BARÇA NEUTRALIZED CITY WITH AN ALTERNATIVE XI
Craftsmanship, order, punch... The keys to Barça's scheme in their first friendly of the tour
Published:31/07/2024 - 23:16h
Updated:31/07/2024 - 23:16h
FC Barcelona left very good feelings in their first friendly of the American tour against Manchester City. Despite using an alternative XI, Hansi Flick created a serious and orderly team that gives an idea of the scheme that the German seeks to implement
The technical body of the FC Barcelona begins to see the results of the first weeks of work in the pre-season. In spite of having in front to a Manchester City with a much more recognizable alignment (until five headlines were headlines with the ones of Pep Guardiola in Orlando), the ones of Hansi Flick, with a XI plagado of canteranos and some possible descartes for the 2024/25, attained to neutralise the usual good game of the group 'sky blue'.
Although the Barça yielded the possession during almost all the party, the team saw quite orderly and, especially, with a lot of job for replegarse in defence and go out fast to the against. The verticality is used to to be a distinctive appearance of the teams of the German trainer and the culés bet by fast exits, with two or three passes to generate danger. The first so much Barcelona, of Pau Víctor, went a sample of this, with a pair of touch that sirivieron to enable to the Catalan forward.
Flick Seems to have clear his basic diagram for the Barça 24/25
In this sense, the work of Marc Bernal and Marc Casadó was very important to give safe exit to the team. Flick Opted by the double pivote in the recovery in a 4-2-3-1 that, although it did not have so much depth by left (Vitor Roque lució lost like left-handed extreme), yes left some brushstrokes in the first part with the tandem conformed by Héctor Fort and Julián Araujo. Also it was important the mobility of Pau Víctor to connect with the interiors, being Pablo Tower the attendant to drive the Barcelona game in attack.
The multiple variants made in the complement desdibujaron the initial plan culé, but the team attained to keep the tie without suffering too much in front of a City to the that neither helped him too much the parade of changes in the final stretch. The own Pep Guardiola recognised the good work of the youngsters in the first part, elogiando the work with and without balloon of the ones of Flick. "They knew to find very well to the third man, the interiors appeared from second line", explained the one of Santpedor. The Saturday, in front of the Real Madrid, probably the Barça will go out with a XI much more seemed to the that will be the team title, although with a similar idea of game for developing.
