The strategy of presionar on top of Eusebio Sacristán gave result, especially in the first half hour of game between Real Sociedad and FC Barcelona. The Basques drowned the exit of balloon of the Barça from backwards, and caused that Marc-André Ter Stegen had to take out in long from his own goal, losing the team a big quantity of balloons in the zone of means.
The centre of the Barcelona field, formed by Sergio Busquets, Ivan Rakitic and André Gomes, was too slow in the repliegue during the first minutes of game, and no too hit in the combinations and to the hour to find to the "MSN" in attack.
All this left to the Barça split in two during a lot of minutes, with the Real Sociedad having more possession and besieging in determinate moments the goal of Ter Stegen. The goal did not arrive in the first half hour of meeting of miracle, since the Barcelona was baling out balls as it could from his area, without that the balloon lasted him too a posteriori.
Carlos Watches, Oyarzábal, Zurutuza, Willian and company prevented that Busquets and Hammered could progress to the hour to take out the spherical played from backwards. That, of course, went the key for desactivar consistently the offensive game of the FC Barcelona during the first minutes.
I hammered and Mascherano did all the possible for holding the arrivals of the Real Sociedad, but the "MSN" did not receive frank balloons and this, in a field like Anoeta, did that the culés played with fire during the first-half.