Xavi's FC Barcelona brings poker back into fashion

The fault of hit was being the big punishment of the FC Barcelona in this season. Although the team produces too much and shuts to the rival in his field, the goal was him resisting more than the account. The difference between the month of January and February is overwhelming and positive for a Barcelona group that is recovering, to cruising speed, his best version. And the goals, fortunately, are falling of the pockets of the footballers culés.

The past month, the Barcelona contested six parties, with a balance more than irregular: tanimal victories, two defeats and a tie. Between all, the Barça registered nine goals in favour and eight against. It did not achieve to win by more than a goal of advantage (0-1 against Mallorca, 1-2 in front of the Linares and 0-1 in front of the Alavés). A month afterwards, the history is entirely different.

With the same quantity of parties, the Barcelona have accumulated four victories and two ties, with 19 goals annotated and eight conceded. A difference importantísima that shows how much has improved the team. With the last three parties remains more than clear: they Have marked four goals in each one of them, whereas they have fit only three. In front of the Athletic the goal remained in zero for the first time from the past 23 January.

The Barça of Xavi has gone back to put fashionable the pókers (with permission of a Yéremy Pine that annotated one, in case only, some hours before in League). This month of February were four, remembering the 4-2 in front of the Athletic of Madrid in the Camp Nou. A radical change that has been promoted by the signings (that they have dazzled, with goals and without) but also of the step forward that have given all in the staff.

Only this month, have marked twelve distinct players: Aubameyang (5), Jordi Alba (2), Luuk of Jong (2), Frenkie of Jong (2), Gavi (1), Araújo (1), Dani Alves (1), Pedri (1), Ferran Torres (1), Hammered (1), Dembélé (1) and Memphis (1). In this new Barça, annotate from the defences until the forwards. All push, all look for the goal and, especially, reencontrarse with his best version.

Aubameyang Has been, without place to doubts, the most effective of face to the goal. They have been five goals in his last three parties and shows that it has fallen of foot in the Camp Nou with spirits of reinvindicarse afterwards all the criticisms that accompanied his arrival to the Barcelona picture. And it go that it is attaining it.

This offensive effectiveness of the Barça is surprising, unexpected and invites to ilusionar, because the culés already are equalising his own marks of previous years, when the situation was much more positive. And it is that, after adding his third póker, equalised his series goleadora of 2017, when I also link three parties with this quantity of targets: Villarreal (4-1), the UD The Palms (1-4) and to the Eibar (4-2). Luis Enrique was in the bench.

Xavi explains the change in the Barça

After the exhibition of the Barça against the Athletic, Xavi Hernández pronounced on the effectiveness goleadora of the team and aimed that it expects that the grave problem of goal that had have remained solved: "we Expect that it have finish this problem. That the occasions materialise them. That we generate occasions".

The egarense aimed that "they are marking different players, that is very positive for the group. We have not had problems of goal, but yes to fit. Today we leave the goal to zero, that is important for the group. We go out very strengthened".