Arturo Vidal shows that it wants to be headline in the Barça: Doublet and rest with Chile

It was one of the surprises in the planning veraniega of the FC Barcelona, but Arturo Vidal warned from the first moment that had not arrived to the club to withdraw . The one of Santiago has had to battle in the last months with the fault of minutes and his anxieties to be headline, and after settling in the team and find a big opportunity, has showed that is smart to take advantage of it.

The injury of Ivan Rakitic has planted to the ex of the Bayern of Munich like main applicant to complete the medullary, opening him the door of a so demanding commitment like which the Catalans will live this same Saturday against the Athletic of Madrid in Wanda Metropolitan. A good performance would be key to follow consolidating, and would allow him increase his options of face to the next weeks.

Attending to his last apparition with the selection, the Chilean is in full form and with many win to give the size, since it answered with a partidazo in the previous day to his turn to the City Condal. The 'red' goleó to Honduras (4-1) with a doublet of the midfield player, that was fine-tuned in the passes and even allowed the luxury to rest some minutes. In the 58 was substituted by Diego Valdés not to wear out too much in the physical.

Hardly they had happened 8 minutes when the crack opened the tin in Temuco, after finishing point-blank a refuse of the guardameta after a head butt of Alexis Sánchez. Shortly after surpassing the half hour of game repeated, when the referee signalled a hand that had been out of the area like penalti and converted with ease from the eleven metres. Although the visitors discounted before the rest, the own Alexis and Nicolás Castle sentenced from the fateful point.

Ernesto Valverde demands to the acting of the Barça

The last injuries that have affected to the changing room have allanado the way to the acting theorists of the Barça, that have to step forward after the drops of some indisputable players. The team answered to perfection during the absence of Leo Messi, and now has a new proof with the problems of Philippe Coutinho and Ivan Rakitic. If it wants to aspire to all the titles, touches to follow winning.

Ernesto Valverde, in any case, follows demanding the maximum to his footballers, and this time has arrived the turn for Arturo Vidal. Conscious of all what can contribute the Chilean with his arrival and deployment, the technician also wants that it improve in the tactical, to give balance to a team that needs his help in the room of machines. This weekend will live another examination of level.