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PSG 1-1 FC BARCELONA, A MATCH FOR THE FUTURE
Barça fell but left the best image away from home in a European tie since 2015, with a very powerful 1T. How was PSG surpassed? What changed with respect to the first leg?
Barça had been competing very, very badly away from home in the Champions League in recent years. Due to a matter of pace and competitive capacity in large stages, the result of an incoherent workforce. After the debacle at the Camp Nou, we saw the best 45 in years.
Koeman was brave. A 3-4-3 in which in the end it ended up being a 3-2-5, with Alba and Dest as wingers and Griezmann, Dembélé and Messi sharing the positions above.
But beyond systems, a common pattern: pressure, rapid circulation and a lot of mobility.
With the ball, Barça completely dismantled PSG's (very poor) defensive system. How?
Ansigt med monokelDe Jong (central) gaining meters and being a "midfielder"
Ansigt med monokelMessi and Griezmann on the sides of Gueye and Verratti
Ansigt med monokel Amplitude always with Dest and Alba
PSG defended in a 4-4-2 in which the objective was to avoid balls from the inside and leave Mbappe in 1x1 with Mingueza. But his management of the sides and the backs of his double pivot was very bad, and if Barça did not go with a 1-3 at half-time, it was to run out of punch.
There we see how FC Barcelona put up to 5 players in the area and with the aggressive positioning in the rival field, the ball was always recovered.
Once Busi was in that situation, it was necessary that more doors were opened or a shot was tried that would have intimidated PSG.
A sequence in which you see what FC Barcelona was looking for (and found) on a recurring basis.
MemoMessi isolated in the position where PSG did not pay attention (sides)
MemoAtract inside, joining Messi / Busi / Pedri, to find Griezmann
Here I illustrate how Barça tried to damage PSG, taking advantage of the narrowness of its block to open it in the channel once the pivot's back was chopped and the ball reached the band.
This was the positioning in rival field.
MemoCarrileros that were extreme
MemoDembélé as 9
MemoGriezmann and Messi swapping heights and functions
MemoLenglet with a lot of height, Mingueza closing before the fear of Mbappe
In those laces that PSG proposed in the center of the field, there was always someone who was released. Barça, especially Busquets, did a very good exercise in finding the released player.
The ease with which FCB almost continuously surpassed PSG's line of 4 in the center of the field was flagrant. Between Messi and Griezmann they attracted and released, and PSG only made us hesitate and jump late and badly.
Another sequence Nedadpegende pegefinger med håndryggen vendede udad
I read (and read) a lot of criticisms of Griezmann. Many of them excessive. It never ceases to surprise me that most come to value a player who is not, trying to make him fit a mold that constantly repels him.
What did you expect Antoine to be?
I liked his game. At least understanding what Koeman was looking for. His presence was a headache in intermediate zones for Gueye / Paredes and the centrals, it sped up the game and allowed Barça to progress.
He only shot twice. Cause or consequence?
I understand that he is criticized for not shooting 7 times, but what I am going to is that if of the 25 shots from Barça he only added two, why was it him? I am more in the line that Koeman saw in him that player on which to turn the defensive block, making center-backs and pivot doubt.
Barça exploited that area incessantly. But there a point of clairvoyance was lacking for every player who stepped on that area. Neither Messi, nor Griezmann nor of course Dembélé were fine. Precision was lacking, but the advantage already existed.
We now go with a specific player: Ousmane Dembélé. To me, his game seemed very, very good. He said that
@migquintana
, it can be seen in two ways, I keep this one.
Playing 9 he lacks many things, but he has many others that are invaluable. Let's see them.
Here are two very simple sequences that only exist because it is Dembélé who draws them. Playing "Suárez would have gotten them" is a very fat trap. Basically because Suárez had not generated them ^^.
This play is "indefensible", and gives much more than it takes away.
This play is fair to take off center after 1-0.
