The Barça of the snipers: the shot of out of the area like weapon

The FC Barcelona has characterised during all these years by a football based in the patience, the possession of the balloon and the played baked to slow fire. The football that practises in the Masia is a form to teach to the youngsters to arrive to the first team with a solid base of the football that has practised from the 'was Cruyff'.

However, something is changing in the first team. Players like Xavi Hernández or Andrés Iniesta were those that will keep the essence of a style that has seen along the years. However, the one of Terrassa abandoned the team in 2015 and the manchego did it to finals of the past season to go to Japan.

The profile of the players that form the first staff of the FC Barcelona are evolving a style that wants to keep this essence of the game of possession that triumphed with Johan Cruyff, Frank Rijkaard, Pep Guardiola or Luis Enrique, but evolving to add nuances.

Players like Xavi or Iniesta are irrepetibles, and is very complicated that out of nowhere they arise players of his talent. Thus, the FC Barcelona, without betraying the philosophy that has carried him to where is, forms his staff with players of similar profile to the of the above-mentioned but that compensate his lacks with distinct skills.

Luis Enrique evolved the game to a style something more direct and now, without players of the talent of Xavi or Iniesta to open gaps between the rival defences, looks for also incorporate the shot of half distance to the repertoire culé like alternative resource to the patient game of possession, something that no sucedía so many years backwards.

Leo Messi is a specialist in the long shots, but Ousmane Dembélé and Philippe Coutinho also are specialists in this field. Even we could add to Malcom, although it was not usual headline. In fact, the FC Barcelona has the percentage of shots from out of the highest area of the útima decade: one of each five so many has been from out of the area.

Better percentages of goals of the Barça from out of the area of the decade:

• 1. Season 2018/19: 20%
• 2. Season 2009/10: 17,2%
• 3. Season 2012/13: 15,2%
• 4. Season 2013/14: 14,8%
• 5. Season 2008/09: 14,6%