COUTINHO DEBUTED AGAINST THE ESPANYOL
A debut expected: First minutes of Coutinho in the Barça!
Published:25/01/2018 - 23:03h
Updated:26/01/2018 - 00:00h
The most expensive signing of the history of the FC Barcelona, Philippe Coutinho, debuted this Thursday against the Espanyol in the turn of quarter-finals of the Glass of the King 2017-18. And it did it, curiously, in front of the team in which it played when it was in Spain
The flamante signing of the FC Barcelona in this market of winter, Philippe Coutinho, had this Thursday the opportunity to contest his first minutes with the Barcelona T-shirt, jumping to the terrain of game to fault of little more than 20 minutes for the end against an Espanyol in which militó during six months, in the starts of his career, when it was yielded by part of the Inter of Milan.
The image was powerful in the Camp Nou. Coutinho Went out to the field by Andrés Iniesta, what represented a relief generacional full of applauses and with ovation of the Barcelona sanctuary so much for one as for another. Very serious and concentrated, Coutinho jumped to the terrain of game and in hardly two minutes had time to take out a dangerous fault to the edge of the area of the RCD Espanyol.
If something does not be missing him to the Brazilian, is desparpajo. It jumped to the lawn of the Camp Nou as if it had played there all his life, understanding without problems with Leo Messi and the rest of his mates when speaking the same language: the one of the technical quality and the magic futbolística.
Coutinho Speaks the language Barça
This aureole of understanding allowed him generate danger in front of the goal of the Espanyol, although it did not arrive to shoot to goal. The debut of Coutinho, in definite, did not disappoint when leaving the Brazilian details of quality like walls, a pipe and also a croquette that did without despeinarse, stepping the balloon with frequency and seeming more a player of five-a-side football that of football eleven.
It is clear that the Brazilian will give a lot of joys to the barcelonismo of face to the next dates. For the moment, it will have to finish to adapt and, little by little, habituarse to a team in which it foresees that lace like ring to the finger. Anybody doubts that it will do it.