Key week to recover the best version of Leo Messi

To the equal that the rest of his mates, Leo Messi was not to his best level of game this Sunday in front of the Athletic of Bilbao and the FC Barcelona paid it expensive, empatando to zero and carrying so only a point of three possible. 'The Flea' still is not recovered to the one hundred by one hundred of the hit that suffered in front of Valencia does a week, and in Saint Mamés noticed . In spite of some that another played individual that finish with shot or assistance for any of his mates, Leo Messi could not surpass the férrea defensive line of the Athletic.

It does not be necessary to remove merits to the 'lions', but is clear that in normal conditions Leo Messi would have been more incisive against which is the fifth team to the that more goals has marked along his career. Leo Messi walked lacking of fluidity and of confidence in The Cathedral, without the freshness neither the electricity that characterise him. The big challenge of the Barcelona, therefore, will be to take advantage of this week to recover the best version of the '10'.

The FC Barcelona will not contest split of Champions League between week, and so only will have to prepare for the crash of the next Saturday in front of the Real Valladolid in the Camp Nou, an a priori affordable party and that the ones of Ernesto Valverde will have to anar without suffering too much, play or no the main 'cracks' of the staff.

It foresees that Leo Messi go back to be headline in the Camp Nou, and that the meeting in front of the Valladolid serve him as 'appetizer' to be to the one hundred by one hundred the Tuesday 19 February in front of the Olympique of Lyon, in the gone of eighth of final of the UEFA Champions League. The Barcelona has more than a week to recover the best state of form no only of the Argentinian, but also of the rest of the team.

And it is that the Barça has suffered these last days a bajón of performance that has carried him to sign three consecutive ties (Valencia 2-2, Real Madrid 1-1 and Athletic 0-0), thing that possibly go tied to the hardness of the calendar in this month and February.

The Barça needs to Messi like water of May

It will touch to prepare anímica and physically for four consecutive exits after the Barça-Valladolid, two of them to Santiago Bernabéu against the Real Madrid, in LaLiga Santander and the Glass of Rey, another in front of the Seville in the domestic competition and the gone of eighth of Champions League in Lyon, an always complicated territory for any team.

With Leo Messi to the maximum level, the FC Barcelona would not have to have problem for 'survive' in this regard 'tourmalet', that will determine if the team remains by the way, or no, in the fight by some title like the Glass of Rey, in which it could remain deleted after the 1-1 harvested in the Camp Nou. The ones of Ernesto Valverde will compete byeverything , of this there is not doubt.

Calendar of the FC Barcelona:

FEBRUARY

• Saturday 16 (20.45 h./Mov. Partidazo), (League, J-24) Barça-Valladolid
• Tuesday 19 (21.00 h./Mov. It ties Champions), (Champions, 1/8 gone) Or. Lyon-Barça
• Sunday 24 (hour without determining), (League, J-25) Seville-Barça
• Wednesday 27 (The 1, TV3, Goal), (Glass, semis vta.) Real Madrid-Barça

MARCH

• Saturday 2 (20.45 h./Movistar Partidazo), (League, J-26) Real Madrid-Barça