GÜNDOGAN, LEADER OF THE CLASSIFICATION
The season has gone in in his decisive phase and for the FC Barcelona still there is a lot at stake. They follow ‘alive’ in LaLiga and Champions League, by what the requirement is absolute. They have had the luck that they face this stretch with the much more freed infirmary and that Xavi Hernández has alternatives for rotar and do changes in his approach, a factor that can be key so that the players no ‘suffer’ the wear.
The true is that it will be necessary to expect to see how the trainer administers the subject of the minutes, because they already are varied the players that have overloads, although -fortunately- no has noticed them . It is the case of a Ílkay Gündogan that has contested the 38 parties of the present season in LaLiga (26), Champions League (7), Glass of Rey (3) and Supercopa of Spain (2), with 3.018 minutes. In 32 of them it has been headline and only in five was substituted.
The Teutonic has played it all and is not surprise that was, probably, the player in which more it trusts Xavi in the Barça. It has comported like the big leader, sometimes silent, of the team. It has signed, besides, five goals and ten assistances in what it goes of course. It is the most influential and a necessary resource so that the team work. In the second place of the ranking appears Jules Koundé, the one who has gone varying of role between right side and head office by the ’emergencies’ of the staff.
Koundé And Lewandowski complete the ‘top 3’
The ex of the Seville accumulates 2.811 minutes delivered in 33 presentations. It was victim of unesguince in the internal lateral ligament of his left knee at the beginning of October, but since it recovered has been a ‘indisputable’ in the XI. It has not been able to be so regulate as it wanted to, conditioned by the ‘need’ to throw him to the right band, but is a player that surrenders and help always to the team. Sum two targets and four passes of goal to his name.
Robert Lewandowski is the attendant to close this ‘top 3’ of players with more minutes in the Barça. It has played in the 35 parties in which it was summoned, with 2.721 minutes accumulated. It suffered a sprain in the left ankle that forced him to be ‘stopped’ by some weeks, but has been an indisputable piece in the XI of the Barça, in spite of the ‘bajón’ that had in 2023. In this year it has gone back to a very positive level and is being, again, the ‘killer’ that needed the Catalans. Andn the global computation, are 18 goals and six assistances.
‘Top 10’ of the players with more minutes in the Barça
- Ílkay Gündogan: 3.018 minutes
- Jules Koundé: 2.810 minutes
- Robert Lewandowski: 2.721 minutes
- Ronald Araújo: 2.336 minutes
- Frenkie Of Jong: 2.284 minutes
- Joao Cancel: 2.244 minutes
- Andreas Christensen: 2.146 minutes
- Alejandro Balde: 2.000 minutes
- Lamine Yamal: 1.911 minutes
- Marc-André ter Stegen: 1.890 minutes
