Marcelino is clear that Athletic will face tomorrow the best Barça of the current season. The rojiblanco coach supports his thesis in the football deployed and the latest results harvested by the azulgrana. The three above plus the recovery of Pedri and even Dembélé, according to the Asturian coach, have had a lot to do with the turn experienced by the culé team.
“The results show that Barça is now going through its best moment of the season. Now it finds the goal with ease, it has a very high percentage of success, and it also scores authentic goals against Atlético, Valencia and Napoli. This indicates that there is progress in the work since the arrival of Xavi. His idea is taking more automatisms and better assimilation and there are individualities that have been added determining factors. The three from above, Dembélé, Pedri… Barça is now a very good team”, argued Marcelino at a press conference .
The Athletic coach remarked that in the Cup, in the round of 16 disputed in San Mamés won by the lions, Xavi was already there, but he clarified one aspect: “The individualities are not the same now with Aubameyang, Ferran and Adama up than with Said this with all due respect to them, Jutglá, Ez Abde and Ferran, a newcomer. Barça right now is a more decisive team than in the Cup. Their style is similar, but improving progressively because Xavi has been around longer. change a lot of things.”
Regarding the possibility of reserving players tomorrow for the second leg of Wednesday’s Cup semifinal at Mestalla, Marcelino indicated that “our idea, based on the fact that we give maximum importance to each match, is that we have to be analytical enough to try that in the physical section we are able to compete equally in both games. We will make decisions that we believe will not condition us from a physical point of view for the Cup”.
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