similarities between Barça post Messi and Madrid post Cristiano

The FC Barcelona It is immersed in a profound reconstruction at an institutional and sporting level that keeps the club in a kind of no-man’s-land looking to the north. On an economic level, the drama is worrying and on a sporting level, with eight points less than Real Madrid and out of the European posts, they are almost in a coma.

The Barça entity is facing this circumstance in the months after the departure of the best player in its history, Leo messi. For something similar, Real Madrid was forced to pass in 2018 when they had to say goodbye to their top star, Cristiano Ronaldo.

At that time, Madrid had just won three Champions League in a row so a drop in performance was to be expected, but adaptation to AD life was much harder than anticipated.

First came Lopetegui who did not have much margin of work and barely directed 14 games between July and October 2018. The first manager of the post-Christian era … something similar to what Barça experienced with the first manager of the post-Messi era, although Ronald Koeman was already in front in the last season of the Argentine as culé.

Julen Lopetegui was dismissed a October 29th of 2018 after falling 5-1 at the Camp Nou. Koeman, a 28 of the same month after a painful defeat against Rayo in Vallecas. Solari then and Sergi now, took on the challenge of catching sore teams trying to get used to the absence of their top stars.

Solari started off on the right foot

Both clubs decided to bet on the natural relief and promote the coach of their subsidiaries. By then, Santiago Solari, who ended up directing Madrid in 32 games, started on the right foot and chained four games in a row with victory, with a showy game and achieving 15 goals in four games.

After that, a resounding 3-0 against at Eibar’s home began to attract ghosts from the past, confidence was gradually unraveling until well into February 2019, when the rope tightened too much. Zidane was coming back to the rescue.

Sergi, a patch

The expected dismissal of Koeman has opened the door of the first team to Sergi Barjuan, who this year had taken command of the subsidiary.

It’s about, hiring Sergi, of a specific patch that everyone, including him, knows will serve to cover a series of breaks until the final operation is carried out: the hiring of Xavi.

Therefore, Sergi begins a stage that he knows has an expiration date, surely not too late –That is why they have assured him that he will be able to manage the subsidiary again when the patch moment ends.-, and that it has not fired the starting gun in the best way.

The draw against Alavés at the Camp Nou is one more example of how injured a Barça is that does not know what the next few months will bring: without Messi and with the only illusion of the new batch of homegrown players that shine a light on hope.

Madrid, with less goal

Perhaps the trajectory of Madrid will serve as an example for Barça since it lost its top star. The whites reduced their scoring average from 2.66 to 1.77 per game, although the farewell of the Portuguese meant the definitive explosion of Benzema, erected as a leader who knew how to perfectly assume command.

So far, the white team has only raised one League, that of 2020, the league of the pandemic. Even today Cristiano’s effectiveness is missing, at least until he arrives, if he arrives, Mbappé.

The FC Barcelona has ahead the hard way of the rebirth that, without Messi, it will not be at all easy.

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