The Barcelona faces the decisive stretch of the season in state of grace after adding in Saint Mamés his ninth consecutive victory. From the defeat in Anoeta, the Barcelona team has chained 9 victories between League and Glass and has increased his productivity goleadora
The Barça of Luis Enrique seems to have found at last his style, and does not have a lot that see with the game pausado and of position that so many triumphs gave to the club in the period of Josep Guardiola. The Barça current no longer is so pending of the position and yes to attack to the spaces, taking advantage of that has players of quality superlativa like Leo Messi, Neymar or Luis Suárez to execute to his rivals at full speed and almost without time of reaction.
Before falling in the field of the Real Sociedad (1-0), the Barça had an average of 2,4 goals by party, that has increased to 3,8 in the last 9 parties saldados with victory, adding League and Glass. If we centre us in the League, the average reaches the 4,2 goals by party. Claro that also the average of goals fit has bent and has happened of 0,5 to a goal by party. But, following the old said of Johan Cruyff, what matters in the football is to do a goal more than the rival.
The Barcelona go out now to look for the parties presionando further up and put siege to the rival goal with a more dynamic football, direct and vertical. When his opponent accepts the exchange of hits, the fan can enjoy of parties of gone and turn so trepidantes like the Athletic -Barça (1-0 and 2-3) of the quarter-finals of Glass or the two last duels of the league against the Villarreal (3-2) and the Athletic Club (2-5).
To the current Barça play the League to all cloth comes him of wonder. His hit is such, that little matters that it have forgotten to control the tempo of the parties to his whim, one of his signals of identity in the last and successful years. Now, the contras fast also are an option.
In the brilliant victory of yesterday in The Cathedral (2-5), the two Barcelona players that less took part in the party were Xavi Hernández and Ivan Rakitic, what does not do so much could have lit all the signals of alarm and that now is not at all more than the constatación that the team prefers to explode the speed in the transition and the game of spaces.
Under these new signals of identity, the Barça has happened to bore with his predictable football in static to amuse -and amuse to the other, turning into the only team that even opts to the triplete and that has been able to win the last five parties of League.
The Real Madrid, to the drop
The Real Madrid, that fell in the Calderón, and the Athletic, that did the same in the Camp Nou sólo have won the last four commitments of the league and besides have remained deleted of the Glass of Rey. Both present a noticeably inferior statistics to the one of the Barcelona group in these five last days. The whites have an average of 2,4 marked goals by 1,2 goals fit, whereas the group that directs the 'Cholo' Simeone has annotated 2,6 goals by party and fit a goal by party.
A Messi celestial has marked in all the parties of League from Anoeta, Neymar has revealed like a crack that decides parties, Luis Suárez at last has reencontrado with the goal and players as I Hammered or Busquets have recovered his best version to put it to the service of the team. All this in little more than a month. Although a month, in the football, is long.