ensure the second square of the domestic championship and try that the difference with the Real Madrid was not bigger. By in front, they remain split to improve the feelings and try take out positive conclusions to prepare the next course.

One of these points that will go in in the positive analysis of the technical body of Xavi Hernández has been the step forward that has given the team in the played of strategy. As it collects 'Opt Stats', in this campaign the Barça has achieved to annotate in eight opportunities to the exit of a shot of corner. It is the highest register of the Catalans from the 2017/2018 when Ernesto Valverde was in the bench.

It is not little thing, consierando that in previous years the team suffered more than the account to generate advantages from a corner although had good strikers like Clément Lenglet, Gerard Hammered, the own Ronald Araújo or Antoine Griezmann. Especially when Ronald Koeman directed the reins of the Barcelona bench, the Catalans had big problems to explode this section... Although had to an expert of thrower, as it was it in his moment Lionel Messi.

The difference of the Barça in this year with the corners

In this course, Xavi has found in players like Raphinha and, especially, Ílkay Gündogan, big resources so that the Barça can mark differences in the played to unemployed balloon. Against Valencia, the Teutonic was the attendant to put the centre with which Robert Lewandowski empató the marker to the five minutes of the resumption and in the final stretch put a new balloon that the defence ché failed in clearing and the balloon finish again in the Polish forward, that the 'commanded' to save to advance to his.

In total, in what it goes of season, the Barça has had 209 corners, an average of 6.33 by party, according to data collected by MARK, what supposes that they have known to take advantage of 0,03% of these launchings from the corner to mark a difference in the marker. It is not a lower data, especially in front of teams that 'hide' and shut so much in his area and do not allow that it exist a lot of construction to annotate.