The Croatian midfield player of the FC Barcelona, Ivan Rakitic, played this Thursday one of his best split this season 2017-18 with the Barça, showing why Ernesto Valverde has him so much confidence and plants him practically in all the parties.
And it is that Rakitic took advantage of, in the minute 82 of party, an assistance after a driving of Luis Suárez to the contragolpe to base of strength and harp, after a defensive disconnection of Valencia, for encarar to the goalkeeper, remain entirely only in a hand manually and, afterwards, define to perfection to sentence the few illusions of traced back that remained in Mestalla.
It was the goal of the sentence of the FC Barcelona in the semifinals of the Glass of Rey, that arrived after a first part of a lot of work, and that Philippe Coutinho had advanced in the minute 49 to the culés thank you again to a magistral assistance of Luis Suárez.
Rakitic Always finds the just moment
The intelligence of Rakitic have it few players, and the Croat took advantage of a defensive distraction of Valencia to make a big 'sprint' from the centre of the field and, thanks to the contragolpe of Luis Suárez, plant in front of the goalkeeper with something of tiredness accumulated, pero with the capacity to define without problems and consecrate like one of the goleadores 'invisible' of the Barcelona this season.
Rakitic Follows showing that it is a good goleador arriving from second line, as it already has done in other occasions as for example in front of the Betis does some weeks, or in the final of the Champions League 2014-15 when it opened the tin against the Juventus. Sum and follows for Rakitic, that is completing his best season in the Barça.