Xavi left Vitor Roque without making his debut in this Champions League

The case of Vitor Roque with the FC Barcelona has gone back quite striking in the City Condal. 'Tigrinho' Arrived in the past market estival like a stellar reinforcement for the end of the season 2023-24 and, of course, with projection to the future. Nevertheless, in spite of having been a goleador relentless in the Athletico Paranaense, with 28 annotations in 81 commitments with the 'Furaçao', has not attained to show his capacity goleadora with the forcefulness wished up to now, possibly owing to the few opportunities that has had to play with the combined Barcelona.

Since it arrived to the Catalan picture in January, the team has contested a total of 22 meetings, but the native of Timóteo only has seen action in 13 of them, which represents an interesting number of parties. However, it loses importance when it considers the total time that has been in the field (310 minutes), what equivale to an average of hardly 23' by crossing. During this time, has attained to invoice only two targets. Equally, it is important to take into account that only it has been headline in two occasions (against the Celtic of Vigo and the Cádiz), both in LaLiga.

Recently, the egarense has given a logical justification for this situation, attributing it to the necessary process of adaptation that all player has to experience when confronting to his first adventure abroad and submerge in a philosophy of game so particular like the one of the FC Barcelona. "Has a lot of quality, but there are appearances that has to learn and in this are. We have prepared him now a video in which it has to incidir on some things", sustained.

Vitor Roque Remained without seeing minutes in the Champions League

In spite of this, keeps on being surprising the fact that Vitor Roque, to the equal that in the Supercopa of Spain, have not had neither a minute of game in the Champions League. In the tournament contested in Saudi Arabia, this could explain by the little time that the '19' carried assimilated in the dynamics of the Barcelonan square, but is especially striking that have not had action in the fight by the 'Orejona', a stage in which there was an innegable illusion for seeing it play.

Initially, it seemed to have intentions to give him the opportunity to play in this contest, since previous of the eighth of final, Xavi included it in the 'smart B' of the team, where could do three incorporations, and the one of Terrassa chose it to him, together with Unai Hernández and Pau Víctor. Nevertheless, after faced four clashes, two in the eliminatory against the Naples and two against Paris Saint-Germain, the reality is that the exjugador of the Cruzeiro has not had the opportunity to play, mainly because of the context in which they developed these duels.

The context conditioned the opportunities of 'Tigrinho'

In this sense, the position of leading centre was occupied by Robert Lewandowski, the one who showed a stellar level, invoiceing targets so much in the commitment of gone as in the one of turn against the Naples. The same occurred in the left extreme, where players of hierarchy like Joãor Félix and Raphinha shared this square.

In the eliminatory against the PSG, in the party of gone, the Catalan picture worked of optimum way, and although the '9' Pole did not do feel to level goleador, knew, with a lot of hierarchy, upset to the Parisian saga, in addition to that the '11' Brazilian, by the left extreme, was imparable and marked two so many. In the clash of turn, the situation was a bit more complicated because of the expulsion of Ronald Araújo, what conditioned the tactical approach of Xavi and his changes. However, further that 'Vitinho' perhaps do not have the experience for this type of meetings of so much tension, the reality is that, in front of a forward with few resources, could have been an important reactive element to take advantage of the counterattacks and the spaces, especially against a combined Parisian dumped to the attack in the field culé and that perhaps could have vulnerado with a player 'electrical' as 'Tigrinho'.