With Haaland bringing in the treble after joining Manchester City, the value of a centre-forward has become increasingly important for a team to succeed. Girona leads the La Liga standings, and Dovbik is the core competitiveness.
In contrast, Barcelona's decline in La Liga is precisely due to Lewandowski's aging. Xavi scored 5 goals at home by Villarreal in the game because the opponent has the second-best center forward in La Liga.
a.La Liga teams value attack: a good center forward is more precious
From the top 13 of the La Liga standings, it can be seen that 9 of them play as a center forward, even if Bellingham is a striker, it actually makes up for Real Madrid's lack of a center forward.
With 14 goals and the top scorer like Bellingham, Doffbik is naturally La Liga's No. 1 centre-forward this season. Alvaro Morata and Bukimir are also leaders in this position in La Liga.
Athletic Bilbao, who have performed well in La Liga this season, also have 2 excellent players who can rotate in the center forward position.
The emergence of Dovbick has even changed the power pattern of La Liga. Girona's success is built on his foundation.
The 14 goals and five assists in La Liga this season, as well as a hat-trick in six minutes against Sevilla, are not enough to fully reflect his value.
b.Barcelona's tragedy: the center forward is old and can't defend the opponent's center forward
From last season's big killing in La Liga to this season's dilemma, a big problem that Barcelona needs is that Lewandowski is old. Xavi's use of the center is still very good. Even with Luuk de Jong, it can ensure a good scoring efficiency.
Lewandowski has aged this season, the team's scoring efficiency has dropped sharply, and after the formation is pretended, it can complete the reversal in some games, but it may also bring about a collapse.
This season, Barcelona has scored 3 or more goals in 3 games in La Liga, facing Villarreal and Girona twice, and the opponent's center forwards have shined in the game, which has become a pain point for Barcelona.
Sollot spent last season on loan at Real Sociedad and was a key force in the team's quest for fourth place in La Liga and a Champions League spot.
He was bought by Villarreal for €12 million this season and contributed eight goals and four assists in 19 La Liga games. Especially in the two times against Barcelona, the team scored 8 goals, and he gave a record of 2 goals and 2 assists, directly led to half of the goals, while also being involved in the remaining multiple goals.
a.Than Strength: Araujo suffers
Sollot is 1.95m tall, and Haaland's international team-mate has a lot of strength and is not slow to sprint.
So he has a good advantage against Araujo, which is similar to Dovbick.
This shot was not Araujo's most important confrontation with Sollot in the match against Villarreal, but it was one of the most powerful moments.
Araujo took the initiative to take the initiative, but was completely stuck by Sollot's static power, and finally the opponent took the ball completely. Although there are factors in this, Araujo's skills are not good enough, but in terms of strength, it is indeed inferior.
Let's take a look at this shot again, the opponent's cross was interfered with by Barcelona at the first point, and as a result, Sollot took advantage of Araujo's inattention and pushed away the Barcelona central defender from behind.
The header was returned to Moreno, but fortunately the shot was not good, otherwise Barcelona would have conceded more goals.
b.Played Barcelona: 4 goals in one game
At Barcelona's home stadium, Sollot not only contributed one goal and two assists in a single game, but also made three key passes and won eight one-on-one duels. There was even a crucial clearance that avoided a goal for our side.
Before Villarreal took a 1-0 lead, they had scored two goals, but both were whistled for offside and the goals were disallowed.
The second goal was controversial, with Sollot being identified as being in an offside position and interfering with the defence (with his back to block Araujo's movement).
As you can see from the process of scoring, Araujo is at the back post against Sollot. Romeu's control of the second drop was clearly slower than Moreno's movement.
Sollot then made a stand-is-long move to prevent Araujo from making a cover and allowing Moreno to score, but the referee ruled that Sollot was offside and the goal was disallowed.
The fourth goal to be overtaken by Villarreal came when De Jong returned a pass from very close to Araujo, who was a somewhat blind ball that led to an interception.
Sollot had two shots in quick succession to send the ball into the bottom of the Barça net. It is worth noting that Barcelona goalkeeper Peña's attack was too slow, which also made Sollot, who is also slow at the foot (fast sprint, but slow with foot movement).
a.It's also good to be able to lead the push & pass
Although Sollot has given a record of 8 goals and 4 assists in La Liga this season, and has also scored 2 goals in European competitions, the player's contribution to the team cannot be fully reflected in the data.
Sollot is 1.95 meters tall, but he has the ability to pull the wings, and his dribbling ability is also good, and he can do a lot of things in the game.
After Villarreal's first two goals were cancelled out, it was Sollot's assist that helped Moreno break the deadlock.
This time he received a team-mate's touchline ball on the flank and then delivered a high-quality cross, but De Jong, as a central defender, did not pay attention to the interception line, allowing Moreno to score with ease.
The third goal of the equaliser was also advanced by Sollot on the counter-attack, De Jong failed to catch him, and Cancelo was in poor positioning and leaked out of his own defensive zone.
As a result, Sollot sent in a clever pass that allowed Guedes to score after entering the box.
It can be seen clearly from the camera that Sollot turned around and moved forward quickly after taking the ball this time, and the Barcelona midfield line did not have time to return to defense.
Seeing that Cancelo did not follow Guedes, but went to the middle, Sollot hurriedly sent a wonderful pass to help his teammates break the goal, so that 0-2 behind, Barcelona, who finally completed a three-goal reversal, was tied again, and then there was a fluctuation in mentality.
b.When defending from set-pieces: Able to protect your own penalty area
Sollot, who is 1.95m tall, can play as a centre-forward or winger on the pitch (so he can coexist with Haaland).
He can not only be used as a tactical fulcrum on the offensive end, but also can retreat into the box to protect the header when defending.
In the match against Barcelona, when the score came to 3-3, the red and blue launched a series of fierce attacks. This time from the corner, the Villarreal goalkeeper made some mistakes and Barcelona got a chance.
As a result, Kounde's shot was blocked by the tall and long-legged Sollot, otherwise it was almost an empty goal, and the game time was close to injury time.
When moving to Villarreal in the summer window, Sollot spent only 12 million euros on the team. Dovbique, who also went to Girona this season, is not even 10 million euros.
If you want to get a good tactical center forward, the most important thing is not how much money you will spend, but how much you have a good vision. Once the center plays value, the team's offensive system can be taken to a big level, and it is not surprising that the record improves.
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