Ousmane Dembélé had not been seen in the starting team for a month. Ronald Koeman had bet in the last five games for the binomial Leo Messi and Antoine Griezmann to play on the attack, systematically discarding the French attacker. In fact, the last time Dembélé appeared in the eleven gala was against Real Madrid in Valdebebas (2-1) on April 10. An unfortunate memory game for the Blaugrana because it marked the end of a streak of 19 games without losing in a row in LaLiga.
In that encounter, the sacrificed was Griezmann, Y Dembélé played as a center forward, with little fortune and even fewer occasions: he barely knew how to move before the leathery white defense or meet Messi.
Since that match, Dembélé lived a certain ostracism, aggravated by an incipient pubalgia, leaving in the second half to reactivate the game, but with little success.
His last appearance, before the Atlético de Madrid last Saturday, she will be remembered for the great opportunity she had to beat Oblak, but his header went wide. Precisely, in that match, it was already intuited that Koeman had other plans for him. And it is that Dembélé replaced Sergiño Dest, practically positioning himself as a lane on the right wing, location that everything points to repeat tonight before him I raised.