Map shows Barcelona forward Paco Alcacer struggled to get into the game


Paco Alcacer started for FC Barcelona against Malaga. The Valencian forward had a new chance to score his first goal for the club and show he is the right man to be the fourth striker behind the MSN. With Luis Suarez suspended he was picked in his favoured central spot. 
A statistic from Carles Domenech of La TDP showed that he did not touch the ball between the 10th and 41st minutes of the game. 31 minutes that he was out of the game for.
On more than one occasion he was seen in offside positions and he did not link up well with his team-mates Arda Turan and Neymar Jr in the forward line.
As you can see from this heat-map, Paco Alcacer was barely involved in the game and moved around to the pitch to get involved, but failed to do achieve that aim. It was the latest opportunity he could not take 

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