"It is difficult suplir to a crack of world-wide size like Lewandowski. It is a very sensitive drop, is our goleador, is a leader, but have alternative", said Xavi Hernández in the previous of the visit of the FC Barcelona to the Granada to The Cármenes, this Sunday from the 21:00 hours. The trainer egarense is conscious that it is a very sensitive drop, but already has happened before and, if it works as it is had to, can impose.
And it is that the times that the Barça has not had the Polish forward equally has won. In the past season, occurred in seven opportunities and the Barcelona group attained to impose in all and each one of the clashes. With better or worse feelings, but all the parties finished with victory. Now, the stage is different but the ones of Xavi will look for the same result 'final'.
The seven parties that have won without Lewandowski
Like this then , the trainer egarense could not have the ex of the Bayern of Munich in seven opportunities during the past campaign and in five parties attained to impose by the minimum. 0-1 in front of the Athletic of Madrid with goal of Ousmane Dembélé, 1-0 against the Getafe thanks to Pedri González, the one who also annotated the only target in the 0-1 in Montilivi. In Valencia, an apparition of Raphinha was sufficient to return home with the victory.
In Glass of Rey, won to the Intercity by 3-4 in a night in which they marked Ronald Araujo, Dembélé and Ansu Fati, whereas they imposed in front of the Real Madrid by the minimum through an autogol of Éder Militao. Finally, in the Champions League imposed in the house of Viktoria Plzen by 2-4 with two targets of Ferran Torres and one of Marcos Alonso and Pablo Tower.
The influence of Lewandowski in this season
It is worth it to remember that Robert Lewandowski has annotated six of the 25 goals that registers the Barça in this campaign, what supposes 24%. It has gone down considerably the dependency in the targets of the forward, but equally is a fundamental piece. It is an indisputable headline and, as it aimed Xavi, a forward qmue fixed to head offices and forces to a lot of players to defend him. Cover his square is a task complicated, but no impossible.