In just three seconds Dembélé brings you closer to the goal. What's wrong with 1x1? Yes, but look where he shoots from. It is not easy at all. I think that in a Messi team, having a footballer like that is essential.
In the end, having Ousmane is a tremendous shortcut to goal. Something that the FCB did not have. How many games did Barça fall apart when they were pressured because nobody was stretching the team? A lot of.
His game WITHOUT the ball is of tremendous value. Lack of success.
The Barça showed that its exit of ball is very better
This other sequence is also very good.
What about Pedri with 18 years managing only situations of exit of the ball is a nonsense. Attracting, releasing and always moving optimally to open a passing lane.
And De Jong as central / interior, of course. What a clinic.
Without the ball, this was Barça's approach. While in the first leg a middle block was sought that did not cover absolutely anything, in Paris it was aggressive.
Nedadpegende pegefinger med håndryggen sell udadIndividual laces at the start of PSG
Nedadpegende pegefinger med håndryggen sell udadIn reboots individual pairings were maintained
I like what Koeman has been testing lately with Messi. At the start he is no longer required to go down so much, but rather is opened up or away from the first passes so that, when he receives, he has space.
And very, very good Sergiño Dest.
It is that Dest is finding in this system a height in his interventions that helps him a lot. It is an extreme, without more. Managing the area balcony or driving at intermediate heights, he is playing very well.
And what a pass from Busquets ^^. Display yours.
Yet another sequence in which it is clearly seen how to get together in a sector and open the ball on the wing to later find spaces inside, it worked.
Messi, Griezmann and this one leaves a definitive pass for Ousmane. What happens if he enters with Griezmann's party?
Messi's heat map surprised me. We have been commenting on it, but he is the Messi who falls the most to his left of all those we have seen.
And I particularly don't like it. In fact, he removes his shot from the equation and limits his imbalance.
Even from the beginning he positioned himself in that sector. It is normal in a certain sense because Alba is there and especially Pedri ^^, but the truth is that in this same sequence he would have been better off where Griezmann. There Leo is lethal.
In fact, the 1-1 play, look where Messi is. In "his zone of him". There he is capable of messing it up, although the goal is an anomaly, Messi received little in the area from him, and much more falling on the left.
Ah, it is Pedri who recovers the ball. What a bug.
Pedri is amazing. Playing on the base is not that the seams are noticeable, but that his game assumes an absolutely unreal maturity.
Look at this sequence. He unchecks, stops facing and then moves to release the pass line with Busquets. Your pulse never races.
Pedri is an uncategorizable player. The impact of it is such that it is impossible to measure it in its entirety, since it is global and takes on many facets. But we cannot forget that he has gone from being an elusive midfielder to a real weight midfielder in no time.
Here you can see what has been commented. De Jong draws in and Pedri goes from being parallel to Busi to occupying the space that he knows he will be free.
He receives, turns, and leaves OD in the lead. Simple. Because the simple is inevitable. And precious.
Barça did lack a greater level of imbalance above. With OD focused on the break and Messi falling far to the left of him, Griezmann in these situations is not able to finish the advantage that he has generated with his good mobility.
A couple of notes.
The first is that there is an assessment of the footballer based on values other than the game itself, the leitmotif of criticism of Griezz or Dembélé is usually the same: assessment of their performance based on a football-fiction that is cool, but it is cheating. .
Griezmann does not weigh in the games because he does not dribble or does not make plays is like criticizing the water because he wet. Antoine has always played like this, he is this footballer. Where it should be demanded is in his figures, but not in the way he takes his game.
And something different happens with OD. First, his understanding of the game was criticized, which was deficient, and now that he has polished it, turning him into a source of advantages for the team, it seems that it does not matter. He only counts the final gesture.
If Ousmane were to score two goals in Paris, his game would have gone from "what a truño" to "what a show." We cannot polarize the assessment and analysis for something that is as volatile as the goal. It is cheating.
I, at least, am not going to do it.