Barça were the best version of themselves against Betis. It was on defense, where it has been all season, and it was especially on offense, a topic that had been under discussion for months. Xavi’s team improved and the main culprits were Sergio Busquets and Pedri, two footballers who are starting to recover their best level and who can now give back to the Catalans that identity that worries their coach so much and seemed lost lately. “The most important thing is to be recognizable as a team, and that has been the case. We saw a good Barça when we were also eleven against eleven. I’ve said a thousand and one times that Busquets is fundamental. We lost the order and structure of the team because he was not there. I hope he stays,” Xavi said on Saturday after his team’s victory against Real Betis. The Tarrasa coach had to recognize that his team depends on a player who turns 35 in July and has his future still in the air. offers from the outside and he also has a firm proposal from the club and from his coach, who takes the slightest opportunity to throw the gauntlet at him.It is not for nothing, Busquets was the engine of a Barça against Betis this Saturday that had a round night. Busi broke down every rebellion of the Verdiblancos by always being in the right place and with the ball he knew how to give flexibility to a team that had been sluggish in recent games. Many of the balls that served to break lines, came out of her shoes and even an assist at half time that Raphinha took advantage of to make it 3-0 that sealed the match Related News Day 32 standard No Barça pays tribute to Betis Daniel Panero The leader of the league is close to the title after beating the Verdiblanco team in a match marked by the early exclusion of Édgar in which Lamine Yamal made his debut with the first Barca team, only 15 years old It was the ideal game for Busquets and it was also the ideal game for his two squires, now fully recovered from their physical problems. Frenkie de Jong already seemed to be and Pedri went one step further on Saturday, playing 73 minutes and scoring at a high level. Against Atlético and Rayo Vallecano, he lacked rhythm and couldn’t adapt to the back and forth that both games turned into. That script changed radically against Betis in a game where their team had 66% possession and where they lived permanently in the opposing field, even before Édgar González’s early exclusion for a double yellow. Dembélé steps on the bandwagon The recovery of the two metronomes in midfield was not the only good news for Barça against Betis. Christensen returned, Lamine Yamal made his debut and Ousmane Dembélé returned, the most anticipated player and the one who received the big ovation of the evening in a practically packed Camp Nou. The Frenchman played minutes three months after being dry-docked and that inactivity weighed on him in a final part of the game that saw him lacking rhythm but content. “It’s important for him to make minutes, he told me he felt good,” Xavi said of him at the end of the game.
Source: La Verdad
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