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Iñigo Martínez en un partido con el Athletic

THE BASQUE WILL ARRIVE FREE ON JULY 1

Iñigo Martínez, Barça's hope to have another left-handed centre-back

Published:26/06/2023 - 09:05h

Updated:26/06/2023 - 09:05h

The FC Barcelona will reinforce his defence with a left-handed defender and will try that now yes this player can be a reliable alternative for the on duty technical body, in this case the one of Xavi

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A central of left-handed profile earns particular importance in the modern football for clubs that look for to have the almost total command of the balloon and try create each played from the most delayed line of the team. It is thus that in the FC Barcelona has been a need that during several stages has tried that it can remain solved but has not finished being possible, at least to average and long term.

Now, with Xavi Hernández and a style even more become attached to what is the game of touch of the Barça, the staff has four head offices and all they of right-handed profile: Jules Kounde, Ronald Araujo, Andreas Christensen and Eric Garcia. For suplir this lack, the míster wanted to bet by Marcos Alonso in some meetings, also by fault of the injuries, and in a lot of moments noticed the tremendously useful that can result this natural profile of a central left-handed.

The record plays him against to the central Basque

All this situation has arrived to this summer afterwards that the last bet of this style, Lenglet and Umtiti, went out in quality of yielded to the not explaining for the technical body of the egarense afterwards that both defenders went clearly of more to less during his stage like players culés. In fact, both are again in the ramp of exit for now yes be traspasados of definite way in this 2023.

With the antecedents of the two defenders Frenchmen, also happened Vermaelen -very struck by the injuries- and Mathieu, the one who arrived in 2014 to occupy the left-handed central axis, but also the left side. To these last four performances will have to confront Iñigo Martínez, the one who as varied of the already appointed will arrive for a performance more in the short term, as it shows it his agreement until 2025 with the Barça.

Iñigo has to look for the positive examples in the Barça

To fault of official communiqué, Iñigo will dress of Barcelona by the next two seasons and will try to look for that his performance by the Camp Nou was much more similar to what left, for example, Éric Abidal. The French was used in a lot of moments by Pep Guardiola like head office and used all his physicist and technical to surrender to the best level inside a team that marvelled to Europe during several years.

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