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The pressure is mounting on Barcelona manager Ronald Koeman and his players are reportedly fed up with his tactics.
According to Sport, the Spanish giants’ squad is increasingly agitated by Koeman’s persistence of a 4-2-3-1 formation.
Barça is synonymous with a 4-3-3 formation, as most of their squad have grown up with the system through the club’s famous La Masia academy or got used to it during their time at Camp Nou.
However, since Koeman’s arrival in the summer, Barça have changed their tactics and have not been very successful.
So far he has only won four times in LaLiga, but he has done much better in the Champions League. Nonetheless, their fine form there was thrown out the window when they lost 3-0 at home to Juventus on Tuesday night.
Barça would have finished as Group G leader if they had avoided losing the game by three or more goals, something they couldn’t do.
Sport claims that Barca stars are blaming Koeman’s system as the main reason for their failure, as it creates tactical imbalances. They add that ‘it penalizes the stability of the team because there are four that attack and four that defend and two in the middle that cover the waters as they can. So you neither attack well nor defend well. ‘
Going deeper, they add that this formation has been designed to include only Lionel Messi, Antoine Griezmann and Phillippe Coutinho but that the majority of the dressing room believes that it has not allowed a higher quality in their XI.
The fact that he let Luis Suárez go to Atlético de Madrid this summer has complicated things as Barça does not have an orthodox center forward to play as the only forward.
Such is the preference of the Barça stars for a change that they have hinted directly and indirectly to Koeman to return to a 4-3-3 formation, adds the Spanish publication.
Time will tell if Koeman has heeded their advice, and Barça will now turn their attention to LaLiga and the home game against Levante on Sunday night.
Source: m.allfootballapp.com
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