The revolution in Barça is already urgent in September

Devoid of Leo Messi, Ronald Koeman entrusted to a 3-5-2 system to protect Barça’s game, to the state of scoring form of Memphis Depay and to plan B embodied by Luuk de Jong. Nothing worked and Bayern Munich, in a terrible ‘revival’, again crushed the team with goals as it did in Lisbon in 2020. There were not so many, but enough to show that the reconstruction of a squad in ruins is urgent but it will take your time.

The veteran of Piqué, Alba, Busquets and Sergi Roberto no longer serves as before. Only the enthusiasm and pride of the youth of yesterday, of the Pedri, Gavi, Demir and Balde, hold out to think that better moments will come. That and the desired return of Ansu and Dembélé.

In the previous one, Koeman He already warned of the need to preserve the idea of ​​the game against the German steamroller and despite the advice, he arranged a system with three centrals and two lanes. In the first part, the Barça he fueled in defense but got lost in the transition, without any midfielder looking at the forwards. The danger was generated on the backlash, something unusual in the Camp Nou, and especially on the left, with the boarding schools and the centers of Alba. Old-fashioned but very imprecise and without Leo. The auction of Sergi Roberto and the headbutt of Araujo they got lost over the crossbar. On the right, nothing at all. The one from Reus neither deepened nor reached the end. A goal deflected by an unfortunate Eric spoiled the approach.

In the second, the collapse was absolute. The first ten minutes were terrible and the physical strength and tactical approach to overcome an adverse result did not give to write the comeback but rather a very hard ‘déjà vu’. The precepts of Barça orthodoxy were blown up.

The Barça today it does not have a backbone to sustain the team and it also lacks a leader to pull the team and the cart. At other times, Leo was a lifeguard. This time, Memphis, the most connected with the goal at the beginning of the season, did not pick up the baton because no balls reached him. No magical action is reminded of him. Not him or anyone else.

It is what it is

Football rarely deceives and what happened last night could be seen coming. “It is what there is”, a phrase they repeated Koeman and Piqué separately. The tactic today is to bet on hungry youth and wait. In the last minutes of the game, the Barça acted with two 17-year-old players (Gavi and Bucket) and two other 18-year-olds (Pedri and Yusuf Demir). The revolution must begin now and if they are with the youngest, it is a risk that must be assumed. The Barça already knows it

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