It was a great joy for me to watch the Villarreal - Barcelona game today. There were insane comebacks which led Barcelona to win by an absurd score like 4-3. But I must really appreciate especially Villarreal's unbelievable comeback from 0-2 to 3-2. You are doing this against one of the biggest favourites of the title in the end.
Villarreal did everything they could but it was still not enough to resist Barcelona. Once again they couldn't beat Barcelona home. By scoring this many goals I think Barcelona will regain their usual performance faster. It was nice to see Lewandowski scoring his first goal too.
It should be noted here that Barcelona did not fall apart after three consecutive goals conceded and were able to come together and win, which only added to the beauty of the match. Barcelona played great on offense, but the defense is certainly not champion. The champion should not concede such goals and it is good that Barça has talents like Gavi, De Jong and Ferran Torres and it looks like Xavi is uncovering another very young talent in the form of Lamine Yamal, who broke Ansu Fati's record and became the youngest assist writer in La Liga.
Why praising Barcelona for coming from behind to score two unreplied goals that helped them beat Villareal yesterday in the Spanish La Liga match away at Villareal, we should also talk about how they trailed behind in a game they were two goals up in the early stages of the first half.
The Barcelona defense needs to improve from what we saw yesterday or be ready to concede numerous number of goals when they face clubs with higher attacking force than that of Villareal. Xavi Hernandez for a fact is doing well but improve his team's defence
I'm afraid that Barcelona don't have money to afford good players in defense, especially on the flangs. The Saudi league has also raised the prices of players this year and Barcelona have been reinforcing the players they can afford. It's lucky that Gundogan is a Barcelona fan because Barcelona wouldn't have gotten him on the open market. Barcelona's academy is also growing its talents quite well, as we can see in the example of Lamine Yamal.
So far the squad seems quite strong and balanced, but the bench is very short and an injury to a couple of key players will have a big impact.
In general, if they survive this season and take at least second place this year in La Liga, we can consider it a successful season for Barcelona.