The FC Barcelona was found in Cadiz against a very orderly and daring opponent by throwing a high defensive line and not giving up creating danger. To counter the tactic of Cervera, the azulgranas, as it is deduced in the statistics of the party offered by Opta, had a clear path of exit of the ball. Ter Stegen-Araujo-Dest-Gavi. That was the sequence that was repeated the most, while the Uruguayan was the player to whom the German goalkeeper passed the ball the most times, with thirteen, well above the three he gave to Pique or the four to Busquets when he came down to receive.
Once the ball was in the possession of Araujo, he chose to give it to Dest on 18 occasions, he was the teammate to whom he gave the most the ball.
Continuing with the path towards the opposite goal, the American side, accidentally on the left in Cádiz, passed it fifteen times to Gavi for it to progress.
Koeman and his technicians detected that the opponent’s weaknesses could be on his right wing and hence the choice of that strategy, but in the end it was neither on one side nor on the other and the Catalans were not able to relieve the local defensive order .
Read also