The FC Barcelona achieved to carry the victory in a party suffered in front of the Real Valladolid that had to decide in the second time with a goal of Ousmane Dembélé, that follows showing that it is in a state of form very above the past season and that now yes is decisive.
However, the hand of Ernesto Valverde also helped to that the team improved when it needed it. It initiated the party as usually in this season, with a 4-3-3 with the French extreme playing by the left band and with Philippe Coutinho doing it as inner. The game of the team was well, but the Txingurri wanted to give a new turn of nut.
In the second time of the party in front of the Valladolid, varied the diagram and happened to use a 4-3-3 to a 4-2-3-1: it changed of band to Dembélé putting it by the right -position in which more it played in the Dortmund and where better surrendered- and to Coutinho more hit to the left. The result was that the Brazilian lost something of leadership, but that the French was decisive with a new goal.
Valverde, turn to the 4-4-2
In the final stretch of the meeting, Valverde still made a new change of system to go back to the 4-4-2 of the past season. Dembélé, that already had done his work, went back to the bench and Arturo Vidal went in to the field to protect the right band. By the left planted Malcom, that went in of soda substituting to Coutinho.
The FC Barcelona, in this moment, had lost the control of the party in front of a Real Valladolid aguerrido that treated to look for the tie desperately. Thus, Arturo Vidal was an important player to launch the pressure and help in the recovery of balloons in the medullary.
The result of this new modification was not too satisfactory, since the Valladolid rondo the goal of Marc-André ter Stegen and ready was to give the fright and mark the so much of the tie. In fact, Keko attained it, although slightly offside. Still it remains a lot of work.