Without Ansu Fati, the left wing of FC Barcelona only has one owner

It is true that Ronald Koeman used to Ansu Fati like leading centre in some occasions, like sucedió against the Real Madrid or the Real Betis. Nevertheless, the most usual position for the Hispanic-bissauguineano was the one of left extreme, something that allowed him explode his speed, his desborde and his capacity to penetrate in the rival defences by means of his desmarques of split.

The majority of rivals of the FC Barcelona employ defences quite closed to minimise the power of attack of the Barcelona, and is thus that it is so important that the team of Ronald Koeman open the field with footballers hit in the bands. Ansu Fati Was ideal to do this task, adding the component to be impredecible being able to go out so much inside as by out, but his grave injury will separate him of the terrains of game during months.

It is thus that Ronald Koeman needs to find another way to open the field whereas the youngster prodigio do not go back to be available. Taking into account that Ousmane Dembélé and Francisco Trincao feel much more comfortable playing in the right band, the Dutch technician does not have of any pure extreme to play by the left, by what all the ways drive to an alone name: Jordi Alba.

It is true that the one of L'Hospitalet is not extreme, but lateral, but since Neymar abandoned the FC Barcelona in summer of 2017 has showed that it is the footballer that better understands this function. In fact, it has turned into the best partner of Leo Messi during these last seasons thanks to his assistances and this campaign, in spite of having been several weeks of drop, is the player that more passes of goal has given to his mates: already it carries three.

The lace of Jordi Alba

In the 4-2-3-1 of Ronald Koeman, the most likely is that Pedri González, Philippe Coutinho or even Antoine Griezmann are those that substitute to Ansu Fati in the position of left extremes. But all they have the peculiarity to be players that tend to not being hit in the band, but they prefer to throw diagonals to generate game inside or approach more to the goal.

It is thus that cualquera of them three will complement to perfection with Jordi Alba, that arriving from the left side​ will have all the lane for him. From now, the Catalan can (and has to) explode his more offensive facet incorporating to the attack hit to the cal. Without Ansu Fati, the team will need a lot of his defence more llegador.