Qualities, style, fit... What can Barça expect from Vitor Roque?

Vitor Roque Landed at last this Wednesday in the morning in the airport of the Prat, in Barcelona. The forward already has posed like culé and the plan is that it train for the first time beside his mates this 29 December, although it can not descartarse that it go through Sant Joan Despí the Thursday 28 to greet and can that to 'trotar' already to the orders of Xavi Hernández.

The leaf of marked route by the Barça contemplates that the attacker can do his official debut even against The Palms on 4 January. The Brazilian will carry already almost a week training with normality and the trainer barcelonosita could give him some minutes in the second part in front of the Canarian picture. It is necessary to analyse and clear, therefore, what goes to contribute the ex of the Paranaense and how goes to fit in this team blaugrana.

The first that it is necessary to take into account is that Roque only has 18 years, with all what this comports. The fan of the Barcelona and obviously Xavi, that is the first in knowing all this, have to have patience because to the young goleador perhaps cost him adapt to the requirement of the Spanish football and fit in the style of the Barça, that at all have to see with what he knows of Brazil.

Once understood that to Vitor no has to him demand that it mark 15 goals in the second turn and was the star culé, it is necessary to say also that the promising 'killer' has qualities, personality and spare potential as to stand out and contribute from already in the picture barcelonista. The style of game of the of Timóteo goes him as 'ring to the finger' to the requirements that has this FC Barcelona and this is something that Xavi has to explode.

Speed to the space and 'mordiente' inside the area

Roque Is a forward that in the Brazilian league has marked the differences going to the space, something of what the Barça current carece. Robert Lewandowski is a '9' much more positional that never has been especially fast and that on now has lost good part of his speed by the age. In the extremes, Ferran Torres and Raphinha yes look for more the space, but any is a goleador neither have the movements of Vitor, that has in the desmarque and in his power in career two of his main virtues. This can be key for the team culé, that has to take advantage of of this from the first day.

On the other hand, to these intelligent and aggressive movements the ex of the Paranaense adds him 'mordiente' and placing in the area, where also can be differential. The attacker has a lot of ease to find good positions of finish and assortment by players of first level like which has the Barcelona, is likely that this skill can multiply and generate even more occasions stepping the area.

Roque Has to learn to play with fewer spaces

Technically, although Vitor is a remarkable player, perhaps is not the sufficiently 'top' as so that it do not notice the difference between Brazil and Europe, more specifically Spain. Although it is a mobile forward that can combine with his mates, that is not neither much less his strong. To fit in the style of the Barça and in the one of the European football will have to learn to do controls more 'clean' to generate advantages for him and for his mates, and in general to play with fewer spaces of which had there.

All the technical part would have to be to 'priori' what more cost him to the of Timóteo, especially in the first months. In the Brazilian league there is a lot of spaces and more descontrol of the that goes to find here, by what will have fewer opportunities of lucir his power in the started and will have to be more pulcro of what is now in all his contacts with the balloon. The positive is that it seems to have level to attain adapt his game to these requirements, although surely it was necessary to have patience and understand that this campaign 23/24 have to be some 'practical' in which it will contribute goals and good feelings, but in which it also will fail until finding his best version.