Ancelotti maintains the base that the Champions League gave him the previous season. Xavi, for his part, sees how Dembl is reborn and produces a version more committed to Bara
The Real Madrid tour isi Barcelona by the United States has served to make money, expand the market and place two projects that live at opposite ages. Whites are a block on you Carlo Ancelotti He has made it clear that he is not in a hurry to introduce news. A ready-made group that just needed some filming to get ready for the European Super Cup on August 10 against Eintracht Frankfurt. The azulgrana, just a sketch with marked ideas that will need a few weeks to assimilate the signings, but which is already growing green shoots. The main one, the revival of Ousmane Dembl.
If after so much insisting Ancelotti there were still doubts, his last eleven against the Juve came to confirm his speech. The same players from the last Champions League final played and the same ones who will presumably play the Super Cup in Finland in 10 days. The Italian coach has his confidence block and whoever wants to enter must win it from the outside. The continuity is reflected in a very compact teamwith few fissures beyond the forgetfulness of summer.
Rdiger, who was dressed as a starter, has gone through the two central positions and even left back, but in the dress rehearsal he stayed on the bench. also Camavinga or Tchouamni, to whom you want to hand over the baton. Ancelotti also spoke about that, on the board and at a press conference, with two metaphors that, in addition to being showy, make it clear where each midfield unit starts from.
The one from Reggiolo defined Casemiro, Modric and Kroos like ‘the Bermuda Triangle’, “because the ball disappears there”. And the younger ones like “rock and roll”, players capable of printing a more direct, vertical and abrasive style. “I like both, the classics and rock and roll,” he said after the victory against Juve. But the first songs will be for the classics. Also Casemiro, questioned after his weakest season, and who responded to the coach’s confidence with his best game of the summer.
Others who walked on a wire come out reinforced. Asensio and Ceballos, whom the club was looking for a way out, claim a place in the squad, who knows if in time. And Hazard, displaced to the role of ‘false nine’ due to the loss of overflow and the explosion of Vincius, is passing Benzema’s substitute exams without fanfare.
the new dembl
for five years Ousmane Dembl has given foundation to the doubts that there were about its renewal. The talent was always there, but not continuity or commitment. One because of injuries; the other, due to late maturity. Faced with the doubts of a sector (no less) of the fans, the confidence of Xavi Hernndez. A faith that sometimes fell into exaggeration (“for me he is better than Mbapp”), that demanded a return gesture (“either renew or we look for a way out”) and that for now is paying off. With four goals in three games, the Frenchman is the best news to come out of the United States tour.
In a Bara that is giving a lot of prominence to the extremes, Dembl and Raphinha They provide a dose of electricity on the wings that revives the Barça attack in the absence of Lewandoski sharpens the peephole. The French winger has gone from seeing himself out to deserving a place in Xavi’s eleven. In a scheme that seeks the verticality of its ends, the Frenchman will be fixed on one band and the other will be in conflict between the Brazilian and Ansu Fati, already recovered.
“He’s a different player, special. He has to make a difference for us,” the Tarrasa coach said of the Frenchman. After having given the club an arm wrestle, of that lantern for which he had no hand, of five years of intermittent flashes, Ousmane Dembl seems ready to wear gallons that Xavi offers him.
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George is Digismak’s reported cum editor with 13 years of experience in Journalism