THE BRAZILIAN IS BEING DECISIVE
The rise in the level of Raphinha will complicate the return of Dembélé to the XI of Barça
Published:6/03/2023 - 14:43h
Updated:6/03/2023 - 14:43h
The system with four midfielders, added to the return of Pedri and Lewandowski, means that Dembélé needs to pass over Raphinha if he wants to be a starter when he returns from his injury.
Although it is not of the ideal way, Raphinha has known to take advantage of the injury of Ousmane Dembélé in Girona to show that yes it can be a footballer determinant in the FC Barcelona, still and when it has had parties in which it has stood out little. The Brazilian, owner of the right band from the injury of the French, has attained to equalise already the eight goals in the season of the Mosquito and with nine, has surpassed in one the assistances that the ex Dortmund accumulates up to now in the course.
The start of season was not simple for a Raphinha that did not find comfortable playing by the left in any party. The doubts began to arise and with the return of the football of clubs after the World-wide the footballer that arrived the past summer finished going to the bench in front of his low performance in a sector that Dembélé knew to explode much better.
From that injury of the Frenchman the past 28 January, the amazónico accumulates two goals and two assistances by League, in addition to his so much and happen goal in the eliminatory in front of the Manchester United in the Europe League. In the gone in front of the English was definitely the best footballer of the Barça, and this carried to that big anger of the player when it went equally replaced to give entry to Ferran Torres.
Parties like that in the Camp Nou, or the one of this Sunday in front of the Valency in the same stage, engage seriously the turn of a Dembélé that will return in few days after 5 or 6 weeks of drop. The conclusion of the first-half of the course left clear that any of the two is equal of determinant by the another sector, and added to the new system with four mediocampistas, seems that both extremes will have to struggle by an alone place.
The favourite of the míster
By his part, Dembélé knows that it splits with disadvantage regarding rhythm, but his big present in the moment of the drop could be sufficient so that Xavi trust he and put him from the beginning for the Classical of League in front of the Real Madrid on 19 March. That party like venue could be the definite sentence for LaLiga, something in what Ousmane could be a very useful tool.
His capacity of desborde is greater to the one of Raphinha and in front of a white team that will be forced to win the party, the spaces to arrive to background line could be better taken advantage of by the French. Next Sunday, in Saint Mamés, the titularity seems ensured for the Brazilian, by what will be the ideal opportunity to try convince to Xavi that it has to be still in the XI, and that look for him another place to his mate that will come to leave the infirmary more than a month afterwards.