Sergi Roberto and Jordi Alba, 'feeling' with Luis Suárez and Messi

As good trainer that is, Ernesto Valverde percató to the start of the second part that the FC Barcelona needed depth against the Sportive Alavés, and thus it took the decision to effect a double change and relieve to the sides, Lucas Digne and Nelson Semedo, to give entrance to Sergi Roberto and Jordi Alba, more offensive and with a greater understanding with the forward.

And it is that, sometimes, everything is question of 'feeling'. Sergi Roberto keeps a special connection with Luis Suárez to the one who already has given him several assistances this season 2017-18, whereas Leo Messi has in Jordi Alba to his best ally, the best possible pass when it raises the head while it is driving or making any of his famous diagonals.

The Barça found the depth with Sergi Roberto and Jordi Alba in the sides, what does not mean however that Semedo and Digne were playing a bad party. The case is that the characteristics of both players are distinct of the ones of Sergi Roberto and Jordi Alba, and in a moment of maximum need in which the Barça needed to mark fast to trace back, had to be 'sacrificed' by Valverde.

To the 'Txingurri' does not shiver him the pulse to the hour to do changes, always with the aim to improve the provision of the team on the field. And it went back to achieve it, of the same way that in other situations like the traced back of the Coliseum Alfonso Pérez against the Getafe, or the one of Anoeta in front of a Real Sociedad that commanded by 2-0 in the marker.

Roberto and Jordi Alba, the sides 'headlines'

"It has been missing us a bit of depth. With 0-1 we have dumped us a lot with the high sides and they were at the expense of sticking us in another played", commented Valverde in press conference to justify the changes made. The numbers of Sergi Roberto and Jordi Alba plant them clearly like the sides titled of the Barça: between the two Catalan footballers add 16 assistances (9 7), by 3 of Semedo and Digne (2 1).