After 12
official games played (nine and three Champions League), the two losses of the
season Barca Luis Enrique only have come against opponents more packing against
PSG in Paris (3-2) Real ycontra Madrid at the Bernabeu (3-1).
Although
losing to rivals such comes within reason, even more so considering that in
both cases the fall came home, the fact is that, especially after the Classic,
voices have been raised calling for a tactical response to this type of major
parties, namely a jolt in the engine room in midfield.
The triangle
formed by Busquets, Iniesta and Xavi, head and so deservedly legendary in the
final in Rome (2009) and Wembley (2011), was the best of the Asturian coach on
Saturday and although it came to rest with dignity, lost breath in the second
incapable of taking control of the situation and less on the physical section.
The
commitment trident forming Messi, Neymar and Suarez, who presumably will start
from now, is a constant threat for the opponent but can unbalance the team if
it is not delivered in pressure without the ball goes off the its average with
each turnover, a symptom that was evident at the Bernabeu.
Guardiola had to Keita
There are
several solutions. Pep Guardiola in his day used to add muscle in the first
discerning and then shifts with Toure Keita, both complexed certainly nothing
in the treatment of the ball despite his physical presence.
Gerardo Martino,
to cite a more recent example, populating the midfield with a fourth piece, if
any Iniesta making false end, a variation imitated their predecessors but
almost always successful. Rijkaard, meanwhile, did not correct their poor start
to the club he joined as Edgar Davids inside containment.
Solidarity and pressure
Luis Enrique
as MD published last Tuesday, also drew his conclusions about the Classic and
detected weakness in the global defensive side of the team, ie, the absence of
pressure in the front, little support in the media and individual mistakes on defense.
Solidarity is
the glue that makes a solid team. Luis Enrique's missed in Paris and Madrid.
Faced rivals less entity can be enough because quality makeup indolence but to
opponents that lack weight comes to the surface.
From 'little chief' boss
Luis Enrique
takes players to tactically correct and strengthen their midfield when the
occasion demands. The highlight of his current state of formaes Javier
Mascherano, central midfielder at the Bernabeu but for example against Eibar.
The
Argentine, who has always been considered a defensive midfielder and thus
reached second place in the World Cup with Argentina playing a lead role, had
always been central to Guardiola, who reinvented there, and with Vilanova and
Martino, but now Luis Enrique has rescued him punctually at your favorite
demarcation.
True, Sergio
Busquets, how could it be otherwise, it is considered a mainstay for Luis
Enrique, but the Badia is not at its best and no one to ask for a break for it,
leaving a vacancy that could fill Mascherano.
But the big
question is whether the two players, considering just the extra sacrifice
causes play with Neymar, Messi and Suarez ahead, could play together. Talk of
double pivot Barca may sound like heresy but it would need to get to that.
Busquets
innate ball-winner and quick combination play, it would be an internal support
for the Argentine spectacular. Guardiola, though little, did you play on
occasion and interior. There are more players who could play that role in the
pressure demand by youth and technical deployment.
Rakitic,
which surprisingly did not play the Classic owner, pointing to a basic piece in
that sense, while Rafinha, with little participation due to injury, is perhaps
too offensive but not at all ruled out.
