Throughout the entire season, Ernesto Valverde has been experimenting with various blends to adjust his want for a solid barrier against the requirement for Barcelona to be a normally assaulting group, and Sunday's conflict with Atletico Madrid sees that fight reach a crucial stage.
Any semblance of Aleix Vidal, Andre Gomes, Paco Alcacer and Paulinho have all tried out for the last spot in the Blaugrana XI, cleared by Neymar in the late spring, with the entries of Ousmane Dembele and Philippe Coutinho most purposely went for filling it.
Most disappointingly for Barcelona is that previous Borussia Dortmund winger Dembele has attempted to legitimize his 105 million euro sticker price because of his moderate pace in adjusting the club's style alongside long damage lay-off.
That opens the entryway for Coutinho to advance up as the ideal answer for Valverde, in spite of the fact that the mentor will know that the Brazilian doesn't give any genuine guarded security.
In any case, recreations like that against Atletico Madrid on Sunday are precisely why Coutinho needed so frantically to swap Anfield for the Camp Nou, an exchange which cost Barcelona upwards of 150m euros.
Up until this point, the midfielder has two objectives for his new club, one each in LaLiga and the Copa del Rey given his inaccessibility for Champions League installations, and a week ago observed him hit a peach of a long-go strike against Girona.
Little by little, Coutinho is as a rule more coordinated into the Blaugrana way and he offers an instant aneousness in the last third that can positively be used by Valverde, should he be OK with surrendering that additional protective adjust that an option may give.
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