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One win in 5 video games. Such is the pathetic document of Barcelona in La Liga in current weeks after final night time’s defeat to Leganes.
The guests scored early on within the night time from a set-piece after the Blaugrana did not mark Sergio Gonzalez and shortly sat again to defend deep and pissed off Hansi Flick’s males.
Barcelona then upped the ante and dominated the sport till the very finish however didn’t discover the again of the online even as soon as, finally succumbing to a disastrous end result from the standings standpoint.
Barça Common brings you three takeaways for the supervisor from Barcelona 1-0 Leganes.
A jinxed recreation
Sunday night time’s recreation at Montjuic was a kind of matches the place it’s near unattainable to imagine that Barcelona didn’t even rating. But, the workforce have nobody accountable however themselves.
In any case, their incapacity to beat the goalkeeper was not all the way down to a scarcity of probabilities because the Blaugrana created a number of probabilities throughout each halves and dominated the proceedings.
With 80% of the possession, 20 pictures and three large probabilities, the Catalans have been the higher workforce by far and will have had a number of objectives to their identify. Nonetheless, they lacked medical ending and their poor ultimate contact allow them to down horrendously.
To not rating as soon as from an xG of two.67 is just unacceptable for a membership with the attacking proficiency of Barcelona and a big a part of the blame falls on Robert Lewandowski who was uncharacteristically poor in entrance of aim.
In the long run, Barcelona’s ending wrestle proved to be their undoing as they by no means discovered a reply to Leganes’ open aim. For the probabilities they created, it might probably solely be known as a jinxed recreation.
Poor man-management
Lamine Yamal picked up an harm vs Leganes. (Picture by Alex Caparros/Getty Pictures)
Barcelona’s defeat to Leganes was certainly largely all the way down to the failure of the workforce in entrance of aim, significantly Lewandowski and Dani Olmo’s off nights the place they have been exceedingly poor.
An equal share of the blame, nonetheless, falls on the teaching workers for his or her poor administration of personnel.
Hansi Flick was not obtainable on the sidelines final night time after seeing a purple card within the earlier recreation and it’s unclear if the poor man-management was all the way down to his lack of communication or the deputy administration’s inefficiency.
Nonetheless, there isn’t any doubt that there have been flaws with participant administration and substitutions all through the 90 minutes, one thing that has not been seen typically with the supervisor on the sidelines.
For starters, Lewandowski and Olmo have been fairly blatantly Barcelona’s weak hyperlinks within the first half and will have been changed by brisker legs a lot earlier within the night time. Nonetheless, they have been changed solely within the 66th minute and continued bottling probabilities till that time.
Fermin Lopez and Ferran Torres have been much better than the aforementioned duo, and whereas they didn’t rating, they did present extra intent in the direction of progressing the build-up play.
Additional, one can solely marvel why Pablo Torre was not known as off the bench particularly given his eye for aim and the way he has confirmed to be a helpful possibility instead of Olmo with related traits.
The most important participant mismanagement, nonetheless, was with Lamine Yamal who was compelled to play on regardless of brazenly requesting to be substituted off late within the first half.
It’s clear that gamers solely ask to be taken off the sector when in critical ache, and whereas Yamal performed via the ache within the second half, he was proper about his physique and the feeling he had.
Now, he’s reportedly a doubt to face Atletico Madrid and one can not assist however marvel if it was important to danger his health final night time with such a large recreation arising.
Pressure in La Liga
Hansi Flick is slowly discovering himself beneath rising stress as a consequence of Barcelona’s type in La Liga for the workforce has been removed from ok in current weeks.
Their run of outcomes is just disappointing and one can not assist however assume that they’re throwing the title away.
From being clear leaders and undisputed favourites, the Catalans have continued to be in free fall by way of outcomes and at the moment are near being in third place behind Atletico Madrid and Actual Madrid.
What’s extra worrying is the truth that the workforce have been dismal at dwelling in current video games.
With losses in opposition to Las Palmas and Leganes of their final two video games at Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys now, they’ve succumbed to 2 groups near the relegation space and critical questions have to be requested of their type within the league.
