Barca News
Barcelona’s start to this season is more than excellent. Xavi’s team has played six official matches so far between La Liga and the Champions League. In La Liga, the Blaugrana played five matches, winning four of them and drawing one. Yesterday, it made an impressive display in its first match in the Champions League and achieved a crushing victory over its guest, the Dutch team Antwerp, with a score of 5 clean.
This wonderful start to the season witnessed the brilliance of more than one player in the team, such as Joao Felix, who caught the attention in his first two matches with Barcelona against Real Sociedad and Antwerp, where he scored and assisted in both matches and won the Man of the Match award in both matches. Lamine Yamal, who gained Xavi’s trust strongly, also excelled, forcing him to start him in some matches on the right side at the expense of Raphinha.
However, according to the Sport newspaper, there is an indispensable player in Barcelona’s squad this season and he participated in all of the team’s matches from beginning to end: Jules Kounde.
Sport newspaper says in its report that Xavi Hernandez fulfilled his promise and returned the French defender to his natural position (centre-back) after using him in the right-back position for most of last season.
Kounde asked Xavi at the end of last season to return to the centre-back position, which he is good at playing. Xavi promised him that his request would be fulfilled after signing a new right-back, which is what actually happened after Joao Cancelo joined Barcelona from Manchester City.
Kounde is the only player in Barcelona’s squad to have played every match this season, which shows how much confidence Xavi has in him and means he is indispensable in the upcoming matches even with Araujo returning from injury.
At the club they say that the big investment they made to sign Kounde in the summer of 2022 is paying off because the French player is achieving great success and performing at an exciting level.
