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The day

Ronald Koeman

had lunch with

Joan Laporta

at the Botafumeiro - yes, the seafood restaurant in the Gràcia neighborhood where

Ronaldinho

, also with Laporta, dined for the last time as a Barça player - the Barcelona coach was delighted.

He connected with the new president, began to plot the new season and understood that there would be no problems to conclude his contract in 2022. The new capitos of the club appreciate that the Dutch coach has kept an entity in ruins in the fight for national titles.

A club that inaugurated the course with the ordeal of

Leo Messi

, the dismissal of

Luis Suárez

or seeing how their former president slept in the dungeons.

The team seemed doomed to fight for a place in Europe in what was to be a simple transitional season.

However, with the League and the Cup at hand, the seams have opened again.

Again before a rival of the bourgeoisie, a class against which Koeman has found no remedy.

After the referee's complaint of the classic there was a bad approach to the game, a poor emotional management and the evidence that the squad is still insufficient to tread according to which peaks.

The three centrals

What was to be a sporadic protection device to provide security for an unreliable defense ended up becoming a fundamental rule of Koeman's work.

The approach had to serve in any scenario and in front of any rival, in Zorrilla, in the Camp Nou or in the Park of the Princes;

against Osasuna, Huesca or Real Madrid.

Whatever the rival's plan, against a striker or two.

In Valdebebas, the theoretical superiority of defenders was useless.

Among

Mingueza

, the best Barça player,

Araujo

and

Lenglet

could not control

Vinicius

and

Benzema

in the open field

.

The help of the lanes, converted into static midfielders, was non-existent.

Dest's

right wing

was a solar.

While

Jordi Alba

resumed his incoherence, dangerous in attack, disastrous in defense.

The 3-5-2 is not a drawing of growth, but of survival.

De Jong's merry-go-round

Few in Barcelona doubt that

Frenkie de Jong

is the one who should be the capital footballer in the midfield of this decade.

However, on the verge of concluding his second season as a Barça player and despite his determined step forward this season, he has not yet been able to settle in a specific position from which to mature his game.

He does not feel central, but he knew how to express his qualities in driving from the rear in recent weeks when Koeman recruited him as a libero.

The coach came from sacrificing his determination in the arrivals to the area (six goals and six assists) in exchange for gaining reliability at the start.

After four games embedded in the defensive line, De Jong returned in Valdebebas to the center of the field.

Its natural habitat.

But her cohabitation with

Pedri

, surpassed this time,

and

Busquets

,

too aware of what was happening behind him, it was no longer as natural as before.

Football is often determined by repetition in gestures and stability in complicity.

And De Jong lives on a merry-go-round.

The confinement of Dembélé

Before Barcelona began their uprising in the League, there were those who recommended Koeman to try

Dembélé

as an offensive reference.

Martin Braithwaite

could not be more than a shock, while Messi's game no longer

matches

that

guardian

idea

of the lying striker.

Dembélé worked like

nine

as

long as there was a field to run through.

With meters ahead, the Frenchman is capable of squeezing an always border game between genius and absurdity.

In closed defenses like the one that

Zidane

drew

in the classic, and as much as the centrals were

Militao

and

Nacho

, Dembélé can only feed his deficiencies.

Because he is unable to play on his back.

Because he does not hit a wall.

Because neither drags players, nor attends to the correct uncheck.

There was only to see an action in which Pedri prepared to leave him alone in front of

Courtois

.

Dembélé ran to the opposite side.

Griezmann's management

Griezmann

was a substitute in the classic of the first round (1-3).

He played nine minutes.

He was a substitute in the second round.

He played 45 minutes.

Although his star profile has been questioned in his adventure in Barcelona, ​​it is difficult to understand that in a team in which Braithwaite or

Trincao

have minutes,

a striker who has scored 14 goals and has distributed 11 assists this season does not have a fit.

If the idea is to force a sale, this would not be the best promotional strategy.

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