MORE WORK FOR XAVI
Barça, to war without Robert Lewandowski
FC Barcelona visits a war camp this Saturday, as is the Atlético de Madrid stadium, without its best warrior. Robert Lewandowski, sanctioned, is a very sensitive drop in Xavi Hernández's plans
The party against the Athletic of Madrid is a weapon of double edge for the FC Barcelona, that is forced to add of to three and convince to recover the good feelings. Will have in in front of a team that has added a big list of errors in the first stretch of the season, but that it wants to 'patch them' in this 2023. His two last clashes has left it clear.
For the Barça is a key party, especially because the Madrid visits to the Villarreal a day before, in the fight by the leadership. Xavi Hernández will put in the field to his best 'warriors', but will be missing him to the that, up to now, was being the big leader of the battle of the culés, Robert Lewandowski. It has confirmed his sanction by three parties and will not be in the Cívitas Metropolitan.
The ariete Polish is the player with more minutes contested in the Barcelona picture, only by behind Marc-André ter Stegen and has played it practically everything in what it goes of course: 20 parties in which it has been headline in 19. In the same, has annotated 18 goals, with an overwhelming command in LaLiga, competition in which it has marked 38,2% of the targets of the blaugrana.
The Barça loses to his big protagonist and it will be necessary to see how reacts the team to the absence of Lewandowski. Against the Intercity, in the Glass of Rey, noticed enough by all what cost to the culés find the way to the goal, although they finished with four in the end of the meeting. It is not the only, because when the '9' has not been fine, neither has been it the team.
The most recent proof has been the derbi against the Espanyol, in which 'Lewy' happened almost unobserved. It was voluntarioso, but without tarpaulin to the hour to add to the attack or be decisive of face to goal, although had the goal in two opportunities in the final minutes. In any case, the result was the greyest for the culés 1-1, leadership shared and a new 'sentence' that the quipo still has not found his best version.
Solutions for the Barça
Xavi Hernández has to propiciar that the team find his more offensive version and that remain in the area of the Athletic, but does not remain there. In the last parties has been the fault of tarpaulin in the last pass what has 'punished' to the Barcelona picture, by what will be vital that the players win confidence in his definitions.
It foresees that in the line of attack appear Ousmane Dembélé (indisputable) and the doubt is with his companion: Raphinha aims to appear by the right (and the French in the left, probably), whereas in the position of '9' could appear Ferran Torres or Ansu Fati, although the '10' part with more possibilities after his goal in Glass of Rey.
