Douglas debuts with the Barça and does not convince to the fans
Douglas debuts with the Barça and does not convince to the fans
Published:25/09/2014 - 11:10h
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Douglas Pereira has had a discreet debut with the T-shirt of the Barça. The Brazilian side has been the big surprise of the eleven headline of Luis Enrique in the field of the Málaga but has had a quite toneless performance and has finish being substituted by Adriano
With the drop of Dani Alves by injury and of Martín Montoya by technical decision, Luis Enrique has done to debut to Douglas Pereira, accompanying in defence to Bartra, Hammered and Jordi Alba. Although it has not had defensive problems, the Brazilian has not contributed offensive depth by the right band and has abused of the pass to backwards. Little dared in attack, the last signing of the Barça for this season neither has been hit in his centres and has been too imprecise in some actions. It completed 67 passes -of which, 56 good- and recovered seven balloons in the 73 minutes that was on the lawn.
In the second part, Douglas has seen a yellow card by a clear fault on Luis Alberto and has finish being substituted by Adriano in the minute 73. When finishing the party, Douglas has appeared in mixed zone to value his first party like player of the Barça. "I am very happy because I have had the opportunity. I expect to work more to collaborate with the team", has explained.
Without being neither much less the culprit of the bad party of the Barça, Douglas will have to improve a lot his performance if it wants to compete with Dani Alves and Montoya to be the right side headline of the Barça. With the première of the Brazilian side, now only is missing that they debut with the first team Vermaelen and Luis Suárez. Precisely both have played this Wednesday the friendly that the Barça B in front of the selection sub-19 of Indonesia.
