Adama, the specialist as a solution or ‘problem’

After a spectacular start due to the unexpected, with two assists in his first two games (Atlético and Espanyol) and a fabulous display in Napoli, where he assisted Alba in 0-1 and Aubameyang in 1-4, Adama has three games without making numbers with Barça. The club produced a laudatory report on his performance against Galatasaray. He highlighted that he had an 87.5% success rate in dribbling and that he gave up to eight centers during the match. But as the scoreboard pointed out, none ended in goal.

Adama’s football has the advantage of imbalance. But it can also end condition your team’s game too much. When a footballer has this imbalance, the team is sometimes tempted to end up directing all the plays there. That made Barça’s game against Galatasaray predictable, which ended up taking him to that game. Xavi will have to avoid that feeling so that Adama mixes up his gamedon’t always finish the action and remain a surprise and a solution, not a ‘problem’.