Why the Barça goes out of Valladolid with a key victory for LaLiga?

It prays the said that the big champions are not those that win when they play well, but those that even playing badly attain to take out the three points, and partly is a sentence that can apply the FC Barcelona after the meeting of this Saturday. It was necessary to suffer to the limit against the Valladolid to go back home with the victory, but the three points can cost his weight in gold in hardly some months.

Although there were some parts of the duel in which the Barcelona accelerated, in general lines evidenció that still it is missing them rhythm, but this circumstance has easy explanation. Only it is necessary to look to the eleven headline to observe that footballers like Ivan Rakitic, Samuel Umtiti or Philippe Coutinho hardly carry some days training, and until they do not reach his best moment of form will happen some weeks. It is missing shooting and at the same time sobran kilometres, because the intensive sessions of trainings do that the legs still are something heavy.

This causes that still there is some unfit, and that was missing precision in attack and tuning in defence, something that to date has compensated with effort and prowess. It cost to find the goal against the Sportive Alavés and repeated in José Zorrilla, with much more suffering by a too short result that finish needing the help of the VAR to put a sentence that did not arrive on the terrain of game.

This problem, clear is, it esquivaron with more ease the pucelanos, that have lived a much calmer summer. Without international commitments, is usual that the smallest teams have a better preparation in the first phases of the championship, what finish resulting in that the strengths equalise and there is more margin for the surprises.

The initial stretch of LaLiga, key for the title

If something it is necessary to recognise him to Ernesto Valverde is that it has known to promote to his team in periods in which the football has not accompanied. It did it the year managed without Neymar, Coutinho and Dembélé, and after a painful trip in the Supercopa that caused that the eleven armoured to go back inexpugnable but at the same time effective. At the beginning of the course mattered to add, to go growing to base of results and optimism.

This norm Is repeating in the present campaign, with the security that it does some months cost a title of League. The Barça was practically flawless in the first days and Real Madrid and Athletic were accumulating tropiezos, what penalised them in the fight by the leadership. It is prompt to say that the tournament can win in these initial meetings, but of course is not risky to say that yes it can lose. Until the legs answer, well is to follow winning. That it do not finish the series.