4) Barcelona's defence still fragile, despite change in formation
The arrival of Samuel Umtiti was supposed to bring the solidarity that Barca have been missing at the back arguably since Carles Puyol retired. But while the Frenchman has been impressive, the understanding with his fellow defenders is still in it’s primitive stage
Enrique decided to tweak things around with a 3-5-2 formation with Mascherano and Pique partnering Umtiti in a back three. But the fragility was still there for all to see. Leganes caused a lot of trouble with their high energy play.
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The main attacking threat seemed to be coming from the aerial route. Something with high balls in the box just puts off the defenders.In the first half of the game, the backline struggled to keep pace with the Leganes attackers and had to depend on last-ditch tackles.
Surprisingly the solitary goal Leganes scored was through a free-kick, but there were also several silly fouls they gave away around their own area. Enrique still has work to do ahead of their clash against Atletico Madrid next week.
