This Barcelona is the brand of Spain . Some of our country's players from the Blaugrana team, all of them internationals, are pulling the chestnuts out of the fire at this crucial moment of the season. Nine of the last 12 goals scored by Barça have been scored by Spaniards, six of them by non-Catalan players.
Just this Saturday, two Spanish players unblocked a very tedious match for Barcelona in Las Palmas . Controversy aside, Dani Olmo (born in Tarrasa, Barcelona) first and Ferran Torres (Foios, Valencia) scored the two goals that gave their team a victory and gave them the lead.
Spain is gaining a lot of prominence in a Barcelona that currently relies heavily on its Spanish players. Two days ago in Seville , FermÃn López (El Campillo, Huelva) scored the 1-2 that broke the tie and Eric GarcÃa (Martorell, Barcelona) made it 1-4, bringing his team closer to first place in the League .
And three days earlier, Ferran Torres scored a hat-trick on his home turf, and FermÃn and Lamine Yamal each scored a goal as Barcelona thrashed Valencia (0-5) to put the Catalans into the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey . This Spanish influence has translated into valuable points and a key place in the fight for a title.
Barcelona feeds on Spain
This has been the trend this season in a Barcelona where the Spaniards, not necessarily from the youth academy or Catalans, are playing an important part in the good performance of Hansi Flick 's team in all competitions . In this very goal-scoring version of Barça since the arrival of the German coach, 51 of the 114 goals scored by the culé team represent the Spain brand, that is, almost half.
The most incisive have been Lamine Yamal and Ferran Torres with 11 goals each. They are followed by Dani Olmo with seven and in third place is FermÃn who has been getting more lively in recent weeks with five. Pedri (four), Pablo Torre (three) and Eric GarcÃa (three) have also contributed at least three goals, Iñigo MartÃnez , Gavi and Pau VÃctor with two and Alejandro Balde scored one in the Spanish Super Cup final against Real Madrid .
In a Barça where it is normal to think that stars like Robert Lewandowski and Raphinha carry almost all the scoring weight, the truth is that looking at the statistics, the role of the Spanish players is being crucial. In fact, at this point there are only five footballers born in our country yet to make their debut in front of goal for Barcelona, all trained at La Masia : Pau Cubarsà , Gerard MartÃn , Héctor Fort , Marc Casadó and Ansu Fati .
Flick, who has given many players from our country the run of their trade in their first season with Barça, such as Casadó, Marc Bernal until he got injured, and Gerard MartÃn, praised two of them after the match in Gran Canaria : “Dani Olmo scored the first goal and this goal was very important for us. He was injured and that also influences the other players, maybe they are one step ahead, so we also need to give him some minutes to adapt. We are happy for him, but I am also happy with FermÃn, they are always an option for the starting eleven.”
