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Frenkie de Jong in a match with FC Barcelona

THE DUTCHMAN FAILED AS A PIVOT

Frenkie de Jong was shipwrecked as a midfielder without Sergio Busquets

Published:27/04/2023 - 02:06h

Updated:27/04/2023 - 02:06h

Frenkie de Jong had one of his weakest performances of the season with FC Barcelona in the loss against Rayo (2-1). The Dutchman returned to the pivot position and, without Busquets, again showed many deficiencies in the recovery

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The defeat of the FC Barcelona the Wednesday in Vallecas (2-1) left several worrisome performances and, maybe the most striking, went the one of Frenkie of Jong. Without Sergio Busquets (drop by sanction) Dutch returned to the place of pivote and showed again his defensive lacks in a night in which players like Óscar Valentín, Unai López and Óscar Trejo surpassed him in intensity in the centre of the field.

The one of Arkel reappeared the Sunday in the Spotify Camp Nou in front of the Athletic with 78 acceptable minutes, but in Vallecas lució slow and lost in the recovery. Xavi Hernández opted for putting him beside Pedri and Gavi to try adueñarse of the balloon from the beginning, but neither the '21' neither the '8' finish to feel comfortable during all the first part and the '30' had to fajarse more in the recovery, finish the first part admonished.

The error of Frenkie that cost the 2-0

The stops of Ter Stegen were supported by life to the Barça in the first part, especially in an action in which Trejo anticipated to Pedri and Camel failed in the hand manually in front of the German. However, Fran García finish sentencing the party in the minute 53 when taking advantage of a distraction of Frenkie, the one who left to escape a pass in the central circle that did not look complexity.

Of Jong swept to try yield the balloon to a mate, but crashed the balloon in García and the defender took advantage of the gap in a defence blaugrana totally opened for encarar to the area and define only in front of Ter Stegen, in spite of the swept exasperated of Ronald Araújo. To the Dutch weighed him the legs in his first party without Sergio Busquets after his problems in the isquiotibiales and Xavi did not have more remedy that put to Eric García in his place in the 79'.

Xavi regretted the defensive errors after the defeat

Although the fall does not represent a loss in the advantage of 11 points that the Barça has on the Real Madrid, Xavi criticised the errors of a team that lacked character and intensity to surpass to a rival with more hunger. "I am angered. Those that those that have had have not hit them and afterwards has penalised us a lot the second goal, with this played and the rebound in Of Jong", said the egarense. Frenkie Could rest in the party of the Saturday in front of the Betis home to give minutes to Franck Kessié. The calendar will be demanding in the next two weeks and the priority is to sentence the title the before possible.

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