In the early morning of Beijing time today (28th), in the 26th round of La Liga, Barca defeated Athletic Bilbao 4-0. In this game, the three attackers who came off the bench scored a goal each, and Barca's forward line was already crowded before Ansu Fati returned.
Barca beat Bilbao 4-0 and scored four goals in three consecutive games, showing a strong goal-scoring ability of the front, and a special point of the match was the three strikers Dembele, Luc De Jong and Memphis who came off the bench, scoring one goal each, and Barca's forward line was already crowded before Ansu Fati returned. At the same time, the possibility of Barcelona bringing in Haaland is gradually cooling.
A team like Barca, which is so different from the second half of the season, is also difficult to find in football. Against Bilbao, Barca showed that their forward line configuration was extremely sufficient, With Aubameyang leading the three strikers introduced in the winter scoring the opening goal in the first half, while the other three strikers who played in the second half scored three goals, and it is no exaggeration to say that the current Barça can discharge two competitive strike combinations.
And in the first half of the season, especially at the beginning of the season, Barca could not even get a set of competitive forwards, the situation at that time was that Messi did not renew his contract, Griezmann went to Atletico on the last day of the transfer window, and Breswaite was seriously injured, the then manager Koeman could only let Memphis play with Demir, who has now left the team, and the young general Garvey, who is not a striker, and even let Dester play as a winger from time to time, when Dembele and Ansu Fati were still injured, and Aguero was directly retired due to heart disease. The team has been in a continuous situation of attacking but not scoring points, so it is important to bring in a center like Haaland who has a goal guarantee.
But the situation at Barca has changed completely, in the winter Barca directly introduced a forward Line Ferran Torres, Aubameyang and Adama Traore, and these 3 forwards have performed well, Aubameyang has scored 5 goals in a month, Adama Traore, who has played only one goal without assists in the Premier League for half a season, came to Barca and played 6 games with 4 assists, Ferran Torres may be the least efficient, but also completed 2 goals and 3 assists for Barca in 9 appearances.
Ferran's performance against Bilbao in this game is actually not bad, his no-ball running has always been an important factor for Barca to play the depth of attack, the best scoring opportunity Força got in the first half was created by Ferran's ribs directly inserted into pedri's direct pass and then swung a cross, but Garvey flew the must-score. In the second half, Ferran was again given a one-handed chance to be saved by Spanish international Unai Simon, and former Spanish goalkeeper Canizares said: "He has some psychological problems now, he wants to score too much. ”
Barca's old strikers also had a good performance when the newly introduced three forwards were doing well, such as Dembele, who was not thrown into the stands at Xavi's insistence, who played the best performance of the game in 30 minutes, scored a wonderful goal and also contributed 2 assists, and turned the Boos of Camp Nou into applause and cheers. This made the media once again call for "renewing dembele at all costs".
In an interview with local media last week, Aubameyang offered to persuade Dembele to stay, but Dembele himself insisted on assuring acquaintances after last Thursday's match against Napoli that he had not yet found his next home. Harvey was asked again after the game if Dembele was likely to stay, but Harvey could no longer guarantee anything, "The question should be asked dembele himself. "It can be said that since Barca brought in Adama, Dembele has been eliminated from future plans, but Xavi has temporarily fished him back. Barca's former famous agent Minglia does not believe that Dembele has not yet left home, "He has not renewed his contract with Barca and has not found the next home? It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard, what if he's injured now? I think he found his next home a year and a half ago. But there are also those who think Dembele is trying so hard to show himself now in order to win back Barca's contract or attract contracts from other strong teams.
In addition to Dembele, Luc De Jong and Memphis were also a "headache" for Harvey, especially Memphis. Luc De Jong scored consecutive goals at the end of last year and early this year, but in order for Aubameyang to play, Xavi could only squeeze out 5-10 minutes of playing time for Luc De Jong at most per game, but even so, Luc De Jong always scored and had a good performance, for which Xavi could only compensate the Dutch high school striker with the praise at the press conference, "I have always taken Luc De Jong as a model for the whole team, he is one of the most professional players in the team. ”
If Luc De Jong was originally introduced as a substitute, and now there is nothing to say about playing as a substitute, then Memphis is another matter, Memphis is still the team's top scorer, is to give up the signing fee to join Barca, is the team's absolute main force in the first half of the season, but after the introduction of three strikers in the winter, barcelona local media has appeared in the local media memphis to be swept out of the news, just because Koeman was dismissed, he put a willing to give up his own interests to Barca, And the players who carried barca's offensive banner in such a difficult moment in the first half of the season swept out? This is not the right way to treat people. Harvey had said before that Memphis would become an important member of the team, but at that time, Memphis's recurrence of injury did not have time to be verified, and now that Memphis is back, it is time to test whether Harvey's speech is true or false.
At a time when so many barca strikers are waiting to grab playing time, the rumors that Haaland will come to Barca are almost extinguished by Barca president Laporta himself. Last week, Monte Carlo Radio revealed that Barca president Laporta went to Monaco to secretly meet Haaland's agent Rayola, which made the news of Haaland's joining heat up again, but after Barca president Laporta was asked by Barça fans when attending an event whether he would bring Inhaland, Laporta said: "It is very difficult. At the same time, the German media reported that in the Haaland scramble, it was Manchester City in the pole position, followed by Paris and Real Madrid, and Barca are not in line now.
Interestingly, Real Madrid also revealed that they do not want to bring in Haaland, Real Madrid believes that the focus of next season's reinforcements is in addition to the unspeakable Mbappe, the introduction of full-backs, centre-backs and a midfielder should take precedence over Haaland, and a pro-Real Madrid media is even discussing why Haaland has so many injuries to weaken everyone's expectations of Haaland. A key issue is that if Haaland comes to Real Madrid, Benzema, who is currently doing well, may become a substitute and must be transferred, which Florentino, who personally introduced Benzema to Real Madrid, does not want to see.
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