The mighty catalan club won the campaign with a single lose. Former Bilbao coach Erneste valverde suffered big consequences at the start. Hamstring of dembele,the Coutinhotransfer saga,neymar departure.
Here are the major points how valverde dominates the liga.
• Defence comes more balanced
after the departure of Neymar, the team made a 442 formation putting Suarez and Messi upfront, that helps to put a balanced mid lineup to mark and pressure. signing of players yerry mina and Paulinho gives more strength to the defence. ter stegen the 25 year old held another impessive campaign with barca. The rival teammate toni kroos said: "Ter Stegen is the perfect goalkeeper for Barcelona".
• The roles.
For this to work, a coach needs the players to make it viable. In Sergio Busquets he has tactical intelligence and in Andrés Iniesta he has the sublime touch to help create that superiority in the middle of the park. The tireless support of Ivan Rakitic and Leo Messi’s abilty to bring his team mates into the game complete the puzzle in midfield.
• The players
The Croatian Ivan Rakitic is playing his best season so far. Under Valverde,the croatian plays deep,plays a big rol in building up from defence,statistically he is in big for interception,recoveries and total distance played.
The other player who had a great season under valverde is Jordi alba. We've seen it Alba combining with messi and scoring goals. Messi got a new alves.
● The arrival of new players.
After the departure of Neymar Barcelona got 220 million in their vault, Bartomeu once said every club knows we have money so the plauers value was automatically increased. The replacement for the n.o 11 was the young french boy 20 year old Ousmane dembele. Struggled with hamstring injuries two times , he hardly didnt get any chance to play or adapt.After halfway season dembele shows what he could do with a goal vs chelsea and the amazing olay he had vs villareal. Then the story of brazillian stars Coutinho and Paulinho. Arrival of paulinho from a chinese club with 40m created big nuisance. But the brazillian strong man shows what he could do and ended up with 3rd top scorer for barcelona with 9 goal. Unlike dembele , Coutinho adpated Barcelona style way faster, that helps to maintain the dembele side attacking in league, certainly every fans miss coutinho vs roma.
●Lionel messi
The greatest of all time, was on a different level this time. He played deep than usual,helps the team to build up from the defence. The Argentinean wons the 5th european golden boot. Messi goal was decisive many times, vs sevilla his late minute goal helps the team to maintain the unbeaten laliga record. We can see how a player score 34 goals having this kinda heatmap.
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