The worrying fact about the Barça backs that portrays the entire team

The FC Barcelona is having this a lot of season problems to generate danger in the rival area. With Quique Setién, the Barcelona have the balloon almost always, but in positions too static as to hurt. The ball goes of a player to another, but the game is too horizontal. This course, only the started and the magic of Leo Messi, the speed of Ansu Fati and lately the quality and the mobility of Riqui Puig are causing problems to the rival defences.

The Barça has lost vertigo, emotion and danger, something that has carried also to that they lose one of the most dangerous arms that had until this campaign. The sides of the group barcelonista, especially the incombustible Jordi Alba​, were two puñales that added from backwards by surprise generating embarrassment, occasions and goals. The one of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, for example, delivered 17 assistances between all the competitions the past year, with a total of 10 solo in LaLiga.

Sergi Roberto finish the course happened with 7 passes of goal, all in the Spanish championship; Nélson Semedo gave so alone 3, with 2 of them in League; and Junior Firpo delivered in the Betis 5, with 4 in the tournament suspender belt. Without explaining to the Hispanic-dominican because it was not in the club, the carrileros Barcelona gave 27 assistances between all the competitions, with 19 of them in LaLiga. To leave clear the bajón that has hit this campaign, between all they, including to Junior, carry right now 14 between all the competitions and only 10 in the Spanish championship.

They are very few passes of goal in comparison to what occurred the past course and is worrisome so much by them as by the rest of the team. Alba so alone great 3 assistances in total and 2 in League, and is definitely the case that more concerns. The Catalan can have some justification by that has lost by injury 12 parties and has cost him find some regularity, but not even this explains a bajón so pronounced. Roberto has happened of 7 to 2, whereas Semedo is the only that has improved and already carries the double of which delivered does a year.

This bajón generalised has several explanations. The first is that obviously the level of Alba and Sergi has gone down and are not surrendering so well as they did it the previous season. But further of this, the main cause of this is that the game of the team does not help to that the carrileros arrive with advantage and spaces. There is little mobility up, the majority of players ask it to the foot and when the sides go up does not be used to to have a lot of people to the one who happen him the ball in zones of danger.

Jordi Alba has not given him any assistance to Messi

The connection Jordi Alba-Leo Messi, one of the most prolific of the recent history of LaLiga, this course has not existed by fault of all this. The international Spanish has not given him neither one only assistance to his captain, something very odd because it always tries to look for it. The problem is that the rivals have increasingly clear that defending to the '10' the Barça does not react and the one of Rosario is every time better covered when Jordi looks for him with his classical passes backwards. Everything goes through something and is not casualidad that the bajón of the lateral have coincided with the one of the rest of the team.