BOTH WERE HEADLINES FOR XAVI
Details and sensations of Gundogan and Romeu in their debut with Barça
Barça made its debut on the pre-season tour against Arsenal. Within the starting eleven were both Oriol Romeu and Ilkay Gündogan, two of the club's new additions to the midfield
The FC Barcelona contested his first meeting of the pre-season in front of the Arsenal of Mikel Arteta in the lawn of the SoFi Stadium of Inglewood. The Barcelona fell by a been bulky 5-3 where the English showed a greater shooting in what it goes of turn, since it was his third commitment contested in North American floor.
After the virus that affected to the staff culé the past weekend, Xavi Hernández presented an eleven very varied initial in which 'Ez' Abde and Sergiño Dest were leading. However, the most striking incorporations were the ones of Ilkay Gündogan and Oriol Romeu, two of the four signings that has concretised the club during this summer.
The feelings of the Barça with Romeu and Gündogan
Both did act of presence from the start of the commitment and left different feelings in the 45' minutes that contested. The one who came under scrutiny was the canterano Barcelona, the one who will be the attendant to relieve to Sergio Busquets like pivote in the medullary. His virtues are very different to the ones of the ancient captain but his capacity of deployment served of big contribution for the diagram of game of Xavi.
However, in some occasions showed lost inside the system, what corroborates that it still needs time to adapt after the 12 years that has out of the Barça. It is a position complicated and of a lot of weight in the changing room. By his part, Gündogan was in the left sector of the midfield but did not finish to be comfortable of face to the rival arch, where has been truly dangerous under the control of Pep Guardiola.
Pedri González was his accomplice during the party and this bond will be key so that the trio of midfield players handle with total fluidity the game of the team. The germano stood out much more in his exit from the bottom that like offensive piece, something that the technician will have to work in case that it wish to take out his potential maximum. Like this the things, will be in front of the Real Madrid that the Barcelona will put to all his referents and the XI initial that more has liked to the technician during the trainings. It is likely that the pair Romeu-Gündogan go back to initiate, although so much Frenkie of Jong like Gavi also could act.
