Ronald Koeman finds his system: This is how FC Barcelona plays in 2021

After arriving to the Camp Nou, Ronald Koeman seemed very firm defending that the FC Barcelona​ had to play with a 4-2-3-1, the system that the Dutch already employed with the selection of Low Countries. But already it does some weeks that the technician culé has opened to experience with more systems of game. Especially by the injuries and by the irregularity of the results of the team, that have forced to the Dutch technician to look for solutions.

The first change of Ronald Koeman was to recover the mythical 4-3-3 in parties like the one of the Raise (with victory but a game very little convincente) and against the Real Sociedad (with an improvement in the first part but with a bajón very important). With this same system arrived the prick against Valencia, in a party in which it was missing depth and of the that the trainer of the FC Barcelona did not finish at all satisfied.

Against the Real Valladolid, Ronald Koeman went back to agitate the coctelera and, in front of the fault of extremes by the injuries of Ousmane Dembélé and Ansu Fati, decided to bet for playing with three head offices and carrileros long. A system that gave very good result against the vallisoletanos, that did not expect the change, but that fracasó against the Eibar, that already expected this drawing and that it was able to carry a tie of the Camp Nou.

With the arrival of 2021, Ronald Koeman decided to go back to recycle his system of game and bet by novelties in him. Against the Huesca in the première of the new year, the Dutch technician bet by a variant of the 4-3-3, with nuances that ranged the position of the extremes with the one of the interiors. In the three parties of this new year, the results have been positive and the Barcelona trainer seems to have found his system: the 4-1-4-1.

In this new tactical drawing, Ronald Koeman bets by incrustar to a mediocentro only between the central (Sergio Busquets) to facilitate the exit of the ball, whereas, by in front, poses a line of four footballers -two interiors and two extremes- by behind the reference of the FC Barcelona, Leo Messi with full freedom of movements.

A FC Barcelona more together

The FC Barcelona takes advantage of, with this system, the virtues of his footballers. With Sergio Busquets like mediocentro only, the team wins gone out of balloon. Frenkie Of Jong and Pedri, by his part, have defensive obligations but win freedom for descolgarse in attack. In the bands, Ousmane Dembélé has all the lane for him, whereas Antoine Griezmann has the option to throw diagonals to yield him the left band to Jordi Alba. With all this, seems that Ronald Koeman has given with the key.