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Ronald Koeman’s new Barcelona starts to walk in LaLiga Santander receiving an uncomfortable rival, Villarreal, and with the aim that football finally gain prominence and begin to relegate the extra-sports problems that the entity has been dragging to the background. the Lisbon debacle.
With his captain and great star, Lionel Messi, faced with the board for not letting him go and, instead, having forced the departure of his friend Luis Suárez, and in the middle of a motion of censure against the president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, he starts this Barça, which still does not have the desired template.
In addition to Luis Suárez, Ivan Rakitic, Arturo Vidal and Nelson Semedo have left, but only Miralem Pjanic and Philippe Coutinho have arrived, the latter back after his loan to Bayern.
While waiting for a forward, a center back and a right back, Koeman will have to settle for putting together a team with many of the regulars from last season and fitting them into his system, a 4-2-3-1 that the Camp Nou is very much on. little used.
Goalkeeper Marc-André ter Stegen, who is recovering from a knee intervention, is the outstanding loss that the Dutch coach has for the league debut.
The Brazilian Roberto Murara ‘Neto’ will occupy the place of the German in the goal, while the rear will be the usual, with Gerard Piqué and Clement Lenglet forming in the axis and Jordi Alba and Sergi Roberto the only right-handed side of the squad after the march by Semedo- in the bands.
Sergio Busquets and Frenkie de Jong seem fixed in the double pivot, waiting for Pjanic to win a place in the eleven and, ahead, Philippe Coutinho could enter from the right, Lionel Messi through the center and the young Ansu Fati, that at the moment has won the match to Ousmane Dembélé, on the left.
Antoine Griezmann, in the absence of the signing of a ‘9’, seems to be the reference in attack. It remains to be seen how the team performs in the first official match of the season, after three preparation friendlies (Girona, Nastic and Elche), in which it was unable to win comfortably and offered a predictable and fairly flat game.
EFE
