And if Alba played up front instead of on the wing?

Minutes passed and Barça failed to penetrate Girona’s goal. There were nerves at the Camp Nou and Xavi was shouting in the technical area seeing his team’s lack of energy.

Unusually for him, he made a substitution at half time: he put on Cassie instead of a ‘hot’ Sergi Roberto. Barça continued without clearly reaching Gazzaniga’s area and Xavi again made a move. This time he trusted Ferran Torres to try to break down Girona’s defense on the right wing. Ansu Fati He was the victim then and left the field crestfallen in 68′ with rather cautious statistics (2 chances created, no shots on goal and only one cross).

The matter did not end in carbureting and Barça could not open the can, and what was more alarming, they could not shoot between the three sticks.

Xavi then took the ‘Alba-solution’ up his sleeve. Perhaps it was too late, as the entry of the man from L’Hospitalet came with 15 minutes left to end the game (with a discount there were five more). At this moment jordi sunrise replaced raphinha, who wasn’t having the best day. Barça faced the last quarter of an hour of the game with a lead of three sunrise To the left, Lewandowski in the middle and Ferran To the left. The goal did not come, but the contribution of Jordi Alba in that position was not bad. In those 15 +5 minutes, he interfered in the game 13 times, made 9 passes (with 100% accuracy) and put in 4 crosses. With him also in such a position we saw different things and the feelings were positive.

Jordi Alba has a trade and their centers are often dangerous. In addition, freeing him from the pressure to defend allowed him to lose inhibitions in attack, while creating space for those coming from behind an electric player. bucket.

Perhaps Alba’s solution at the end was too late this time. But it can be a great resource for other parties that get complicated.