Nico González, the dribbler inside

Nico Gonzalez it is being released in the first team of Barça. Without the tactical corset that playing midfielder would mean, with his back more protected by Sergio Busquets, the 19-year-old Galician is establishing himself as an insider thanks to his courage to break lines with powerful drives and even dribbling in which he uses his body to deceive his opponent with amazing skill.

He is a midfielder with the La Masia style, but not obsessed with control. You have been asked to go deep taking advantage of the interior corridors and you are stepping on a dangerous area. Against Dinamo Kiev, in addition to intimidating the rivals with his intense pressure, he almost scored a header in the first half with a powerful arrival.

In Ukraine he was the player who did the most successful dribbles, ahead of strikers like Memphis Depay, who logically would have to be the most destabilizing. Nico made three good dribbles of the four he tried, while Gavi completed two. A dribble they made Memphis, Ansu Fati, Alba and Lenglet.

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