Enrique's Barcelona & The Magic Of MSN | Luis Enrique's Barca Tactics |

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luis

enrique

took charge of fc

barcelona

despite being a former

barcelona

player and coach of bosser b, there were mixed reactions when he took charge of the team, however During his three-year reign, he won the league twice each Copadore, the UEFA Super Cub Club World Cup and is the last Barcelona coach to lift the Champions League, but what

tactics

allowed his team to prosper in this way, let's take a look. Take a closer look and if you want to keep up with Barcelona. or any club or player of your choice watch our video sponsor the only footballer it is an excellent free application that gets your news statistics and more for free through the link in the description below Luis Enrique came to the club at a difficult time, he was the time when The Golden Generation was starting to age, with Víctor Valdez and Puyol having just been expelled.

Furthermore, other pillars such as Alves, Javi and Iniesta were aging, so transfers were needed to strengthen the team during their three-year spell. Some of the key starters include testagen racketage bravo suarez matu and umtiti. Let's delve into the patterns of play and observe that during the three seasons his

tactics

evolved and different players came in, so this will be a combination of his main traits throughout his three seasons. He generally stuck to the 4-3-3, although at times in his final season he experimented with the 3-4-3. Let's start by looking at the previous game under Enrique Barcelona.

They were still a possession-heavy team, with over 60 total possessions. three of his seasons and his way of preparation was adaptable depending on how the opponent seemed to prepare when opponents were determined to sit deeper in a block. Barcelona still used many of their tiki taka patterns moving the ball slowly up the pitch using their midfield and trying to switch the opposition to create spaces in their shape, but under Enrique the central midfielders were not as influential as they were under the previous coaches, this is because in previous years, apart from messi, the three central midfielders were the best players in the team in briskets javi and iniesta, however, javi and iniesta were aging and the scandal soon replaced xavi, which It meant that the team's best players were now high up the pitch in the famous three-forward MSN, so a faster build-up game became essential to getting the ball to the front three. as quickly as possible so that they have as much time as possible with the ball, so before the ball went from the center backs to the central midfielders, who rotated it between them, now we saw them use the wide regions much more frequently changing the ball from from centre-backs to full-backs who stay deeper as build options and would then progress down the line to their respective winger or if the ball passed through central midfield it would not spend much time there and would quickly spread to For the full-backs, this quick play by The wings often meant that they could first get around the opposition midfield before they had time to form a second block in front of the back four, plus it increased the likelihood of both Messi and Neymar being one on one. -one with his man, which was bad news for any rival manager, naturally the full-backs would look to push high up the pitch for support, so having the three central midfielders slightly deeper rather than tall creating opportunities meant that they were more likely to stop transitions.

In the wide areas and higher up the field, Barcelona had several ways to bring down the rival, but it should be noted that in the early stages MSN did not manage to click, Messi was still a false nine and was not happy with the prospect of moving. lateral, in fact, at the beginning it was Warriors who had to play as a white striker and he was quite ineffective from this position, at some moments there even seemed to be tension between the now best friends. Only when Messi accepted a role abroad did things change. The right side became particularly dangerous.

Messi still tended to drift up the pitch and Alvarez relished the opportunity to push high up the pitch. The two could combine in tight spaces to create space for Álvas on the flanks to look for cuts, however, even. Racketage also tended to push away from Messi so that they could create a complete overload here if the opponent didn't adapt. The bassist could easily go through them to create opportunities from the outside or shooting opportunities on the inside right of messi or racketage. So this often meant that teams would be dragged up the field to deal with this, which would free up space on the left side.

The change was a crucial element, as Neymar was often found and one by one he constantly attacked his full-back. on the outside to look for the center or cut the inside box and then shoot at times before the change, Neymar also moved towards the inside of the box to push the full-back further inside and this allowed Jordi Alba to rise and we saw the beginning of the messi alba's relationship with messi often switched the ball towards alba before entering the area to look for the shot and on the left side we saw similar patterns emerge at times, naturally neymar did not always hug the flank and looked to receive the ball in the regions center backs where it was easier to make a difference, Iniesta from his central role also felt comfortable moving towards the wider areas to compensate when necessary, but on the left they depended much more on Jordi Alba, who was happy to go up and down the field so that iniesta could remain.

The centre-back opened up a potential outlet on the flanks, but rather than unpredictability being the factor that made the difference for them in the final third, it was sheer quality that did so before the match. Opposing players may know what Suarez wants to do, but that doesn't mean they can stop him. Players may know what Neymar wants to do, but that doesn't mean they can stop him. They may know what Messi intends to do, but they can't stop him, so that sometimes the individual quality of the three forwards was enough. to change games on their own now looking at the defensive side of things barcelona in the first couple of seasons seemed to press high this is because the front three didn't tend to drop back so dropping deep would have meant they were defending with just seven and were incredibly effective in the first two seasons winning the ball high with less than six passes per defensive action but of course at times when the press was broken they had to drop deep as discussed, the three forwards remained at the top of the field. field and in a way this was a way of defending as their quality is such that opponents often had to leave at least one more full-back than usual to help defend and on the counterattack they were dangerous as once again they did not look begin. a possession phase and instead looked for direct attack with Messi's offering reaching deep to collect as Suárez moved to the right as they advanced down the pitch, he would have options to attack on both sides and most of the time they made the decisions correct during their time.

As a coach, Enrique had to deal with an aging team, clashes with Messi, as well as constant criticism from some fans and the media for abandoning Barcelona's style of play, but nine trophies in three years speak for themselves and look Looking back at this team from the present simply shows what a good job they did, but what do you think of Enrique's Barcelona? What other tactics did he employ? Leave them down as usual. A big thank you to everyone who has been able to support FMS on Patreon if you would like to get early access to the videos and exclusive videos while helping to support the channel, please visit patreon.com.

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