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#4 A nervous night for Juan Miranda
Ernesto Valverde decided to rest two of his key players for the Spurs match, Jordi Alba and Luis Suarez. A young Juan Miranda turned up in the left-back spot for Barcelona. A year ago, Miranda was promoted to the B team and this year he has been earning call-ups for Copa Del Rey games. Although the youngster has been impressive in Copa Del Rey games and the pre-season, Europe was too big a stage for him to steady his nerves.
He was not very composed and did not look as relaxed as we saw with Arthur. It wasn't a bad performance by him, he looked good for a B team player. But he missed many opportunities to run at the Tottenham defence or expose them with a single pass which Jordi Alba was obliged to do. When he received a pass, he spent a split-second more than Barcelona's liking which brought a stop to their attack and allowed Spurs to recover. At the defensive end, he was solid. Made two tackles, two interceptions and nobody dribbles past him as well.
He got a good match rating but he is still very young for the first team. But although he was nervy, he delivered against a big English side at the biggest stage of club football.
