Five tasks facing Quique Setien at Barcelona after Valverde's Dismissal

Quique Setien is accused of driving Barcelona to wonder on three fronts this season in the wake of being named as Ernesto Valverde's successor.

Barca are top of La Liga and into the Champions League last 16, while they start their tilt at the Copa del Rey against Ibiza one week from now.

Nonetheless, club president Josep Maria Bartomeu said on Tuesday that Setien had been gotten to give the group a mid-season lift and there are a few upgrades to be made.

Here, AFP Sport takes a gander at a portion of the difficulties confronting the new Camp Nou mentor.

- Tighten up the guard -

Barcelona have just yielded 23 alliance objectives, which is a similar record as Real Valladolid in fourteenth and twice the same number of as both Real and Atletico Madrid.

Their concern has been less about individual slip-ups - despite the fact that there have been a couple of those - as a defenselessness to pace on the counter-assault.

Groups have had achievement hitting Barca on the break and Sergio Busquets has time after time been uncovered before the back four.

With Gerard Pique turning 33 one month from now and Samuel Umtiti as yet battling for wellness, there might be a requirement for signings in the mid year.

Meanwhile, Setien, who isn't known for his guarded standards, must figure out how to fix the group up.

- Get the best out of Griezmann -

In the wake of joining for 120 million euros ($135 million) from Atletico Madrid the previous summer, desires for Griezmann were high, particularly after the bombed quest for Neymar.

Be that as it may, the Frenchman has indicated just looks at his best so far in a Barca shirt, to some degree since he is yet to be played reliably in his preferred position.

To fit Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez into the front three, Valverde conveyed Griezmann on the left and in that manner, Setien may have had the issue fathomed for him.

Suarez's four-month nonappearance with knee damage could mean Griezmann at last gets his desire to make light of the center.

- Banish phantoms of Rome and Anfield -

Valverde and his group never appeared to be completely to recuperate from sensational Champions League crumples against Roma and Liverpool in the last two seasons.

At Anfield, Barcelona's players looked deadened by the dread of a rehash of what had happened the prior year and Pique conceded the recollections immediately returned surging.

Those shortcomings, remembering a helplessness to surrendering for streaks and a defenselessness under tension, have frequently restored this season.

In November, Barca sent three objectives in seven second-half minutes to lose to Levante while the two late objectives surrendered against Atletico last Thursday demonstrated the straw that broke the camel's back for Valverde.

Setien should at long last fix his players of their psychological barrier.

- Unleash an all the more assaulting style -

Setien is an idealist and his arrangement should come as an alleviation to those fans, and maybe players, who had become burnt out on stodgy exhibitions under Valverde.

Sentimentality for the free-streaming football played by Pep Guardiola's yield gauges substantial.

However any semblance of Messi, Griezmann, Ousmane Dembele, Frenkie de Jong, Arthur Melo and Jordi Alba mean there is still no deficiency of imaginative ability in the squad and Setien ought to appreciate coordinating them with his own assaulting convictions.

"Players appreciate football considerably more with the ball at their feet than pursuing it," he said a year ago, which ought to be music to the ears of Barca's players.

- Give youths a possibility -

Setien has gained notoriety for giving adolescents a chance and he will be brought together with Junior Firpo, whom Barca purchased after Setien helped him thrive at Betis.

Be that as it may, Firpo battled for circumstances under Valverde, who appeared to be hesitant to give some of La Masia's abilities any predictable minutes in the main group.

Ansu Fati has blurred from see in the wake of detonating onto the scene toward the beginning of the period while Riqui Puig's advancement has slowed down and Carles Alena and Juan Miranda have been conveyed on credit.

Making the principal group at Barcelona is an impressive errand yet the potential would give off an impression of being there in the foundation, if Setien is sufficiently courageous to discover it.