Which Barca player made the Europe top 5 leagues worst team of the week?
Barcelona haven’t started life without Lionel Messi in particularly convincing fashion. They fought back from a goal behind to beat Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 in the Champions League and then lost to Sevilla by the same scoreline at the weekend, as Luis Enrique’s men fell to their second defeat in three league games.
Roberto, 23, has been handed extra responsibility in the early stages of the new campaign, but Enrique will be hoping to have Dani Alves back to full fitness sooner rather than later with Roberto’s performances having notably dropped in both of their league defeats thus far.
His WhoScored rating of 5.62 was his worst of the season and enough to earn him a spot in the worst team of the week from Europe’s top five league. The Barca academy graduate was directly at fault for one of the goals that gifted Sevilla the initiative.
Added to that, the Spaniard was barely recognisable as a defensive force. Roberto didn’t even attempt to make a tackle, nor did he make any clearances or win any defensive aerial duels and he had just one interception to show for his performance.
There was also a strong showing from Serie A from the crop of players to make the XI, with Gabriel Paletta (4.85) and Maximiliano Moralez (5.79) from Atalanta, AC Milan duo Luiz Adriano (5.68) and Rodrigo Ely (5.35), Palermo’s Mato Jajalo (5.58) and Francesco Lodi (5.65) of Udinese making the grade.
However, the right for the worst player is reserved for Bayer Leverkusen goalkeeper Bernd Leno, who scored an own goal in their 1-1 draw at home to Augsburg on his way to garnering a WhoScored rating of 4.58.
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