After a lot of weeks in which FC Barcelona and Real Madrid shared the leadership of LaLiga Santander, broke the equality. The Barcelona group lost with clarity in Mestalla against Valencia (2-0) whereas the whites did not leave to happen the opportunity to turn into leaders in solitary and won with solvency to the Real Valladolid (0-1).
In earths pucelanas, the team of Zinedine Zidane was not of the all comfortable in some moments, but achieved again give this image of solid team to the that costs a lot do him a goal. The Real Valladolid created little danger and only kicked four times in direction to the goal of Thibaut Courtois, although any of them the balloon was between the three sticks.
The Real Madrid left proof to be a very reliable team in defence, something that carries happening from does already quite a lot of weeks. In fact, the group madridista is the team less goleado of First Division and only has fit 13 so many after the dispute of 21 days. Only they approach him Athletic of Madrid (14) and Athletic Club (15) in data of goals fit.
On the other hand, the FC Barcelona already accumulates 25 goals against, almost the double that his direct rival by LaLiga. And, in fact, the data corroborate the feelings that one has when it sees to play to the team of Quique Setién: that it is very easy to generate him occasions of danger. Already it happened with Ernesto Valverde and, for the moment, his successor in the bench of the Camp Nou still has not given in the key to change this dynamics.
In fact, It is doing too usual that Marc-André ter Stegen turn into the player of the party. The German has saved a lot of points in the present season with his unemployed and sees forced in a lot of occasions to cover with his interventions the errors that his mates commit leaving spaces backwards.
The party of Mestalla, a bloodletting
Against Valencia, the FC Barcelona evidenció the symptoms of this defensive fragility that so much is accusing in the present campaign. The team no presionó acutely the exit of balloon of Valencia, committed errors in the repliegue and did not achieve to steal the balloon in dangerous zones. After the party, Setién recognised that it remains a lot of work for doing, but the reaction can not take too much in arriving...