The victory of FC Barcelona before him Granada In the 3-5 epic it was a team triumph above all else, but several individual performances also stood out.
One of them was Riqui
Puig, who entered the 76th minute, with 2-0 against, to try to shake up the match and order the game of the Barça from the core in the middle of the siege and final harassment to be able to overcome the match and the tie. And boy did he. The young youth squad played 44 minutes between the regulation and overtime in which he signed a 97% success rate in the pass. Of the 70 passes he gave to his teammates, 68 were successful.
Stopping in the section on passes, another referential aspect is that the footballers who attended the most Riqui Puig it was Jordi Alba (17), Dest (13) and De Jong (12), which reflects how he moved the ball from one side to the other to try to mess up the home defense and create spaces. He also sought, when he touched, depth with 3 good long passes, and signed 4 back passes when he went up to make walls with Messi.
Riqui he blocked a shot from the rival team and created a scoring chance, four recoveries, one anticipation and a successful tackle. The latter, surely remembered by all, in an action that ran down to avoid a counter and threw himself crawling on the ground to anticipate Luis
Suarez.
In his attempt to destabilize the rival behind he lost six walloons and of the three dribbles he tried, one came out. In the fouls section he was knocked down once, by Vallejo in an outing to the counter already in extra time, and he did not commit any.
Some numbers that certify the magnificent performance of the youth squad, once again taking advantage of the opportunity to Ronald
Koeman, it seems that every time you begin to believe a little more.
