VALVERDE, WITH INCÓGNITAS
The only doubt of Valverde for the alignment in front of the Valladolid
Published:23/08/2018 - 09:41h
Updated:25/08/2018 - 23:58h
Ernesto Valverde has very clear that will bet by an alignment with the big majority of the heavy weights in front of the Real Valladolid. However, there is a place that still is not of the all clear and that oscillates between two footballers
The FC Barcelona will confront to the Real Valladolid in the second day of LaLiga Santander 2018-19. For the Barcelona will be the first split suspender belt out of house, in the stadium José Zorrilla. The Barcelona team will go out with an alignment with the majority of 'heavy weights' although Ernesto Valverde poses a doubt.
Until the moment, seems sure that Ter Stegen will play in the goal; the defence will form it Sergi Roberto, Samuel Umtiti, Gerard Hammered and Jordi Alba; a centre of the field with Sergio Busquets, Ivan Rakitic and Philippe Coutinho; and a forward with Leo Messi and Luis Suárez. The place that lacking will contest it to him between two players of profiles very distinct.
The first possibility and the most natural in the alignment of Valverde for the party in front of the Real Valladolid is to play with Philippe Coutinho like interior and with Ousmane Dembélé forming offensive trident with Leo Messi and with Luis Suárez. The French is in a big moment of form, something that would not have to be desaprovechado by the Txingurri.
The extreme Frenchman, taking advantage of that it is totally ambidiestro, could adapt or playing in the left band as it already did in LaLiga against the Sportive Alavés or in the start of the Supercopa of Spain against the Seville or in the right band, as it did in the final stretch of the meeting in front of the hispalenses.
Arturo Vidal, the conservative option
The another possibility shuts a more defensive approach by part of the FC Barcelona, with a greater control of the centre of the field refusing offensive dynamism. It treats of Arturo Vidal, that would happen to play like left interior, accompanying to Ivan Rakitic and to Sergio Busquets in the centre of the field.
The Chilean midfield player would contribute harp in the medullary and would do that Philippe Coutinho advanced his position to play like extreme, more freed of defensive tasks. The FC Barcelona would lose the speed and the desborde of Dembélé, that would allow to open the field in front of an enclosed rival, but would win control in the centre of the field.
