In the Champions League match that ended this morning, the La Liga giants scored four goals in a row by Paris Saint-Germain after scoring one goal first, and finally said goodbye to the Champions League. However, after the game, Barcelona's off-field public opinion ushered in a moderate tone, and the media did not criticize coach Xavi and the players on the field too much, but praised and encouraged mostly.
On the one hand, Barcelona did a good job in this game. After the opening, coach Xavi expected that Paris Saint-Germain, who was behind on aggregate, would attack aggressively, so he changed the strategy of pressing for the ball in the front court in terms of tactical arrangement, and used more counterattacks, and finally in the process, this arrangement also worked wonders, although Paris scored more shots, but the first goal was indeed Barcelona, and the 16-year-old Yamal assisted Raphinha to take the lead through a wonderful personal breakthrough.
It's a pity that on the defensive end, because Araujo made up for the gap on the right side once, and fouled the Parisian teenager Barcola outside the penalty area, although he stopped the opponent's single knife and avoided a penalty, but he was still punished for a foul behind his back and went off the field in 25 minutes.
Although Xavi set a stubborn strategy at the first time, removing the assist hero Yamal and replacing the veteran Inigo Martinez to strengthen the defense, it is a pity that Catalonia lacks the DNA of stubborn defense, and in the end it was still relied on by Paris to rely on the numerical advantage, scored 4 goals in a row, and failed.
In fact, such a bizarre performance of public opinion comes from the reality of Barcelona itself. Under the double impact of the successive poor operations of the previous president Bartomeu and the epidemic, Barcelona is currently a standard mess. The return of the meritorious chairman Laporta, although the use of leverage and the removal of veterans to successfully slim down Barcelona, still replaced fresh blood, but at least as of this game, Barcelona's current situation has not completely changed.
Their financial losses continue, the club's finances are constrained by UEFA's fair law transfer funds, and the salary cap in La Liga will be further reduced to around 220 million euros this summer, and Barcelona will still be stuck in a cycle of cleaning up high-paid players this summer.
Like Portugal's right-back Joao Cancelo, who frequently lost his position in defense and gave away penalties in this game, I am afraid it will be difficult to be bought by Barcelona. On the one hand, his salary is too high, and Manchester City also need a buyout fee. On the other hand, his mistake in this game was really outrageous, which directly buried Barcelona's plan to try to defend to the end.
In addition to Cancelo, because of the rise of Cubasi, defenders such as Kounde and Christian who can be exchanged for transfer fees may also leave. In this list, even including the Brazilian Raphinha, who has played well recently, in fact, Barcelona's future strategy has been set, Xavi + La Masia young people are the future that the team should have.
This season, with the emergence of Yamal, Kubasi, Fermin, and Giu, plus Pedri, Gavi, and Alex Balde, who have made a name for themselves in the past two years, the skeleton of Barcelona's next-generation team has been formed.
And the helmsman who leads these 7 new stars, at present, the most suitable person is the current coach Xavi. Although the former Barcelona captain announced his departure at the end of the season during the winter break, the Spanish media generally believed that he was plagued by the team's difficult public opinion environment at the time, and if Barcelona president Joan Laporta sincerely kept him, then he still has a lot of hope of continuing as manager.
In fact, it's hard to find a more suitable coach than Xavi, a veteran coach from La Masia who has been born in Barca, to lead this group of talented La Masia stars into the future.
If Xavi can be retained, it will be half the success of next season for Barcelona.