In La Liga in the early hours of this morning, after Barça lost 1-0 away to Vallecano, the Barça executive immediately sacked the team manager Koman, which shows that the Barça executives have long planned to change the coach, but after consecutive losses to Real Madrid and Vallecano, the implementation of this decision has been accelerated.
Ronald Koeman
Koeman was appointed last season to coach Barca in turmoil, the league persisted until the end of the season still retained the hope of winning the title, and finally won the third place, the Copa del Rey won, the Champions League round of 16, the results are not good, but barely said in the past.
Koeman coached and won the Copa del Rey
This season, with Messi's departure, Koeman's pressure is even greater, and it is more testing his coaching level. So far this season, Koeman has led the team to 13 official matches, achieving a bad record of 5 wins, 3 draws and 5 losses, scoring 16 goals and conceding 17 goals.
Among them, 16 goals were scored by 9 members of the whole team, and the most goals dePay scored 4 goals, including 2 penalties, which seemed to blossom at many points, but in fact the team lacked a stable scorer.
Barca's top scorer this season – Depay
The 16 goals were distributed as 2 from set-pieces, 2 from penalties, 2 from long range, 2 from counter-attacks, 2 from oblique blocks, and 3 from each left and right crosses. Judging from the distribution of goals, Barca lack the breakthrough and in-depth cutting of the wing, and the number of crosses has increased significantly, but the central preemption is not Barca's strength. There is also the lack of cross-positioning when the team attacks, and the attack behind the opponent through straight plugs and oblique blocks is significantly reduced.
Fati
The reduction of these two offensive routines has a lot to do with the staffing, barca can currently provide the only side blasts only Fati and Dembele, both of them are hanging free cards, so Koeman had to let Dest play the right wing, and Dester missed two consecutive goalscoring opportunities also made Koeman speechless. There are many people in the midfield who can send straight and oblique balls, but there are very few forward players who can run out of opportunities, and in the last game, Aguero ran several opportunities, but also failed to complete the goal.
And in terms of conceding goals, 5 of the 17 goals lost were counterattacked by the opponent, 3 goals were played by the opponent obliquely behind the back, 2 goals were lost in front of the goal, 2 goals were lost in long-range shots, 1 goal was lost on penalties, these 13 goals lost directly tested the defense line of the midfield, standing too high to be counterattacked, the ball was too slow, the ball was directly broken in the midfield, the back position was protected unfavorably long-range shots to make up for the loss of the ball, no one was available, and the high-level attachment to the 433 formation jointly caused Barca's current situation.
Therefore, Koeman's coaching level can be said to be unsatisfactory, but it can't throw all the pot at the manager who loves Barca.
Harvey
Judging from the news that has come out so far, Xavi's takeover of Barcelona seems to be a foregone conclusion, and Xavi's arrival is still inevitable to solve these three major problems: side blasting, passing and cutting cooperation and team confidence, and it is difficult for a woman to cook without rice, I wish Harvey good luck!