The Barça, calmer with the right side: The step forward of Semedo, key

In the last years, the FC Barcelona has begun to say goodbye to the best generation of footballers of his history, with a mix of canteranos and signings that put to the Catalans on the way of the successes season after season. In addition to Carles Puyol, Xavi Hernández or Andrés Iniesta, there is another absence that has cost to forget, but already begins to have certainties after the complicated goodbye of Dani Alves.

The Camp Nou is still far to find to an heir for the Brazilian, but the alternatives in the right side are consolidating . Sergi Roberto keeps on being the joker of the that throw all the trainers, and now also explains a player that contests him the titularity and that is helping a lot to Ernesto Valverde, that prefers to manage his band without establishing preferences.

After a slow and demanding phase of adaptation, Nélson Semedo has turned into a reference in the right-handed lane, where has attained to put his impressive physical deployment to the service of the needs barcelonistas. It cost him find his place and convince to the technician that it deserved more minutes, but in the campaign 2018-19 has settled definitively in the eleven. 

With 25 years and one and half of experience like culé, the Portuguese no longer concerns by his disconnections and the empty to his back, but it is a defensive bet with a lot of route in attack. If it can him demand more, has to lose the offensive timidity and remember his starts like extreme, to finish to give depth to a side that has changed the worries by the illusion.

The ex of the Benfica has won in precision and security, with a speed that is key for a saga advanced like the one of the Barça. Gerard Hammered, that goes through a big moment of form, is loved to have him to his side, since Valverde has used him when it has needed to close to swift extremes that usually are a nuisance for the style of the Barcelona.

The Barça parks temporarily the reinforcements in the right-handed lane

With priorities like a leading centre and a left side, the Barça has parked temporarily the research in the right-handed lane, where has options of present and of future. They are not few those that wish that Sergi Roberto go back to the centre of the field, but the rest of alternatives run more hastes and there are promises that can help from the filial or when they take shooting in LaLiga. From now they will follow with a lot of interest the evolutions of Emerson and Moussa Wagué, that are called to be the sides of the future.