Robert Lewandowski’s injury poses a new problem for Xavi Hernández to face the immediate FC Barcelona calendar. Beyond the Classic on the 28th, the immediate matches will also require a turn of the screw from the coach to alleviate the loss of the last Pichichi in the League. In the first team there is no pure 9 apart from the Polish international forward, although there are attackers capable of adapting to this script requirement imposed by reality. Another plausible solution is for the coach to look down, at the quarry, even to occupy a place on the bench. These are the names with the most numbers to be Lewandowski’s replacement.
1
FERRAN TORRES
The most used resource is seeing the goal
The immediate solution adopted by Also a lot in the center of the attack, and the truth is that playing only at times he has started the season exhibiting remarkable aim. Ferran has 4 goals in 354 minutes spread over 9 games, with an average of one goal every 88 minutes. The last goal, precisely against Porto.
2
JOAO FÉLIX
The recovery of the ‘false 9’
Joao Félix can also act as a reference, although at Barça he started from the left wing and in his career he began to shine at Benfica as a second striker. Although he is not a pure scorer, he has a goal and above all he is a generator. This ability to associate would lead to a return to the figure of the ‘false 9’, which Leo Messi played unmatched for so many years. At the moment, Joao Félix has three goals and two assists in his 436 initial minutes as a culé, so at Barça he has made an intervention with ‘goal value’ every 87 minutes. That, without counting the famous ghost assist of him without touching the ball against Celta.
3
PAU VICTOR
One goal action every 108 minutes
Pau Victor arrived on loan from Girona to Barça Atlètic in the Barça reserve team’s policy to provide his mother team with a certain amount of experience to face the demands of a Primera RFEF in which many veterans also play. At 21 years old, this forward who has acted both in the axis of the attack and on the left wing thanks to his self-sufficient style, made his debut with Montilivi’s first team. In Rafa Márquez’s drawing he is being important: he has 4 goals and 1 assist in 540 minutes spread over 6 games, so his importance is to influence a goal play every 108 minutes.
4
DIEGO PERCAN
A 9 still acclimatizing to the subsidiary
Diego Percán is another of the center forwards who plays in Rafa Márquez’s reserve team. The former Cultural Leonesa attacker is 21 years old and is still in a period of adaptation to his new culé reality. His figures, at the moment, are 490 minutes on the court in the current season in Primera RFEF spread over 6 games, providing one assist. Last season, still at Cultural, he scored 8 goals and gave 3 assists in 37 games.
5
MARC GUIU
He is 17 years old and Xavi knows his potential
Marc Guiu is 17 years old and, although he belongs to the youth team A, he has already counted for Rafa Márquez at Barça Atlètic, with whom this season he participated in a match for 8 minutes. Right-footed, 1.87 meters tall, Xavi Hernández already knows his potential having had him training on occasions with the first team and even playing a few minutes in the friendly in Japan against Vissel Kobe that closed last season. The Sant Cugat attacker has scored a goal in two games in the current Youth League. Guiu finished, along with Lamine Yamal, as the top scorer in the last Under-17 European Championship in Hungary, both with 4 goals each.
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ANGEL ALARCON
Great goal in the Youth League after his injury
Ángel Alarcón is a 19-year-old forward who had already featured for Xavi Hernández in the first team last season, playing 5 games. He was able to act on the entire front of the attack and suffered a serious injury that kept him inactive for the last 5 months. He only has 36 minutes spread over 2 games since his return to the field, although this week he impressed everyone with that great goal in a long ride in the Porto-Barça of the Youth League. He already played 20 minutes with Márquez in the reserve team against Celta B and 16 in the youth team of the Youth League.
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