Sergiño Dest showed in his first game as a starter in the Xavi era that He still has a long way to go to take on the mechanisms required of a right-back in the positional game of FC Barcelona. Most of the decisions he made during Saturday’s game against Betis were wrong or wrong, both defensively and offensively. At no time did he know how to coordinate his actions with Abde or seek superiority with Nico. Everything he did in the field was utter nonsense, to the point that a person from the locker room came to describe it during the break as “a total breading.”
The truth is that in the second half he knew how to read the game a little better, after receiving the pertinent indications in Xavi Hernández’s dressing room, to which was added the presence of Ousmane Dembélé for his band -Abde switched to the left-, which he knew launch it better in the offensive block and offer superiorities in his area thanks to his uncheck marks. But that does not mean that in the play of the transition goal of Betis, Dest returned to be totally unbalanced in the field, arriving late and also remaining practically static while the Betic striker stood alone against Ter Stegen.
Under all these arguments, the coaching staff plans to speak with Dest in the next few days to carry out intensive tactical work therapy in order for the player to begin to assimilate the new concepts as soon as possible. And it is that while Players like Frenkie de Jong seem to have immediately assimilated the demands of the new script, others, like Dest, are going to have to take a crash course in the next few days.
And is that If the US international does not wake up, as of January he will have a tough competitor on the right wing: If there is a player who has assimilated, throughout his career, all the resources of the position game that is Dani Alves. At 38 years old, the Brazilian defender returns with the intention of making up for all the lost timeBoth to help Barcelona in their next challenges, and to get in shape for their participation with Brazil in the Qatar World Cup, which will be played in a year.