-This are the words that can describe Barcelona's game this year. Three wizards, three experts of the game. Being in the Bermuda Triangle is not even as dangerous as facing this trio in a game. And here again the story begins, because I am 100% sure that after some ten or twenty years all football fans will be missing that days when the best attack in the world made them enjoy watching the game that they call football.
Barca are on top, and this top ( perfection ) can be achieved only by two teams in Europe now ( Real Madrid and Chelsea). We must not forget the man who brought Barca to such a level of wonderful play- Enrique. You can criticize this coach as much as you want, but the fact is fact- Lucho is better than Guardiola. Guardiola left the club when the bad days were coming fast, when Barcelona players maybe forget the meaning or the difference between tiki-taka and a boring short-passing game, when they thought that possession can win you matches. Guardiola escaped and more than that- he was chosen to coach the best team in the world that days while Enrique took Barca from the bottom, from a trophy less season, the atmosphere in the club being disastrous and just only in a half of the season he brought that perfection to the team again.
He made Messi the best player in the world AGAIN, by putting him on the wing (sometimes) where he feels better, where he can dribble past two, three, four players without making a big effort. He (Lucho) also knows how to change the game in the RIGHT MOMENT, by moving Suarez a bit deeper and playing Messi as a second striker, confusing the opponent's defense. He uses the best from Neymar, and if you noticed, Enrique doesn't play Neymar only on the wing, because he realized that Ney can be a very good addition (help) to the midfield, where after Fabregas' departure a bit of creativity was lost. He made Rakitic the main player in the middle of the pitch alongside Busquets. Iniesta and Xavi are old (that's sad, but true) and Lucho found them such a place where they are needed the most. In another words, manager is trying to use 100% of what a player is capable to do, and that's what Enrique doing, and YES!, that's why he lost 5 MONTHS finding the right line-up.
Have you noticed these big changes made in defense? That we started to concede less?- This are also Lucho's plans. You can see Barca's coach hand everywhere on the pitch. Barcelona's players are trying to find a new way of scoring goals ( sometimes an easier one)- counter attacks. Players move faster and their ambition is much more higher than the last season one. Their motivation grew very much after the winter break. I can see in every player the desire and a big wish of winning trophies. This man (Luis Enrique) is doing more than his job. He tries to change and to develop something that not all football experts can explain, but what he is doing now, we are going to see at the end of the season, when I hope FC BARCELONA will hold at least one trophy.
Author: Marty Becks
