Villa lost weight compared to Cesc

David Villa is experiencing an unprecedented situation in his career. The Spaniard is losing weight on the team in recent games. In contrast, Cesc, now fully recovered from his injury, he is gaining ground and after his good showing in San Mamés, goal included, you can gain even more prominence in the Barca attack at the expense of Villa.

Villa no doubt in the Barcelona. Moreover, whenever the player is Guardiola talks to show their gratitude to him and also convinced that his signing was a success. Barca coach stresses, above all other qualities of Villa, his generosity with the team. Without saying so, that quality which was just missed in the other two companions had Messi since Guardiola took over first team: Eto'o and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Despite the good words and their perfect adaptation to Barca dressing room, the truth is that Guaje has lost weight within the team this season. The numbers sing. Of the 11 league games carried so far contested, Villa has started only six of them, playing five times in ninety minutes. It has been a substitute against Villarreal, Real Sociedad and Athletic the Granada.

Of the five games he started on the bench, two of them, Granada and Athletic are the last two outputs of the Catalan side. In Champions, against Viktoria Plzen in Prague, Guardiola decided to leave in the stands. The technical explanation was that Villa was over played against Mallorca, but also admitted that in case of need could have played him. That is, he was not injured.

At this same point of the season last year, the picture was quite different for the Spaniard. With 11 championship matches of the season, Villa was started 10 of them and only missed one against Mallorca because he had to enforce a penalty, not a technical decision because it had been expelled the previous day against Athletic Bilbao .

Guardiola is introducing more changes this season that the above is true, but has often been forced by circumstances, as having injured Pique and Puyol. In the case of Villa there is also the case of Alexis Sanchez has been out almost two months through injury and Pedrito fell in Granada. This means that in theory he had a clear field to play.

The term rotations can not be used to explain everything as, for example, Leo Messi has never entered into them this season. He has played everything. Meanwhile, Cesc, with five goals in the league, two more than the Spaniard and shining in his new position in front, it looks like it's going to get harder. Barca wins, has more options in attack, but Villa can suffer.