Fermin. He is a great player. What a way to enjoy watching him play. A footballer who combines many qualities. It is difficult to establish what his greatest virtue is because there are many that he has in his hat. It is clear that we are talking about a player of great technical quality. Everything related to hitting the ball, whether in passing-oriented control or shooting on goal, is done at an extraordinary level. Yesterday a fairly extensive report could be made with all these types of actions. But those virtues take on exponential value when someone with your vision of the play has them. Leaving Fermín with a minimum of space, facing the rival goal, is a guarantee that something is going to happen. This does not always happen, not everyone is going to give you those facilities. But the phenomena have what Fermín shows and that is that if they do not give him that facility, he will create it himself.
To do this, Fermín resorts to two basic concepts in modern football. On the one hand the intensity, as soon as the play is directed towards him he becomes hyperactive. Looking for short support towards the play or unfolding looking to enter the area from the second line. And it does all this at a devilish pace. The other concept is determination. Fermín does not hesitate, Fermín acts. There are many players who have great qualities, but they fade as the match progresses due to their inability to make the most appropriate decisions. That never seems to happen to him. And he performs all actions with a conviction that leads him to make them correct. It is clear why he was replaced, a classic arrives and today he is a heavyweight.
Barça downturn. At the end of the first half, no one could have thought that Shakhtar would show the performance they showed during the second. A team sentenced for its game philosophy and a Barcelona that only showing attitude had been far superior. But it was as long as he knew how to press in the opposite field. And curiously, there is a basic and very understandable rule that must exist so that you can press in the opposite field and that is that you must be in the opposite field. But Barcelona, to settle there, needs to have previously led the ball through passes, and in that transition little by little the team goes together to the rival field. Barcelona, given the weakness of the rival, tried to reach the opponent's frame with greater speed, and thus there was no support. If Barcelona distances its lines it loses its essence.
