barcelona played 5-6 matches from their defeat with bayern .they played twice against inter in that space of time and came up second.before i write about the game i want to write something just like always . there is a thing called positional reading or positional analysis in chess or you can say puzzles in simple terms. now the thing is that when you are playing you have to make reading of all the things its just not defense or offense but both because we had seen that things can change in a giffy . we had seen that when on team is on offense and suddenly you are backtracking to defend . it is very important that you need to be on your toes .you have to keep on reading the game and the one that read the game better and take proper actions for it are the ones that are victorious at the end .
barca played in four important mathches in the last three weeks .they played inter twice , el classico and bayern in the return fixture . first off xavi has to get this out of his mind that if he dominates possession then he is going to win games . secondly teams now know how to play against pressing teams .when you are playing with fire then you have to answer with fire .you cannot answer it with anything else .i will try to explain this in respect to the first goal . first barca needs to give the notion that the things that they did in the past and one same tactic cannot be applied to every opposition . barca like to press and for that they have to play a high line but while playing this game you do have to take into account the opposition its players there abilities but also many things.what do you think about the bayern side .for me they are the best athletic side in europe with many fast players like sane,gnabry,coman,davies and the one who is underrated is goretzka . nagelsman has gathered a team which is very pacy and they play a very fast paced football .now other thing while coaching his team nagelsman must be calculating as to what the opposition can do or how can the opposition counter him( if you cannot calculate that then you shouldnt coach). i think xavi lack this .he is trying to play his own game but is not calculating as to what his opposition can do to him or how they can counter him. the first goal is a prime example of xavi's inability to think the game deeper .
now lets take into account bellerin's position for the first goal .while defending bellerin has to take into account many a things .he needs to take look at sane's position with respect to him since he is man marking him.secondly he has to take into account his position in accordance to his team mates that is the back four .then he has to take into account the space that is in front of him as well as the space behind his back ( since alonso and kounde didnt take it into account that is why the first goal was scored .)now when you play a high line you do have to take into account many a things . for the first goal we see sane's position but we dont take into account chipo moting and musiala's position because both had time and space on the ball since neither alonso nor kounde came out of the back four to close them down . before that you had seen that barca closed down bayern had to pass the ball back to the back four but they have this ability that they can bring the ball from back to front very quickly and this caught barca offguard .if when the first goal was scored you could see that bayern bought ball from back to front very quickly . it is this ability that makes bayern a very threatning team . even in the match you could see that bayern 3 against 3 on barca's goal because barca's players were caught high up the pitch trying to press .
xavi should learn that dominating possession doesnt wins games .bayern play a very high tempo game and to answer bayern's game is to play a very high tempo game.you have to play fire with fire. barca's offense had been very poor .first off you can see as to what barca are trying to do. the attack is not choreographed.yes you are playing players in their desired positions but how should they operate and what they should do .for that you have to take drills and coach them the movements as to what they need to do when they are encountered with different positions . when you coach them that then they can improvise that on the field .barca's attack was flat footed . when the ball was on the let wing dembele didnt tried to make diagonal runs and create that flutter in opposition ranks .if you dont do something out of the ordinary then you cannot threaten the opposition and create problem for them .when de jong was driving the ball he didnt had any player around him to whom he could pass the ball and further the play . the other thing is that xavi should had taught de jong as how much he should drive the ball and when should he just pass it . its important that you have the possession if you want to do offense because if you driving the ball but if its going nowhere then you need to pass the ball . barcelona are playing a one dimensional game .it may work against weaker teams but against good teams you need to have something different to surprise the opponents .all and all xavi may had been bought with large fanfare but he is falling short of expectations and most importantly he is not able to drop players who need to be dropped like busquestus and pique . i hope he improves soon or he will be gone before he completes a year.
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