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#3 Sergio Busquets is waning
Sergio Busquets is one of the best, if not the very best, defensive midfielders in the world. The Spaniard has been an integral member of the Barcelona squad for nearly a decade now. The midfielder is the key for the possession-based football Barcelona like to play. He is the one who dictates the tempo of the game from midfield and drops deep whenever the full-backs bomb forward. Busquets is so crucial to Barcelona that if he has a bad game, the whole team suffers.
But the midfielder has turned 30 this season and his powers are waning with age. He is not performing to the best of his abilities and is enduring a rough patch of form. He has been caught sleeping on the ball too many times and has been misplacing a lot of passes this season.
Manchester United can exploit this to their advantage and Paul Pogba will be the key for them. If Pogba manages to get past Busquets during counter-attacks, it will leave Barcelona defensively vulnerable as the full-backs are usually higher up the pitch, and a through ball to one of the strikers will leave them 1v1 with the centre-backs.
