Leo Messi is the key to understand the game of Coutinho

The past Thursday, the FC Barcelona imposed in Mestalla in front of the Valency with two goals of Philippe Coutinho and Ivan Rakitic. The Barcelona team achieved to keep the goal of advantage of the party of gone and the Camp Nou and sentence the semifinals in front of the team valencianista to play his fifth final of Glass of Rey consecutive, this time against the Seville.

The party, apart from being an injection of morals to move to the team to his first final of the season, served so that it could see with clarity the paper of Philippe Coutinho in the team. The Brazilian midfield player moved by all the front of attack and even marked a goal, leaving clear that his process of adaptation goes wind in stern.

Messi, the key of everything

The game of Philippe Coutinho was, at all times, tied to the of Leo Messi. The Brazilian jumped to the field after initiating the second time and planted like false right extreme. But this was on the paper. In the practice, the recent signing of the FC Barcelona moved by all the front of attack, but always with an eye put in Leo Messi.

The Argentinian forward is the only player of the Barça that enjoys of total freedom to move by where want to. The tactical work of Philippe Coutinho against Valencia consisted in occupying at all times the zone that Leo Messi left free. In the moments in which Messi went to the centre, Coutinho went to the right. When the Argentinian opened to the band, the Brazilian planted like false nine.

It consigns it of Ernesto Valverde was clear, if we study the movements of Coutinho during all the party. The goal of the Brazilian exemplifies clearly the keys of his game: Coutinho began his desmarque to the penalty spot, but when it saw that Leo Messi was the one who headed to said position, fintó and quickly went to look for the balloon to the second stick.