Pep Guardiola put the full stop to his stage like trainer of the FC Barcelona a 25 May 2012. It looked for to close a cycle practically irrepetible with the title of Glass. And the Barcelona achieved it winning to the Athletic Club by 0-3.
Now, five years afterwards, the history can repeat enough. Luis Enrique will close this Saturday in Vicente Calderón his stage like trainer culé. The same stadium in which it finish Pep. In front of a Basque rival -the Alavés-, as it went it the one of 2012. And with the same aim: the Glass.
Perhaps the big difference roots in the final figure of titles that will achieve the Asturian, inferior to the one of the Catalan. Luis Enrique could go with nine titles if it wins. Pep achieved a total of 14... Although it was four seasons in the Barcelona bench.
Luis Enrique will close the cycle with his eleven of gala
With the already known drops of Sergi Roberto and Luis Suárez -sanctioned in the semifinals-, Luis Enrique will close, practically with total security, his cycle in the Barça with those players that have carried him to the glory. With Cillessen in the goal -the guardameta of the Glass-, a defence of four formed by Jordi Alba, Hammered, Umtiti and Mascherano -that would exert of right side-, the centre of the field of always: Busquets, Iniesta and Rakitic and a forward with Neymar, Leo Messi and Paco Alcácer, that will substitute to the Uruguayan.