What were the best and worst aspects of the match against Celta Vigo according to the editorial staff of FCBarca.com?
The best: ahead of the Classic instead of the leader
Few are the optimistic conclusions after the winning victory against Celta. However, aside from the course of the match itself, you have to stick to the fact that Barcelona will join El Clásico as leader of the table and with only one goal conceded in eight games. Ter Stegen has kept his seventh clean sheet this league season and it is the German’s excellent form who saved Barcelona from today’s match (although he did not avoid mistakes in the game), which is an optimistic match prediction at the Bernabéu. In addition, the ubiquitous Gavi, who ran 13 kilometers for Celta, many beautiful interventions by Piqué and glimpses of Pedri’s genius, gives some hope for the games against Inter and Real. Perhaps the players were also thinking about the competition with Italy, which will be more important than today’s match. After the match, Xavi said he was dissatisfied and knew that the team needed to improve a lot, so he was aware of the shortcomings.
The worst: the crisis of the module at a crucial moment
Barça played a poor game. While the start of the match gave hope that the team is already on a growing wave, the second half showed the team’s enormous problems and that after the national break there is simply no form. The whole attack failed, Raphinha (on the right wing) and Ferran fired a shot each and … that’s it. They were not taking the weight of the match on themselves, they were losing duels and their matches were too predictable for the Celta defenders. Cut off from the passes, Lewandowski practically did not reach shooting situations, plus he was unable to create anything on his own. After the break, Dembélé, Fati and de Jong are clearly in good shape, they played very imprecisely and practically every pass into the penalty area was wrong. After the break, Barcelona are unable to control the game and, as the minutes pass, their defense becomes more and more desperate. Only the good interventions of Piqué and Ter Stegen saved the hosts by 3 points. With the decisions of him, Xavi did not change the game of the team, which when the opponent presses, begins to get lost and there is a lot of chaos and inaccuracies in their actions. Before Inter, the feeling for the further fight for promotion to the 1/8 finals of the Champions League is not the best.
