FC Barcelona faces Rayo Vallecano on this 11th day of LaLiga Santander. Koeman’s team has just been defeated in the Clásico and they know that they cannot afford to continue losing points with the top positions.
Koeman still has a lot of work to do with the team, the question is if he has a wide margin of improvement or if this Barça does not give for more. In any case, if the Catalans want to take the three points, they will have to correct their mistakes. These are some of the concerns of the Dutch coach in Vallecas.
Ansu Fati has fallen at the last minute of the list of summoned for this afternoon and will not play against Rayo. Barça had grabbed onto the young winger to get out of this situation but now Koeman will have to find a replacement for him. Possibly Coutinho is the one who comes out in his place in the eleven but it is not the same, and it is that the depth, the passes and the plays of Ansu do not do the rest. The Spanish is a different player and they will have to play a game without him again.
Barcelona, like most teams, has entered that phase of the clan of playing Wednesday, Saturday, Wednesday, Saturday and surely the possibility of giving rest to the odd player passes through Koeman’s head. However, Barça has 7 players in the infirmary (Wagué, Dembélé, Frenkie de Jong, Ansu Fati, Araújo, Braithwaite and Pedri) so they will not be able to make big changes and will have to continue betting on the same block.
Barcelona is having problems in all its lines: in defense they have lost their force, the creation of the game is null, the players seem to run without being clear about the technical concepts and without order, there is not a player who stands out and they also do not have a goal .
The great teams need and have a goal, it is what differentiates them from the rest, but Barça does not have it. In 12 games he has 16 goals; that is to say, it comes out to 1.3 goals per game, a far cry from Madrid’s 2.5 and below Rayo’s 1.7. De Jong is beaten, Braithwaite KO, Memphis was turned off as soon as it started and Agüero has just reappeared and is the only option the team clings to. Without a goal, Barcelona will suffer.
The entire Rayo Vallecano should unsettle Koeman. The Madrid team is being one of the revelations of the season and also has not yielded a single point in Vallecas, has scored 12 goals and has only received 2. Rayo has turned their stadium into a fort.
And if Barcelona already suffered in Bilbao or Cádiz, in Vallecas it is possible that the same thing will happen again. And also, Barcelona does not know what it is to win abroad, it has reaped 2 draws and 1 defeat.
If Rayo Vallecano as a team is already a concern for Koeman and Barcelona, then Radamel Falcao could be a nightmare. The Colombian striker is the new idol of Rayista fans thanks to his 3 goals in 5 games. And Barcelona has already scored three goals in four games … although he does not know what it is to beat them, he ended up losing all four games. Will he score his first points against Barcelona or will he continue his bad streak?
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