At 11:16 p.m. this Thursday, Xavi Hernandez walked through the athletics track of the Stadio Diego Maradona and, for the third time, the 500 Barça spectators they chanted his name. The Terrasa coach, who had already received chants during the match and also at the end, waved to the stands and went to the locker room. The president was waiting for him there. Joan Laportawhat he warmly hugged the technician. “Where do you go out, Laporta, where do you go out?” asked the fans, who after trips and nights of frustration, were euphoric. The game that he had played Barça he deserved it. The stamp that she had left on the lawn of the old San Paolo generates new illusions in the Barça people. That’s right.
Much time later, the Barça moved and excited in a great european field Naples confirmed the good sensations of the last ten days, in which the Barça has scored thirteen goals in four games, to a spectacular mean of 3.25 which coincides with a multiple occurrence of strikers that hI have given spark and they have allowed Barça to greatly multiply their average number of shots on goal.
To that they have helped Adama, Ferran or Aubameyang. But there is more. Barça not only shoots more. Has more game records. In Naples there was a wild counterattack goal (Jordi Alba), another from set pieces but after a good choice in the second offensive action (Piqué); plus two in beautiful transitions (De Jong and Aubameyang).
The Barça is capable of mix styles, counterattack, transition and possession; because also mix player types. to the captains, Pique (another who hugged Laporta at the end), Busquets and Albawho fight against time and give the feeling of enjoying themselves on the pitch again, have joined mature footballers such as aubameyang, and other facts like Adam and above all, Frenkie de Jong, which should be at the time of the explosion. And, of course, the young: Araújo, Pedro, Gavi, Nico, the same Dest which has improved its performance. Everything, waiting for Ansu.
Some, the most ‘old’, because they have suffered many disappointments; others, the ‘children’, because they have just arrived; and those in the middle, like Frenkie, Adama or Auba, combine a lot of hunger. That was reflected on the pitch at Diego Maradona. The Barça, eliminated in a bad way in Champions, where he couldn’t with a gray Benfica, commanded a few months later a message from Naples. And people look at Xavi, dreaming that you are building something big.