Barcelona Model 2024/25 is the fun team to watch in European football. Hanzi Flick’s team records record-breaking offensive data, and presents fascinating and eye-catching football. The 5:2 win last night (Wednesday) over Red Star Belgrade in the Champions League was the team’s seventh in a row in all formats, and the five goals they scored brought their goal tally to 55 in the first 16 games of the season. In addition, in each of Barcelona’s seven victories, they scored at least three goals, for the first time since 2017.
The compliments for the team’s pulsating ability go mainly to Flick. The German coach, who replaced Xavi in the position, said after the victory that “the game was very important for us, because you can see that it is not easy to win away games in the Champions League. We wanted to show strength, we pressed high with and without the ball, and I am very happy with the way we controlled the game “. The victory was the third in a row for the Catalans in the Champions League this season, which places them in sixth place in the table with 9 points from four games, when the only one who managed to stop them was Monaco in the opening game.
One of Flick’s ways to generate his team’s advantage is to stand on a particularly high defensive line, which leads to the opponent’s offensive players being caught time and time again. The most prominent example of this was of course in the victory over Real Madrid last week, when Kylian Mbappe was caught no less than eight times in the gap. In total, Barcelona’s opponents have been caught more than 100 times apart in the 16 games since the start of the season.
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