Analysis
The Barça attacker only took 77 seconds to show that he has a special idyll with the goal
Ansu Fati returned once more after injury and he did it showing that he is a determining player. The young winger, barely 19 years old, entered the Benito Villamarín pitch with fourteen minutes to go and dynamited a game that seemed doomed to a goalless draw. He scored at the first change, 77 seconds after stepping on the grass, left a good feeling and showed that he needs very little to make a difference. He is the flagship of the new culé project and he shows it in each of his reappearances.
«He has a star, a goal… it costs others more. He has told me that he is better in the band and he has plugged it. He has two, he puts one in, and the other is dangerous. He has a star. He is comfortable near the area and even when he hits him badly, he goes inside », Xavi said on Saturday after a new reappearance of the most anticipated player by Barcelona fans. Ansu Fati entered the field of play and changed the face of a game that seemed stuck with a goal that treasures many of the virtues of the new ’10’ culé. He received in front, put the pause that others lack and crossed an undetectable semi-miss ball for Rui Silva. A bitten shot, one more proof of the facility that he has for the ball to end up in the rival team’s net.
And it is that Ansu Fati has shown this season by drops, due to injuries, that he has not lost that idyll with the goal, no matter how long he has spent in the infirmary. He has played just 485 minutes between the League, Copa del Rey, Spanish Super Cup and Champions League, enough time to sign more than worthy numbers given his long history of absences. He has scored six goals and has distributed an assist, or what is the same, he participates in a goal every 69 minutes. Nobody in the culé squad, not even Aubameyang (109), Ousmane Dembélé (140), Memphis Depay (167) or Ferran Torres (142) need so little time to be decisive in front of the rival goal.
No one can compare at Can Barça with the effectiveness of Ansu Fati who is like Guadiana in the Andalusia in which he grew up. The ’10’ appears and disappears and always does so, leaving behind a trail of illusion in a Barcelona fan who knows that he is the player who must carry the flag in the reconstruction of the team. The faith of Xavi, who assured that “it is a very good feeling to have him back” is that of a coach who is aware that he needs a plus in order to be able to compete with the greatest of the old continent next season and that this plus It can only be given to you by a player who has something special.
Caution in the final stretch
Barça achieved this Saturday at Villamarín the definitive ticket for the next Champions League and that can make prudence with Ansu Fati even greater. The main objective of the culé this season has already been fulfilled and the idea of Xavi and the medical staff is for the player’s acclimatization to be as gradual as possible, without taking risks with a footballer who has suffered like few others from the danger of relapses. There are only three games left before a summer that can serve as a rest for a new season that seems exciting for the Catalans and in which it is expected that this time will be the definitive one for their main value for the future.
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