THE RETURN OF FRENKIE DE JONG WILL HURT JOAO
Joao Félix has many options to drop out of Barça's XI after the break
The imminent return of Frenkie de Jong to the dynamics of FC Barcelona would cause Xavi Hernández to have to do without a player in the attack. Joao Félix, who is still not fine in front of the rival goal, could be the great choice
The return of Frenkie of Jong to the announcements of the FC Barcelona is increasingly near. Xavi Hernández confessed that it was preparing to be the big 'signing' against the Ray Vallecano, but will depend on his evolution and feelings. It will follow a plan epecífico to recover his best version and will go joining up to the team little by little, as it has been it doing Pedri González, to avoid risk his physical state and a possible relapse.
The midfield player will go adding leadership and minutes of progressive way until it was able to be headline and keep the rhythm that had before lesionarse. It was indisputable and a species of engine for the Catalans, by what is more than predictable that, when it take action, was a 'fixed' in the eleven of the trainer egarense, the one who would see forced to 'retouch' his diagram and sacrifice to one of the players that are contesting it all to date.
The key changes with the return of Frenkie of Jong
And it is that the forecast is that the Barça go back to play with four midfield players, as in the past season and beginnings of this. It is the system that more control has given to the team, but that had weakened in the last parties until the point that Xavi opted for playing with three forwards. It did not have a lot of options more, because with the injuries of Frenkie and Pedri remained very limited. Now, with the two available, the history will give a very important twist and the team could finish 'changing' of face.
As they are the things right now, everything seems to indicate that, in a stage idoneo, Of Jong and Ílkay Gündogan will split in the base of the played leaving to Gavi and Pedri like midfield players more advanced, with the variation -also likely- of the sevillano like companion of the Dutch and the Teutonic in a position more 'alike' to which had in the Manchester City. It will be the first time that the four can coincide in the field, place Pedri was lesionado from the second day of LaLiga, around the middle of August.
Joao Félix, in the focus of the Barça
In case to be like this, would have big victims. So much Oriol Romeu like Fermín López would split like secondary protagonists, but the big prejudiced in the XI of Xavi would be a Joao Félix that, according to an information of the newspaper 'ACE', is the one who has more possibilities to fall of the alignment to leave his square to Of Jong. The Portuguese, after a hopeful beginning, has gone losing importance and his impact goleador has been invalid. So much so it adds 11 parties without seeing goal.
The Barça needs to have more control and do without an attacker is the option more 'simple' to allow that one of the interiors position like false extreme and generate superiority in defensive works. This diagram would leave to Robert Lewandowski like fixed candidate in the forward and would begin the debate on his companion, the one who in principle would split more hit to the right. Joao Félix would have to change a lot the history, to base of goals and incidence in the parties, so that it was not the big 'sacrificed'.
