Complex opponent who appeared yesterday in Montjuïc. Brest, due to its history in the Champions League, could cause respect, but not for its latest performances in Ligue 1. But the combination of a Barcelona that is not going through its ideal moment, with Lamine Yamal absent, with a certain loss of intensity, especially everything in their relationship with the team, and the way the French played made Brest, without a doubt, a cheating team.
For me, a cheating team is one that, being noticeably inferior in many phases of the game, especially in the role of the game, ends up complicating the game. Brest started the game with a positive image that faded after just a few minutes. They knew how to come out with the ball controlled and doubling players so that the play went around the Barça area. But the absurd penalty was like an emotional blow, as if from that moment on aspiring to a positive result was impossible.
First comes order and then comes intensity but fans tend to think it’s the other way around.
But there was another positive aspect of the visitors that was maintained throughout the game and that is order: the number one value to know how to defend. Let’s remember that order always comes first and then intensity comes, when fans normally tend to think it’s the other way around.
Any minute of the game that we could analyze we could see that Brest never looked disorganized. Which makes it very difficult to evolve through the surprise factor. Barcelona handled the ball a lot, they knew how to move it – it is true that they lacked some intensity, which prevented the possibility of disrupting the French – but they never made the rival goalkeeper the protagonist of the day. If it had a certain prominence it was more in the form of a gift.
The current Barcelona team is a very good team, a group that knows perfectly well how it should perform but that lately has not quite put into the last gear that it previously showed for more than 70 minutes. And if the rival also behaves with a certain slowness, you can end up getting infected. And that ends up having consequences.
Do you remember the article about the match against Bayern Munich in which I wrote about the kilometers traveled in the first half? And that those 65 km made Barcelona explode? Well, so that you have a reference, yesterday the Blaugrana traveled 55 km. But the French were partly to blame. Therefore we must value that 3-0 where Pedri showed himself as the man who knew how to lead Flick’s team.
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