Barcelona has increased its investment in the forward line this summer, but the results obtained are just the same as last season. They are still unable to score goals and cannot break the intensive defense. Among the many goals, Barcelona lost the penalty kick and free kick . It is even more difficult to get a penalty kick. Moreover, after Messi left, no free kick was scored for more than a season. Fans can't help but wonder where Barcelona's free kick went.
In fact, in its glorious period, Barcelona had too many offensive methods. First, Barcelona has a gorgeous offensive line, which can break dense defense and tear open the opponent's defense line with super high ball possession rate, but this requires experts like Messi, Neymar and Suarez . Otherwise, fans will see that many crosses this season have failed because no one can break into the penalty area to form an effective shot.
The second one is a corner kick. When the dense defense cannot be broken, Barcelona will always stand up and shoot with a corner from the top of the penalty area. The original Rakitic and Alves have this ability. After being saved by the goalkeeper, corner kicks will occur. It is common for Barcelona to use corner kicks to score.
The third is the free kick. When Messi was still in Barcelona, he used free kicks to attack many times and had a very high hit rate. Fans also joked that Messi was a player who played a free kick as a penalty kick. Now, not only does Barcelona not score free kicks, but they do not even have many free kicks.
That's because the set of free kick "tools" in Barcelona originally belonged to Messi, and this is not a factor in Barcelona's passing and controlling football. We can know that during Messi's Barcelona period, there was a Messi corridor. The young Messi often broke through on the right and faced the barriers of the defense line, and the attack was smooth. In addition, after Messi came to the middle, he still posed a threat to the defense line in the corridor he was familiar with.
When the opponent cannot limit Messi's unexpected speed attack, he can only stop Messi by fouls, and at this time he can form a free kick attack. It can be said that Messi is the Messi corridor that Messi is very familiar with, and is also an excellent position for Messi to practice free kicks frequently.
Through Messi's free kick practice, he can maximize the goal. Usually it is shot at the blind spot of the goal, so that the opponent's goalkeeper can't react in time and sigh at the ball. This is the process of creating a complete set of free kicks at Barcelona.
When Messi left, he also took away the free kicks to create "tools", so Barcelona nowadays do not lack free kicks, but lack players who create free kicks. Dembele and Lewandowski and others all have the ability to score a free kick, but they cannot break through in intensive defense, thus allowing the opponent to create fouls, so the free kick attack seems a bit luxurious in the current team.
summary
Barcelona can only score goals in sports games. Free kicks are Barcelona's weak link now. It has been almost two years since Messi has not scored free kicks. In fact, Messi's existence made Barcelona realize that the strengths of free kicks belong to Barcelona, but only after Messi left will he understand that this is actually an advantage Messi brings to Barcelona. When Messi took that set of free kick "tools", Barcelona's free kick advantage no longer exists.
