Xavi forced to 'recover' Barça's classic 4-3-3 due to injuries to Pedri and Frenkie de Jong

Xavi Hernández and his staff surely already began to imagine the way to replace to two so important players in the game of construction of the team like Frenkie of Jong and Pedri. Without both, drops by at least 3 or 4 weeks, except surprise, the FC Barcelona only has available four natural midfield players in the first team: Oriol Romeu, Gündogan, Fermín and Sergi Roberto.

With this stage, and adding to Andreas Christensen that from does half weeks centre title of the Barça, everything indicates that the most hit decision goes through to return to the system of three mediocampistas and three forwards, with two very clear-cut extremes and abandon for now the 4-2-2 and the square in the centre of the field that so much the likes to Xavi. In fact, right now Christensen and Gündogan lucen like the only fixed, by what all all aims to that there will be place for a new name more in this midfield title, and there Fermín has all the numbers to be headline.

The Barça already knows very very what is to play with the 4-3-3

The canterano already was the elected by the egarense in Bilbao when lesionó Of Jong. To them three will have to join Sergi Roberto or Oriol Romeu, but by the irregular present of both with annoyances, injuries and low performances, his chevrons right now are inferior to the ones of Fermín. This opens clearly a place in the XI so that Joao Félix or Lamine Yamal can contest it, further of the profile of each one and that the luso is the one who clearly has been the left extreme title this season when it has been near of his best version.

The first proof for Xavi will be this next Friday in front of the inspired Mallorca of Javier Aguirre. The Balearic come to advance to the final of the Glass of the King of the next 6 April and this weekend besides defeated to the Girona of way convincente. The doubts of Xavi with the 4-3-3 clearly have been to defensive level, by what in this day 28 in front of the Majorcan team will have to have very good feelings to know if bet or no by this system in the turn of the eighth of final of the Champions League.

Xavi will have to lidiar with several problems in the weeks to come

Without this fourth mediocampista, the left band will remain with much less defensive route to try help to a Joao Cancel that clearly it is the feeblest point of the defence by his constants win to happen to the attack. Besides, with Gündogan and Fermín like only companions, Christensen himself that it could suffer a bit more in the exit of the balloon and begin to evidenciar some natural lacks when being playing out of position.