Barça continues to seek solutions to its crisis, but it exhibits a fragility that does not stop taking its toll. Catalans are victims of a tactical disorder that shows its worst face in years
After falling defeated in LaLiga, FC Barcelona repeated disgust in the Champions League, as it could not pass the draw against Slavia in Prague. The Catalans started as favorites but the Czechs confirmed, this time at the Camp Nou - they already warned at the Sinobo Stadium - that they are in crisis, since they still do not offer their usual good game and that is impacting on their results, irregular in a Start of course that has made all the alarms go off.
In the search for solutions to their bad moment, the Catalans must pay attention to the tactical disorder that makes them too fragile, which has already taken surprises from several adversaries of a lower level. With respect to all and considering that the stumbles also had a lot of merit from their opponents, it should be noted that the mistakes themselves are a drag that must be released to advance in the ever demanding fight for titles.
The firm and solvent team proposed by Ernesto Valverde has been destroyed like a sugar bowl, and that in his first months in Barcelona, the Extremaduran coach was accused of being too conservative. That bet was based on a good defense to finish off with one of the best attacks on the planet, but this one, whether with a classic 4-3-3 or sometimes even with 4-2-3-1, is marked by a dangerous lack of control .
The Barcelona offensive is reduced to some sparks, and the defensive balance is chaotic. Despite trying different players -with Frenkie de Jong and Arthur is not enough-, the core is broken game after game, which causes the lead to be reduced to the eternal quality of Leo Messi, to the flashes of worn Luis Suarez and Sporadic interventions by other protagonists, call Ansu Fati, Antoine Griezmann, Ousmane Dembélé or Carles Pérez.
And Marc-André ter Stegen's claims are more than justified, because seeing the cracks run back begins to touch the drama. The spaces are not well occupied, there is no rapport between soccer players and that makes riding a counter very easy, and that there is almost always numerical inferiority and gaps everywhere. Not even in static is defending well, because many goals have come as a result of the combinations that rivals make in the front of the area, an area not covered by the defenders or midfielders.
