The arrival of Xavi Hernandez to the bench of the Camp Nou is imminent. The Spanish has said goodbye to the technical staff and the Al Sadd squad to return to Barcelona to sign your new contract in the next few hours. Both clubs reached an agreement in a meeting held yesterday. A moment that all the club’s fans are waiting for after complicated years due to the mismanagement of Josep María Bartomeu, which left the club with impressive debts that forced the departure of many important players.
Xavi Hernández has a difficult challenge ahead of him as he has to try to boost a squad with a lot of young talent and lift the team after a very difficult start under Ronald Koeman. He does not have much room for maneuver if he wants to close the campaign in the best way, taking into account that he will not be judged by the results he obtains in these early stages either.
The game system is not the most important thing, to the point that it does not define for sure the way a team plays, but it does serve to have a positional starting point for several players and to decipher the roles that it is going to play. go giving each of your players.
After watching several Al Sadd matches, as we did for the tactical analysis, and evaluating the proper names that the FC Barcelona squad has, we have determined, also with information from the coach’s environment, that Xavi intends to use two systems: 3-4-3 and 4-3-3, taking into account that everything can change with the development of the season and injuries.
The two game systems that Xavi wants to use at Barcelona
-Xavi’s 3-4-3 is a system with three centrals but without lanes because it is the wingers who occupy the wide area, so it has two defensive pivots and two midfielders who are located between the lines. The main losers would be Jordi Alba and Sergiño Dest, unless they occupy the extreme zone at some point in the season. At the same time, such a scheme would help us see Gavi and Pedri play together, in addition to giving the basis of the play to Frenkie de Jong. The example we consider is the following.
-Xavi’s 4-3-3 is the most orthodox. Not many changes to the names used by the last two coaches are expected. The losers would be the centrals because only two could play constantly. The wings would be important pieces and only three midfielders would be used, so names like Gavi and Nico González would form to be part of the rotation. The example is as follows:
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