Xavi Hernández no longer only dares to do it with João Félix

2024-01-05 00:35:22

Barcelona Barça start the year with a very hard-fought victory against Las Palmas, one of the fashionable teams in the Primera División. Real Madrid and Girona, first and second respectively, will remain on seven points thanks to a penalty goal on the edge by Ilkay Gundogan. The Blaugrana first half, with a header on goal, was again Dantesque. The team does not have an attitude problem, but a football problem.

García Pimienta, from words to deeds. In the preview of the match, Sorneguer, García Pimienta, had thanked Joan Laporta “for being where he is now”. It was a poisoned dart, because it was the Barcelona president who decided not to renew the bond of pin as coach of the Blaugrana subsidiary, where the coach had been there for many years and was receiving praise for his work as a trainer. Pimienta began his professional adventure away from Barcelona in Gran Canaria, he has promoted the team to Primera and had Barça on the ropes for quite some time with a team full of ex-Blaugranas like Munir, Sandro, Mika Mármol and Marc Cardona.

João Félix agrees with Simeone. The Portuguese attacker left the Atlético de Madrid back door because the Argentinian coach got tired of his lack of defensive commitment and his star tics. The rift was so obvious that in the summer the same player made his love for Barça public, despite the fact that he had to start the course with the matassars. He forced the machine to come to Barcelona (a strategy of his representative Jorge Mendes) and Laporta was very optimistic about his transfer. Much more than Xavi, who never saw his arrival clearly and who, like Simeone, has also binged on it. Ferran Torres has already passed him.

Xavi already dares Lewandowski. Although Xavi already bit the crest of Félix by changing him at half-time against Almeria and not making him play until the 70th minute against Las Palmas, with Lewandowski the situation is different. By descent and because it is an asset that collects emoluments of 26 million gross for the benefit of an ascending contract. But it is not at all fine and its presence is beginning to be unsustainable. So far he was playing everything, crawling or not (this cost him a good boo against Almeria), but it seems that Xavi is now daring. He changed it to 70 and placed Ferran in the lead. Vitor Roque would enter later. The Brazilian has a lot to learn (he missed a goal), but he showed an energy that has been missing from Lewandowski for far too long.

João Cancelo, suitable for the Super Cup? The Portuguese’s injury looks bad. After an outburst in a fortuitous dispute with Perrone, Cancelo began to make gestures of pain. He tried to continue, with a compression bandage he made on site Dr. Ricard Pruna in his left knee, but he ended up asking for the change soon after. This Friday he will undergo more medical tests in Barcelona. “We have to wait, but in principle it doesn’t seem serious”, said Xavi. Next Thursday, the Blaugrana face Osasuna in the Supercopa semifinals.