After 18 years of playing in the Europa League, Barca drew at home to Napoli
This season, due to Barca's poor performance, they were eliminated in the Group Stage of the Champions League and had no choice but to start playing in the Europa League, which is one level lower than the Champions League. Barca are regulars in the Champions League, 18 years after their last Europa League. Playing in the Europa League again after 18 years also indirectly illustrates Barca's decline this season. In the early hours of this morning, Barca and Napoli played the Europa League knock-off play-off, in terms of the strength of the two teams in previous years, this is a Champions League level competition, as a result of this season both teams have come to play the Europa League, and the performance of both teams has declined.
In this match, Barca played at home camp Nou against Napoli. In the 29th minute, Zelinski scored a series of shots in the penalty area to help Napoli lead.
Zelinski scored the Barca goal
In the 57th minute, Adama Traoré crossed the spot and Ferran Torres equalised on a penalty. In the following time, the two sides did not score another goal, and in this game, the two sides finally shook hands with a 1-1 score.
If the goal is one meter high, Ferran can be a big four. Barca's situation is dominant, and the end is too inefficient
Having watched this game, the most complained about by Barça fans is Ferran Torres. Because Barca created a lot of shooting opportunities in this game, there is no shortage of excellent opportunities to break the goal, Ferran Torres got most of the right to fire, and as a result, these excellent opportunities were all wasted by Felan Torres, either shooting off targets or playing "anti-aircraft guns", so that after the game commentators said: "If Barca can be high, Ferran Torres will be four happy." "Let's look at barca's stats and Ferran Torres's stats for this game: in this game, Barça at home is dominant
Barcelona statistics
Barca dominated the entire game with 69 per cent of the ball, far exceeding Napoli's 31 per cent. The total number of shots on goal was as high as 21, five times more than Napoli. Shots on target 5 times, also ahead of Napoli. The number of attacks, the number of corners, etc., Barca are higher than Napoli, so why can Barca only get a 1-1 score? The problem is that of Phelan Torres, who started, who has squandered almost all of his great opportunities, and if he can seize these opportunities, Barca are likely to win by a big score, and we look at The stats of Ferran Torres.
Ferran-Torres personal data
It can be seen that Barca's 21 total shots on goal, Ferran Torres alone completed 9, close to 1 and a half, but in the 9 shots, only one shot was on target, the shooting efficiency was very low, and the one that was shot was still a penalty. It can be said that in the other 8 shots on goal except for penalties, Ferran Torres did not hit the target once. Let's visually compare the shots of the two teams to see the state of Ferran Torres in this game. In the 28th minute, Barca attacked, and in the Napoli penalty area, Ferran Torres received a pass from his teammate and was given a direct opportunity to face the goalkeeper, only to miss the opportunity.
Ferran-Torres missed the opportunity
Just after Barca missed the opportunity, Napoli launched a quick attack, getting almost the same opportunity as Ferran Torres, Zelinsky faced the goalkeeper and shot twice in a row to break through the Barca gate.
Zelinsky broke the scoring
In the second minute, 2 teams had two identical chances, the difference being Napoli's Zelinsky's goal, Barca's Ferran Torres missed a good opportunity, Zelinsky can be said to have given Ferran Torres a shooting demonstration. After the game, Ferran Torres, who had missed consecutive good opportunities, was also upset and couldn't help but cover his face and cry.
Ferran Torres
There is a shooter king who does not have to, and Harvey has to pay for his stubbornness
If the first person responsible for Barca's failure to win this game is Ferran Torres, who has missed opportunities in a row, then the second person responsible is stubborn head coach Xavi. Harvey's reluctance to replace the in-form Ferrantores was unwilling to give the team's top scorer more opportunities, which indirectly led to the failure to win. After Harvey took office, the best performance was Luc De Jong, and the high school striker Luc De Jong completed the transformation from the struggle at the beginning of the season to the excellent form in 2022. With his header ability, Barca grabbed many key points. After entering 2022, Luc De Jong scored 4 goals, and all of them were key goals, and was the top scorer in Barca, but it was such a performance, and he could not get more playing time, in this game, Luc De Jong was replaced in the 86th minute, only 5 minutes, but in this limited 5 minutes, Luc De Jong completed 2 shots, 1 threatening pass, and a very difficult barb shot almost killed Napoli.
Luc De Jong
It can be said that if Luc De Jong is given a little more playing time, Barca is entirely likely to overtake the score, Luc De Jong's performance should not win the playing time, can only say that Xavi is too stubborn, unwilling to believe in the top scorer who has repeatedly saved himself and saved the team, moreover, Luc De Jong is also the MVP of the 19-20 Europa League final, in the 19-20 Europa League final, Luc De Jong completed the second degree, helping the former owner Sevilla win the championship.
Luc De Jong deserves more playing time, and Harvey can't chill the players
After Luc De Jong entered 2022, he repeatedly grasped the limited playing time and scored the most goals in the team, but it was difficult to get more playing time. As far as Luc De Jong's performance is concerned, as a substitute, he can indeed play his strength more, but it should not be the "garbage" time of the last few minutes, and after 70 minutes, he can be replaced, which can be used as a substitute and can have more play time, presumably the effect is better. Harvey's treatment of players who have repeatedly saved the team will make the players feel cold, and if they fail to win this game, Harvey will have to pay for his stubbornness.
Harvey