Most notably, the new appearance of Messi ... and the thought of Dutch coach Koeman

4 challenges Barcelona face in today's kick-off against Villarreal

• Expectations in Barcelona are great to follow Messi in his first official match after the recent crises.

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• New Barcelona coach Coman.

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Fans of the Spanish first division "LaLiga" are looking for the first game of Barcelona today when they host Villarreal at the Camp Nou stadium.

After resting in the first two rounds of the league, Barcelona begins the competition in front of the "zero submarines", where there will be four prominent challenges before the team, starting from this very important match for the team’s supporters, to make a good impression about the new season, especially after the great transformations that occurred to the team during the period. The last few, after a disastrous past season par excellence, ended without a title, and the last match was a historic defeat in the European Champions 8-2.

Among the most prominent challenges are how the new Dutch coach Ronald Koeman will implement his style of play and everyone's thirst for positive results in Barcelona, ​​in addition to waiting for what the new players will present, and who will compensate for the departure of the prominent Uruguayan striker, Luis Suarez, next to the most important, who is the captain of Lionel Messi and how he will play after a major crisis Because of his previous desire to leave and then remain forced.

1- "Frustrated" Messi

Barcelona supporters have great doubts about the star of the first team, Lionel Messi, and how he will appear after he was forced by the club's management to stay, and he refused to leave despite his explicit request to do so, which frustrated the player, according to a previous statement to him.

Barcelona fans are afraid that Messi in the new season will not be the same goal-scorer that everyone is accustomed to, especially since his crisis with the club management did not subside, but only intensified a fire just two days before the first official match, when he accused the administration of expelling his fellow Uruguayan Luis Suarez, and abandoning him in a way. Insulting in favor of Atletico Madrid, Messi has refused calls to reduce his salary, and his relationship with the new coach Koeman is constantly strained.

In addition to all this, he will play the new season, while he is Egypt, as the last in his contract, and will leave for free next summer.

2- New training thought

The big challenge will also be from the new Dutch coach Ronald Koeman, and how he will reconcile the old guard with the new players, the Bosnian Miralem Pjanic, coming from Juventus, and the Portuguese Trinko from Braga, Portugal, in addition to recovering Coutinho from Bayern.

Coman will seek to return Barcelona to the "comprehensive" way of playing as it carries the thought of the late coach Johan Cruyff, but the main question remains is the possibility of achieving this in light of the advancement of many names in the age, and the problems that Messi suffered from, in addition to the failure of the club management to implement its promises to him until Now he has signed some of the players he wanted, especially the Dutch striker Depay.

3- Suarez departure

The most prominent sniper in the Uruguayan Barcelona attack, Luis Suarez, left the team two days ago for Atlético de Madrid, after six seasons in which he was the most prominent name after Lionel Messi.

And his departure would leave a big void in the attack, as the team does not currently have any player capable of playing in the "box" like Suarez, as players like Coutinho, Dembele and Griezmann do not have the scoring instinct of Suarez.

On the other hand, the club was unable to bring the Argentine sniper Lautaro Martinez from Inter, nor the Dutch Depay from Lyon from France, both of whom could replace Suarez, which raises question marks about Barcelona's offensive form in the new season.

4- The burden of losing the 2-8

Everyone at Barcelona knows that their last official match was a disastrous and humiliating 8-2 loss by Bayern in the Champions League.

This defeat caused many shocks, as a result of which administrators, the former coach, Setien, and a number of important players left.

This loss will constitute a great pressure factor for the team to correct the insulting image in which it appeared and caused a great shock to its fans, and this is in addition to the fact that last season came out empty-handed and without any title, all of which will put great pressure on the technical staff, players and the new coach in order to improve the image and restore The team back to normal.

• The “Catalan” currently does not have any “sniper” player who can compensate for the departure of Luis Suarez.

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