A good performance once again. The first action is quietly a bit brilliant, this is what is needed. In between three opponents, with five Barcelona players behind him not wanting the ball (especially Araujo looks like a kid who didn't do his homework when the teacher is going to ask a question) he found a safe and constructive way out.
Xavi needs to do to Nico what Pep did to Sterling - tell him to be partly facing forwards (whatever the english term is) when recieving the ball. Tthis is a bit staggering that Nico wants to turn like that in that spot and gets so found out. He has intuition, but don't have the automatisms and so on (this was btw maybe Xavis main hobbyhorse as a player: not to turn when he hadn't looked enough). This is a thing that probably is teached at 11 at Barcelona or earlier - I drilled it playing for an amateur team at 14...
The two failed attempts at passes towards Balde were 'ok' still, Balde was a bit slow and wrongly placed for the first ball and unnecessarily halted his run for the second one, which would have had him free if the pass had succeeded. Both passes were behind the defence, I much prefer these to the ones where the defender can break and counter. Maybe both failed passes were the fault of Puig mainly, but the ideas were nice, we all thought he would aim for Gavi on both occasions, but he didn't like that option and took the second option in the last ms, that is what happened in his mind, it is difficult to do though, and he didn't succeed there.